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CARDIFF LIFE AWARDS PREVIEW
NOTHING BEATS BEING THERE
The überglam Cardiff Life Awards take place on 19 March at Cardiff City Hall, celebrating the best of Cardiff. In this special preview, we give you a taste of what to expect…
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s deeply, wildly glamorous celebrations go, the Cardiff Life Awards go a pretty long way. Each year, unprecedented number of companies nominate; each year tickets sell out yet faster; and each year the drumbeat of expectation crescendos to Awards night itself. Truth is, you never know quite what to expect at any stage. And that’s a good thing. The nominations reveal a profusion of clever companies and organisations – sometimes all-new and often barely-
known; many well-known but telling of great new achievements. The judging session has clever insights as the wisdom-of-the-crowds effect means that the collective decision arrives at sound outcomes. Awards night has everything from laughter to tears to boisterous celebration, idiosyncratic-to-triumphant music, glitz, jubilation, attendees posing as cover stars, drama and just the most outré definition of überglam imaginable. Our host Nigel Owens will be very Nigel Owens, cheerfully yomping off piste as the whim takes him. Oh, and there’ll be an after-show party through to implausible o’clock, for
the socially doughty, convivially hardy and, well, to be honest, the absolutely drunk. Maybe don’t schedule too many meetings on Friday 20 March (we won’t)… Cardiff City Hall will be filled with hundreds of the city’s finest businesses again, with several dozen on the waiting list. If you can’t make it this time, do tune into social media on the night. Follow all the action @CardiffLifeAwds– we’ll be live tweeting the results. Thank you to all who have entered, sponsored and judged; and to those who will attend. It’ll be a blast. If you love Cardiff, nothing, but nothing, beats being there…
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