The 2013 MAMPAM Awards Ceremony

The BAFTAs, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Razzies, the Golden Globes. It’s all really part of a big build up to the main event, The Big One, the jewel in the crown. The one everyone’s waiting for.

That’s right; it’s the 2013 MAMPAM Awards Ceremony. Or as they’re more simply known to those in the biz; The MAMPAMs. The MAMPAM industry’s leading lights Jon Rogers, Ben Simmons, Alex Green and yours truly will be lining up for an evening of unapologetic glitz and glamour, haute-cuisine, fashionistic faux-pas and incestuous, self-congratulatory slaps upon the back all round.

But of course there it’s not just about the partying; there is the serious business of the awards themselves to be doled out. With 7 MAMPAM awards up for grabs competition will be fierce. But the Academy has yet to vote, and the answers won’t be announced until this evening! Join us for the live blog updates as they happen right here on the MAMPAM blog.

How to Vote for the MAMPAMs
To post your awards for the MAMPAM Awards, visit the online survey below and fill in your results as required - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFW9F3J

There are 7 MAMPAMs up for grabs, listed below.
- Best Host
- Worst Film
- Best Food
- Best Blog Post
- Best Musical Instrument
- Best Supporting MAMPAM
- Best MAMPAM

So join us later to toast the winners and commiserate the losers; that’s showbusiness, folks!

MAMPAM - Get Ahead Of The Games, Prepare Now!

The MAMnium seems to have caught people's imaginations, with Alex, Ben and Daniel adding a further 3 events to the parlour-based heptathlon of the decathlon of the velodrome. Read on to make sure that you are fully prepared for what is surely going to be a monster MAMPAM.

The MAMnium

MAMPAM hasn't really figured during the London 2012 MAMPAM Olympics* so far. Well, we would not want to steal Lord Coe's thunder, would we? Everybody knows that MAMPAM is the world's premier gathering of athletes, where the sipping of red wine (never glug a lovely wine, I always say), freestyle wrestling contests and marathon Monster Munch eating contests are at the forefront of the games.

The Üm Louts

MAMPAM has traditionally been a bastion and birthplace of many new traditions. Traditionally these traditions have erred on the side of more traditional traditions, such as the eating of pizza, the monstering of munch, and the regardement of Christ-bitingly crappy films.

MAMPAM: Strength Beyond Strength

I've been hearing some trash being talked and some bull being spouted about how MAMPAM fell off. 'Bout how MAMPAM be filled wit' milk-drinkers, sops and pantywaists. Well dang them! Dang them all! Listen up, let me tell you how it's going to go down.

Whatever Happened To The MAMPAM Lads?

Bolam: Not a MAMPAM member.

MAMPAM has been under considerable duress of late. Actually, scratch that. MAMPAM's very existence has been called into question.

If that sounds rather dramatic, consider this; MAMPAM is not unlike Fight Club, inasmuch as it has two rules. The first rule is: NO GIRLS ARE ALLOWED. The second rule is never take the word of MAMPAM in vain (there are several Traditions also associated with MAMPAM, but these are probably best tackled in another blog).

Wey Hey, MAMPAM!

MAMPAM is not in thrall to the cult of celebrity. We often contemplate whether a pizza dipped in Tabasco sauce and accompanied by a lovely glass of shiraz would be improved if we were sitting next to Tim Vine, or that one off The Only Way Is Essex. The answer is invariably a resounding, vomit-splattered no.

The MAMPAM Christmas Special - XMAMPAM

It's been three days and I feel sufficiently recovered to document the most recent MAMPAM which celebrated the births of England cricket captain Archie McLaren, Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult, and Germany's most lovable cannibal, Armin Meiwes, taking place as it did on 1st December.
This was a nice and destructive MAMPAM, in which we all got secret Santa presents, the secrecy of which was rendered void by Alex's excitement and desire to assume organisational duties.

The MAMs and the PAMs

MAMPAM (Monster and Munch, Pizza and Munch) is a club dedicated to the finer things in life, including pizza, fine wine, Monster Munch, Tabasco Sauce, and god-awful films. It was created in the summer of this year by four London-based bon viveurs, and is still going strong. I shan't go into a great amount of detail here, but will provide a quick roundup of the key players involved. In the next blog I'll provide a quick update of what's been happening in the world of MAMPAM so far this year.