Alan Pigram is an Australian musician and songwriter. He has been a member of

Scrap Metal Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap has monetary value, especially recovered me ...

and

The Pigram Brothers The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the Pearl hunting, pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996. They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports ...

Career

Along with his brothers Stephen and Phillip, Pigram was a founding member of Scrap Metal. Together they toured nationally and released four albums before breaking up in 1995. Alan, Steven and Phillip then joined up with their brothers David, Colin, Gavin and Peter to form The Pigram Brothers. They released several albums. In 2011 Pigram worked with

Alex Lloyd Alex Lloyd (born 19 November 1974) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Four of his albums, ''Black the Sun'', '' Watching Angels Mend'', '' Distant Light'' and '' Alex Lloyd'', released between 1999 and 2005, made the top ten on the ARIA chart ...

and Stephen Pigram on the soundtrack of ''

Mad Bastards ''Mad Bastards'' is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Brendan Fletcher. Set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the film uses mainly local Aboriginal people in the cast, and draws on their stories for the plotlin ...

'', a film he co-produced with

Brendan Fletcher Brendan Fletcher (born December 15, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He first gained recognition as a child actor, winning a Leo Award and being nominated for a Gemini Award his acting debut in the made-for-television film ''Little Criminals''. He ...

David Jowsey David Jowsey is an Australian film producer, co-founder of Bunya Productions. He is known for producing many films made by Indigenous Australian filmmakers. Bunya Productions' co-owners are Indigenous filmmaker Ivan Sen, and Jowsey's wife Gre ...

, and Stephen Pigram. Pigram runs a Pearl Shell Studio, a recording studio in Broome.

Recognition and awards

In 2006, along with Stephen, he was inducted into the Western Australian Music Hall of Fame. Award nominations for ''Mad Bastards'' (2012): * Winner,

Inside Film Awards The Inside Film Awards (now known as the IF Awards) is an annual awards ceremony and broadcast platform for the Australian film industry, developed by the creators of Inside Film Magazine, Stephen Jenner and David Barda, and originally produced fo ...

, Independent Spirit Award, (with Fletcher, Jowsey and Stephen Pigram) * Nominated for two

AFI Award The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry. It is responsi ...

: AFI Members' Choice Award and Best Film (both with Fletcher, Jowsey and Stephen) * Nominated,

APRA Music Award APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwri ...

for Feature Film Score of the Year (with Fletcher and Stephen) * Nominated

ARIA Music Award The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Austra ...

for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album (with Lloyd and Stephen) They were nominated for an

in 2012 for Best World Music Album.

Personal life

Pigram was married to Josie Pigram, who died in 2011.

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 2011 , ''Mad Bastards'' (as The Pigram Brothers with

) , Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album , , ARIA Award previous winners.

References

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