The Drones lead the nominations at the inaugural Age Music Victoria Awards, scoring three nominations for best album, best band and best live act, while a clutch of acts including Paul Kelly, Adalita, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Dick Diver and Clairy Browne and the Bangin Rackettes each scored two nominations.
Two new regional awards for Best Regional Venue and Best Regional Act were introduced and Geelong, Castlemaine and Ballarat venues and acts were prominently represented with Gold Fields, Hunting Grounds, Yacht Club DJs, The Karova Lounge, The Barwon Club, Theatre Royal and The Bridge Hotel amongst the bands and venues receiving nominations. Nominees were chosen by a panel of over 20 music industry broadcasters, journalists, festival curators and record store owners.
Special prizes will be handed out this year with the APRA Best Song winner to receive a $5000 cash prize, and the winner of the Best Emerging Artist award will be flown to Brisbane’s BigSound Conference with full accommodation, where they will be playing a high-profile showcase slot.
Nominee for Best Album, Big Scary will open The Age Music Victoria Awards show with a 30 minute set at Billboard the Venue on Wednesday 20th November. The best Australian soul singers including Daniel Merriweather, Dan Sultan, Kylie Auldist, Archie Roach, Nkechi Anele will join the EG Allstars in an Australian Soul Revue.
The Age Music Victoria Awards are the largest publicly voted awards in Aus with an average of 80,000 votes and the awards continue their long association with the musicians’ charity Support Act Limited, donating $5 from each ticket to the organisation.
The music-loving public can have their say and vote for the best Victorian music for 2013 at theage.com.au/agemusicvictoriaawards.
Music Victoria CEO, Patrick Donovan, said “Music Victoria is thrilled to be in partnership with The Age to transform the Age EG Awards into The Age Music Victoria Awards in 2013. The only difference this year is that we are just celebrating Victorian music now – of all genres. It is still the people’s awards – fans can vote for their favourite music of the year, and buy a ticket to the Billboard show to rub shoulders with their heroes, see them perform and cheer for them as they take home a trophy.”
3RRR Station Manager, Dave Houchin, said “3RRR 102.7FM is very proud to be presenting The Age Music Victoria Awards in 2013. Music Victoria’s involvement, the introduction of the genre awards, the Soul Revue format hosted by Triple R’s own Chris Gill, and the induction of Renée Geyer into the Hall of Fame are exciting developments for 2013 and will create a fitting occasion to proudly celebrate Victoria’s diverse music culture.”
The public award nominations were announced last night at the presentation of the genre awards at The Age Atrium.
The 11 winners are:
Best Blues Album – presented by Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society – Three Kings for ‘Three Kings’
Best Country Album – presented by Addicted To Noise – Dan Waters for ‘La Vita E’Bella’
Best Soul, Funk, R’n’B and Gospel Album – presented by PBS – Kylie Auldist for ‘Still Life’
Best Jazz Album – presented by Dixons Creek Estate – Allan Browne Trio for ‘Lost In The Stars’
Best Hip Hop Album – presented by Capi Sparkling – Fraksha for ‘My Way’
Best Electronic Act – presented by Select AV – Nick Thayer
Best Heavy Album – presented by Wifire Music – King Parrot for ‘Bite Your Head Off’
Best Indigenous Act – presented by Songlines – Crystal Mercy
Best Global or Reggae Act – presented by Australasian Worldwide Music Expo – Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act – presented by GI & Sanicki Lawyers – Judith Hamann
Best Folk Roots Album – presented by White Sky – Archie Roach for ‘Into The Bloodstream’
THE 2013 AGE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS
Presented by SAE and 3RRR 102.7FM
Wednesday 20th November 2013
Billboard The Venue, Melbourne
8.00pm
Starring:
Renée Geyer
The EG Allstars Soul Revue with
Dan Sultan
Archie Roach
Daniel Merriweather
Kylie Auldist
Lance Ferguson
Nkechi Anele (Saskwatch)
Henry Wagons
Remi Kolawole
Talei Wolfgramm
Linda Bull
Ella Thompson
Big Scary (just announced!)
MC Chris Gill and DJs Vince Peach, Pierre Baroni, Johnny Topper and Chris Johnston
Tickets are on sale now for $50+bf through Oztix: http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=38149, ph: 1300 762 545 and Oztix retail outlets. ($5 from every ticket sold donated to Support Act Limited)
Voting for The Age Music Victoria Awards is open online at theage.com.au/agemusicvictoriaawards so have your say now!
See you all at the 2013 The Age Music Victoria Awards!
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The Age Music Victoria Awards 2013 nominees are:
Best Album – presented by The Age EG
All Day Venus – Adalita
Calendar Days – Dick Diver
I See Seaweed – The Drones
Not Art – Big Scary
Spring and Fall – Paul Kelly
Best Band – presented by City of Melbourne
Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes
Dick Diver
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Saskwatch
The Drones
Best Song – presented by APRA
Nono/Yoyo – Standish/Carlyon
Head On/ Pill – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
History Eraser – Courtney Barnett
I’m In Love – Cash Savage And The Last Drinks
Riptide – Vance Joy
Best Male Artist
Archie Roach
David Bridie
Gotye
Mikelangelo
Paul Kelly
Best Female Artist – presented by TheMusic
Adalita
Courtney Barnett
Evelyn Morris (Pikelet)
Jen Cloher
Kylie Auldist
Best Emerging Artist – presented by Travel Beyond / Bigsound
Andras Fox
Brighter Later
Damn Terran
Fraser A. Gorman
Hiatus Kaiyote
Best Live Band – presented by RockWiz
Bombay Royale
Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes
Harmony
Money For Rope
The Drones
Best Venue – presented by Mountain Goat
The Caravan Club
The Corner Hotel
The Forum
The Old Bar
The Toff In Town
Best Festival – presented by Crumpler
All Tomorrow’s Parties / I’ll Be Your Mirror
Boogie
Golden Plains
Meredith Music Festival
Sugar Mountain
Best Regional Act
Gold Fields
Hunting Grounds
Quarry Mountain Dead Rats
Stonefield
Yacht Club DJs
Best Regional Venue
Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Meeniyan Town Hall, South Gippsland
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
The Barwon Club, Geelong
The Bridge, Castlemaine
