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BEST ALBUM
Alice Ivy - Don't Sleep
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover
Gordon Koang – Unity
Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
BEST GROUP
The Avalanches
Emma Donovan and The Putbacks
Hiatus Kaiyote
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Mildlife
BEST SONG
Alex Lahey & Gordi - Dino's
Alice Skye – Party Tricks
The Avalanches - Wherever You Go
Geoffrey O'Connor & Jonnine - For As Long As I Can Remember
Hiatus Kaiyote - Red Room
BEST SOLO ARTIST
Alice Ivy
Baker Boy
Blake Scott
G Flip
Gordon Koang
Kylie Auldist
Liz Stringer
Maple Glider
Mia Wray
Sampa the Great
BEST BREAKTHROUGH ACT
Ashwarya
Blake Scott
Cry Club
Maple Glider
SHOUSE
BEST MUSICIAN
Amanda Roff (Time For Dreams, Harmony)
Andrea Keller
Davey Lane (Solo, You Am I)
Emma Donovan
Erica Dunn (Tropical Fuck Storm, MOD CON)
G-Flip
Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos)
Mindy Meng Wang
Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard)
BEST LIVE ACT
Amyl and The Sniffers
Cable Ties
Kee'ahn
Mildlife
RVG
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(Voted by select industry panels - Winners to be announced 9 December at Melbourne Recital Centre)
BEST BLUES ACT
Aaron Pollock
Anna Scionti
Blues Roulette
Dan Dinnen & Shorty
Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald
BEST COUNTRY ACT
Ben Mastwyk & His Millions
Georgia State Line
James Ellis & The Jealous Guys
Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes
The Weeping Willows
BEST ELECTRONIC ACT
Alex Albrecht
Female Wizard
Jennifer Loveless
Reptant
SaD
BEST EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT GARDE ACT
Aarti Jadu
Candlesnuffer
Deborah Cheetham, Byron Scullin, Tom Supple
Red Wine and Sugar
Thembi Soddell
BEST FOLK ACT
Charm of Finches
Erica Bramham
Kerryn Fields
Lucy Wise
Maple Glider
BEST HEAVY ACT
Divide and Dissolve
Dr. Colossus
FACELESS BURIAL
Growth
NICOLAS CAGE FIGHTER
BEST HIP HOP ACT
Agung Mango
Briggs
DRMNGNOW
Man Made Mountain
Pookie
BEST INTERCULTURAL ACT
Ajak Kwai
Amaru Tribe
Black Jesus Experience
Gelareh Pour’s Garden
Tio
BEST JAZZ ACT
Australian Art Orchestra
Andrea Kellar
Audrey Powne
Menagerie
The Rookies
BEST POP ACT
Alice Ivy
Alice Skye
Geoffrey O'Connor
Gregor
June Jones
BEST REGGAE AND DANCEHALL ACT
Disun Future
Jah Tung
JahWise Productions
Marvin Priest
Monkey Marc
BEST ROCK/PUNK ACT
Blake Scott
Civic
Mod Con
Plaster of Paris
Tom Lyngcoln
BEST SOUL FUNK RNB GOSPEL ACT
The Bamboos
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks
Hiatus Kaiyote
Izy
Kee'ahn
BEST REGIONAL ACT
Baker Boy
Bones and Jones
D'Arcy Spiller
Fenn Wilson
The Teskey Brothers
THE ARCHIE ROACH FOUNDATION AWARD FOR EMERGING TALENT
Allara
Bumpy
Madi Colville Walker
The Merindas
River Boy
THE ARTS ACCESS VICTORIA AMPLIFY AWARD
Eliza Hull
Gordon Koang
Kerryn Fields
Nat Bartsch
Rudely Interrupted
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Winners will be announced on Thursday 9 December 2020 at Melbourne Recital Centre.
The 2021 Music Victoria Awards
Date: Thursday 9 December 2020
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre
At this stage, due to restrictions, it's unknown whether there will be a live audience. Music Victoria will provide more information on this as it comes to hand, but the event will definitely be live-streamed on YouTube and broadcast on Channel 31. Subscribe to the channel here so you get a reminder!
Music Victoria thanks Major Partners Bendigo Bank, City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and Melbourne Recital Centre for their ongoing support of the Music Victoria Awards.
Music Victoria are excited to reveal the winners of the seven industry-voted awards handed out at tonight’s first ever live-streamed Industry Awards event, along with the two 2020 Music Victoria Hall of Fame Inductees. The new format online event also marked the beginning of the voting period for this year’s public-voted categories with all nominees now revealed.
Industry stalwart Mary Mihelakos, and late blues musician Chris Wilson were revealed as the 2020 Hall of Fame inductees, with Chris’ family Sarah Carroll, Fenn Wilson and George Carroll Wilson honouring his induction with a special live performance of his track ‘Hand Becomes Fist'.
The event also awarded a selection of winners for the year’s best venues, festival, producer and Outstanding Woman in Music. Music Victoria are thrilled to welcome Sarah Hamilton as the inaugural winner of the Outstanding Woman In Music Award for her incredible work (along with Joanna Cameron and Ellen Kirk) with One of One - a website that highlights women in the music industry and hosts a very special breakfast event on International Women's day, alongside Joelistics (Joel Ma) who was crowned the debut recipient of the new Best Producer category for his work on Mo’Ju & Joelistics Ghost Town EP. Joel will also receive a $1000 voucher from Award Sponsor Yamaha.
This year’s Best Festival winner, Golden Plains will receive three-year’s free subscription with festival management software Loadin.com. Regional Venue winners, Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong and Theatre Royal, Castlemaine will each receive a $3000 cash prize from Bendigo Bank, and the Best Small and Best Large Venue winners The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood and Forum Melbourne will each have the opportunity to rep their own bespoke line of branded Brick Lane tinnies!
All nominees for this year’s awards will each receive a $100 voucher courtesy of Yamaha & Billy Hyde Music to spend on all Yamaha products and their associated brands including Line 6, Ampeg, Steinberg, Vox, Vater and EarthQuaker Devices. Voters will also go in the draw to win some of these vouchers! Plus, the good folk at Brick Lane are offering all voters the chance to win a slab of beer just for naming your favourite artists, songs and albums of the year, so be sure to check out the list of nominees below and head to the Music Victoria website www.musicvictoria.com.au/votenow before Friday 6 November and vote!
All remaining categories will be awarded at the official 2020 Music Victoria Awards, taking place on Wednesday 9 December at the Melbourne Recital Centre for the 16th instalment.
INDUSTRY AWARDS – WINNERS AND NOMINEES
Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)
Winner: The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
Nominees:
Howler, Brunswick
Northcote Social Club, Northcote
The Tote, Collingwood
The Old Bar, Fitzroy
Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity)
Winner: Forum Melbourne
Nominees:
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Corner Hotel, Richmond
The Night Cat, Fitzroy
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Best Festival
Winner: Golden Plains
Nominees:
Brunswick Music Festival
Isol-Aid
Melbourne Music Week
Queenscliff Music Festival
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Over 50 gigs per year)
Winner: Barwon Club Hotel – Geelong
Nominees:
The Bridge Hotel – Castlemaine
The Eastern – Ballarat
Torquay Hotel – Torquay
Sooki Lounge – Belgrave
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Under 50 gigs per year)
Winner: *Theatre Royal – Castlemaine
Nominees:
The Blues Train – Queenscliff
The Sound Doctor Presents – Anglesea
Volta – Ballarat
Daylesford Cider – Daylesford
Outstanding Woman In Music
Winner: Sarah Hamilton (One Of One)
Nominees:
Anna Laverty (Music Producer)
Charlotte Abroms (Support Act Fundraiser, Music Management)
Coco Eke (Bad Apples, Barpirdhila Foundation and Ngarrimili)
Emily Ulman (Isol-Aid, Brunswick Music Festival)
Best Producer
Winner: Joelistics: Mo’Ju & Joelistics Ghost Town EP
Nominees:
Annika Schmarsel aka Alice Ivy: Sunrise', 'Don't Sleep', 'Better Man' (singles)
Anna Laverty: Milk on Milk (Milk! Records compilation)
Damien Charles: Coda Chroma 'Inside The Still Life' (Album)
Tom Iansek: #1 Dads – Golden Repair (Album)
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
TO BE INDUCTED AT THE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS
Mary Mihelakos (industry)
Chris Wilson (musician)
INDUSTRY-VOTED AWARDS NOMINEES
WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act
Benny Walker (Echuca)
Bones and Jones (Geelong)
Freya Josephine Hollick (Ballarat)
The Kite Machine (Geelong West)
The Teskey Brothers (Warrandyte)
Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent
Alice Skye
Allara
Kee’ahn
The Merindas
River Boy
Best Blues Album
Aaron Pollock – Separated Through Time
Charlie Bedford – Good to Go
Joey Vincent’s Bakelite Radio – Rosary of Tears
*Lloyd Spiegel – Cut and Run
The Teskey Brothers – Live at The Forum
Best Country Album
The Cartwheels – Self-titled
Lost Ragas – This Is Not A Dream
Michael Waugh – The Weir
Mitch Dean – Holding Back the Levee
Tracy McNeil & The GoodLife – You Be The Lightning
Best Electronic Act
*DRMNGNOW
OK EG
Pugilist
Simona Castricum
Sleep D
Best Experimental or Avant-garde Act
Bridget Chappell
James Rushford
Maria Moles
Natasha Anderson
Robin Fox
Best Folk Album
Charm of Finches – Your Company
Fiona Ross & Shane O'Mara – Sunwise Turn
Liz Frencham – Love and Other Crimes
Louisa Wise – All of These Things
Ruth Hazleton – Daisywheel
Best Heavy Album
Carcinoid – Metastatic Declination
Dead – Raving Drooling
Diploid – Glorify
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Sithlord – From Out of the Darkness
Best Hip Hop Act
Birdz
DRMNGNOW
Jordan Dennis
Nomad
Sampa The Great
Best Intercultural Act
Amaru Tribe
Black Jesus Experience
Gelareh Pour's Garden
No Borders Music
Sampa The Great
Best Jazz Album
Andrea Keller – Life Is Brut[if]al
Horns of Leroy – Big Night
JK Group – The Young Ones
Vanessa Perica Orchestra – Love is a Temporary Madness
ZEDSIX – The Shape Of Jazz
Best Reggae and Dancehall Act
Dub FX
Jah Tung
Marvin Priest
Monkey Marc
The Push Reggae Band
Best Rock/Punk Album
Cable Ties – Far Enough
Nuada – Beneath the Swamp
Pseudo Mind Hive – Of Seers and Sirens
RVG – Feral
Shepparton Airplane – Sharks
Best Soul, Funk, Gospel or RnB Album
Karate Boogaloo – Carn The Boogers
Sampa The Great – The Return
Surprise Chef – All News Is Good News
The Teskey Brothers – Live at The Forum
Various Artists – Over Under Away Volume 1: 10 Years of Hopestreet Recordings
PUBLIC-VOTED AWARDS NOMINEES
WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS ON WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER
Best Album
Cable Ties – Far Enough
Elizabeth – the wonderful world of nature
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy
RVG – Feral
Sampa The Great – The Return
Best Band
Amyl and The Sniffers
Cable Ties
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
RVG
Best Song
Baker Boy – Move
Leah Senior – Evergreen
Mildlife – Rare Air
RVG – I Used To Love You
Sampa The Great – OMG
Best Solo Artist
Angie McMahon
Baker Boy
Briggs
Courtney Barnett
Elizabeth
Gordon Koang
Leah Senior
Sampa The Great
Simona Castricum
Sui Zhen
Best Musician
Amy Taylor (Amyl and The Sniffers)
Erica Dunn (Tropical Fuck Storm, Palm Springs, MOD CON)
Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm)
Gordon Koang
Jen Cloher (Dyson Stringer Cloher)
Romy Vager (RVG)
Sampa Tembo (Sampa The Great)
SilentJay (Sampa The Great, Mandarin Dreams)
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard)
Tom Iansek (Big Scary, #1 Dads)
Best Breakthrough Act
Alice Skye
Elizabeth
Grace Cummings
Nat Vazer
Pinch Points
Best Live Act
Amyl and The Sniffers
Cable Ties
Gordon Koang
Sampa The Great
The Teskey Brothers
The Music Victoria Awards
Wednesday 9 December 2020
Melbourne Recital Centre
7.00pm
To be live-streamed on musicvictoria.com.au and broadcast on Channel 31.
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Industry-Voted Nominees
Public-Voted Nominees
Voting for all public-voted categories NOW OPEN until Friday 6 November via musicvictoria.com.au/votenow
The Music Victoria Awards accept one vote per device.
Multiple votes from the same IP address will be removed before winners are announced.
Music Victoria thanks Major Partners Bendigo Bank, City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and Melbourne Recital Centre for their ongoing support of the Music Victoria Awards.
*Music Victoria Board Member Tim Heath is a co-owner of Regional Venue winner Theatre Royal. *VMDO/Songlines staff member Neil Morris is nominated for his work under the performing name DRMNGNOW. Music Victoria Artist Advisory Panel member Lloyd Spiegel is nominated in the Best Blues Album category. These Awards are industry-voted by independent panels, and nominees are not involved in the voting process.
The Music Victoria Awards are back for their 15th year, and the announcement of the 2019 nominees confirms it’s been yet another huge year for the Victorian live and recording music industry.
Previous award winners Sampa The Great and The Teskey Brothers are leading the nominees tally,joined by Tropical F*ck Storm and recent Levi’s Prize winner Gordon Koang - all up for a whopping five awards each in 2019. Following closely behind is rising hip hop act DRMNGNOW and the unstoppable Amyl and the Sniffers with four nominations each across both the public and industry voted categories. Previous awards performer Angie McMahon has had a stellar year locally and internationally and finds herself snagging three publically-voted nominations.
This year’s nominee list includes many never-before-nominated artists, highlighting the immense breadth of talent the Victorian music community continues to offer.
From now until midnight Friday 8 November, Australia’s music community can vote for their favourite music contributions of the year in the publicly-voted categories for Best Album, Best Band, Best Song, Best Solo Artist, Best Male Musician, Best Female Musician, Best Breakthrough Act, Best Live Band, Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity), and Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity). Those who vote will go in the running to win tickets to attend the ceremony at Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday 20 November.
Since its inception in 2005, The Music Victoria Awards has partnered with a spread of major sponsors, backing the winners with cash and industry package prizes each and every year. This year’s partners include Bakehouse Studios, who generously provide all nominees with a rehearsal / pre-production package at their coveted Richmond studios; APRA AMCOS, proudly offering a $3000 grant to the winner of Best Song; and The Archie Roach Foundation, who provide a $2000 grant plus mentorship access for the winner of the Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent. In 2019, Music Victoria would like to welcome new event partner Lyrical Road, which is providing a $5000 prize pack to this years’ winner of the public-voted award for Best Live Act.
A highlight of the ceremony is the annual Hall of Fame induction and this year Music Victoria is thrilled to announce the coveted Hall of Fame inductees as beloved community radio station PBS 106.7FM and Australian music icons Vika and Linda Bull.
Now entering its 40th year, PBS (Progressive Broadcasting Service) was conceived in 1979 as a community, member-based radio station unimpeded by commercial interests and dedicated to sharing and promoting diverse music not heard on other stations.
Since their multi-platinum conquest of pop radio with the Black Sorrows in the late 1980s, Vika and Linda Bull have forged diverse pathways into soul, gospel, blues, country and the island music of their Tongan ancestry. By turns tender and powerful, their rich solo vocals and instinctive harmonies have spawned eight albums of their own, as well as illuminating studio and concert performances by Paul Kelly, Rockwiz, C.W. Stoneking, Deborah Conway, Kasey Chambers and many more.
‘’Music Victoria recognises the deep contributions both PBS 106.7FM and Vika and Linda Bull have made to the fabric of Victorian music and culture and is proud to present them both as Inductees to the Music Victoria Awards Hall of Fame in 2019,’’ said MVA Executive Producer Patrick Donovan, who added that they were selected this year by the MVA Hall of Fame Academy, which is comprised of 30 former inductees and industry veterans.
With a limited number of Awards night tickets available to the general public in 2019, plus hefty discounts available for Music Victoria Members, be sure to grab tickets when they go on sale Monday 21 October if you’d like to see all the action on the night, and don’t forget to vote in the 2019 Music Victoria Awards!
The nominees now open for PUBLIC VOTING are:
Best Album
Amyl and the Sniffers - Amyl and the Sniffers
Angie McMahon – Salt
Gregor - Silver Drop
On Diamond - On Diamond
The Teskey Brothers - Run Home Slow
Best Band
Amyl and the Sniffers
Cash Savage and The Last Drinks
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The Teskey Brothers
Tropical F*ck Storm
Best Song
Briggs - Life is Incredible (feat. Greg Holden)
Cash Savage and The Last Drinks - Good Citizens
Gordon Koang - Stand Up (Clap Your Hands)
Sampa The Great - Final Form
The Teskey Brothers - So Caught Up
Best Solo Artist
Alex Lahey
Angie McMahon
Baker Boy
Courtney Barnett
DRMNGNOW
Gordon Koang
Gregor
Olympia
Palm Springs
Sampa The Great
Best Male Musician
Davey Lane (You Am I, Solo work + more)
Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm)
Gordon Koang
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard)
Paul Kelly
Best Female Musician
Angie McMahon
Courtney Barnett
Erica Dunn (Tropical F*ck Storm, Palm Springs, Harmony)
Romy Vager (RVG)
Sampa Tembo (Sampa The Great)
Best Breakthrough Act
DRMNGNOW
Gena Rose Bruce
G Flip
Gordon Koang
Tones and I
Best Live Act
Amyl and the Sniffers
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Mildlife
Sampa The Great
Tropical F*ck Storm
Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)
The Gasometer Hotel, Fitzroy
Howler, Brunswick
Northcote Social Club, Northcote
The Old Bar, Fitzroy
The Tote Hotel, Collingwood
Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity)
Corner Hotel, Richmond
The Croxton Bandroom, Thornbury
Forum, Melbourne
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Vote at: www.musicvictoria.com.au/votenow
INDUSTRY-VOTED NOMINEES
Best Festival
Boogie Festival
Gizzfest
Golden Plains
Meredith Music Festival
Supersense
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act
Kian
The Kite Machine
Maya Rose
Stonefield
The Teskey Brothers
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Over 50 gigs per year)
The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine
Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East
Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Sooki Lounge, Belgrave
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Under 50 gigs per year)
Barwon Heads Hotel, Barwon Heads
The Bridge Hotel, Bendigo
Malt Shed, Wangaratta
Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo
Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent
Allara Briggs Pattison
DRMNGNOW
Kalyani & Isha
Key Hoo
Robert K Champion
Best Blues Album
Anna Scionti - Orphan Diary
Catfish Voodoo – Cookin’ With…
Julian James - Silver Spade
Opelousas - Opelousified
T.K. Reeve – I Wanna Feel Good
Best Country Album
Kate Alexander + Hana Brenecki - Don’t You Have Better Things To Do?
Matt Joe Gow – Break, Rattle And Roll
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission - Coldwater DFU
Nathan Seeckts - The Heart Of The City
Sean McMahon - You Will Know When You’re There
Best Electronic Act
CORIN
DJ Plead
Kirkis
Rings Around Saturn
Sui Zhen
Best Experimental or Avant-garde Act
Cat Hope
CORIN (Corin Ileto)
Diimpa (William Elm)
Naretha Williams
Uboa (Xandra Metcalfe)
Best Folk or Roots Album
Cat & Clint - The Days That Used To Be
Lucie Thorne - KITTY & FRANK
The Maes - The Maes
Roolya Boolya - Running to You
The Teskey Brothers - Run Home Slow
Best Heavy Album
Blackhelm - Dark Clouds of the Inferno
Religious Observance - Utter Discomfort
Suldusk - Lunar Falls
Uboa - The Origin of My Depression
Vexation - Journey Beyond Mortality
Best Hip Hop Act
Cool Out Sun
DRMNGNOW
Kaiit
Remi
Sampa The Great
Best Intercultural Act
Cool Out Sun
Gordon Koang
Iaki Vallejo
Përolas
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
Best Jazz Album
Adam Simmons - The Usefulness of Art
Adam Spiegel – Melancholiac
Andrea Keller - Transients Vol. 1
Spirograph Studies – Kindness, Not Courtesy
Various Artists - Sunny Side Up
Best Reggae and Dancehall Act
Echo Drama
Jah Tung
Quashani Bahd
The Shottaz
Yaw Faso
Best Rock/Punk Album
Amyl and the Sniffers - Amyl and the Sniffers
HEXDEBT – Rule Of Four
Stonefield - Bent
Tropical F*ck Storm - Braindrops
V – So Pure
Best Soul, Funk, Gospel or RnB Album
Allysha Joy - Acadie: Raw
Clever Austin - Pareidolia
Cool Out Sun - Cool Out Sun
Laneous - Monstera Deliciosa
The Putbacks - The Putbacks
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Vote in the Public categories at: www.musicvictoria.com.au/votenow
Voting closes at midnight, Friday 8 November 2019
The Music Victoria Awards
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Melbourne Recital Centre
8.00pm
Performing artists to be announced and limited tickets will be on sale on Monday 21 October.
$50 General Admission or $20 for Music Victoria members
Tickets will be available through melbournerecital.com.au
