Four Aussie acts up for UK Music Video Awards

Four Australian acts were among those nominated for the UK Music Video Awards, the annual celebration of creative and technical excellence in music video making around the world through 30 categories since 2008.

They are held at the Camden Roundhouse in London on Thursday November 5.

Sia was among those who had multiple nominations, alongside Florence & The Machine, Ed Sheeran, Naughty Boy, Royal Blood, The Chemical Brothers, alt-j, FKA twigs and Years & Years.

The Adelaide-born singer songwriter’s Elastic Heart, which she co-directed with Daniel Askill is a contender for both Best Pop Video – International and Best Choreography in a Video.

It featured her favourite actor Shia LaBeouf exposing his “inner child” and 16-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler, and was deliberately meant to be confronting. “I want it to be moving because so little moves me,” she explained at the time of its release.

Tame Impala’s Let It Happen, about a nervous passenger’s flight into oblivion, is in the Best Rock/Indie Video – International category. They have to take out a win against U2’s Every Breaking Wave, Death From Above 1979’s Virgins, Cold Mailman’s Something You Do, Darwin Deez’s Kill Your Attitude and Joywave’s Somebody New.

Chet Faker’s Hiro Murai-directed Gold – which featured three professional female US skaters – is up for Best Alternative Video – International against two from Flying Lotus (Coronus The Terminator and Never Catch Me) against offerings from Black Atlass, Brodinski and Nicolas Godin.

Also in the running is LA-based Australian producer, songwriter and DJ Hook n Sling (aka Anthony Maniscalco)for the clip for the Break Yourself track featuring Far East Movement. The first time collaboration between music directors Nelson de Castro and Carlos Lopez Estrada, the mist-shrouded story-line is about a boy in a school bus. It is listed alongside Skrillex’s Doompy Poomp, Paul Kalkbrenner’s Feed Your Head, Tchami’s Promesses, Ten Walls’ Walking With Elephants and Tiga’s Bugatti.