News October 13, 2017

Nominees announced for The Age Music Victoria Awards

The Age Music Victoria Awards has revealed its list of nominees for its 12th year of awards. Going down during Melbourne Music Week on the 22nd of November, it will pull its winners from the below list of nominees and cap things off with an after-party featuring performances from:

Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda, Gold Class and Cable Ties
Plus The EG Allstars with guest singers:
Josh Teskey (The Teskey Brothers)
Archie Roach
Gretta Ray
Ella Thompson(GL)
Michelle Nicolle
Birdz
Mojo Juju
Jim Lawrie (Performing Big Smoke)
DJ MzRizk

‘’Victorian music boasts such strong diversity, it’s important to shine a light on the best genre acts and releases of the year at The Age Music Victoria Awards,” said Music Victoria CEO Patrick Donovan.

“But in a sign that genre music is no longer marginalised, many of the genre acts have been nominated for the more mainstream public awards. We encourage you to vote for your favourite acts, venues and festivals in the public awards. Victorians are passionate about their music, and by voting and buying a ticket to The After Party, you get to give something back and join in celebrating our wonderful music scene.’’

The nominees for public voting are:

BEST ALBUM
A.B Original – Reclaim Australia
Big Smoke – Time Is Golden
Cable Ties – Self Titled
Jen Cloher – Self-Titled
RVG – A Quality of Mercy

BEST BAND
A.B. Original
Cable Ties
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
RVG
The Teskey Brothers

BEST SONG
A.B. Original – January 26
Cable Ties – Say What You Mean
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake
RVG – A Quality of Mercy
The Smith Street Band – Death To The Lads

BEST FEMALE
Ali Barter
Freya Josephine Hollick
Jen Cloher
Meg Mac
Tash Sultana

BEST MALE
D.D Dumbo
Dan Sultan
Paul Kelly
REMI
Tim Rogers

BEST EMERGING ACT
Alexander Biggs
Amyl & The Sniffers
Cable Ties
RVG
The Teskey Brothers

BEST LIVE ACT
A.B. Original
Cable Ties
Cash Savage & The Last Drinks
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Peep Tempel

BEST VENUE – UNDER 500 CAPACITY
The Curtin
The Gasometer
Howler
The Old Bar
The Tote

BEST VENUE – OVER 500 CAPACITY
170 Russell
The Corner Hotel
Croxton Band Room
The Forum
Melbourne Recital Centre

BEST FESTIVAL
Boogie Festival
Golden Plains
Laneway
Meredith Music Festival
Sugar Mountain

BEST REGIONAL VENUE – UNDER 50 GIGS PER YEAR
The Bridge Hotel (Castlemaine)
Meeniyan Town Hall (Meeniyan)
Music On The Hill (Red Hill)
Pier Bandroom (Frankston)
Theatre Royal (Castlemaine)

BEST REGIONAL VENUE – OVER 50 GIGS PER YEAR
Baha Tacos (Rye)
Barwon Club (Geelong)
The Eastern Hotel (Ballarat)
Karova Lounge (Ballarat)
Workers Club (Geelong)

BEST REGIONAL ACT
Benny Walker
Coda Chroma
Cosmic Psychos
D.D Dumbo
Freya Josephine Hollick

Nominees for Genre Awards: 
(Voted by a select industry panel)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Big Smoke – Time Is Golden
Freya Josephine Hollick – The Unceremonious Junking Of Me
Matt Joe Gow –Seven Years
Raised By Eagles – I Must Be Somewhere
Small Town Romance – Self-Titled

BEST ELECTRONIC ACT
Client Liaison
Dom Dolla
Harvey Sutherland
The Journey
KLLO

BEST EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT GARDE ACT
Byron Scullin
James Hullick
Miyuki Jokiranta
Nat Grant
Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell

BEST FOLK OR ROOTS ALBUM
Jed Rowe – A Foreign Country
Jordie Lane and The Sleepers – Glassellland
Leah Senior – Pretty Faces
The Mae Trio – Take Care Take Cover
Sophie Koh – Book of Songs

BEST GLOBAL/REGGAE ACT
Amaru Tribe – Amaru Tribe
The Bombay Royale – Run Kitty Run
George Telek, David Bridie & Musicians of the Gunantuna – A Bit Na Ta
Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence – Afro Empire
Papa Chango – The Lost Moon of Bellaris

BEST HEAVY ALBUM
Batpiss – Rest in Piss
Clowns – Lucid Again
Divide and Dissolve – Basic
Dødknell – Hatred. Absolute
Mammoth Mammoth – Mount the Mountain

BEST HIP HOP ALBUM
A.B Original –Reclaim Australia
Birdz – Train of Thought
Must Volkoff –Aquanaut
Pez – Don’t Look Down
Remi – Divas & Demons

BEST JAZZ ALBUM
Brenton Foster – The Nature of Light
Fem Belling – Now Then
Paul Grabowsky/Mirko Guerrini/Niko Schauble –Torrio!
Senegambian Jazz Band – Self Titled
Speedball –We Have Moved

BEST SOUL, FUNK, RNB AND GOSPEL ALBUM
Cookin’ On 3 Burners – Lab Experiments Vol 1
Lance Ferguson– Raw Material
The Meltdown – The Meltdown
Silver Linings – So Good To You
The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest

BEST ABORIGINAL ACT
A.B Original
Archie Roach
Benny Walker
Birdz
Dan Sultan

BEST BLUES ALBUM
Benny & The Fly By Niters – Watch Yourself
Dan Dinnen – Keep on Stirrin’ The Pot
Fiona Boyes – Professin The Blues
Lloyd Spiegel – This Time Tomorrow
White Lightnin’ – Mongrel Blood