Nominees for The Age Music Victoria Awards have been revealed with A.B. Original up for Best Album, Band, Song and Live Act.
The Age Music Victoria Awards recognise excellence in various music genres and industry sectors in the state of Victoria for the previous 12 months.
Until 10 November, the music community can contribute to the final count with 13 public awards now ready to narrowing.
’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. 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.’’ – Patrick Donovan, Music Victoria CEO
The Age Music Victoria Award nominees
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”
Public voting is open from 13 October until the 10 November.
By registering your vote you automatically go into the draw to win an Awards Prize Pack which includes: 2 x tickets to The After Party at 170 Russell, a Moshtix Gift Voucher, 2 x tickets to a show of your choice at 170 Russell, dinner and a double pass to a show of your choice at The Corner Hotel & The Northcote Social Club and a Music Victoria Individual Membership.
GET VOTING NOW AT WWW.MUSICVICTORIA.COM.AU/VOTENOW
