ARIA Music Awards of 1995

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1995 ARIA Music Awards
Date20 October 1995 (1995-10-20)
Venue Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre,
Sydney, New South Wales
Most awards Silverchair (5)
Most nominationsSilverchair (9)
Website ariaawards.com.au
Television/radio coverage
Network Network Ten
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The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS ) was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. [1] [2] There had been a 18-month gap since the previous award ceremony which was moved to be "closer to the business end of the music industry's year" and so reflect that year's works. [1] [3] Presenters distributed 28 awards from 1060 eligible submissions. [3] Big winners for the year were Silverchair with five awards and Tina Arena with four, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year – both first time they were won by a female. [1] [3]

Contents

In addition to previous categories, the former category Best Pop/Dance Release was split into Best Pop Release and Best Dance Release. [3] Another new category Best World Music Album was also presented for the first time. [1] [3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: The Seekers. [1]

Ceremony details

Presenters and performers

The ARIA Awards ceremony was hosted by radio and TV personality Richard Stubbs. [3] Presenters and performers were:

Presenter(s)Performer(s)Ref.
Peter Asher, Billy Birmingham Tina Arena [3]
Kimberley Davies, Suze DeMarchi Merril Bainbridge
Diesel, Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge
Dave Graney, Janet Jackson Deni Hines/Renegade Funktrain/Swoop
Gina Jeffreys, Montell Jordan Alison Drower/Ian Rogerson
Michael Lee, Molly Meldrum Screaming Jets
Rick Price, Max Sharam Silverchair, Tim Rogers – "New Race" [4]
Greedy Smith, Michael Spiby/Mandawuy Yunupingu Take That [3]
Adam Thompson, Monica Trapaga TISM

Dubious acceptance speech

Itch-E and Scratch-E won the inaugural award for Best Dance Release. [3] One of the duo, Paul Mac's acceptance speech included:

We'd like to thank all of Sydney's ecstasy dealers, without whom this award would not be possible. [5]

— Paul Mac, 20 October 1995

One of the sponsors of the ceremony was the National Drug Offensive, which withdrew their financial backing. The jargon term, ecstasy, for a psychoactive drug was bleeped for the TV broadcast. [5] In 2005 Mac explained that he did not expect to win and so had no speech prepared. [5]

Awards

Final nominees are shown, in plain, with winners in bold. [6]

ARIA Awards

Fine Arts Awards

Artisan Awards

ARIA Hall of Fame inductee

The Hall of Fame inductee was:

Notes

  1. ↑ ARIA website includes Silverchair's Frogstomp as a final nominee in the 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' category. Frogstomp won the related 'Breakthrough Artist – Album' category. [1] Silverchair have no single/track named "Frogstomp". ARIA's original nomination list and 1995 Yearbook states "Tomorrow" is the nominee. Other nominees are as ARIA's original nomination list and 1995 Yearbook.
  2. ↑ ARIA introduces the 1995 Awards page with a summary section that includes "The Best Pop/Dance Release was this year split into two categories, won by Tina Arena and Itch-e & Scratch-e respectively." The main listing of the awards does not show any information on 'The Best Dance Release' category. [1] However, the winners and nominees were published in ARIA's 1996 Yearbook. [6]
  3. ↑ ARIA lists "I've Got a Plan" as the winner of 'Best Adult Contemporary Album' category. [1] "I've Got a Plan" is an album track on Brood .
  4. ↑ The actual title for this album is Dream Children.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Winners by Year 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Australia 1995 ARIA Awards". ALLdownunder.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 O'Grady, Anthony. "The 9th Annual Aria Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Condon, Dan (26 November 2019). "7 Great Performances from the History of the ARIA Awards – Music Reads". Double J . Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Jenkins, Jeff; Ian Meldrum (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. p. 230. ISBN   978-1-921332-11-1. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009.
  6. 1 2 "9th Annual ARIA Awards - Nominations & Winners". Yearbook 1996. Australian Record Industry Association. 1996.
  7. 1 2 "17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2013.Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' or 'Engineer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'.
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