Music Victoria Awards

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Music Victoria Awards
Current: Music Victoria Awards of 2020
Awarded forAn annual Awards night celebrating Victorian music.
Location Melbourne, Victoria
CountryAustralia
Presented by Music Victoria
First awarded2006;18 years ago (2006)
Last awardedCurrent
Website musicvictoria.com.au/musicvictoriaawards

The Music Victoria Awards (previously known as The Age EG Awards and The Age Music Victoria Awards [1] ) are an annual awards night celebrating music from the Australian state of Victoria. They commenced in 2006 and are awarded in Melbourne Music Week between October and December. The awards were initially an exclusively online public voted awards, changing in 2013. [2]

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From 2020, to be eligible, all nominations must be taken from music released between July of the previous year to June of the current year, to bring the awards in line with the past financial year. [3]

Since 2022, the event has occurred at the Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne. [4]

History and eligibility

Patrick Donovan started the awards in 2006 to celebrate The Age Entertainment Guide's 21st anniversary. The 2006 awards were a retrospective ceremony and winners came from the past 21 years. The event occurred at the Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

Donovan ran the awards for six years as The Age EG Music Awards before leaving The Age in 2011. Mary Mihelakos ran them in 2012 and 2013, and Belinda Collins from 2014. In 2018, Laura Imbruglia produced the event and a range of new changes were introduced, including significant category changes. 2018 was the final year of the partnership with The Age. Since 2019, the awards continue titled Music Victoria Awards.

To be eligible, at least 50% of the act has been living in Victoria for the last two years, or uses Melbourne as a home base. Solo artists must reside in Victoria to be eligible (residency of backing band is not considered). [5]

Award categories have changed over the years, and consist of public voted, industry voted awards and Legend/Hall of Fame inductions.

From 2012 to 2014, the genre specific categories were awarded in October and the public voted awards in November, however, these have been merged into one event since the 2015 event. [6] In 2021, The Awards will introduce a new category to represent the achievements and contributions of disabled and deaf musicians. [7]

The event was held at Prince Bandroom, St Kilda (2006-2011), [1] Billboard (2012-2013), [1] 170 Russell (2014-2017) [8] and The Melbourne Recital Centre (2018–2021) and the Edge Federation Square (2022 to present). [8]

Awards by year

To see the full article for a particular year, please click on the year link. [9] [10]

2006-2012

The Age Entertainment Guide Awards
YearBest AlbumBest SongLegend / Hall of Fame Inductee
2006 [11] Crowded House - Woodface (1991) The Church - "Under the Milky Way" (1988) TISM
2007 [12] Silverchair - Young Modern Silverchair - "Straight Lines" Kim Salmon
2008 [13] Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! unknown Died Pretty
2009 unknownunknown Painters and Dockers
2010 [14] [15] The Holidays - Post Paradise Little Red - "Rock It" Paul Kelly
2011 [16] [17] The Wagons - Rumble, Shake & Tumble Gotye with Kimbra - "Somebody That I Used to Know" Hoodoo Gurus, Stephen Walker
2012 [18] Alpine A is for Alpine Tame Impala - "Elephant" Weddings Parties Anything, Ian Rumbold

2013-present

Music Victoria Awards
YearAlbum of the YearSong of the YearBest Live ActHall of Fame Inductee
2013 Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall Vance Joy - "Riptide" The Drones Renée Geyer, Michael Gudinski
2014 Dan Sultan – Blackbird Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener"Saskwatch Daddy Cool, Ed Nimmervoll
2015 Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Courtney Barnett - "Depreston" The Smith Street Band John Farnham, AC/DC, Olivia Newton-John, Archie Roach, Palais Theatre, Sunbury Festival, The Seekers, Thunderbirds, Stan Rofe, Bill Armstrong
2016 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity The Drones - "Taman Shud"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Triple R
2017 A.B. Original - Reclaim Australia King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - "Rattlesnake"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Tony Cohen
2018 Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel Baker Boy – "Marryuna"Baker Boy Chrissy Amphlett, Molly Meldrum
2019 The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow The Teskey Brothers – "So Caught Up"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard PBS 106.7FM, Vika & Linda Bull
2020 Sampa the Great – The Return Sampa the Great – "OMG" Amyl and the Sniffers Mary Mihelakos, Chris Wilson
2021 Emma Donovan & The Putbacks – Crossover Hiatus Kaiyote – "Red Room" Amyl and the Sniffers Kylie Minogue, Pierre Baroni
Music Victoria Awards
YearBest AlbumBest SongBest GroupBest Solo ActHall of Fame Inductee
2022 Baker Boy – Gela Baker Boy – "Survive" Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Julia Jacklin Deborah Conway
2023 Cash Savage and the Last Drinks – So This is LoveJulia Jacklin – "Love, Try Not to Let Go" Cable Ties Jen Cloher Kutcha Edwards and Kirsty Rivers
2024 Gregor - Satanic LullabiesGood Morning - "Excalibur" RVG Audrey Powne Ollie Olsen and The Push (Australian youth music organisation)

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  4. ↑ "2023 Awards". musicvictoriaawards.com.au. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
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  7. ↑ "Music Victoria Awards to recognise deaf and disabled artists with new award category". The Music Network. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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