Music Victoria Awards | |
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Current: Music Victoria Awards of 2020 | |
Awarded for | An annual Awards night celebrating Victorian music. |
Location | Melbourne, Victoria |
Country | Australia |
Presented by | Music Victoria |
First awarded | 2006 |
Last awarded | Current |
Website | musicvictoria |
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]
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]
The 2023 edition is scheduled for October 31 at Federation Square, Melbourne. [4]
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-present). [8]
To see the full article for a particular year, please click on the year link. [9] [10]
The Age Entertainment Guide Awards | |||
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Year | Best Album | Best Song | Legend / Hall of Fame Inductee |
2006 [11] | Crowded House - Woodface (1991) | The Church - "Under the Milky Way" (1988) | TISM |
2007 [12] | Silverchair - Young Modern | Silverchair - "Straght Lines" | Kim Salmon |
2008 [13] | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | unknown | Died Pretty |
2009 | unknown | unknown | 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 |
Music Victoria Awards | ||||
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Year | Album of the Year | Song of the Year | Best Live Act | Hall 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 |
2022 | Baker Boy – Gela | Baker Boy – "Survive" | not awarded | Deborah Conway |
2023 | Kutcha Edwards and Kirsty Rivers | |||
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