| RocKwiz Christmas Album | |
|---|---|
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| Compilation album | |
| Released | 2011 |
| Label | Liberation Music |
RocKwiz Christmas Album is a compilation album of songs recorded for Rockwiz Christmas specials at the Palais Theatre in 2007 and 2009. [1] It was released on vinyl and cd. [2]
Sally Browne of the Sunday Mail wrote "With loads more cool Yule songs to unwrap, there's plenty here to make you say 'Christmas rocks!' and not 'Bah humbug!'." [3] The Age's Michael Dwyer gave it 3½ stars saying "RocKwiz presses its real-deal difference with this gritty cull from two past Christmases at the Palais." [4]
| Year | Award | Nomination | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | ARIA Music Awards | Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album [5] | Nominated |
Track 1 is a medley of All Alone On Christmas, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love), Run Rudolph Run and All I Want For Christmas Is You
Track 9 is a medley of What Christmas Means to Me, This Christmas, Who Took the Merry Out Of Christmas, Last Christmas
Tracks 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16 are omitted from the vinyl version.
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