Music News: 2008 ARIA
AWARDS
By
Sean Lynch
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NOMINATION
NEWS
The one-thousand strong ARIA Awards voting academy has spoken in what
is arguably the most eclectic and exciting group of music artists to
land on the ARIA honour roll in years.
Nominees across 28 categories in the 2008 ARIA Awards have been
announced highlighting the depth and diversity of talent across all
genres of the Australian music community.
The big surprise was the vase number of emerging Australian artists to
receive their first ever ARIA Award nods, with two leading the
nominations field.
There were no surprises when vocal powerhouse Gabriella Cilmi received
six nods for her debut album "Lessons to be Learned", including
nominations for SINGLE OF THE YEAR (Sweet
About Me), BEST FEMALE ARTIST, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST –
ALBUM, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – SINGLE, BEST POP RELEASE and HIGHEST
SELLING SINGLE.
All that, and the girl has barely had time to clean up the mess from
her 'Sweet 16' Party!
The other major news comes in the form of Sam Sparro (who was just
announced as the headline act for the Good Vibrations Festival)
who was nominated for five ARIA Awards including SINGLE OF THE YEAR (Black and Gold),
BEST MALE ARTIST, BEST POP RELEASE, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – ALBUM (Sam
Sparro) and BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – SINGLE.
Also receiving four ARIA Award nominations are those
"Are-They-Lesbian-Or-Are-They-Straight" twins from Queensland, The
Veronicas, in the categories of BEST POP RELEASE (Hook Me Up),
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM (Hook
Me Up) and two nominations in the HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE
category for Pick Me Up
and Untouched.
Electronic duo The Presets
capped off an incredible year with four nominations for their second
album "Apocalypso" and the hugely popular single My People. They
have received salutes in the categories of BEST GROUP, BEST DANCE
RELEASE, SINGLE OF THE YEAR and ALBUM OF THE YEAR.
Heres a selection of this years nominees:
The 2008 ARIA
AWARDS
NOMINEES
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Highest
Selling Single
Delta Goodrem - In This Life (Sony BMG)
Gabriella
Cilmi - Sweet About Me (Mushroom Records/Warner Music
Australia)
The Potbelleez - Don't Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)
The Veronicas – Untouched (Warner Music Australia)
The Veronicas - Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)
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Highest
Selling Album
David Campbell - The Swing Sessions 2 (Sony BMG)
Delta Goodrem – Delta (Sony BMG)
Guy Sebastian - The Memphis Album (Sony BMG)
The Veronicas - Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)
Tina Arena - Songs of Love and Loss (EMI)
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Best
Dance Release
Cut
Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular/Universal Music Australia)
Mobin Master - Show Me Love (Safari Music/One Love Music/Sony BMG)
Pnau – Pnau (etcetc)
The Potbelleez - Don't Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)
The
Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)
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Best
Rock Album
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours (Aarght/Shock
Entertainment)
Faker
- Be The Twilight (Capitol/EMI)
Gyroscope - Breed Obsession (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)
The
Living End - White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music
Australia)
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Best
Independent Release
Ben Lee
- Ripe (Inertia Recordings)
British
India – Thieves (Flashpoint/Shock Entertainment)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)
Lior
- Corner Of An Endless Road (Independent/MGM)
Midnight
Juggernauts - Dystopia
(Siberia/Inertia)
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Best
Male Artist
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)
Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)
Paul
Kelly - To Her Door (Live) (Capitol/EMI)
Pete Murray - Summer At Eureka (Columbia/Sony BMG)
Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro (Universal Music Australia)
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Best
Female Artist
Clare
Bowditch - The Moon Looked On (Capitol/EMI)
Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music
Australia)
Holly Throsby - A Loud Call (Spunk/Virgin)
Kylie Minogue – X (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Missy
Higgins – Peachy (Eleven/Virgin/EMI)
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Single
of the Year
Faker - This Heart Attack (Capitol/EMI)
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
(Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Sam Sparro - Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)
The Living End - White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
The Presets - My People
(Modular/Universal Music Australia)
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Album
of the Year
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones (Liberation
Music)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)
The Living End - White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)
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In addition to the confirmation of a very
special performance by US superstar P!NK, the
2008 Aria Awards will play host to performances by Cilmi, The Living End,
The Presets, and Sam Sparro with more to be announced.
Hamish
& Andy (is there anything they aren't doing these days?) will
be
making their hosting debut for the 2008 ARIA Awards alongside ARIA
Awards veteran James Mathison.
Just over 6,000 tickets to the
2008 ARIA AWARDS go on sale to the general public at 12 noon on
Wednesday, 10 September and are expected to go quickly and sell to
capacity.
Tickets are available from
Ticketek – www.ticketek.com.au
or Phone 132 849.
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