The largest publicly voted music awards in the country, The Age Music Victoria Awards, have announced the nominees for 2015, highlighting the best of contemporary, Victoria-based Australian music in the past 12 months and celebrating the enormous success of our very fine, very strong industry. As always, the awards will also shed light on the best venue and festival in Victoria over the past year.
Unsurprisingly world-dominating indie goddess Courtney Barnett has a whole pile of nods this year, picking up nominations for Best Album, Best Song, Best Band, and Best Female Artist alongside another very strong contender in Jess Ribeiro.
Melbourne four-piece Totally Mild are also set to put up a very strong front three nominations, tying with hard-working trio The Peep Tempel. It’s all going to be so very, very hard to choose.
Public voting is open until November 6th and is located at www.theage.com.au/agemusicvictoriaawards
BEST ALBUM
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Dick Diver – Melbourne, Florida
Dorsal Fins – Mind Renovation
Ben Salter – The Stars My Destination
Totally Mild – Down Time
BEST SONG
Courtney Barnett – Depreston
Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best
Pearls – Big Shot
Jess Ribeiro – Hurry Back To Love
The Peep Tempel – Carol
BEST BAND
Courtney Barnett
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The Peep Tempel
Totally Mild
Twerps
BEST MALE ARTIST
Briggs
Fraser A. Gorman
Tom Iansek (#1 Dads, Big Scary)
C. W. Stoneking
Marlon Williams
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Courtney Barnett
Mojo Juju
Jess Ribeiro
Ella Thompson
Sui Zhen
BEST EMERGING ARTIST
Gold Class
Harts
Raised By Eagles
Total Giovanni
Totally Mild
BEST REGIONAL ACT
Briggs
Cosmic Psychos
Crepes
DD Dumbo
The Murlocs
BEST LIVE BAND
The Bamboos
The Drones
The Peep Tempel
The Smith Street Band
Total Giovanni
BEST REGIONAL VENUE
Barwon Club, Geelong
Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
The Loft, Warrnambool
BEST VENUE
Corner Hotel, Richmond
Howler, Brunswick
Shebeen, Melbourne
The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood
The Tote, Collingwood
BEST FESTIVAL
Boogie
Golden Plains
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival
Sugar Mountain
Supersense
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