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2021 Music Victoria Awards
The 2021 Music Victoria Awards were the 16th Annual Music Victoria Awards. The ceremony took place on 9 December 2021 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The 2021 awards featured a number of changes, including a brand new category for Best Pop Act and the inaugural Arts Access Victoria Amplify Award (for deaf and disabled musicians). All genre categories will now be assessed on the act rather than album, with the requirement that nominees have released at least multiple recordings between 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021. New CEO Simone Schinkel headed up the event for the first time this year, taking over from Music Victoria founder, Patrick Donovan. Schinkel said "As part of our commitment to continual improvement we have refined our Awards criteria, categories and judging processes which we believe will more accurately reflect and reward the diverse music community in Victoria." Hall of Fame inductees The Hall of Fame inductees were announced on 7 October 2021 * Kylie Minogue * Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C31 Melbourne
C31 Melbourne is a free-to-air community television channel in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its name is derived from UHF 31, the frequency and channel number reserved for analogue television, analogue broadcasts by metropolitan community television in Australia, community television stations in Australia. History The station began broadcasting officially on 6 October 1994. The Australian Broadcasting Authority had granted Melbourne Community Television Consortium (MCTC) with a temporary open-narrowcast licence on 5 March 1993. The framework of community television in Australia can be traced back to 1992, when the Government asked the ABA to conduct a trial of community television using the vacant sixth television channel 31. On 30 July 2004, the Australian Broadcasting Authority granted the station a full-time community broadcasting licence. C31 began broadcasting in Digital Television, digital during June 2010. C31 is primarily funded through sponsorship, grants, sale of ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Koang
Gordon Koang is a blind South Sudanese musician based in Australia. He is known in South Sudan as the country's "King of Music". Koang was already an internationally touring musician and a household name in his own country when he was forced to flee South Sudan for Uganda and then Australia. Since then, he has played and produced music in Australia and advocated for refugees. He was awarded permanent residency in Australia in 2019. In September 2022, Koang announced the forthcoming release of his second studio album, ''Community'', scheduled for release on 11 November 2022. Biography Koang was born in the Nile Valley in what is now South Sudan. Koang was born blind and had few job options, but a family member introduced him to the Thom in an attempt to help him feel less lonely while his family was at work. He started his musical career by playing in church in his hometown of Nasir and, in the 1990s, began writing his own music to play in the streets of Juba for crowds. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lane (musician)
David Daniel "Davey" Lane (born 31 January 1981) is an Australian musician. He is a solo artist and lead guitarist of You Am I (since 1999).Spencer et al, (2007) 'Lane, David' entry. Retrieved 4 February 2010.McFarlane'You Am I'entry. Retrieved 4 February 2010. He was also lead singer-guitarist of The Pictures (from 2000) and member of Australian supergroup, The Wrights. Biography As a teenager Davey Lane transcribed the guitar parts for Australian alternative rock group, You Am I's, website. He provided lead guitar as a session musician for the group's founding mainstay Tim Rogers on his debut solo album, '' What Rhymes with Cars and Girls'', which was released in March 1999. To promote the album, Rogers formed The Twin Set as his backing band, with Lane: were Jen Anderson on violin; Ian Kitney on drums; and Stuart Speed on upright bass. When You Am I reconvened in July that year, Lane joined as a second guitarist for the band. Lane's first recorded work with You Am I is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Keller
Andrea Keller (born 1973) is an Australian pianist and composer. She won three ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with ''Thirteen Sketches'', ''Mikrokosmos'' and ''Footprints'' and was nominated in 2013 for the album ''Family Portraits''. Biography Born to Czech parents in 1973, Keller grew up in Sydney, Australia. Convinced from a young age that she would be a musician, she studied piano, flute and saxophone at Sydney's Conservatorium High School. Inspired by her older brother, she penned her first compositions at the age of 10, and received her Associate in Music, Australia, Associate in Music diploma with distinction on piano at age 14. It was around this time that she was introduced to jazz music and the art of Musical improvisation, improvisation. Continuing to explore classical, jazz and original musics throughout her teenage years, her musical path became more defined when she moved to Melbourne in 1993 to attend the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Since 1996 Keller h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildlife
Mildlife are a Melbourne based, Australian psychedelic jazz fusion group formed in 2013. The group have released two albums. Their second peaked at number 8 on the ARIA Charts in October 2020. Discography Albums Live albums Extended plays Singles Awards and nominations AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (known colloquially as the AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. ! , - , 2021 , ''Automatic'' , Best Independent Jazz Album or EP , , ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual ceremony presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 2021, , ''Automatic'' , , Best Jazz Album , , , , - , 2022 , ''Live from South Channel Island'' , Best Jazz Album , , Music Victoria Awards The Music V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band's current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh. They are known for exploring multiple genres, staging energetic live shows and building a prolific discography, having released 23 studio albums, 14 live albums, three compilations and three EPs. Their second EP, ''Willoughby's Beach'', and debut album, '' 12 Bar Bruise'', primarily blended surf music and garage rock, and were released on Flightless, the band's own label. Their second album, a "psychedelic spaghetti western" titled ''Eyes Like the Sky'', features spoken-word narration by Broderick Smith. ''Float Along – Fill Your Lungs'', released later in the year, and the 2014 albums ''Oddments'' and ''I'm in Your Mind Fuzz'', saw the band expand on their psychedelic sound. In 2015, they drew on elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shouse (duo)
Shouse () are an Australian-New Zealand electronic music duo consisting of Jack Madin and Ed Service. They are best known for their 2017 single "Love Tonight", which experienced renewed popularity in 2021 after various remixes of it were used in TikTok trends. Career In 2011, Ed Service moved from the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand to Melbourne, in order to become part of the dance music scene in Australia. While in a nightclub in Melbourne he met local musician Jack Madin, who has a background in folk and rock music, the two musicians decided to become an underground, 'weirdo-house' duo called Shouse. The first song the pair ever wrote together was their soon to be hit single, ''Love Tonight''. In 2015, Shouse gathered in a warehouse in Brunswick for a recording session, where they recorded the vocals what would become the song "Love Tonight". Edward Service told ABC Radio Melbourne: "We decided to get a big group of mates together … it was just a big group of am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry Club
Cry Club is a queer pop-punk duo from Melbourne, Australia, who formed as a group in 2018. They released their debut album ''God I'm Such a Mess'' in November 2020. Their second ''Spite Will Save Me'' was released on June 23, 2023. Biography The duo was formed in Wollongong in 2018, when vocalist Heather Riley wanted to form a Siouxsie and the Banshees/The Cure cover band. Riley had known Jono Tooke since 2014, when they met during a university-organised trip to Japan and bonded over the animated series ''Over the Garden Wall''. The band's debut single, released in 2018, was a response to the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite in Australia, inspired by conversations with relatives who accepted and loved them as family members, but were adamantly voting against same-sex marriage. The group's follow-up single "DFTM", a song about people not respecting physical boundaries at concerts, was added to full rotation at Triple J in April 2019, and the duo became the most played act o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwarya
Ashwarya (stylised in all caps) is an Indian-Australian singer and songwriter. Career Ashwarya's singles "Psycho Hole" and "Biryani" were released in 2020, which were followed by her debut extended play, ''Nocturnal Hours'', on 8 July 2021. She released the song "Can't Relate" on 17 August 2022. Artistry Musical style and influences Shah lists musicians such as Rihanna, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Sufjan Stevens, Tyler, the Creator, and SZA as influences. Discography Extended plays Singles Awards and nominations Music Victoria Awards The Music Victoria Awards, are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2005. ! , - , 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ... , Ashwarya , Best Breakthrough Act , , , - References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey O'Connor
Geoffrey David O'Connor is an Australian indie pop musician and producer based in Melbourne. He released his debut studio album ''Liquorice Night'' in 2007, under the alias of Sly Hats. O'Connor has since released the solo albums ''Vanity Is Forever'' (2011) ''Fan Fiction'' (2014) and ''For as Long as I Can Remember'' (2021) all through Chapter Music. O'Connor is also a member of indie pop group The Crayon Fields, on lead guitar and lead vocals. As a performer O'Connor’s first album under his own name was ''Vanity Is Forever'', which Triple J's Zan Rowe described as "a distinct step away from the indie-pop of his band. The record is full of synthesisers, and modern soft rock sounds and is written from the perspective of a guy who has both a heavy heart and a high libido". At the time of release, O’Connor visited the US for a sold-out support tour with Jens Lekman, toured Australia as part of the Laneway Festival, and supported Grimes, Edwyn Collins and Pains of Being Pure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Skye
Alice Skye is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is a Wergaia woman from Horsham. In 2017, she was the Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner. She released her debut album ''Friends with Feelings'' in 2018 and toured nationally with Emily Wurramara. Discography Studio albums Singles Guest appearances Awards and nominations Australian Women in Music Awards The Australian Women in Music Awards is an annual event that celebrates outstanding women in the Australian Music Industry who have made significant and lasting contributions in their chosen field. They commenced in 2018. ! , - ! scope="row", 2019 , Herself , Emerging Artist Award , , Music Victoria Awards The Music Victoria Awards, are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2005. ! , - ! scope="row" rowspan="2", 2020 , rowspan="2", Herself , Best Breakthrough Act , , rowspan="2", , - , The Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent , , - ! sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordi (musician)
Sophie Payten (born 28 December 1992), known professionally as Gordi, is an Australian folktronica singer/songwriter. Her music has been featured in various television series and films: her 2015 single "Can We Work It Out" featured in the seventh series of ''The Vampire Diaries'', her 2017 single "Heaven I Know" featured in the tenth series of '' The Walking Dead'', and her 2017 song "Something Like This" featured in the 2020 teen romantic comedy '' To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You''. Career Payten began receiving both national and international attention after playing independently across Sydney whilst at university and releasing tracks online through government-funded national Australian radio station Triple J's Unearthed radio. Gordi was nominated for the 2015 Unearthed Artist of the Year J Award from Triple J, the 2015 Next Big Thing SMAC (Sydney Music, Arts & Culture) Award from FBi Radio, and was dubbed one of the 40 best new bands of 2016 by Stereogum. Payten s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
