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ARIA Music Awards Of 2001
The 15th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards) were held on 30 October 2001 at the Capitol Theatre. Rock band Powderfinger won the most awards with six from eight nominations. Leading the nominations were dance, electronic group, The Avalanches, with nine nominations: they won four. Awards ''The following list includes the winners, highlighted in bold, and the other final nominations below them.'' ARIA Awards *Album of the Year ** Powderfinger – '' Odyssey Number Five'' ***The Avalanches – '' Since I Left You'' ***Kylie Minogue – '' Light Years'' *** Something for Kate – '' Echolalia'' *** You Am I – '' Dress Me Slowly'' *Single of the Year ** Powderfinger – " My Happiness" ***The Avalanches – "Frontier Psychiatrist" ***Kylie Minogue – " On a Night Like This" *** Something for Kate – "Monsters" *** You Am I – " Damage" *Highest Selling Album ** Powderfinger – '' Odyssey Number Five'' ***John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Theatre, Sydney
The Capitol Theatre is a heritage-listed theatre located at 3-15 Campbell Street, Haymarket, in the Sydney central business district, Australia. It was designed by Henry Eli White and John Eberson and built from 1893 to 1928. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The former circus venue, atmospheric theatre and market venue in owned by Capitol Theatre Management Pty Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foundation Theatres Pty Limited. Foundation Theatres owns the Sydney Lyric and Capitol Theatre. History The site of the Capitol Theatre has provided entertainment to the people of Sydney since the early 19th century when this piece of land was used by early settlers as a market place for produce and hay, giving this area its name "Haymarket". During the 1880s facilities for the bulk sale of fruit and vegetables came under increasing pressure. In March 1891, Sydney Council appointed a committee to recommend a new site for a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something For Kate
Something for Kate are an Australian alternative rock band, which formed in 1994 with Paul Dempsey on lead vocals and guitar, and Clint Hyndman on drums. They were joined in 1998 by Stephanie Ashworth on bass guitar and backing vocals. The group have released seven studio albums: both '' The Official Fiction'' (2003) and '' Desert Lights'' (2006) topped the ARIA Albums Chart; while '' Beautiful Sharks'' (1999), ''Echolalia'' (2001) and ''Leave Your Soul to Science'' (2012) reached the top 10. Two of their singles have reached the ARIA top 20: "Monsters" (2001) and "Déjà Vu" (2003). The band have received a total of 11 nominations for ARIA Music Awards in 1999, 2001 and 2003. History 1994–1997: Formation and early years Something for Kate were formed in 1994 in Melbourne by Julian Carroll on bass guitar, Paul Dempsey on lead guitar and lead vocals, and Clint Hyndman on drums. Dempsey and Hyndman were school friends from Padua College, Mornington Peninsula; Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking Forward Looking Back
''Looking Forward Looking Back'' is the 56th studio album by Australian country music singer-songwriter (1927-2003), Slim Dusty. This album was Slim Dusty's 100th album release. ''Looking Forward Looking Back'' was celebrated with a special Network 9 This Is Your Life event presentation by Mike Munro. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001, the album won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album The Grammy Award for Best Country Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the country music genre. Honors .... The album was also nominated for Highest Selling Album. Reception Track listing Personnel *Slim Dusty - vocals The Travelling Country Band *Robbie Souter - drums *Rod Coe - bass *Jeff Mercer - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar, dobro, harmony vocals *Mike Kerin - fiddle, acoustic guitar on "Never Was At All", vocals on "Bad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Dusty
Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs. Slim Dusty "released more than a hundred albums, selling more than seven million records and earning over 70 gold and platinum album certifications". He was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song, with a version of Gordon Parsons' "A Pub with No Beer". He received 38 Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affirmation (Savage Garden Album)
''Affirmation'' is the second and final studio album by Australian pop duo Savage Garden. The album was released on 9 November 1999 by Columbia Records. It won the 2000 ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album. Alongside this it was nominated for Best Group and Best Pop Release but lost. Background The band recorded their second studio album after they recorded "The Animal Song" for the soundtrack to the film ''The Other Sister''. The majority of the album was written by Hayes in New York in September 1999 or slightly earlier that year. The exception was 'You Can Still Be Free', a much older song that dated back to at least 1995 - a demo recording appeared on their 1995 demo tape, then titled 'Free'. The track was written in tribute to a friend of the band who had committed suicide some years previously, and was revisited after said friends' family explained they loved the song and wanted to see it released on an album. Preceded by the second single "I Knew I Loved You", the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Garden
Savage Garden was an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success from the mid-1990s to early 2000s with the No. 1 hit singles " I Want You", " To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", " The Animal Song" and "I Knew I Loved You". The band's two studio albums, '' Savage Garden'' and '' Affirmation'', reached No. 1 in Australia and peaked in the top ten in both the United Kingdom and United States. These albums sold 23 million copies worldwide. The group won a record number of ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for their debut album and its related singles. They disbanded at the end of 2001, and Hayes continued as a solo artist. History 1993–1995: Formation In 1993, multi-instrumentalist and producer Daniel Jones placed an advertisement in Brisbane newspaper ''Time Off'' seeking a vocalist for his five-piece covers band Red Edge, which he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
33 1/3 (album)
' is a studio album by Australian singer John Farnham. The album was released in Australia in August 2000, and is Farnham's first studio release since ''Romeo's Heart'' in 1996. This album debuted at No. 1 in the ARIA Charts. On 27 November 2000, a DVD version of the album was released which contained bonus footage, including behind the scenes, band interviews, and a documentary on the making of the album. Track listing DVD track listing Personnel Credited to: * John Farnham – vocals * Lisa Edwards – vocals * Lindsay Field – vocals * Stuart Fraser – guitars * Chong Lim – keyboards, additional brass arrangements * Joe Creighton – bass, vocals * Angus Burchall – drums * Steve Williams – tenor sax, baritone sax, brass arrangements * Bob Coassin – trumpet, flugelhorn * Lex Tier – trombone Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications Release history See also * List of number-one albums of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Farnham
John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for ; retrieved 24 January 2010. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985. In September 1986, his solo single " You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The associated album, '' Whispering Jack'', held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks and is the second-highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, including No. 1 in Sweden. Farnham has become one of his country's best-known and most popular performers, and he is the only Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damage (You Am I Song)
"Damage" is the first single from the album '' Dress Me Slowly'' by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2000 and reached number 37 on the Australian national chart and number 23 in that year's Hottest 100. Track listing # "Damage" – 3:27 # "She Don't Need the Morning" – 3:47 # "One Cent Coins" – 3:31 # "Open All Night" – 4:05 All songs by Tim Rogers. "She Don't Need the Morning", "One Cent Coins" and "Open All Night" are all You Am I originals. "Open All Night" was originally titled "Dress Me Slowly" and was destined to appear on the album, but was left off as the band did not like having a song with the album's title on the album (despite having already done this on '' Sound as Ever'' and '' Hourly, Daily'', as well as ''Deliverance ''Deliverance'' is a 1972 American survival thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On A Night Like This
"On a Night Like This" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was released on 11 September 2000 by Parlophone as the second single for her seventh studio album, '' Light Years'' (2000), and distributed in various formats. The track was originally recorded by Swedish singer Pandora and written by Steve Torch, Brian Rawling, Graham Stack, and Mark Taylor, while production was handled by the latter two, it was handed to Minogue to record. Musically, "On a Night Like This" is a Europop, dance-pop and house song that also incorporates elements of disco. Its lyrical content delves into experiencing unique, possibly sexual experiences during the night. Upon its release, "On a Night Like This" generally received favourable reviews from music critics. Some of them complimented the production and its dance sound, whilst some noted that it did not stand out among other tracks from ''Light Years''. Commercially, in Australia and the United Kingdom, the song p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Psychiatrist
"Frontier Psychiatrist" is a song by Australian electronic music group the Avalanches. It was released on 21 August 2000 as the second single from the group's debut album '' Since I Left You''. Produced by Avalanches members Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann, under their production alias Bobbydazzler, the track is built around many sampled elements, much like other tracks from its parent album, including prominent vocal samples of the sketch "Frontier Psychiatrist" by comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, and an orchestral background sourced from an Enoch Light version of the composition "My Way of Life" (1968). Upon release, it peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart and number 49 in the group's native Australia, becoming their first single to enjoy commercial success. "Frontier Psychiatrist" was well received by music critics, who praised the Avalanches' use of samples. Background According to group members, "Frontier Psychiatrist" was not planned beforehand by the group and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Happiness (Powderfinger Song)
"My Happiness" is a song by Australian rock music, rock band Powderfinger. It was released via record label Universal Music Australia on 21 August 2000 as the lead single, first single from the band's fourth album, ''Odyssey Number Five''. Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning wrote the lyrics for "My Happiness" as a reflection on the time the band spent touring to promote their work, and the loneliness that came as a result. It was inspired by his love of Gospel music, gospel and soul music. The rest of the band are co-credited with Fanning for composing the track. Despite its melancholy mood, "My Happiness" is considered by many to be a love song, a suggestion Fanning regards as mystifying. The single is Powderfinger's most successful; it peaked at number four on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, number seven on the New Zealand Singles Chart, and number 23 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart—the first Powderfinger song to do so. In June 2020, the song was certified 5× Plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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