Bruce Geoffrey Haymes is an Australian musician. Since 1976 Haymes has been a member of numerous bands including

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(1978), Richard Clapton Band (1979), Russell Morris and the Rubes (1980–83) and

Bachelors from Prague Bachelors from Prague were an Australian band formed in 1985. Original members were Russell Cook on drums, George Friml on bass guitar, Bruce Haymes on keyboards, Henry Maas on vocals, Chris Minko on trumpet, Andrew Philipp on saxophone, Jeff ...

(1985–93). He joined Paul Kelly's Band (1995–97) and was also in Kelly's next group,

Professor Ratbaggy Professor Ratbaggy is a sometime four-piece band based in Melbourne, Australia. Sometimes thought of as a side-project of iconic Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, the band is in fact its own entity: Kelly is one of the four members (song wr ...

(1999–2002). In 1997 he was part of the Singers for the Red Black & Gold, which released a cover version of " Yil Lull" (1998). It was nominated for the

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for Best Indigenous Release. Along with Kelly, Shane O'Mara and fellow members of Professor Ratbaggy, Haymes performed and co-wrote the soundtrack for the feature film, ''

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'' (2001). For this work he won the ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album in 2002.

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The

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is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. They commenced in 1987. ! , - ,

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References

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