Tuesday, January 09, 2007

AMP 06 Long Short List

The Australian Music Prize has only had one year thus far, but it seems to have some cred around the traps.

The list of judges includes real musos - like Blasko, Bridie, Freedman, Geyer, Hirst, Lisa Miller, Reyne, Seltmann (x2) - as well as the standard industry types and critics. And bands are entering, with best part of two hundred on the long list, including most everyone you'd want (though Crayon Fields and Snowman are missing, for a start).

Last year's choice was Melbourne's own The Drones for Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By - an album appreciated by the burghers at Pitchfork and just about everyone else. And they're up there again, in the Shortened Long List, or Longer Short List, release by the AMP today (from Ben Butler at Mess+Noise):

Amanda Handel/GL Seiler  Ghosts and Angels           NSW (Feral Media/Fuse)
Augie March              Moo, You Bloody Choir       VIC (Sony BMG)
Black Cab                Jesus East                  VIC (Interstate 40/Inertia)
Bob Evans                Friend                      WA  (Capitol)
Brendan Gallagher        On Eve St                   NSW (independent/Vitamin)
Dane Tucquet             Bury Me in My Headphones    NSW (The Muse Agency/Vitamin)
Dappled Cities           Granddance                  NSW (Speak 'n' Spell/Universal)
Fourth Floor Collapse    Books With Broken Spines    VIC (Congregation/Creative Vibes)
Gerling                  4                           NSW (FMR)
Gotye                    Like Drawing Blood          VIC (independent/Creative Vibes)
Hilltop Hoods            The Hard Road               SA  (Obese)
Howling Bells            Howling Bells               UK  (Bella Union)
Jackie Marshall          Fight 'n' Flight            QLD (Television Records/MRA)
Lisa Gerrard             The Silver Tree             UK  (Rubber Records/iTunes)
Princess One Point Five  The Truth                   VIC (Pharmacy/MGM)
Sarah Blasko             What the Sea Wants,
                         The Sea Will Have           NSW (Dew Process/Universal)
Sodastream               Reservations                VIC (Trifekta/Shock)
Something for Kate       Desert Lights               NSW (Murmur/Sony)
The Drones               Gala Mill                   VIC (ATP/Shock)
The Grates               Gravity Won't Get You High  QLD (Dew Process/Universal)
The Knives Of Neptune    Lakes                       VIC (DSTAR/Sony)
Tim Steward              How Does It End?            QLD (Reverberation)
Tobias Cummings
and the Long Way Home    Join the Dots               VIC (In-Fidelity/Inertia)
True Live                The Shape of It             VIC (Shock)
You Am I                 Convicts                    NSW (EMI/Virgin)


If you can't be bothered to count but are interested, that's 10 VIC, 8 NSW, 3 QLD, 2 UK, 1 WA, 1 SA. Melbourne beats Sydney again... ;-)

3 Comments:

Blogger Osmond said:

I wonder if the judges would ever vote for themselves or whether there's some kind of ban on that.

Anyway I think they'll either go for a slightly obscure act or award it to Augie March.

10:04 pm  
Blogger Dave said:

That was brought up on the mess+noise thread and someone appearing knowledgeable said: "the judges aren't allowed to judge any title that they have either a personal or financial interest in".

Which would make sense. It'd be hard for S Blasko to refrain from voting her own album number one.

But as they say, it is run entirely on the honour system, so who knows how well that works. They all probably know each other anyway.

My money'd be on Augie or Dappled, with outside chances for Blasko and Gotye, but I haven't heard them all.

10:10 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said:

If I was a betting man, I'd go Gotye. Well deserved, I might add.

8:43 am  

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