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Queensland Music Awards
The Queensland Music Awards (commonly known as QMA and known as the Q Song Awards from 2006 to 2010) are annual awards celebrating Queensland's emerging artists. They commenced in 2006. Each year, the QMA Song of the Year is immortalised in a plaque on Fortitude Valley's Walk of Fame in the Brunswick Street Mall. 2006 Q Song Awards The 2006 Q Song Awards winners. ;Major awards * Song of the Year - "Unsettle My Heart" by The Boat People * Published song of the Year - "Songbird" by Bernard Fanning * Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award – " Cattle and Cane" by Grant McLennan * QMusic Encouragement Award - "Don't You Choose Me" by Kate Bradley ;Genre awards * Blues and Roots - "Honey Don't" by The Gin Club * Country - "Better Off" by Chris Pickering * Electronic / Dance - "Tin Cat" by My Ninja Lover * Hip Hop - "Analgestic" (remix) by The Winner Coopers * Indigenous - "Native Language" Song by Freddie Shortjoe * Jazz - "Mesmerisation" by Sean Foran * Mixed / Alternati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Salter
Ben Salter (born 23 March 1977) is an Australian musician currently based in Hobart, Tasmania, in addition to being a member of bands including Giants of Science, The Gin Club, The Wilson Pickers, Hownowmer and The Young Liberals. Solo career Ben has played hundreds of shows around the world as a solo artist. In 2012 he travelled for five months around Europe collaborating with as many songwriters and artists as possible, playing shows in Spain, Italy, Germany and Iceland. From that extensive tour he was inspired to release his ''European Vacation EP''. As a solo artist he has supported musicians including Cat Power, Built To Spill, Something for Kate, Violent Femmes, Augie March, and Tim Rogers. Ben won the 2012 album of the year for ''The Cat'' at the Queensland Music Awards. The album was recorded and produced with Gareth Liddiard and Robert F. Cranny. On 23 June 2014 he was invited to perform at the APRA Awards (Australia). In 2015, ''The Stars My Destination'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Louise
Emma Louise Lobb (born 16 July 1991), who performs as Emma Louise, is an Australian indie pop singer-songwriter from Cairns. She is best known for her 2011 debut single "Jungle". Two studio albums, '' Vs Head vs Heart'' (March 2013) and '' Supercry'' (July 2016), have reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 15. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 she was nominated for Best Female Artist. Biography 1991–2012: Early life and EPs Emma Louise Lobb, Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:' was born in July 1991, she grew up in Cairns. Lobb told ABC news "My dad bought me my first guitar when I was six and I wrote my first song when I was in grade nine, which was about a dog. I started to write serious songs… when I was in grade ten." At the 2007 Queensland Music Awards Lobb won Best Secondary School song and the People's Choice Award with the guitar-driven ballad, "Kim's Song" despite the song only being availab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Pickering
Christopher James Pickering is an Australian alternative country singer, songwriter and guitarist based in Melbourne, Australia. Life Pickering was born and grew up in the town of Warwick, about south-west of Brisbane. Until June 2004, Chris drummed and sang for the Boat People. Pickering released his debut solo EP, ''Hard to Find'' in 2004, and his debut album ''A Safer Place'' in 2005. His 2006 EP ''Ghost City'' was produced by ARIA Award-winning producer Magoo.Artists: Chris Pickering Unearthed. Pickering's "Edge of the Earth" was nominated for the 7th Annual Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Balbi
Stephen Vert Balbi (born 3 October 1964) is an Australian musician and record producer. He was the founding bass guitarist in pub rockers, Noiseworks in 1986 and formed a psychedelic pop group and production duo, Electric Hippies in 1993 with fellow Noiseworks member, Justin Stanley. He joined Mi-Sex in 2011. Balbi issued his debut solo album, ''Black Rainbow'', in October 2013. Biography 1960-1985: Early years Steve Balbi was born in the mid-1960s and grew up in a Maltese family in Newtown, Sydney. He first performed publicly, with his uncle's band, at age 6, on a tambourine. He performed in Rufus Red. During the mid-to-late-1970s he was a bass guitarist for a blues, funk rock band, Rupert B. Other members were Mick Buckley on drums, Rohan Cannon on guitar and vocals, Guillermo Mayer on saxophone and Mick Thornton on slide trombone and trumpet. In 1976, at the age of 12, he was in a band, the Apaches, with his cousins, which performed " Fox on the Run" on a TV talent quest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Morris (musician)
Andrew Morris is a musician from Brisbane, Queensland. He is a former member of Palladium and is part of The Wilson Pickers, performs in a duo with Danny Widdicombe and has a solo career. In 2008 he won (with Widdicombe) the Grant McLennan Memorial Scholarship. Biography In 2008 Andrew Morris on acoustic guitar and vocals formed a country blues band the Wilson Pickers alongside John Bedggood on fiddle, mandolin and backing vocals, Sime Nugent on harmonica, guitar and backing vocals, Ben Salter on banjo and vocals and Danny Widdicombe on resonator guitar and vocals. Discography Studio albums Awards Q Song Awards The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006. (wins only) , - , 2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Docs
Women in Docs are an Australian independent folk pop music duo consisting of Chanel Lucas on lead vocals, guitar and bass guitar; and Roz Pappalardo on lead vocals, guitar and harmonica. They formed in Townsville, Queensland in 1998 as Roz and Chanel but soon changed their name and have released three studio albums, ''Under a Different Sky'' (2001), ''Red Wine and Postcards'' (2006) and ''Carousel'' (2013). The group have toured throughout Australia, New Zealand, United States, Europe, and Asia. Pappalardo has also released a solo album. History 1998-2005: Formation and ''Under a Different Sky'' Chanel Lucas and Roz Pappalardo had performed together since they were students at James Cook University, Townsville Campus. With friends they formed rock and roll covers bands 'Viridian' and later 'Sandwich Bar', and worked in North Queensland from offshore islands to inland mining camps. After years apart the two reunited to write their own material and "create music based around our ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakuta
Dakuta is an Australian band from Brisbane. They formed in 1999. Discography Albums Awards Q Song Awards The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006. (wins only) , - , 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 FIFA ... , "Pulp Funky" , Rhythm and Blues Song of the Year , , , - , LA Music Awards , "Pulp Funky" , Rhythm and Blues Best Singer Song Writer , References External links Official siteLA Music Award Winners Dakuta launch new EP in Sydney & Brisbane (Rave Magazine Article)Garage 2 VSnaring The Drum Daniel Crichton-RouseBrispop ProfileThe Drum Film Clip (YouTube)LA Music Award Winners List 2006Qsong Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kev Carmody
Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), better known by his stage name Kev Carmody, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", which was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single. It was covered by the Get Up Mob (including guest vocals by both Carmody and Kelly) in 2008 and peaked at number four on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts. Carmody has won many awards, and in 2009 was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as well as being a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards. In 2019, Carmody was recipient of the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards. He is also known for his activism for Aboriginal rights. Early life and education Kevin Daniel Carmody was born in 1946 in Cairns, Queensland. His father, John "Jack" Carmody, was a second-generation Irish descendant and his mother, Bonny, an Aboriginal woman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning (born 15 August 1969) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of Queensland alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989. Born and raised in Toowong, Brisbane, Fanning received piano lessons from his mother at an early age. At the age of 15, while he attended St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, he began writing music. Upon graduating from St. Joseph's, Fanning moved on to the University of Queensland, where he studied journalism briefly. He dropped out to pursue a music career, after meeting Ian Haug in an economics class. Fanning joined Haug, John Collins, and Steven Bishop, who had recently formed Powderfinger, and took the role of lead singer. After Bishop left and guitarist Darren Middleton joined, the band released five studio albums in fifteen years and achieved mainstream success in Australia. During Powderfinger's hiatus in 2005, Fanning began his solo music career with the studio album '' Tea & Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forster (musician)
Robert Derwent Garth Forster (born 29 June 1957) is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and music critic. In December 1977 he co-founded an indie rock group, The Go-Betweens, with fellow musician Grant McLennan. In 1980, Lindy Morrison joined the group on drums and backing vocals, and by 1981 Forster and Morrison were also lovers. In 1988, Streets of Your Town, co-written by McLennan and Forster, became the band's highest-charting hit in both Australia and the United Kingdom. The follow-up single, "Was There Anything I Could Do?", was a number-16 hit on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. In December 1989, after recording six albums, The Go-Betweens disbanded. Forster and Morrison had separated as a couple earlier, and Forster began his solo music career from 1990. Forster's solo studio albums are '' Danger in the Past'' (1990), '' Calling from a Country Phone'' (1993), '' I Had a New York Girlfriend'' (1995), '' Warm Nights'' (1996), '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fidler
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", "Rick", " Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Khurana
Vijay Khurana is an Australian radio announcer, best known for his work on 100.7 XFM and Triple J. Radio career Starting at 100.7 XFM, he presented weekday breakfast, weekend afternoons, and the Drive show. Moving to Triple J in 2005, he hosted many shifts including the Mid-dawn shift during the week and fill-in shifts. On 14 April 2007, Vijay started his role as weekend lunch presenter on Triple J (10am-2pm), replacing previous presenter Gaby Brown. On 6 December 2007, Vijay Khurana was announced as weekday lunch presenter on Triple J (12-3pm), replacing previous presenter Linda Marigliano, who in turn replaced Robbie Buck Robert Buck known as Robbie Buck is an Australian radio announcer. Career Robbie's radio experience began in his home town of Lismore where he took up a late night shift on the local radio station. Once he moved to Sydney he began doing gra ... on the weekday Drive show (3pm-5.30pm) alongside Scott Dooley (Dools). Vijay finished his last day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
