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2003 ARIA Music Awards
The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards) were held on 21 October 2003 at the Sydney Superdome. The ceremony aired on Network Ten. Awards ''Winners highlighted in bold, with nominees, in plain, below them.'' ARIA Awards *Album of the Year **Powderfinger – '' Vulture Street'' ***Delta Goodrem – '' Innocent Eyes'' ***The Sleepy Jackson – '' Lovers'' ***Something for Kate – '' The Official Fiction'' ***The Waifs – '' Up All Night'' *Single of the Year **Delta Goodrem – "Born to Try" *** Amiel – " Lovesong" ***Powderfinger – "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" ***Silverchair – " Luv Your Life" ***The Waifs – "Lighthouse" *Best Male Artist **Alex Lloyd – " Coming Home" ***Ben Lee – '' Hey You. Yes You.'' ***John Butler – ''Living'' ***Nick Cave – '' Nocturama'' ***Tex Perkins – ''Sweet Nothing'' *Best Female Artist **Delta Goodrem – '' Innocent Eyes'' *** Amiel – '' Audio Out'' ***Kylie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acer Arena
The Sydney SuperDome (currently known as the Qudos Bank Arena for sponsorship reasons) is a multipurpose arena located in Sydney Olympic Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Summer Olympics. The A$190million facility was designed by Philip Cox, COX Architecture & Devine deFlon Yaeger, and constructed by Abigroup and Obayashi Corporation.. Bob Carr, premier of New South Wales, officially opened the stadium in November 1999. The development of the stadium was part of three subsites which also included a 3,400-space carpark which cost Australian dollar, A$25 million, and a plaza with external works, also costing $25 million. The roof's masts reach above ground level, and the stadium occupies a site of . The venue is currently managed by AEG Ogden. For three consecutive years it was a finalist for the Billboard Touring Awards in the top venue category. The arena has a total capacity of 21,032 with a sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers (The Sleepy Jackson Album)
''Lovers'' is the first album by the Australian band the Sleepy Jackson. The album entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number 21, the UK Albums Chart at number 69 and the French Albums Chart at number 117. The album was a minor commercial success, selling around 100,000 copies worldwide. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2003, the album was nominated for four awards. In October 2010, ''Lovers'' was listed in the book, ''100 Best Australian Albums''. Track listing Original release #"Good Dancers "Good Dancers" is a 2003 song by Australian alternative rock duo The Sleepy Jackson, released on 13 October 2003 as the second single from the album '' Lovers''. The song charted at #71 in the UK. Music videos Two music videos were produced fo ..." – 4:12 #" Vampire Racecourse" – 3:10 #"Rain Falls for Wind" – 4:03 #"This Day" – 3:48 #"Acid in My Heart" – 3:31 #"Fill Me with Apples" – 1:05 #"Tell the Girls That I'm Not Hangin' Out" – 4:13 #"Come to This" – 3:28 #"Morning Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Lee
Benjamin Michael Lee (born 11 September 1978) is an Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but he focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film '' The Rage in Placid Lake'' (2003). He has released eleven solo studio albums. Career Noise Addict Lee's musical career began in 1993 with the band Noise Addict, who were signed to Steve Pavlovic's independent label Fellaheen Records, on the strength of a self-produced and distributed four-track demo recorded in Lee's bedroom. Pavlovic's connections brought the band to the attention of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Beastie Boys' Mike D, both of whom released the band's material in the US. The group put out several releases on the Beasties' Grand Royal Records. These included the acoustic ''Young and Jaded'' EP in 1994, which contained Lee's tribute to Evan Dando, "I Wish I Was Him" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming Home (Alex Lloyd Song)
"Coming Home" is a single by Australian artist Alex Lloyd released in August 2003 by EMI Records. It won the 2003 ARIA Music Award for Best Male Artist. The single peaked at No. 24 on the Australian ARIA Charts, and was ranked No. 39 on Triple J Hottest 100 for 2003. "Coming Home" is the theme song for the ''Run Home'' program on SEN 1116, and the opening theme for ''Bondi Vet'' on Network Ten. Official track listing Australian CD single (552867-2) # "Coming Home" (Single Version) - 3:11 # "Golden Slumbers" - 1:45 # "Bird on a Wire" - 3:33 # "America" (Acoustic Version) - 3:31 Peak positions Richmond "Coming Home (To Richmond)" is re-working of ''Coming Home'' released on 21 February 2014. The song was used by the Australian Football League team Richmond as their official membership campaign. A music video was also released which takes viewers though the game-day experience of Tiger fans – a grandfather and granddaughter, a group of friends, a dad and his young son, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lloyd
Alexander Lloyd (Birth name, né Wasiliev; born 19 September 1974) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Four of his albums, ''Black the Sun'', ''Watching Angels Mend'', ''Distant Light (Alex Lloyd album), Distant Light'' and ''Alex Lloyd (album), Alex Lloyd'', released between 1999 and 2005, made the top ten on the ARIA charts. Lloyd has also won the ARIA Award for Best Male Artist on three occasions. Early life and education Alexander Wasiliev was born to a father of Russian descent and a mother of Irish descent. Lloyd grew up in the Inner West, inner Sydney suburb of Balmain, New South Wales, and attended Balmain High School (now Sydney Secondary College Balmain Campus). At the age of 15, Lloyd was a member of a school rock band that won the 1990 Balmain Battle of the Bands. This mainly blues-rock band evolved into "The Beefs", which began playing in local pubs and clubs and into indie rock band Mother Hubbard. Lloyd adopted his mother's maiden name 'Lloyd', following her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luv Your Life
"Luv Your Life" is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair released as the third single from their fourth album, ''Diorama'', on September 2, 2002. The song was composed in the key of C major, and a music video was made in which the band was portrayed as animated characters. This is mostly because frontman Daniel Johns was incapacitated by his reactive arthritis, and the band needed to release another song to prevent commercial momentum for the album from coming to a complete halt. "Luv Your Life" was dedicated by Johns to "all my ladies", and was written on piano and featured an orchestral arrangement by Van Dyke Parks. Bassist Chris Joannou stated that this song is his favourite off the album. The single peaked at number 20 on the Australian Recording Industry Association Singles Chart. Music video The animated music video was directed by Steve Scott and James Littlemore. When watching the video, one can see that Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies' animated characters seem to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silverchair
Silverchair was an Australian Rock music, rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, Ben Gillies on drums, and Chris Joannou on bass guitar. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS TV show ''Nomad'' and ABC radio station Triple J. The band was signed by Murmur (record label), Murmur and were successful in Australia and internationally. Silverchair has sold over 10 million albums worldwide. Silverchair have won more ARIA Music Awards than any other artist in history, earning 21 wins from 49 nominations. They also received six APRA Awards (Australia), APRA Awards, with Johns winning three songwriting awards APRA Awards of 2008, in 2008. All five of their studio albums debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts, ARIA Albums Chart: ''Frogstomp'' (1995), ''Freak Show (album), Freak Show'' (1997), ''Neon Ballroom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind
"(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" (also known simply as "On My Mind") is the first single from the fifth studio album by Powderfinger. It was released as a single on 16 June 2003 and reached 9 on the Australian Singles Chart, the band's third-highest-charting single to date. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" was ranked No. 97. The music video, directed by Scott Walton, was nominated for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 2003. Background After two albums of either acoustic anthems (such as " My Happiness") or ballads (" The Metre" or "The Day You Come"), Powderfinger decided to release a heavy rock song as their new album, '' Vulture Street'''s lead single. In accordance with this, the band's publicity was geared towards a more rock oriented slant, with magazine covers and articles indicating that they were "returning to rock", alluding to the rock albums '' Parables for Wooden Ears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovesong (Amiel Song)
"Lovesong" is a song written by American-Australian singer Amiel and produced by Josh Abrahams for Amiel's album, '' Audio Out'' (2003). It was released as the album's first single in Australia as a CD single on 10 March 2003. The song was nominated for two awards at the 2003 ARIA Awards: Highest Selling Single and Single of the Year. The video shows a split screen of Amiel and a man who both enter a restaurant and sit down. Part way through, they both go to the bathroom and end up coming out on the opposite side of the screen and finish sitting at each other's seat and being brought the other's meal. Background and commercial performance Amiel wrote the song in 1999 when she first moved to Sydney. She states "I went out with this guy, it was three dates, just dinners, it was so irrelevant, it was completely nothing. I was new in town and I wanted something, someone. But it was a waste of time. I thought: great, all I got out of that was a love song, another fucking love song." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiel Daemion
Amiel Muki Daemion (born 13 August 1979), also known as just Amiel, is an American-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. She moved to Australia with her family at the age of two and starred in films in the 1990s, including '' The Silver Brumby'', which also starred Russell Crowe and Caroline Goodall. Her music career shot to fame in 1999 when she teamed up with producer Josh Abrahams (as Puretone) for the song "Addicted to Bass" which became a top twenty hit in Australia. This led to Daemion releasing studio albums '' Audio Out'' in 2003 and '' These Ties'' in 2005. Biography Early career Born in New York City, United States, Daemion was raised in a musical household, with her parents being musicians."Biography by Australian Music Online" . Australian Music Online. Retrieved 5 July 2008. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Try
"Born to Try" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem, written by Goodrem and Audius Mtawarira and produced by Ric Wake for Goodrem's debut studio album, '' Innocent Eyes'' (2003). The song was released as the first single off the studio album on 11 November 2002 by Epic Records. It was later featured on her first Japanese compilation album '' Innocent Eyes'' (2006). The song was co-written by her while she was staying at her home in Sydney, Australia, for the production of the studio album, as well as written and producing four other songs together. As the song features instrumentation with a piano, guitars (acoustic and electric) and drums, the song is a low tempo pop song, with influences of piano pop and pop rock. Lyrically, the song is about taking chances and leading one's independence. The song was universally praised from music critics, praising Goodrem's vocal abilities and lyrical content. The song is considered as Goodrem's signature song, as it charted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up All Night (The Waifs Album)
''Up All Night'' is the fourth studio album by Australian folk band The Waifs, first released by Jarrah in January 2003. Critics reacted more favourably to this release and it has been the band's biggest album to date. ''Up All Night'' debuted on the Australian ARIA album chart at No. 3 and 12 months later had shipped over 140,000 copies, garnering a double platinum accreditation. Their hard work was rewarded at the ARIA Music Awards of 2003 where they won Best Independent Release, Best Blues and Roots Album for ''Up All Night'', as well as Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year for Chris Thompson's work on the album.ARIA Music Awards for the Waifs: * Search Results for 'Waifs': * 2002 winners and nominees: * 2003 winners and nominees: The media celebrated with them, calling them an "overnight success 11 years in the making!". In some parts of North America, the album was packaged with a bonus sampler of Waifs songs. Track listing #"Fisherman's Daughter" (D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
