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APRA Music Awards Of 2007
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2007 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on 5 June at the Melbourne Town Hall, they were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). The Classical Music Awards were distributed in July in Sydney and are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). The Screen Music Awards were issued in November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). Awards ''Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.'' See also *Music of Australia The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions o ... References External linksAPR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne Town Hall, often referred to as simply Town Hall, is the administrative seat of the local municipality of the City of Melbourne and the primary offices of the Lord Mayor and city councillors of Melbourne. Located on the northeast corner of Swanston and Collins streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the building was completed in 1887 and heritage listed on the Victorian Heritage Register in 1974. The building is frequently used for art and cultural events such as concerts, festivals, theatrical plays and exhibitions. History Melbourne was officially incorporated as a town on 13 December 1842, with Henry Condell as its first Mayor. However, it was not until 1854 that its first Town Hall was completed. Begun in 1851, the work ground to a halt with the beginning of the Victorian gold rush. The foundation stone of a new, grander Town Hall was laid on 29 November 1867 by the visiting Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, after the dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotye
Wouter André De Backer (; born 21 May 1980), known professionally as Gotye ( , , ), is a Belgian-born Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" (featuring Kimbra), which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, as well as several international charts, and became the best-selling song of 2012. He has won five ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards and received a nomination for an 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the song won Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, while its parent album — ''Making Mirrors'' (2012) — won Best Alternative Music Album. Gotye has released three studio albums Independent record label, independently and one album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. He is a founding member of the Melbourne indie-pop trio The Basics (band), the Basics, who have independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Smillie
Grant Smillie (born 3 May 1977) is an Australian house music producer and DJ from Melbourne. Biography Smillie often plays sets in clubs around Australia. Smillie and Ivan Gough make up the production outfit TV Rock and toured with the Future Music Festival Future Music Festival was an annual music festival featuring Australian and international artists held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia and as of 2012 also Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The festival was usually held in ... in 2010. References External links TV Rock official website 1977 births APRA Award winners DJs from Melbourne Australian electronic musicians Australian club DJs Living people Australian electronic dance music DJs {{house-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seany B (artist)
Sean Berchik (born 2 January 1980), known professionally as Seany B, is an Australian singer, songwriter, MC, record producer and DJ, who is best known for featuring on TV Rock's 2006 hit " Flaunt It" which topped the ARIA Charts for 5 weeks and went on to win two ARIA Awards for Best Dance Single as well as Highest Selling Single in 2006 as well as featured on Vanessa Amorosi's Mr Mysterious, which peaked at No. 4 in 2010 and was certified platinum. He has toured America and Europe Discography Singles As lead and featured artist Awards Seany B was nominated for three ARIA Music Awards at the 2006 ceremony. He won two both with TV Rock. , - , rowspan=2, 2006 , rowspan=2, " Flaunt It" TV Rock TV Rock were an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough. Biography TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit " Flaunt It" featuring Seany B which reached #1 for five weeks, spent 39 weeks ... feat. Seany B , Best Dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Rock
TV Rock were an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough. Biography TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit " Flaunt It" featuring Seany B which reached #1 for five weeks, spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50 (including 31 weeks inside the Top 40), and won the 2006 ARIA Music Award for highest-selling single and best dance release. TV Rock collaborated with Melbourne dance team Dukes of Windsor for their third single release "The Others" which reached No.10 in Australia in June 2007 and spent 20 weeks inside the Australian Top 50. ''ACharts.us'', accessed 12 February 2014. Their debut album, '' Sunshine City'', was released on 25 November 2006. The duo founded a dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaunt It (song)
"Flaunt It" is a song by Australian dance music duo TV Rock, released the first single from their 2006 debut studio album, '' Sunshine City''. The song became a major success in the duo's home country, topping the ARIA Singles Chart for five weeks, and it also reached number three in New Zealand for three weeks. Background and success With no major record companies wanting to sign "Flaunt It", DJs Grant Smilie and Ivan Gough launched their own independent company, "Bimbo Rock". Their initial hope had been to sell a few hundred records in Australia, but the single went on to sell 130,000 physical single sales, 40,000 digital downloads and 65,000 ringtones downloads. "Flaunt It" debuted at number three on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on 26 February 2006 before climbing to number two the next week and reaching number one the following week. It spent four consecutive weeks at number before being succeeded by Youth Group's " Forever Young". A week later, it returned to the summi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McMartin
Michael Arthur McMartin OAM (12 March 1945 – 31 March 2024) was a Canadian-Australian music manager and businessman. Early life and education Michael Arthur McMartin was born on Vancouver Island on 12 March 1945. McMartin graduated from Loyola College in Montreal, majoring in political science. He relocated to Australia in 1971. Career A few years after relocating to Australia, McMartin co-founded Trafalgar Records with Charles Fisher, a studio that signed artists and bands including Radio Birdman, Robyn Archer, 1927 and Gyan Evans. In 1985, McMartin founded Melody Management, whose first client was the Hoodoo Gurus. McMartin was the manager of the band until stepping down in February 2024 due to health issues. McMartin was a founding member of the Australian Music Managers Forum. He served as chairman and then executive director of the International Music Managers Forum. McMartin was a board member of the Support Act, a music industry charity, for 19 years, from 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Richards
Glenn Anthony Richards (born 29 December 1973) is an Australian musician, best known as the mainstay guitarist singer-songwriter for the Australian rock band Augie March. Early life Richards was born in Shepparton, Victoria on 29 December 1973. Richards saved up enough money to buy his first guitar by working long hours on the docks in Fremantle, Western Australia. With Augie March Richards joined Augie March in August 1995. As of 2024 they have released two EPs and seven LPs, while Richards has released one solo album in 2010 and one EP as G.A. Richards and the Dark Satanic Mills Bros. Richards composed the original score for the acclaimed 2023 horror film '' Late Night with the Devil'' whose directors, Colin and Cameron Haines, also directed several early Augie March video clips. Glenn now lives with his family in Tasmania in West Hobart, a suburb of Hobart with views of the city, the Derwent Estuary and the surrounding suburbs. Awards and nominations APRA Awards The APR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augie March
Augie March are an Australian Pop music, pop and indie rock band formed in 1996 in Shepparton, Victoria. Since 2001 the group consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Glenn Richards, lead guitarist Adam Donovan, bass guitarist Edmondo Ammendola, drummer David Williams, and keyboardist Kiernan Box. Box had replaced Robert Dawson, the band's piano player since March 2000, who died in January 2001. Augie March's first full-length album, ''Sunset Studies'', was released in 2000. It was critically acclaimed and received four ARIA Music Award nominations in ARIA Music Awards of 2001, 2001, which won ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year, Engineer of the Year for Chris Dickie, Chris Thompson, Paul McKercher and Richard Pleasance. Critics, both in Australia and the United States, also lauded its 2002 successor, ''Strange Bird''. The group's third album, ''Moo, You Bloody Choir'' (2006), reached number 10 on the ARIA Charts, ARIA Albums Chart. It provided the lead single, "One Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Crowded Hour
"One Crowded Hour" is a song by Australian indie rock band Augie March written by Glenn Richards. The song was released in April 2006 as the first single released from their third studio album, '' Moo, You Bloody Choir''. The song had been played by both the band and acoustically by frontman, Glenn Richards, for upwards of two years before the album was finally released. Details The song’s title comes from a poem by Thomas Osbert Mordaunt. During the band's appearance on the live music TV show ''Cold: Live At The Chapel'', Richards revealed the song was written while he was housesitting for Deborah Conway, and was inspired by, and named after, a book she owned about an Australian wartime photographer Neil Davis. Richards has said, "Deborah has a wonderful collection of records and books. She was on holidays, so I was looking after the house and taking advantage of all that. I was also listening to a lot of early Bob Dylan, which would explain the chord progression." The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Ross (musician)
Christopher James Ross is an Australian musician. He was the founding bass guitarist and keyboardist of hard rock band, Wolfmother, from 2000 to August 2008. His trademark stage antic is playing the keyboard at a slant or vertically. At the APRA Awards of 2007 Ross and bandmates, Myles Heskett and Andrew Stockdale, won the Songwriters of the Year category. After leaving Wolfmother with Heskett, the pair worked as Doom Buggy, then they formed Palace of Fire (with Matt Blackman) in 2009. In 2011 Ross and Heskett formed Good Heavens with Sarah Kelly (ex- theredsunband). Ross was formerly a digital designer and has three children. Career Wolfmother (2000–2008) Ross grew up in Erskineville, New South Wales. In 2000 on bass guitar and keyboards, he formed a hard rock group with Myles Heskett on drums and Andrew Stockdale on vocals and lead guitar. After "years of jamming in anonymity", the trio released a self-titled extended play in 2004 under the name "Wolfmother". Aside from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myles Heskett
Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney. Formed in 2004, the group is centred around vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, who is the only constant member of the line-up. The band has been through many personnel changes since their formation. The original – and most commercially successful – line-up included bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross (musician), Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Ross and Heskett left Wolfmother after four years in 2008. Stockdale, Ross and Heskett formed Wolfmother in 2004 after several years of informal jamming. Signing with independent label Modular Recordings, the band released their Wolfmother (album), self-titled debut album in Australia in 2005, which reached number 3 on the domestic albums chart. It was released internationally by Interscope Records, Interscope and Island Records the following year, and to date has sold in excess of 1.5 million copies worldwide. After Ross and Heskett departed, Stockdale rebuilt the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
