The EG Awards of 2006 are the first Annual The Age EG (Entertainment Guide) Awards and took place at the Prince of Wales in October 2006. The awards were created to celebrate The Age's Entertainment Guide's 21st birthday, and people were asked to vote in a number of categories from acts over the past 21 years. More than 37,000 votes were tallied in the poll.

Hall of Fame inductees / EG Legends

TISM TISM ( ; an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) are a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist ...

MC Dave Graney accepting the award on behalf of TISM, (who wear masks when in public) saying, "Legend is an over-used word, but the Melbourne music scene is full of them. As merciless watchdogs of affectation, preciousness, hype and general bull---- in popular culture, they are without doubt the hardest working individuals ever to don balaclavas and dance like their pills are on fire."

Performers

Bonnie Tyler Gaynor Sullivan (née Hopkins; born 8 June 1951), known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, is a Welsh singer. Known for her distinctive husky voice, Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album '' The World Starts Tonight'' and its ...

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Total Eclipse of the Heart "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is the lead Single (music), single by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her fifth studio album, ''Faster Than the Speed of Night'' (1983) written and produced by Jim Steinman and recorded in 1982, released as a single ...

" * Renee Geyer - "Under the Milky Way"

Award nominees and winners

Winners indicated below in boldface Crowded House's

Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 ...

said "The songs on ''Woodface'' were first written in East St Kilda, rehearsed in South Melbourne, and mostly recorded in South Yarra and Caulfield." Finn added "Melbourne was the birthplace of Crowded House and was always the town we chose to return to. It's forever deeply ingrained in our collective psyche and was the backdrop for many of our best musical moments," he said, before leaving open the possibility of a Hester-less band reunion."

References

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