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Awards
Empire Of The Sun dominate backstage ARIA Awards
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 11 November 2009
The Australian Recording Industry Association yesterday handed out its four Artisan Awards, gongs for people who work behind the scenes, and three of the four went to people associated with Empire Of The Sun.
Aaron Hayward and David Homer took the Best Cover Art prize for the artwork for the electronic duo’s debut album ‘Walking On A Dream’, while Josh Logue won Best Video for the promo for the album’s title track. The Empire boys themselves, Luke Steel and Nick Littlemore, along with Sneaky Sound System’s Donnie Sloan and Pnau’s Peter Mayes, won Producers Of The Year for the same album. So “woo” for them.
The fourth prize, Engineer Of The Year, had two winners, neither of them Empire Of The Sun. It went to DJ Debris for the Hilltop Hoods album ‘State Of The Art’ and Greg Wales for the You Am I album ‘Dilettantes’.
The ARIA Artisan Awards are presented two weeks ahead of the main ARIA Awards, the Aussie version of the Brits, which will be dished out on 26 Nov. Four other premature ARIA Awards were also presented this week, the so-called Fine Art Awards for non-pop genres. They went to the following:
Best Classical Album: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra/Paul Dyer – Handel: Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (Universal/ABC Classics)
Best Jazz Album: Katie Noonan – Blackbird (Sony Music)
Best Soundtrack: Balibo (Universal/ABC Music)
Best World Music Album: Seaman Dan – Sailing Home (MGM/Steady Steady Music)
