The 2017 Music Victoria Awards have been dominated by rap duo A.B. Original and relentless psych-rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
Taking place at Melbourne’s 170 Russell last night, the awards saw Victoria’s best acts, releases, venues and festivals take out awards, with A.B. Original snagging Best Album, Best Hip Hop Album and Best Aboriginal Act.
King Gizzard, meanwhile, took home Best Band, Best Song and Best Live Act, and The Teskey Brothers claimed two awards for Best Emerging Act and Best Soul, Funk, RnB And Gospel Album.
This year’s publicly-voted awards came from a pool of over 73,000 tallied votes. Late music producer Tony Cohen was also inducted into The Age Music Victoria Hall Of Fame.
Catch the full list of this year’s winners, below.
The Age Music Victoria Awards 2017
Genre Award Winners
BEST BLUES ALBUM
Fiona Boyes – Professin’ The Blues
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Raised By Eagles – I Must Be Somewhere
BEST SOUL, FUNK, RNB, AND GOSPEL ALBUM
The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest
BEST JAZZ ALBUM
Brenton Foster – The Nature of Light
BEST HIP HOP ALBUM
A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia
BEST ELECTRONIC ACT
Client Liaison
BEST HEAVY ALBUM
Divide and Dissolve – Basic
BEST ABORIGINAL ACT
A.B. Original
BEST GLOBAL OR REGGAE ALBUM
Lamine Sonko and The African Intelligence – Afro Empire
BEST FOLK / ROOTS ALBUM
The Mae Trio – Take Care, Take Cover
BEST EXPERIMENTAL / AVANT-GARDE ACT
Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell
Publicly Voted Winners
BEST FESTIVAL
Meredith Music Festival
BEST REGIONAL VENUE (UNDER 50 GIGS PER YEAR)
Theatre Royal (Castlemaine)
BEST REGIONAL VENUE (OVER 50 GIGS PER YEAR)
Workers Club (Geelong)
BEST VENUE (UNDER 500 CAPACITY)
The Tote
BEST VENUE (OVER 500 CAPACITY)
The Corner Hotel
BEST REGIONAL ACT
Cosmic Psychos
BEST LIVE BAND
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
BEST EMERGING ACT
The Teskey Brothers
BEST MALE ARTIST
Paul Kelly
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Jen Cloher
BEST SONG
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake
BEST BAND
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
BEST ALBUM
A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia
Hall Of Fame
Tony Cohen – Aria-Award Winning Producer & Engineer
Outstanding Achievement Award
Zo Damage – 365 Day Live Music Photography Project
