Indigenous rapper Baker Boy and singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett have dominated The Age Music Victoria Awards for 2018, receiving four and three awards respectively at The Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday night.
This year’s awards — which saw Molly Meldrum and late Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett inducted into the Hall Of Fame — also saw Baker Boy claim the Best Song, Best Male Musician, Best Live Act and Best Victorian Breakthrough Act awards.
Meanwhile, Courtney Barnett was awarded Best Solo Artist, Best Female Musician and Best Victorian Album for Tell Me How You Really Feel. Other award winners included Camp Cope and Golden Plains, which took home the industry-voted Best Festival award.
The night featured performances from the likes of Mildlife, Baker Boy, Evelyn Ida Morris, Angie McMahon and Sampa The Greatm, before Ella Hooper and Dallas Frasca covered Divinyls’ ‘Boys In Town’ in tribute to Chrissy Amphlett.
During the evening, Victoria’s Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, also announced that the Andrews Labor Government will launch a 10-day, state-wide music festival if re-elected this weekend.
Catch the full list of this year’s The Age Music Victoria Awards winners, below.
The Age Music Victoria Awards 2018
PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS
The Premier’s Prize for the Best Victorian Album of 2018 – $10,000 Cash Prize
Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel — WINNER
Laura Jean – Devotion
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
Sampa The Great – Birds And The Bee9
Best Band
Camp Cope — WINNER
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
MOD CON
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Tropical F*ck Storm
Best Song
Baker Boy – Marryuna — WINNER
Camp Cope – The Opener
Courtney Barnett – Nameless, Faceless
Laura Jean – Girls On The TV
Mojo Juju – Native Tongue
Best Solo Artist
Alex Lahey
Angie McMahon
Baker Boy
Courtney Barnett — WINNER
Didirri
Laura Jean
Mojo Juju
Sampa The Great
Tash Sultana
Vance Joy
Best Male Musician
Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) — WINNER
Didirri Peters (Didirri)
Gareth Liddiard (Tropical F*ck Storm)
Jake Robertson (School Damage, Alien Nosejob)
Tom Iansek (No Mono)
Best Female Musician
Courtney Barnett — WINNER
Erica Dunn (Tropical F*ck Storm, MOD CON, Palm Springs)
Laura Englert (Laura Jean)
Mojo “Juju” Ruiz De Luzuriaga (Mojo Juju)
Sampa Tembo (Sampa The Great)
The Premier’s Prize for the Best Victorian Breakthrough Act of 2018 – $5000 Cash Prize
Angie McMahon
Baker Boy — WINNER
Kaiit
Mildlife
MOD CON
Best Live Act
Amyl And The Sniffers
Baker Boy — WINNER
Cable Ties
Courtney Barnett
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)
The Gasometer, Collingwood
Howler, Brunswick
Northcote Social Club, Northcote — WINNER
The Old Bar, Fitzroy
The Tote, Collingwood
Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity)
170 Russell, Melbourne
Corner Hotel, Richmond — WINNER
The Croxton Bandroom, Thornbury
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
INDUSTRY-VOTED AWARDS
Best Festival
Golden Plains
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act
This Way North
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Over 50 gigs per year)
Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Best Regional/Outer Suburban Venue (Under 50 gigs per year)
Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan
Archie Roach Foundation Award for Emerging Talent
Kaiit
Best Blues Album
Collard Greens And Gravy – Luedella
Best Country Album
James Ellis & The Jealous Guys – It Ain’t Texas (But It Ain’t Bad)
Best Electronic Act
Mildlife
Best Experimental or Avant-Garde Act
Nat Grant
Best Folk or Roots Album
Michael Waugh – The Asphalt & The Oval
Best Global Act
Senegambian Jazz Band
Best Heavy Album
Encircling Sea – Hearken
Best Hip Hop Act
Sampa The Great
Best Jazz Album
Sam Anning – Across A Field As Vast As One
Best Reggae and Dancehall Act
Monkey Marc
Best Rock/Punk Album
Little Ugly Girls – Little Ugly Girls
Best Soul, Funk, RnB Album
Sampa The Great – Birds and The BEE9
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Molly Meldrum and Chrissy Amphlett
