My Belated ARIA's Rant/Review...

Years gone by the ARIA's have been dominated by one artist or one band, in 2002 it was Kylie's year on the back of her "Fever" album, in 2003 it was Powederfinger and Delta's year, 2004 Jet, 2005 Missy Higgins/Ben Lee and finally as this is getting dull 2006 Bernard Fanning/Eskimo Joe & Wolfmother. Last night it was a three way tie too. Australian Idol acts/Tame Impala and Flume. It was a night for the men of Australian music.

I predicted on an earlier post a few of the winners however Tame Impala taking out the Album of the Year was a little surprise for me.

For all the winners you can click here but here is a quick summary for y'all:

Tame Impala took out two of the big awards Album of the Year and Best Group, whilst also grabbing Best Rock Album of the Year. Flume seemed to easily take out the Best Male Artist, Breakthrough Artist Release, Best Dance Release & finally Producer of the Year.

It was finally the year for former Australian Idol acts (I think it might be a bit of a wait for The Voice contenders however Samantha Jade also did the X Factor proud):

Jessica Mauboy did an awkward speech for her win of the Best Female Artist. It was almost a bit too funny and her idol Alicia Keys seemed overjoyed by Jessica's enthusiasm. Guy Sebastian then took Best Pop Release (I really thought the Preatures deserved it but hey) and then he went for a double play with Best Australian Live Act. Matt Corby the more Triple J friendly of the three took out Song of the Year for "Resolution". Bring us an album already Mr Corby!

All in all the Star Event Centre made a better venue for an awards ceremony than a concert venue and some of the acts really turned up on the night. Their were plenty of awkward speeches though!

Well it's over for another year and I wonder who's big year it is next year and which Idol/X Factor/Voice/Australia's Got Talent will be accepted into the Australian music industry. Or maybe we will leave them to the public voted categories.

Plus totally unrelated and not even an Aussie tune, here is today's #TUNETHURSDAY! So I was expecting this to be up earlier than Thursday, whoops! So here is new music from Sam Smith (La La La and Latch fame):