wow.

BLAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

!?

where the hell are The Maladies, The Scare, Leader Cheetah or Songs!

Too many awards, I can't keep track. Why's this one worth paying attention to? and i thought awards are for the end of the year. my how time flies. que sera sera, etc etc.

that list is so dull i can barely

Where are the scare? Hopefully they are corpses

i like the scare too, and reckon their second shits all over several of the nominees.

second the call for the maladies.

and echo the 'blasko for the win' sentiment.

KS band! Woop!

kid sam.. pleasant surprise

dull.

Very dull

glad i didn't waste my money entering now i see that they've placed the bar so high...

Kid Sam!

And that is pleasing to AMP director Scott Murphy. But he also warned against people grouping the female artists together based on gender. ''Anyone who dares to group Bertie, Lucie, Sarah and Lisa together because they are girls, because they sing and write their own material, or simply because they all use their first and last names - simply hasn't taken the time to listen to these albums. ''

Yay for Black Cab - but no Love Of Diagrams? or was it released too late in the year? if not that would be a fuck up

Go Black Cab

Kid Sam - not knowing these guys at all, watched them live at the myspace music studio on their page. ??? Is the lack of anything interesting happening seen as part of their charm?

Black Can deserve to win. Too many boring, self-important female singer-songwriters on the list.

What a disgrace that Rowland S. Howard's album is not even nominated. Why not? The AMP would be a fitting testament to his resurgence. He deserves it. The money would go to good use.

Oops, Black Cab, not Black Can.

A Freudian slip involving Black Cab's love of krautrock.

''Anyone who dares to group Bertie, Lucie, Sarah and Lisa together because they are girls...''

Actually, they're women.

The Mess Hall again? What a load of shit...... I can't see the apeal

No it costs thirty large.

everyone does a full hour set minimum? yea, i'd pay up to $45 for that. single stage/no clashing though. hate to have to choose between Blasko and Urthboy again.

can't believe natalie bassingthwaite or short stack didn't make it!

buffy, perhaps they thought he wouldn't have much use for the prize?

Well he wouldn't, but that doesn't mean its not a better record than the one that will eventually take out the gong. They could've used the money to print up some more vinyl copies and properly promote it, with like ads in Mojo and Uncut and stuff...

zzzzz

purposeless

that post's actually meant for another thread. internetting while barely awake in the office. nevermind.

so. anyone heard that Lucie Thorne cd?

perhaps they thought he wouldn't have much use for the prize?

I'm sure Mick Harvey, JP Shilo, Jonnine Standish and Lindsay Gravina, let alone Rowland's
friends and family, would have appreciated the recognition.

I would've thought the prize is for the merits of the album, not the artist's situation/back story.

Agreed, and I think it deserved short listing on it's merits, Dan.
Be a shame if the committee gave it less consideration because of RSH's current ''situation''.

sadly, for that committee, rowland probably wouldnt have even crossed their radar.

I meant that in general, Block. Timewaster's comment smacks of award tokenism:

The AMP would be a fitting testament to his resurgence. He deserves it. The money would go to good use.

Re monty's comment, I reckon Dave Faulkner would've given Pop Crimes serious consideration, if indeed he didn't actually vote for it.

granted, dan. uncle dave is a fine man.

but that's one vote. and rowland is/was still probably too 'alternative to the alternative' for the wider world.

i'd suggest that the drones and ECSR were probably in the same boat until this prize gave their profile a bit of a goose

In any case, like most awards, I can see the AMP eventually being co-opted by ARIA to 'leverage' their top selling acts for that year.

I do hope I'm proven wrong.

true, v. but the cynic in me also suggests those bands may be perceived as having 'potential' and a 'future'. there's not much ongoing column space in a terminally ill ex-junkie.

apologies if that sounded harsh. i loved the man, and that record.

i see your point monty. i generally think that australian music could do with a few more respectful backwards glances, but that's an ongoing gripe of mine. so it goes. i've still got the grumps that someone as talented as angus douglas passed away completely unregarded.

Yeah I own the Lucie Thorne Album. It’s an important record in my collection – the record where I lost my innocence, learning the hard way that Bernard Zuel got into music journalism because he desperately wished that he was cool enough to be considered fuck worthy by talented female singer songwriters. Now well into his forties, his obsession has reached such heights, that he now considers any female songwriter under 35 with a guitar in her hand and a slightly husky voice as a award worthy.
This is what he said about Lucie Thorne’s album Black Across the Fields.

''This gentle chanteuse has delivered quiet perfection. There is such an intensity of feeling here ...moody folk, country noir...a collection of stories that speaks small but resonates much bigger. One of the finer albums of the year so far...Thorne marks out her space with some fabulous sensuality.'' (Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald)

It’s hard not to imagine Bernard’s cock rising in his tan pants. Not that Horne’s album is terrible, but it is a little dull, and certainly not as compelling as Loene Carmen’s It Walks Like Love, The Maladies, With You right by My Side …, Rowland S. HOWARD! or any one of the scores of other exciting new releases we enjoyed in 2009.

Agreed. I really like Lucie's album but it's not as compelling as a dozen others I could think of off the top of my head (Aleks and the Ramps, Summer Cats, My Disco's or Rowland's). It's very listenable but it's not breaking new ground that's for sure. My money's on Blasko.