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Artist News Awards
Big Scary win Australian Music Prize
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 5 March 2014
Big Scary have won the ninth Australian Music Prize for their album ‘Not Art’, and if you’re not happy with that result, well tough. Tom Iansek and Joanna Syme have already run off with the AUS$30,000 prize, and there’s nothing you can do about it. And anyway, what do you mean they don’t deserve it? They’re great. Debate closed.
Says Syme about her band’s win: “We’re huge fans of the AMP – any award that has bands like The Mess Hall and Eddy Current Suppression Ring in its short history of winners has gotta be doing something right. That’s why it’s a huge honour to be awarded this year’s prize”.
So there you go. Oh, and yes, the AMP is “the Australian Mercury Prize”. I nearly forgot that that statement is compulsory when reporting on music awards of this kind.
The other shortlisted albums up for this year’s AMP were as follows:
Beaches – She Beats
Cloud Control – Dream Cave
Dialectrix – The Cold Light Of Day
Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
Jagwar Ma – Howlin
Jen Cloher – In Blood Memory
Jimblah – Phoenix
Kirin J Callinan – Embracism
