Mushroom Music Publishing dominated last night’s 2014 APRA Music Awards, with Mushroom acts scoring wins in five of the 13 categories.
All five nominees in the Song Of The Year category – Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’, Matt Corby’s ‘Resolution’, Birds Of Tokyo’s ‘Lanterns’, The Preatures’ ‘Is This How You Feel?’ and The Drones’ ‘A Moat You Can Stand In’ – are published by Mushroom Music. Vance Joy’s breakthrough hit ‘Riptide’ which is released through Liberation Music is approaching 5 x platinum sales in Australia, took out the coveted Song Of The Year award, and was also named Pop Work Of The Year. The Melbourne singer/songwriter returns from the US, where he has been recording his debut album and touring the God Only Loves You When You’re Dancing EP which ‘Riptide’ is taken from. Having performed at festivals such as Firefly, Bonnaroo, he plays Glastonbury this weekend before heading home to play Splendour in the Grass next month.
Birds Of Tokyo’s ‘Lanterns’ also picked up two awards; the second single from the Western Australian band’s chart-topping March Fires album was named the Most Played Australian Work of 2013 and the Rock Work Of The Year. Urban Work Of The Year went to Bliss N Eso’s ‘Act Your Age’, with writing duties on the song shared by the hip hop trio, Bluejuice and Sparkadia’s Alex Burnett. ‘Act Your Age’ is taken from Bliss N Eso’s platinum-selling fifth albumCircus in the Sky, released through Illusive in June 2013.
The peer-voted APRA Music Awards, which honour songwriters and their publishers, were hosted by Brian Nankervis and held at Brisbane City Hall.
MUSHROOM MUSIC’S 2014 APRA WINNERS
SONG OF THE YEAR
Title: Riptide
Artist: Vance Joy
Writer: James Keogh
Publishers: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd obo WAU Publishing
Label: Liberation Music
POP WORK OF THE YEAR
Title: Riptide
Artist: Vance Joy
Writer: James Keogh
Publishers: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd obo WAU Publishing
Label: Liberation Music
MOST PLAYED AUSTRALIAN WORK
Title: Lanterns
Artist: Birds Of Tokyo
Writers: Ian Berney/Ian Kenny/Glenn Sarangapany/Adam Spark/Adam Weston
Publisher: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
ROCK WORK OF THE YEAR
Title: Lanterns
Artist: Birds Of Tokyo
Writers: Ian Berney/Ian Kenny/Glenn Sarangapany/Adam Spark/Adam Weston
Publisher: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
URBAN WORK OF THE YEAR
Title: Act Your Age
Artist: Bliss N Eso featuring Bluejuice
Writers: Alexander Burnett/Jamie Cibej*/Jerry Craib*/James Hauptmann*/Max MacKinnon^/Jonathan Notley^ / Jacob Stone*/ Stavros Yiannoukas*
Publishers: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd obo Ivy League Music Pty Ltd/Kobalt Music Publishing Australia P/Lobo Bluejuice Music Group Pty Limited*/Mushroom Music Pty Ltd^
Label: Illusive