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October 17, 2006

EG Music Awards

Hey guys, there’s something you can vote for - and I know y’all love voting! The inaugural EG music awards celebration is on next Friday night and it’ll be celebrating the best Australian music of the last twenty one years. Delightful, non?

You can vote in the various categories by heading here. And here are a few of our faves for some of the individual categories in case you’re in a mood to do exactly what I command of you and vote for whatever the hell it is we throw our idiotic heart behind. Which’d make me happy on a bit of a bleurgh day, really.

Best Album: I’m torn between Crowded House’s Woodface and You Am I’s Hourly Daily, although truth be told I’d prefer to vote for Sound As Ever as that’s the YAI album which changed my life as a youngster.

Best Song: Berlin Chair by You Am I for the aforementioned reasons related to Sound As Ever.

Best Band: The Go-Betweens or Crowded House, I reckon.

Best Male Artist: Paul Kelly, although you could vote for Ben Lee and royally piss off every coolsie kid in town - OMGLOLOLOLZROFL.

Best Female Artist: Our pick is Angie Hart - partly because she was wonderful and insane enough to perform a Michael Bolton cover for I’d Rather Jack’s Radiothon show, and partly because she’s sweet as pie and a warbling genius to boot.

Best Newcomer: Hmmm. Stuck between Midnight Juggernaughts and Macromantics, whose song Scorch I’ve recently become incredibly obsessed with. I think it’s because I have absolutely no fucking chance of ever being able to speak that quickly, and my mouth moves at a rapid pace. She also has lovely taste in baseball caps.

You can decide Best Festival and Best Venue in your own time.

GO AND VOTE! GO ON!

And I might see you at the awards ceremony on October 27 if you hurry up and snaffle tickets. I have heard rumours regarding an international guest WHO IS SO FECKIN HILARIOUS BRILLIANT THAT I WILL LITERALLY DIE IF I MISS SEEING ‘EM PERFORM.