Angus and Julia Stone scored Songwriter and Song Of The Year at last night’s APRA Awards.
The ceremony, hosted by The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Andrew Hanson, took place at CarriageWorks in Sydney and celebrated the finest Australian songwriters of the year.
Angus and Julia Stone took home two awards – Songwriter Of The Year and Song Of The Year for ‘Big Jet Plane’. Jet also nabbed two – Most Performed Australian Work and Rock Work Of The Year for their single ‘Seventeen’.
Other winners included Washington as Breakthrough Songwriter Of The Year, Guy Sebastian for Urban Work Of The Year, John Butler for Blues and Roots Work Of The Year for ‘Close To You’, and Kasey Chambers won for Country Work of the Year for ‘Little Bird’, her tenth which ties Savage Garden for most APRA Awards won.
Patrick Monahan, Amund Bjorklund and Espen Lin won International Work Of The Year for Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’.
Paul Kelly was honoured with the Ted Albert Award For Outstanding Services To Australian Music, presented by Andrew Denton.
There were also performances by Savage Garden’s Darren Hayes, who played Birds Of Tokyo’s Song Of The Year-nominated ‘Plans’, and rising star Kimbra, who performed ‘Across The Night’ as a tribute to the recently-split Silverchair.
And AC/DC scored an APRA Award for Most Played Australian Work internationally for ‘Highway to Hell’.
Here is the complete winners list:
Song of the Year
Title: Big Jet Plane
Artist: Angus and Julia Stone
Writers: Angus Stone/Julia Stone
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year
Writer: Megan Washington
Publisher: J Albert & Son Pty Ltd
Most Played Australian Work
Title: Seventeen
Artist: Jet
Writers: Chris Cester/Nic Cester/Cameron Muncey
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd
International Work of the Year
Title: Hey, Soul Sister
Artist: Train
Writers: Patrick Monahan/Amund Bjorklund/Espen Lind
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd
Country Work of the Year
Title: Little Bird
Artist: Kasey Chambers
Writer: Kasey Chambers
Publisher: Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Blues & Roots Work of the Year
Title: Close To You
Artist: John Butler Trio
Writer: John Butler
Publisher: Family Music Pty Ltd
Urban Work of the Year
Title: Who’s That Girl
Artist: Guy Sebastian Featuring Eve
Writers: Guy Sebastian*/Eve Jeffers#
Publishers: Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd*/ Universal/MCA Music Publishing Pty Ltd#
Dance Work of the Year
Title: Free Fallin
Artist: Zoe Badwi
Writers: Amy Pearson*/Cameron Denny#/Paul Zala#
Publishers: EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd*/PeppermintBlue Publishing administered by
Warner Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd#
Rock Work of the Year
Title: Seventeen
Artist: Jet
Writers: Chris Cester/Nic Cester/Cameron Muncey
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd
Most Played Australia Work Overseas
Title: Highway to Hell
Artist: AC/DC
Writers: Angus Young/Malcolm Young/Ronald Scott
Publisher: J Albert & Son Pty Ltd
Songwriter of the Year
Angus and Julia Stone
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
Paul Kelly
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