Music Victoria Awards of 2013
# Music Victoria Awards of 2013

The Music Victoria Awards of 2013 are the eighth Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, culminating on 20 November 2013. Previously known as The Age EG Awards, 2013 was the first year under the title Music Victoria Awards.

## Hall of Fame inductees

* Renée Geyer and Michael Gudinski

Renée Geyer was the first solo female artist to be inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Geyer said "As a Melbourne girl, getting inducted into the Hall of Fame by Music Victoria and the best newspaper in Australia means a lot to me."

Michael Gudinski was inducted by Molly Meldrum as a recognition of Mushroom Records’s 40th anniversary and to acknowledge his enormous contribution to the Victorian music industry.

## Award nominees and winners

### All genre Awards

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.

| Best Album | Best Song |
| - | - |
| Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall Adalita - All Day Venus Dick Diver - Calendar Days The Drones - I See Seaweed Big Scary - Not Art | Vance Joy - "Riptide" Standish/Carlyon - Nono/Yoyo King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - "Head On/ Pill" Courtney Barnett - "History Eraser" Cash Savage and the Last Drinks - "I'm in Love" |
| Best Male | Best Female |
| Paul Kelly Archie Roach David Bridie Gotye Mikelangelo | Adalita Courtney Barnett Evelyn Morris (Pikelet) Jen Cloher Kylie Auldist |
| Best Band | Best Emerging Artist |
| The Drones Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes Dick Diver King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Saskwatch | Hiatus Kaiyote Andras Fox Brighter Later Damn Terran Fraser A. Gorman |
| Best Live Band | Best Venue |
| The Drones Bombay Royale Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes Harmony Money for Rope | The Corner Hotel The Caravan Club The Forum The Old Bar The Toff in Town |
| Best Regional Venue | Best Regional Act |
| Theatre Royal, Castlemaine Karova Lounge, Ballarat Meeniyan Town Hall, South Gippsland The Barwon Club, Geelong The Bridge, Castlemaine | Stonefield Gold Fields Hunting Grounds Quarry Mountain Dead Rats Yacht Club DJs |
| Best Festival | |
| Meredith Music Festival All Tomorrow's Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror Boogie Golden Plains Festival Sugar Mountain | |

### Genre Specific Awards

| Best Blues Album | Best Country Album |
| - | - |
| Three Kings - Three Kings Chris Russell's Chicken Walk - Shakedown Chris Wilson & Geoff Achison - Box of Blues Nick Charles - Into the Blues Russell Morris - Sharkmouth | Dan Waters - La Vita E'Bella Doug Bruce - Made That Way Nigel Wearne - Black Crow Raised By Eagles - Raised By Eagles Sweet Jean - Dear Departure |
| Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album | Best Jazz Album |
| Kylie Auldist - Still Life Hiatus Kaiyote - Tawk Tomahawk Judex Rose - Afro Soul Power Sweethearts - Bar Roma The Cactus Channel - Wooden Boy | Allan BrowneTrio - Lost in the Stars Andrea Keller - Family Portraits Menagerie - They Shall Inherit Murphy's Law - Big Creatures and Little Creatures Origami - Karaoke |
| Best Hip Hop Album | Best Electronic Act |
| Fraksha - My Way Dr. Flea - Keep on Moving Flu - FluSeason Known Associates - Ashes to Dust Must Volkoff - White Russian | Nick Thayer Client Liaison Dune Sunshine Tornado Wallace (aka Lewie Day) |
| Best Heavy Album | Best Indigenous Act |
| King Parrot - Bite Your Head Off Apart From This - In Gloom Batpiss - Nuclear Winter Ooga Boogas - Ooga Boogas White Walls - White Walls | Crystal Mercy Archie Roach Dan Sultan Kutcha Edwards Yung Warriors |
| Best Global or Reggae Act | Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act |
| Melbourne Ska Orchestra Afrobiotics Airileke Ingram The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Zulya and the Children of the Underground | Judith Hamann Aviva Endean Dave Brown Mark Groves Nik Kennedy |
| Best Folk Roots Album | |
| Archie Roach - Into the Bloodstream Shane Howard - Other Side of the Rock The Idle Hoes - Tomorrow Morning The Mae Trio - Housewarming Tinpan Orange - Over the Sun | |
