2014 FBi SMAC Award Winners Announced

FBi Radio have revealed the winners of the 2014 FBi Sydney Music Arts & Culture (SMAC) Awards, throwing praise to some of the city’s most highly lauded musicians, performers, artists, foodies, events and tastemakers.

This year, the SMAC Awards saw over 50 finalists nominated across 11 categories, with FBi asking the public to vote for their favourites. Sydney locals The Preatures made it two consecutive years of SMAC success by taking out the coveted Record Of The Year award for their debut album Blue Planet Eyes, whilst Seekae claimed the Best Song award for Test & Recognise.

The 2014 SMAC Of The Year award went to Laneway Festival co-founder Danny Rogers, for his work in building the festival into one of the country’s biggest and best-programmed musical events, and for always being ahead of the curve.

The 2014 FBi SMAC Awards ceremony was broadcast on the station last night, live from Carriageworks in Sydney. The night was hosted by A.H. Cayley and Genevieve Fricker, and saw performances from The Walking Who, Fishing and 19-year-old Sydney-sider Montaigne (real name Jessica Cerro), who claimed the night’s Next Big Thing award.

Catch the full list of 2014 FBi SMAC Award winners below.

Watch: The Preatures – Ordinary

2014 FBi SMAC Awards

SMAC OF THE YEAR AWARD

Danny Rogers (Laneway Festival)

RECORD OF THE YEAR

Caitlin Park, The Sleeper

Fishing, Shy Glow

Seekae, The Worry

Thundamentals, So We Can Remember

The Preatures, Blue Planet Eyes – WINNER

Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders, Playmates

BEST SONG

Mansionair , Hold me Down

Caitlin Park, Hold Your Gaze

Spookyland, The Silly Fucking Thing

Seekae, Test & Recognise – WINNER

The Walking Who, With Roses

Movement, Like Lust

NEXT BIG THING

EAST

Montaigne – WINNER

Mansionair

George Maple

Spookyland

Basenji

BEST LIVE ACT

One Day

The Walking Who

DMA’s

Donny Benet – WINNER

Little May

Gang of Youths

FBi CLICK – BEST PRODUCER

Ribongia

Lavurn Lee (Cassius Select/ Guerre)

Moon Holiday

Basenji – WINNER

Eugene Ward (Tuff Sherm/ Dro Carey)

Roleo

BEST MUSIC EVENT

Young Henry’s Small World

The Farmer and the Owl

One Day Sundays

Blurst of Times

Newtown Festival – WINNER

Astral People 3rd Birthday

BEST ON STAGE

Is this thing On? (Belvoir)

The Boat People (Rock Surfers) – WINNER

The Bear Pack (Giant Dwarf)

Calpurnia Descending (Sydney Theatre Company)

Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography (Griffin Theatre)

REMIX THE CITY

Support the Support by Cake Wines

Sydney Open

Idea Bombing Sydney

Wonderwalls – WINNER

Sydney Culture Walks App

BEST ARTS PROGRAM

Firstdraft

Giant Dwarf – WINNER

Alaska Projects

Campbelltown Arts Centre

Performance Space

BEST VISUAL ARTIST

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Tony Albert – WINNER

Pia van Gelder

Hissy Fit

Karla Dickens

BEST EATS

Alfio’s

Pinbone

The Stinking Bishops – WINNER

Rising Sun Workshop

Cho Cho San

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