Baker Boy & Courtney Barnett Dominate The 2018 Music Victoria Awards

Indigenous rapper Baker Boy and singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett have dominated The Age Music Victoria Awards for 2018, receiving four and three awards respectively at The Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday night.

This year’s awards — which saw Molly Meldrum and late Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett inducted into the Hall Of Fame — also saw Baker Boy claim the Best Song, Best Male Musician, Best Live Act and Best Victorian Breakthrough Act awards.

Meanwhile, Courtney Barnett was awarded Best Solo Artist, Best Female Musician and Best Victorian Album for Tell Me How You Really Feel. Other award winners included Camp Cope and Golden Plains, which took home the industry-voted Best Festival award.

The night featured performances from the likes of Mildlife, Baker Boy, Evelyn Ida Morris, Angie McMahon and Sampa The Greatm, before Ella Hooper and Dallas Frasca covered Divinyls’ ‘Boys In Town’ in tribute to Chrissy Amphlett.

During the evening, Victoria’s Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, also announced that the Andrews Labor Government will launch a 10-day, state-wide music festival if re-elected this weekend.

Catch the full list of this year’s The Age Music Victoria Awards winners, below.

The Age Music Victoria Awards 2018

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

The Premier’s Prize for the Best Victorian Album of 2018 – $10,000 Cash Prize

Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends

Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel — WINNER

Laura Jean – Devotion

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

Sampa The Great – Birds And The Bee9

Best Band

Camp Cope — WINNER

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

MOD CON

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Tropical F*ck Storm

Best Song

Baker Boy – Marryuna — WINNER

Camp Cope – The Opener

Courtney Barnett – Nameless, Faceless

Laura Jean – Girls On The TV

Mojo Juju – Native Tongue

Best Solo Artist

Alex Lahey

Angie McMahon

Baker Boy

Courtney Barnett — WINNER

Didirri

Laura Jean

Mojo Juju

Sampa The Great

Tash Sultana

Vance Joy

Best Male Musician

Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) — WINNER

Didirri Peters (Didirri)

Gareth Liddiard (Tropical F*ck Storm)

Jake Robertson (School Damage, Alien Nosejob)

Tom Iansek (No Mono)

Best Female Musician

Courtney Barnett — WINNER

Erica Dunn (Tropical F*ck Storm, MOD CON, Palm Springs)

Laura Englert (Laura Jean)

Mojo “Juju” Ruiz De Luzuriaga (Mojo Juju)

Sampa Tembo (Sampa The Great)

The Premier’s Prize for the Best Victorian Breakthrough Act of 2018 – $5000 Cash Prize

Angie McMahon

Baker Boy — WINNER

Kaiit

Mildlife

MOD CON

Best Live Act

Amyl And The Sniffers

Baker Boy — WINNER

Cable Ties

Courtney Barnett

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Best Small Venue (under 500 capacity)

The Gasometer, Collingwood

Howler, Brunswick

Northcote Social Club, Northcote — WINNER

The Old Bar, Fitzroy

The Tote, Collingwood

Best Large Venue (over 500 capacity)

170 Russell, Melbourne

Corner Hotel, Richmond — WINNER

The Croxton Bandroom, Thornbury

Hamer Hall, Southbank

Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank

INDUSTRY-VOTED AWARDS

Best Festival

Golden Plains

Best Regional/Outer Suburban Act