With two honors, together with the coveted track of the 12 months, Thelma Plum was the large winner on the 2023 Queensland Music Awards (QMAs), offered Tuesday (March 28) at Fortitude Music Corridor in Brisbane, Australia.
The Gamilaraay singer-songwriter gained track of the 12 months and the pop class for her single “Backseat of My Thoughts,” lifted from her 2022 EP Meanjin. With track of the 12 months, Plum will get a permanent place in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley – a plaque on the Stroll of Fame.
“Queensland I really feel has all the time been an underdog,” she informed the packed home, “however I inform ya, we’re not anymore.”
Meanjin is up for finest report at subsequent week’s Rolling Stone Australia Awards, and “Backseat of My Thoughts” will get one other likelihood to win track of the 12 months, on the 2023 APRA Music Awards on April 27.
Different winners on the 2023 QMAs included Brisbane indie band Ball Park Music (album of the 12 months for Weirder & Weirder) Gold Coast singer-songwriter Amy Shark (highest-selling single for “Sway My Means”), and nation artist Adam Model (highest promoting album for All Or Nothing).
Go-Betweens nice Lindy Morrison was offered the lifetime achievement award for her advocacy work, social work, activism and musicianship. Morrison, a member of the Go-Betweens from 1980-1989, performed drums on six of the enduring band’s albums, and carried out vocals on three.
The folks-rock act’s basic track “Cattle and Cane” was acknowledged by APRA in 2001 as one of many high 30 Australian songs of all time, and Morrison was celebrated in 2014 with the Ted Albert Award, offered in the course of the APRA Music Awards, held that 12 months in Brisbane’s City Hall.
Away from the studio, Morrison helped set up Help Act in 1998, and served with music trade charity as a social employee until 2021. Through the pandemic, she led her crew to ship greater than A$5 million in aid grants for music staff in disaster.
“I’m so glad I’m receiving this award whereas I’m nonetheless alive. I’d have hated to get this award after I’m lifeless,” she quipped on the high of what could be the night’s most rousing speech. “Thank-you Queensland. I’m nonetheless taking part in, I’m on the street on a regular basis…I’m recording, I’m going to the U.Okay. quickly, I obtained into apply rooms, I’m 70 years of age. And I nonetheless really feel like that younger girl.”
Recounting these years with the Go-Betweens and different acts she carried out with, “We have been dedicated to artwork, and we might do something so long as it was for artwork. We marched for black rights, we marched for civil rights. And we marched for the appropriate to march. We performed music within the streets for pro-choice.”
Town of Brisbane got here out a winner when, throughout a pre-recorded bit, Qld premier Annastacia Palaszczuk introduced a A$3.8 million funding within the annual Bigsound showcase occasion and convention.
“Everyone knows how highly effective music will be,” she mentioned. “It helps inform our tales, and gives a stage for social change. It helps join individuals and shapes our tradition. Proper now in Queensland, I imagine there’s one thing particular taking place with our music scene right here, and tonight I would like everybody on this room to know that our authorities backs you and backs your trade. I understand how necessary Bigsound has been for the trade over the previous 22 years. That’s why I’m happy to announce $3.8 million in funding over the following 4 years to make Bigsound even larger and even higher.” The 2023 version is ready for Sept. 5 – 8.
Previously generally known as QSong, the QMAs have fun the state’s “brightest rising artists and established legends,” with its classes judged by greater than 100 music trade professionals.
Greater than 13,000 songs have been submitted since its inception in 2006. Winners have included Keith City, the Veronicas, Kate Miller-Heidke, Bernard Fanning, Sheppard, Violent Soho and plenty of others.
The annual occasion is organized by commerce physique QMusic, with Brick Lane, Brisbane Metropolis Council and Queensland Authorities on board as main companions.
2023 Queensland Music Awards – Winners:
MAJOR AWARDS
SONG OF THE YEAR
Introduced by Brick Lane Brewing
Thelma Plum
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Introduced by Brisbane Metropolis Council
Ball Park Music – ‘Weirder & Weirder’
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Introduced by Grant Thornton
Lindy Morrison
SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 GRANT MCLENNAN FELLOWSHIP
Sahara Beck
2023 BILLY THORPE SCHOLARSHIP
NEISH
2023 CAROL LLOYD AWARD
Platonic Intercourse
CATEGORY AWARDS
BLUES | ROOTS AWARD
Introduced by Trentham Property
Jen Mize & The Tough N’ Tumble – ‘All Riled Up’
CHILDREN’S MUSIC AWARD
Introduced by The Truss Firm
Cheeky Monkey Membership – ‘Sure or No – A Music About Consent’
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL AWARD
Introduced by Queensland Conservatorium – Griffith College
Monique Clare – ‘Downhill Snowboarding’
COUNTRY AWARD
Introduced by ABC Radio Brisbane
James Johnston – ‘COUNTRY BOYS’
ELECTRONIC AWARD
Introduced by The Prince Consort
Sycco – ‘Ripple’
FOLK AWARD
Introduced by APRA AMCOS
Yb. – ‘Blackphemy’
HEAVY AWARD
Introduced by IJS
DZ Deathrays – ‘Paranoid’
HIP HOP AWARD
Introduced by NAFA
Khi’leb – ‘Cheques’
INDIGENOUS AWARD
Introduced by Anacta
William Barton – ‘Kalkani’
JAZZ AWARD
Introduced by Jazz Music Institute
Trichotomy – ‘Ahead Movement’
POP AWARD
Introduced by Star Leisure Group
Thelma Plum – ‘Backseat Of My Thoughts’
ROCK AWARD
Introduced by Comiskey Group
WAAX – ‘No Doz’
YOUTH (AGES 10 – 17) AWARD
Introduced by SAE
Lottie McLeod – ‘Blissful Birthday’
SOUL | FUNK | RNB AWARD
Introduced by The Sound Backyard
Miiesha – ‘Nonetheless Dream’
WORLD AWARD
Introduced by MEAA
Isaac Conomos and Menaka Thomas – ‘House’
REGIONAL | REGIONAL AWARD
Introduced by Telstra
Sahara Beck – ‘Nothing Improper With That
VIDEO AWARD
Introduced by Artistic Productions
Ben Wrigley – Purple Static by Mirrors
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE
Amy Shark – Sway My Means
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM
Adam Model – All Or Nothing
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
METRO VENUE OF THE YEAR
Introduced by Oztix and The Music
The Fortitude Music Corridor
REGIONAL VENUE OF THE YEAR
Introduced by Oztix and The Music
Sol Bar
FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR
Introduced by Oztix and The Music
Caloundra Music Pageant
ACCESSIBLE VENUE OF THE YEAR
Introduced by CPL – Selection, Life, Ardour
Kingston Butter Manufacturing facility
