# Music Victoria Awards of 2017

The Music Victoria Awards of 2017 are the 12th Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, presented on 22 November 2017. For the first time this year, the Best Regional Venue award was separated into of over and under 50 gigs per year.
Music Victoria CEO, Patrick Donovan commended this year's impressive talent saying, "Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees. We are very proud that many of these winners haven't just made an impact in Australia over the last 12 months, but acts such as Jen Cloher, The Teskey Brothers, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and A.B. Original have been flying the Victorian flag overseas."

## Hall of Fame inductees

* Tony Cohen

## Outstanding Achievement Award

* Zo Damage
Zo Damage is music photographer. Her 365 Day Live Music Photography Project and book The Damage Report whereby she photographed a band or more daily for a year, wrapping it up with a sold-out exhibition and book launch at Arts Centre Melbourne.

## Award nominees and winners
### All genre Awards

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.
| Best Album | Best Song |
| A.B. Original - Reclaim Australia Big Smoke – This is Golden Cable Ties - Cable Ties Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher RVG – A Quality of Mercy | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – "Rattlesnake" A.B. Original – "January 26" Cable Ties – "Say What You Mean" RVG – "A Quality of Mercy" The Smith Street Band – "Death to the Lads" |
| Best Male | Best Female |
| Paul Kelly D.D Dumbo Dan Sultan Remi Tim Rogers | Jen Cloher Ali Barter Freya Josephine Hollick Meg Mac Tash Sultana |
| Best Band | Best Emerging Artist |
| King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard A.B. Original Cable Ties RVG The Teskey Brothers | The Teskey Brothers Alexander Biggs Amyl and the Sniffers Cable Ties RVG |
| Best Live Act | Best Festival |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard A.B. Original Cable Ties Cash Savage and the Last Drinks The Peep Tempel | Meredith Music Festival Boogie Festival Golden Plains Laneway Sugar Mountain |
| Best Venue (Over 500 Capacity) | Best Venue (Under 500 Capacity) |
| Corner Hotel, Richmond 170 Russell The Croxton Bandroom Forum Theatre, Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre | The Tote, Collingwood The Curtin The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Old Bar, Fitzroy Howler |
| Best Regional Venue (Over 50 Gigs a Year) | Best Regional Venue (Under 50 Gigs a Year) |
| Workers Club, Geelong Baha, Rye Barwon Club, Geelong The Eastern Hotel, Ballarat Karova Lounge, Ballarat | Theatre Royal, Castlemaine The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan Music On The Hill, Red Hill Pier Bandroom, Frankston |
| Best Regional Act | |
| Cosmic Psychos Benny Walker Coda Chroma D.D Dumbo Freya Josephine Hollick | |

### Genre Specific Awards

Voted by a select industry panel
| Best Blues Album | Best Country Album |
| Fiona Boyes – Professin' the Blues Benny & The Fly By Niters – Watch Yourself Dan Dinnen – Keep on Stirrin' the Pot Lloyd Spiegel – This Time Tomorrow White Lightning – Mongrel Blood | Raised By Eagles – I Must Be Somewhere Big Smoke – Time Is Golden Freya Josephine Hollick – The Unceremonious Junking of Me Matt Joe Gow – Seven Years Small Town Romance – Small Town Romance |
| Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album | Best Jazz Album |
| The Teskey Brothers – Half Mile Harvest Cookin' on 3 Burners – Lab Experiments Vol 1 Lance Ferguson – Raw Material The Meltdown – The Meltdown Silver Linings – So Good to You | Brenton Foster – The Nature of Light Fem Belling – Now Then Paul Grabowsky/Mirko Guerrini/Niko Schäuble – Torrio! Senegambian Jazz Band – Senegambian Jazz Band Speedball – We Have Moved |
| Best Hip Hop Album | Best Electronic Act |
| A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia Birdz – Train of thought Must Volkoff – Aquanaut Pez – Don't Look Down Remi – Divas & Demons | Client Liaison Dom Dolla Harvey Sutherland The Journey KLLO |
| Best Heavy Album | Best Aboriginal Act |
| Divide and Dissolve – Basic Batpiss – Rest in Piss Clowns – Lucid Again Dødknell – Hatred. Absolute Mammoth Mammoth – Mount the Mountain | A.B Original Archie Roach Benny Walker Birdz Dan Sultan |
| Best Global or Reggae Album | Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act |
| Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence – Afro Empire Amaru Tribe – Amaru Tribe The Bombay Royale – Run Kitty Run George Telek, David Bridie & Musicians of the Gunantuna – A Bit Na Ta Papa Chango – The Lost Moon of Bellaris | Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell Byron Scullin James Hullick Miyuki Jokiranta Nat Grant |
| Best Folk Roots Album | |
| The Mae Trio – Take Care Take Cover Jed Rowe – A Foreign Country Jordie Lane and The Sleepers – Glassellland Leah Senior – Pretty Faces Sophie Koh – Book of Songs | |