# Music Victoria Awards of 2014

The Music Victoria Awards of 2014 are the ninth Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, presented in October and November 2014.
The Genre awards were awarded on 16 October 2014 in The Age building, while the public voted, general awards were awarded in November on 170 Russell Street, Melbourne.

## Hall of Fame inductees

* Daddy Cool and Ed Nimmervoll

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

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.
| Best Album | Best Song |
| Dan Sultan - Blackbird HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Oddments Teeth & Tongue - Grids Total Control - Typical System | Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener" Banoffee - "Got It" Fraser A Gorman - "Book of Love" Laura Jean - "My First Love Song" Total Control - "Flesh War" |
| Best Male | Best Female |
| Dan Sultan Chet Faker Mikelangelo Rob Snarski Vance Joy | Courtney Barnett Jen Cloher Jess Cornelius (Teeth & Tongue) Laura Jean Missy Higgins |
| Best Band | Best Emerging Artist |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Client Liaison Teeth & Tongue Total Control Wagons | Remi Banoffee Client Liaison D.D Dumbo Milwaukee Banks |
| Best Live Band | Best Venue |
| Saskwatch Cosmic Psychos Graveyard Train Harmony King Parrot | The Corner Hotel 170 Russell, Melbourne Cherry, Melbourne Howler, Brunswick The Forum Theatre, Melbourne |
| Best Regional Venue | Best Regional Act |
| Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine Barwon Club, Geelong Hallam Hotel, Hallam Karova Lounge, Ballarat Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan | Cosmic Psychos Briggs D.D Dumbo Freya Hollick Stonefield |
| Best Festival | |
| Meredith Music Festival Boogie Falls Festival Golden Plains Festival Laneway Festival | |

### Genre Specific Awards

| Best Blues Album | Best Country Album |
| Greg Dodd & The Hoodoo Men - 3am Blues Live Dreamboogie - Ain't Nobody's Business Ian Collard - Swamp, Stomp & Boogie Kerri Simpson - 4am Shaun Kirk - Steer the Wheel | Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes - Black Coffee Eaten By Dogs - Eaten By Dogs T-Bones - A Long Time Coming Tracy McNeil - Nobody Ever Leaves Wagons - Acid Rain & Sugar Cane |
| Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album | Best Jazz Album |
| Cookin' on 3 Burners - Blind Bet Chelsea Wilson - I Hope You'll Be Very Unhappy Without Me Oscar Key Sung - Holograms Saskwatch - Nose Dive The Bamboos - Fever in the Road | Anton Delecca Quartet - The Healers Andrea Keller Quartet with Strings - Wave Rider Black Jesus Experience - Migration Julien Wilson Trio - Swailing Tilman Robinson - Network of Lines |
| Best Hip Hop Album | Best Electronic Act |
| Briggs - Shep Life Geko - Real Heads Don't Listen L-Fresh the Lion - One Remi - Raw x Infinity Tornts - Street Visions | Chet Faker Andras Fox Client Liaison Dizz1 Will Sparks |
| Best Heavy Album | Best Indigenous Act |
| Ausmuteants - Ausmuteants Ceres - I Don't Want to Be Anywhere But Here Closure in Moscow – Pink Lemonade Iron Mind - Iron Mind The Bennies - Rainbows in Space | The Deans Deline Briscoe Kutcha Edwards Philly Skin Choir Philly |
| Best Global or Reggae Album | Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act |
| Black Jesus Experience - Migration Coloured Stone - Dance to the Sun Tek Tek Ensemble - Terror in the Jungle The Bombay Royale - The Island of Dr Electrico The Chosen Ones - The Chosen Ones | Evelyn Morris Joel Stern Nik Kennedy Ren Walters Rosalind Hall |
| Best Folk Roots Album | |
| Charles Jenkins - Too Much Water in the Boat Laura Jean - Laura Jean Oh Pep! - II Tobias Hengeveld – Daylight Express Tracy McNeil - Nobody Ever Leaves | |