The 27th Annual ARIA Awards ceremony is to be held this Sunday 1st December at Sydney’s Star Casino.
Following on from revealing the roll-call of Aussie musicians that will be performing at ARIA’s night of nights, an international pop sensation has been added to the bill.
New Zealand’s Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, better known as the music world-dominating Lorde, will be on hand at the ARIA Awards 2013 for a live performance.
Returning to Australia following her sold out national tour in October, the 17-year-old will be performing live at the ceremony, but it won’t be her triple-platinum selling single ‘Royals’ she’ll be belting out but instead her latest single, ‘Team’.
Though she’ll be back in town next month, don’t hold your breath for any Australian shows aside from her ARIA performance from the platinum-selling singer, though she will check back in Down Under as part of the Laneway 2014 festival lineup next February alongside a strong female-centric lineup of Haim, Savages, Adalita, CHVRCHES, Warpaint, The Jezabels and many more.
While Lorde isn’t up for any awards herself (being a Kiwi and all), her ARIA Awards performance caps a successful year of dominating the ARIA Charts.
Lorde’s debut album Pure Heroine earned the accolade of being the second fastest selling album of the year Down Under after it debuted at the #1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, swiftly going Platinum following its release.
The New Zealander has also racked up a huge stack of historic accolades in the process, including becoming the longest reigning female on the US charts as ‘Royals’ peaked on the American charts, making her the first solo New Zealand singer to have a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
She was also crowned as one TIME magazine’s Most Influential Teens Of 2013 list shortly after her 17th birthday (which she celebrated with David Bowie and Tilda Swinton, of course) the same day that she brought a fierce bidding war to a multi-million dollar climax in signing a $2.5 million publishing deal with US company Songs.
Never mind her zeitgeist capturing antics, such as covering Sheryl Crow with all-sister band Haim, performing a live 25 minute set for late night doyen David Letterman, covering 80s hit-makers Tears For Fears’ ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World‘ (how fitting), and making celebrity fans out of everyone from Flume, Grimes, Moby, to Backstreet Boys and a national commendation from New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
All before she’s even allowed to legally drink beer.
Joining Lorde in performing live at the ARIA Awards 2013 ceremony is another international artist, Alicia Keys, in town next month for the Australian leg of her Set Fire To The World Tour, with support from John Legend.
The live performances will also feature a large contingent of Aussie artists up for ARIA Awards themselves. Award-scooping Sydney beatmaker Flume will be playing the ARIA stage, having already taken home the Producer Of The Year Award and set to boost his trophy cabinet with one of the eight ARIA nominations he’s up for, the most of any artist.
Other multiple nominees on hand to perform live at the ARIA ceremony include similarly award-snaffling Perth psych-cosmonauts Tame Impala, the ‘most played act on Aussie radio’ Birds Of Tokyo, SXSW 2014-bound singer-songwriter Vance Joy, hip hop trio Bliss N Eso, plus Jessica Mauboy, Samantha Jade, Sheppard, The Potbelleez, Stafford Brothers, and Alison Wonderland.
General public tickets to the 2013 ARIA Awards have already sold out, but the ceremony will once again be simulcast on Channel Nine’s GO! on Sunday 1st Decemebr, while streaming service and ARIA Awards presenting partner Rdio will this year be exclusively streaming the live performances – from Lorde to Flume – the following day.
ARIA Awards 2013
Sunday 1st December, 2013
The Star Casino, Sydney
featuring live performances from:
Lorde
Alicia Keys
Flume
Tame Impala
Birds Of Tokyo
Vance Joy
Bliss N Eso
Jessica Mauboy
Samantha Jade
Sheppard
The Potbelleez
Stafford Brothers
Alison Wonderland
ARIA Awards 2013 Nominees
Album of the Year
Birds Of Tokyo – March Fires (EMI)
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
Guy Sebastian – Armageddon (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Label Services)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Recordings)
Breakthrough Artist – Release (Presented by PPCA)
Big Scary – Not Art (Pieater/Inertia)
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
RüFüS – Atlas (Sweat It Out Music/Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
The Rubens – The Rubens (Ivy League Records)
Vance Joy – God Loves You When You’re Dancing (Liberation Music)
Best Male Artist
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
Guy Sebastian – Armageddon (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Keith Urban – Little Bit Of Everything (EMI)
Matt Corby – Resolution (Mercury Australia)
Paul Kelly – Spring and Fall (Gawd Aggie Recordings/Universal Music Australia)
Best Female Artist
Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse (Abbe May/MGM)
Emma Louise – vs Head vs Heart (Emma Louise/MGM)
Jessica Mauboy – To The End Of The Earth (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Missy Higgins – Set Me On Fire (Eleven: a music company/Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd)
Sarah Blasko – I Awake (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
Best Group
Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream (Island Australia)
Birds Of Tokyo – March Fires (EMI)
Empire Of The Sun – Ice On The Dune (EMI)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Label Services)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Recordings)
Best Independent Release
Big Scary – Not Art (Pieater/Inertia)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Label Services)
San Cisco – San Cisco (Island City Music/MGM)
Sheppard – Let Me Down Easy (Empire Of Song/ MGM)
The Drones – I See Seaweed (The Drones/MGM)
Best Adult Contemporary Album
Bob Evans – Familiar Stranger (EMI)
Clare Bowditch – The Winter I Chose Happiness (Island Australia)
Josh Pyke – The Beginning And The End Of Everything (Ivy League Records)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt Label Services)
Sarah Blasko – I Awake (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
Best Blues and Roots Album
Archie Roach – Into the Bloodstream (Liberation Music)
Mama Kin – The Magician’s Daughter (Mama Kin/MGM)
Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Melbourne Ska Orchestra (Four Four/ABC Music)
Russell Morris – Sharkmouth (Fanfare Records/EMI)
The Cat Empire – Steal The Light (Two Shoes Records/Inertia)
Best Children’s Album
Giggle and Hoot – Claw Tapping Tunes (ABC Music)
Jay Laga’aia – Ten In The Bed (ABC Music)
Justine Clarke – A Little Day Out with Justine Clarke (ABC Music)
Sam Moran – Play Along With Sam (6 Degrees Records/MGM)
The Wiggles – Taking Off! (ABC Music)
Best Comedy Release
Housos – Live (Punchline Comedy)
Sammy J & Randy – Bin Night (Punchline Comedy)
Pauly Fenech – Pauly’s Shorts (Punchline Comedy)
Tom & Alex – The Bits We’re Least Ashamed Of (triple j) (ABC Music)
Various – Colin Buchanan’s TGIF Songs (ABC Music)
Best Country Album
Jasmine Rae – If I Want To (ABC Music)
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson – Wreck and Ruin (Liberation Music)
Lee Kernaghan – Beautiful Noise (ABC Music)
Sara Storer – Lovegrass (ABC Music)
Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey – The Great Country Songbook (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Best Dance Release
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
Jagwar Ma – Howlin (Future Classic)
The Potbelleez – Saved In A Bottle (Hussle Recordings/Ministry Of Sound)
The Presets – Pacifica (Modular Recordings)
RüFüS – Atlas (Sweat It Out Music/Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Best Pop Release
Empire Of The Sun – Ice On The Dune (EMI)
Guy Sebastian – Armageddon (Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
San Cisco – San Cisco (Island City Music/MGM)
The Preatures – Is This How You Feel? (Mercury Australia)
Vance Joy – God Loves You When You’re Dancing (Liberation Music)
Best Rock Album
Birds Of Tokyo – March Fires (EMI)
Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream (Island Australia)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Recordings)
The Drones – I See Seaweed (The Drones/MGM)
The Rubens – The Rubens (Ivy League Records)
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album
Airbourne – Black Dog Barking (Roadrunner Records)
Karnivool – Asymmetry (Cymatic Records/Sony Music Entertainment Australia)
Northlane – Singularity (UNFD)
The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts (Roadrunner Records)
Thy Art Is Murder – Hate (Halfcut/Shock Records)
Best Urban Album
Bliss n Eso – Circus In The Sky (Illusive)
Horrorshow – King Amongst Many (Elefant Traks/Inertia Music)
Illy – Bring it Back (Obese Records)
Seth Sentry – This Was Tomorrow (High Score Records/Inertia)
Urthboy – Smokey’s Haunt (Elefant Traks/Inertia Music)
