inthemix | News | The Presets pick up 4 ARIA Award nominations

Gather round, gather round… it’s time to pick apart the honour roll for the 2008 ARIA Awards. Leading the charge, Homebake’s leading lady Gabriella Cilmi muscled in with a whopping six nominations, including Best Female Artist and Single Of The Year for Sweet About Me. Significantly less radio-play has come the way of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, but he’s also up for a hefty four gongs on the back of debut album Gurrumul.

Then there’s Aussie ex-pat and Good Vibrations Festival headliner Sam Sparro, whose newfound pop star status has earned him five nominations. Also doing well in the nominations stakes are rave overlords The Presets and, err, The Veronicas, who have picked up four nominations each. The Best Dance Release category in particular looks set to be a hard fought group in 2008, with nominees including Cut Copy, Pnau, The Potbelleez and Mobin Master, as well as The Presets.

Here are a few of the major categories for your perusal. The 2008 ARIA Awards go down Sunday 19 October at Acer Arena, Sydney.

Best Dance Release
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (Modular/Universal Music Australia)
Mobin Master – Show Me Love (Safari Music/One Love Music/Sony BMG)
Pnau – Pnau (etcetc)
The Potbelleez – Don’t Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)
The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Best Rock Album
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours (Aarght/Shock Entertainment)
Faker – Be The Twilight (Capitol/EMI)
Gyroscope – Breed Obsession (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)
The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)

Album of the Year
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Rattlin’ Bones (Liberation Music)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Virgin/EMI)
The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)

Best Urban Release
A-Love- Ace Of Hearts (Crookneck Records/Shogun Distribution)
Bliss ‘n Eso – Flying Colours (Illusive Sounds)
Katalyst – What’s Happening (Invada/Inertia)
Muph & Plutonic – ... And Then Tomorrow Came (Obese Records)
Spit Syndicate – Towards The Light (Obese Records)
The Herd – Summerland (Elefant Traks/Inertia)

Best Independent Release
Ben Lee – Ripe (Inertia Recordings)
British India – Thieves (Flashpoint/Shock Entertainment)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul (Skinnyfish Music/MGM)
Lior – Corner Of An Endless Road (Independent/MGM)
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (Siberia/Inertia)

Best Pop Release
Gabriella Cilmi- Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Kylie Minogue – X (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Operator Please – Yes Yes Vindictive (Virgin/EMI)
Sam Sparro – Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)
The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (Warner Music Australia)

Breakthrough Artist – Single
Angus & Julia Stone – The Beast (Capitol/EMI)
Gabriella Cilmi- Sweet About Me (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Sam Sparro – Black and Gold (Universal Music Australia)
The Panics – Don’t Fight It (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
The Potbelleez- Don’t Hold Back (Vicious/EMI)

Breakthrough Artist – Album
Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (Capitol/EMI)
Gabriella Cilmi – Lessons To Be Learned (Mushroom Records/Warner Music Australia)
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (Siberia/Inertia)
Operator Please – Yes Yes Vindictive (Virgin/EMI)
Sam Sparro – Sam Sparro (Universal Music Australia)

Best Group
Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (Capitol/EMI)
Faker – Be The Twilight (Capitol/EMI)
Silverchair – If You Keep Losing Sleep (Eleven/Virgin/EMI)
The Living End – White Noise (Dew Process/Universal Music Australia)
The Presets – Apocalypso (Modular/Universal Music Australia)