Gallery: ARIA Awards 2009
There was Robbie Williams, Jessica Mauboy and even Richard Wilkins at the 2009 ARIA Awards, but the night went to Empire of the Sun.
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They started late, Keith Urban opened the show with a low key song and then Underbelly stars Kate Ritchie and Gyton Grantley began to read the autocue…. the start of the ARIA Awards 2009 was decidely underwhelming.
It couldn’t resist plugging some of Nine’s wares including having two Getaway hosts, Nine’s Entertainment Editor Richard Wilkins, but also included Andrew Gunsberg and Rove McManus -who must have been pretty happy with the productions as staged by Roving Enterprises. The night served to make the TEN events look like a ‘How To..”
Last night’s ceremony was lacking some serious ‘wow’ factor until Robbie Williams came along to rescue it.
Having two actors who relied on written material as hosts, the show missed spontaneity and irreverance. Even the winners seemed to behave themselves.
HIGHEST SELLING AUSTRALIAN SINGLE Jessica Mauboy : Running Back
BEST URBAN ALBUM Hilltop Hoods – State Of The Art
BEST MUSIC DVD Sia – TV Is My Parent
HIGHEST SELLING AUSTRALIAN ALBUM AC/DC – Black Ice
BEST ROCK ALBUM AC/DC – Black Ice
BEST DANCE RELEASE The Presets – Talk Like That
BEST POP RELEASE Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Troy Cassar-Daley – I Love This Place
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – SINGLE Ladyhawke – My Delirium
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST – ALBUM Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke
BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM Josh Pyke – Chimney’s Afire
BEST INDEPENDENT RELEASE Bertie Blackman – Secrets and Lies
BEST MALE ARTIST Daniel Merriweather – Love And War
BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM C.W. Stoneking – Jungle Blues
BEST GROUP WINNER Empire Of The Sun
BEST FEMALE ARTIST Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
SINGLE OF THE YEAR Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
ALBUM OF THE YEAR Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
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was it just me or was all the presenters people who all work for the TEN network?
The Aria’s Sucked! The telecast was poor, boring and the audio was s**t! The awards i think were rigged. I hate Empire of The Sun. Jess so deserved to win every award she was nominated in and instead she got the highest selling award which is what We buy.
Compared to the AMA’s and CMA’s which i have watched in the past couple of weeks this telecast was extremely poor. Imagine if US television did Awards shows like Nine just did the Aria’s there would be bloodshed (Not literally of course)
But i am not surprised this is channel 9 we are talking about. They wouldnt know how to produce a damn thing let alone a live telecast. **rolls eyes**
Talk about a case of bad casting host wise. Both talented people – Kate Ritchie and Gyton Grantley – but so miss cast as Aria hosts…felt sorry for them – totally out of their depth. Typical of the Nine Network – let’s get a couple of high profile named personalaties who have done well in our dramas to host the Aria awards…so totally wrong. How about choosing hosts that fit the show – that’d be a novelty. As Natalie Gruzlewski said tonight or words to this effect – don’t know anything about music but great to be here – and she and her fellow Getaway reporter presented one of the most important awards of the night….please!!!
Missed the pazzaz of Craig Campbell and the Roving Enterprises team.
@ Tim: agree 100%. Where’s Gabriella Cilmi now? Where Empire of the Sun will be next year LOL.
@ Andrew …oh please…thats a silly comment. nine cant be held responsible for the quality…
Horrible! After watching the AMA’s a couple of days ago, you can really see how boring our ARIAs are! Once again, the Idols were snubbed – Jessica Mauboy only received one award (for ‘highest selling single’) which couldn’t be rigged, yet lost the other 6. A little weird considering she completely dominated sales and airplay more than any other Australian artist these past 12 months. Lisa Mitchell also did not pick up a single award in her 5 nominations. It’s funny because these awards end up going to a bunch of random ‘nobodies’ who end up being forgotten within a couple of years. Once again, ARIA proved how it’s award show lacks all credibility.
Very poor effort from Nine. Looked very cheap. No HD and audio was horrible. Was the same on the AFL footy show grand final. I have also been wondering if there is a feed problem to Adelaide.
Saw the American Music Awards on Foxtel on Monday and the production was just so much better.
I only really watched on the outside the universe chance that The Temper Trap would be rewarded, if only for making the effort to come back from the middle of a European tour. They weren’t of course, no surprise.
Even though the production was pretty ordinary, it was good to see Empire of the Sun sans Nick Littlemore take all the big awards, and Sarah Blasko keep Jessica Mauboy from the “important” awards.
Particularly love the self-promotion at the end with Kate saying the awards were back on Nine where they belong – or something to that effect. haha autocue… the only professional was Rove, a stark reminder that while he has his distractors, he knows how to put on a better show…
@vid: If Nine chooses to outsource the production, and the production is crap, then yes that is Nine’s problem. Because if the production was top notch, you can bet Nine would take the kudos for it. It works both ways.
I’ve only ever seen it before when it was on Ten so I couldn’t really appreciate Roving’s work until tonight. Gyton Grantley was too polished and fake and I could barely hear any of the singing in the performances.
When they teased that Kate Miller Heidke, Sarah Blasko and Lisa Mitchell were going to be sharing the same stage in an Aria first (they really built it up) I assumed that they were going to be doing something…y’know together. I was really let down to find out that they were just doing 3 separate performances and they weren’t even on the same stage.
Out of the presenters, Jabba was the only one worth a damn. Getaway presenters? Really? They did this whole thing about Australian music being around the world to try and mask this blatant cross-promotion, but it had absolutely nothing to do with the award they were presenting (Best Male Artist). Also, Rove McManus was surprisingly a bit of a jerk.
i only watched it from 9:30. but god that was terrible.
i am embarrassed for australia, i wonder what robbie was thinking standing back there listening to those painul acceptance speeches?
Oh my god, the mix is absolutely awful!!!!
Can barely hear anything!
And I must admit, the quality of the feed here in Adelaide is absolutely abysmal! Don’t know whether it’s just us or across the board, but the picture quality is really bad!
was a well produced show. colourful graphics.
yes the sounds wasnt the best but hey u get that when its a live gig..
before u all bag out Nine, it was product by another company for nine!
so nine cant be blamed for how it was produced.
yes no screens at the show.. and why would u have screens,,it was designed so the crowd didnt need them was they were close to the action!
far better product that rove’s company has produced in the previous year.
@ todd…new zealand is part of the aria family. thats why!
One of the worst award shows I’ve ever seen.
Terrible hosts, terrible production and terrible sound on most of the performances.
Channel 10 do a much better job.
@ Ben
Did you notice how Gyton made a point at the start of saying that all acts were singing live? No mention of anyone playing live. I wonder if some of that “echo” has anything to do with that? I don’t know how these things really work but if they are playing to a taped backing track perhaps that has something to do with it?
I’ve refused to watch this year’s seeing as it’s been so boring in the past (and that was when it was on Channel 10 and had some decent staging), but the results – and more to the point, the nominations – seem to be promoting more commercially viable artists over genuine talent. Jess Mauboy is hot though and I find her songs heaps catchy. However, I don’t see how anyone could genuinely feel that she’s more deserving of awards than the absolutely magnificent Ladyhawke even if she is a Kiwi.
Seems I didnt miss out on much.. How many awards did Jess take home? Surely not just one!?
What a horrendously boring show! Robbie totally outshone anybody else, and there’s clearly a problem with the mix on the lead vocalist, sounds like we are only getting an echo from the other mics.
I’m with philm
Where are the screens and the rock star staging that we have had for the last few years? There used to be fire, stuff falling from the roof, hosts who had some connection with music however vague it might have been.
In fairness I haven’t seen a lot, just watched the first 10 min (popped it on the IQ for a quick fast forward later) but even the pics on here don’t look that great… and Richard Wilkins??? give me a break… is that why nine have been pushing Barnesy and ACDC as opposed to artists that are relevant today?
From the little I saw it was the Footy Show end of year staging and presentation.
I didn’t even know this was on. I put it on FTA which is unusual for me, and flicked through the channels and found this on Nine. The picture quality looks awful, and I had it on the HD channel, so I assume the broadcast is not in HD. Or dodgey old Channel Nine Adelaide (WIN owned) didnt bother getting the HD feed.
Isn’s this normally on in September or October? It really should have stayed on TEN with Roving Ent as the producers. This seems really cheap and nasty (just like Nine). The voice over guy is terrible, as if he is trying to read his script without his glasses on, he has no skills to get us to listen to what he is saying. And what I did hear him saying is utter rubbish that no one could care less about.
The entire show seems very awkard and cheaply put together as the last ditch effor for live programming in Nine this week. And what is with it being on a Thursday night, the target audience are out shopping until 9pm, or starting their weekend early by going out.
Loving it go Jess
Is it just me or were Kate Ritchie and Gyton Grantly standing so far apart when it started?
How is Ladyhawke even eligible? She’s a Kiwi!! Jessica Mauboy has been robbed, just further proof of ARIA snubbing Idols in the “real” award categories… What a joke!
oh that was a horrible opening. What a horrible set. No colour. hardly any screens and performers having their back turned to the audience. Talk about a cheap show.
I lasted all the way until that underbelly bloke started to talk.
I miss roving enterprises.
I forgot this was even on… Whoops.
Damn that Jess Mauboy is hot!!