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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I hope TEN pick this up again next year. Please, TEN, do it for me, and everyone else who hated the telecast (ie: 99.99% of people).
It may have been expensive for TEN and not rate that well, but if you guys had it in a timeslot on say Monday or Tuesday or have it from 7 or 8 instead of 6:30 I reckon it’d rate much better.
Awards were soo poor, who were most of the ppl anyway? the biggest winner of the night so sad the costume was verry flamboyant and u know what that means 😛
Isn’t CH9’s audio always out of sync?
@ craig… oh grow up! they cant be blamed for the quality of the pictures or sound. they outsourced it… the production company are to blamed…. nine just aired it along with some of their on air talent.. and no.. iam not bias…just stating facts… i would of said the same if 7 or 10 aired it.
for all we know if was produced in SD. we all know either 7,9 or 10 would of done it in HD!!….. Nine just took the feed from the venue… end of story!
so stop embarassing yourself by cheap comments towards others!
Looks like everyone has taken the words right out of my mouth.What a crock of a show.I didn’t think they could do a worse show than the pitiful Logies but it had the same cringe effect to it.Channel 10 always did a great job and really made it an event to be proud of, typical of Nine.Where were the Hall of famers performing?
I wont even waste my time next year!
Jess Mauboy looked like she didn’t know what she was doing!!
Hall of Fame was staged earlier this year and broadcast on a weekend, but it was traditionally referenced in the big night yes…
Gyton Grantley and Kate Ritchie were painful, absolutely terrible hosts. Shameless cross promoting of other Nine shows. The set looked like it had a total budget of 0.99c. Channel Nine are hopeless at this sort of thing, they struggle with anything pitched towards a younger audience. Its tanking in last night’s ratings was thoroughly deserved.
Missed it, but like others have said – doesn’t look like I actually missed much. Where’s the Rock, where’s the performers behaving badly, where is that Wow factor.
All the ‘celebrities’ look like they’re heading to, dare say it, the Logies of all places!
gyton grantly is already type cast as carl wiallims, his facial expressions say it all, terrible at best
I didn’t see it, but it sounds more interesting than last year when that one-hit-wonder managed to win 6.
makes me glad I missed it, based on most of the more recent comments. Although slagging off people for their own musical tastes is a bit redundant. this is a place to air your views. So it is somones opinion, and we are all entitlted to ours 🙂
So embarrassing. If I see Gyton Grantley flogging one more thing I’ll scream. It was like Carl Williams on prozac hosting.
Slydoggie, that’s completely true! And I bet if people looked hard enough they’d realise that the album sales for a lot of the ‘obscure nobodies’ are more than respectable – The Temper Trap have recently found huge success in the UK even.
man empire of the sun suck!
their song walking on a dream is s**t
@ Vid… you’re comments are embarassing. If Nine can’t be held responsible for the poor quality of a locally produced which aired on their network, featuring countless 9 personalities… then who can.
I’m sure they had a few co-execs on board over-seeing things at ACER last night.
But I suppose your comments are always hideously bias… so meh..
For those who are slagging off Empire of the Sun and some of the other “obscure” bands…I’m tipping you normally listen to commercial FM stations…try listening to Triple J for some real music, made from passion, not just for a buck.
The sound quality was horrible last night…don’t know how CH9 could get it so wrong. And the number of “fly-by’s” by the camera crew was nauseating. Please, oh please return to Ch10 next year!!
vid says:
November 26, 2009 at 11:13 pm
@ todd…new zealand is part of the aria family. thats why!
No not true – Neil Finn was told he was no longer eligible when he moved back to Auckland – you have to be Australian or spend a significant amount of your career in Australia. Ladyhawke’s inclusion was quite controversial, as the reason she was included was because she apparently “lives” in Australia – but in fact has spent the last year in London.
That was the worst arias I have ever seen. Empire of the sun really turned me off viewing.
I would have thought with all the bagging of Britney Spears for lip synching, that Jessica would have been singing live. What a crock. To call that live is like saying Jimmy Barnes is softly spoken.
Lisa Miller….ugh…embarrassing. I’m over this trend of female singers sounding like frail little girls.
All I can say, the Australian music business is in a sorry state if last night was the ‘best of the best’ of Australian music. I’ll sound like a grannie, but I miss the good old days of when music was something to be proud of.
Lets all whinge about the awards being rigged because our favourites didn’t win.
How pathetic are you all?? Really!!
How budget did the green lasers in Robbie Williams performance look.
Never in my life did I think I would utter these words…. Richard Wilkons would have been better. I mean, my lord (incidentally, someone who was thanked more then anyone who had worked on the music in reality!) I would have taken Lund or even Stefanovic, over that! It is a national embaressment that that is our premium music award show. If I was somebody who held any credibility, I would never stand foot in an ARIA award show until written promises were made of at least Footy Show standard, at least then I would only be physically sick a few times in the night, not constantly.
Was Delta nominated for anything?
It’ll be better next year broadcasted in Perth!
i just dont get these awards. How could Jess mauboy walk waya with just one award? she has had hit after hit, and yet her album wasnt even nominated for album of the year or not even single of the year. also not wining female artist or even breakthrough artist….typical arias…awards go to the obscure bands that u never end up hearing about again…..
@ Wally
Yeah I could definitely hear Jess’ backing track because it was way too loud, and louder than the vocals. How very Britney Spears of the mixing desk!