Our platonic life partners at FBi Radio have announced the finalists for the fifth annual Sydney, Music Arts & Culture (SMAC) Awards. Spanning an eclectic mix of vibe enhancing Sydney creatives including purveyors of experiential arts events, hallucinogenic music videos, crack-like gelato and blissful dance music, the awards seek to publicly high-five the innovators whose creativity, originality and innovation have kept Sydney’s creative heart beating in 2012.
Public voting opens today and will run until January 3rd with over 70 finalists across 13 categories including Record of the Year, Best Eats, Best on Screen, Next Big Thing and Best Collective (hint: not these guys), proudly presented again by yours turly.
The awards will be held on January 17 and broadcast live on FBi 94.5FM. Check out the full list of nominees below and cast your vote here. On ya Sydney.
RECORD OF THE YEAR – presented by La Casa
Flume – ‘Flume’
Chasm – ‘This is How We Never Die’
Hermitude – ‘HyperParadise’
Deep Sea Arcade – ‘Outlands’
Collarbones – ‘Die Young’
Jonathan Boulet – We Keep the Beat Found the Sound See the Need Start the Heart’
NEXT BIG THING – presented by Jägermeister
Giselle
The Preatures
Dro Carey
Palms
Caitlin Park
BEST LIVE MUSIC ACT
Hermitude
Kirin J Callinan
Holy Balm
Royal Headache
Straight Arrows
The Preatures
BEST MUSIC EVENT
Outside In
Sunset People @ The Hollywood
Goodgod Danceteria @ Vivid Live
Dr Seuss meets Elefant Traks
The Gate
Sound Summit
BEST SONG – presented by APRA
Dappled Cities – ‘Born at the Right Time’
Palms – ‘Love’
Regular John – ‘Slume’
Jagwar Ma – ‘Come save me’
Kirin J Callinan – ‘WIIW’
Catcall – ‘Satellites’
Hermitude (Flume remix) – ‘HyperParadise’
REMIX THE CITY – presented by Two Thousand
Project #25 Thomas Demand – Kaldor Public Art Projects
Sydney Food Trucks
Halls for Hire
World Movies Secret Cinema on Goat Island
Mystery Bus
BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL – presented by The Brag
Vivid LIVE
The 18th Biennale of Sydney
Graphic
Sydney Film Festival
Harvest
BEST ON STAGE
Zoe Coombs Marr – Gone Off
Mohammed Ahmed – I’m your Man
Bojana Novakovik – The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself
Tim Spencer – Show Me Yours I’ll Show you Mine
Matt Prest – Whelping Box
Ian Meadows – Beneath Two Waves
BEST ON SCREEN
Kris Moyes for ‘Way To War’ (Kirin J Callinan)
Fishing w Spod for ‘Choy Lin’ (Fishing)
Tales in Space for ‘Star Wars’ (Tales in Space)
Yvette Paxinos for ‘The World is Ours’ (Catcall)
Melvin J. Montalban for ‘I Met You’ (Anna Lunoe and Flume)
BEST COLLECTIVE – presented by Pedestrian
The Rizzeria
107 Projects
Lion Mountain Studio
Campfire Collective
Groundwork
BEST ARTS EVENT
Serial Space presents Time Machine
ArtBar Series @ MCA
Mass Action by Brown Council
I Wish You Hadn’t Asked @ Art and About
30 Days and 30 Nights @FraserStudios
BEST VISUAL ARTIST
Michaela Gleave
Benja Harney
David Capra
Jess Olivieri
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
BEST EATS
Fredas
Cornersmith
Hartsyard
Gelato Messina
Sixpenny
