Coincidentally the Australian Music Prize or AMP shares its acronymous moniker with an Australian financial institution. It is only fitting then, that it act as some kind of indie band trust fund.
Awarded on the 13th of March (to the tune of $30, 000) the AMP is certainly an honour worth rigging winning bringing to mind the immortal words of the Wu Tang Clan’s C.R.E.A.M. (that’s cash rules everything around me).
In an effort to champion the underdog a second prize worth $15, 000 will also be awarded. The secondary prize will honour the euphemistic “outstanding potential” of a band (the winning criterion will be the band with the least amount of Myspace friends).
So what do you think, who should win? Did the AMP make any glaring omissions, or undeserved inclusions? $30,000 after all is probably about an eight of one of the nominee’s gig fee – lets hope it goes to someone who could really use it.
The nominees are as follows:
Apocalypso – The Presets
Beaches – Beaches
Havilah – The Drones
In Ghost Colours – Cut Copy
Jungle Blues – CW Stoneking
Love Is Gone – Jack Ladder
Presque Vu – Tom Cooney
Primary Colours – Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Sympathy For the New World – Ross McLennan
