 2007 Q Song Awards Winners announced!
Posted on August 17 2007
Queensland’s finest songwriters were recognized last night at the 2nd annual Q Song Awards held at The Tivoli in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.
The state’s music community was out in force to celebrate Queensland’s established and emerging artists as the winners of the 2007 Q Song awards were announced.
The night belonged to Cairn’s teenager Emma-Louise Lobb who took out both the Starving Kids/Audio Embassy Secondary School Award and the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award for her song Kim’s Song and moved the audience with her heartfelt rendition of her winning song.
Meanwhile, local rock legend Tim Steward took out both the Skinny’s/Rockinghorse Alternative Award and Ellaway’s Song of the Year for his song Not the Same from his debut solo album How Does It End.
Kev Carmody was recognized for his lifetime commitment to songwriting taking out the Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Grates managed to outdo Powderfinger and The Butterfly Effect by taking out the Published Song of the Year Award with Science is Golden while Kate Bradley showed up the boys by taking out the Modern Music Rock Award with the track No Start/Red Light from her forthcoming debut album.
Small Mercies and The Quickening delivered blistering performances and The Gin Club closed out the night to rapturous applause.
Media inquiries to:
Deb Suckling
deb@qmusic.com.au
0417 768 339
The 2007 Q Song Awards Winners are:
EMI Blues and Roots
Mason Rack (Mason Rack and Steve Balbi): Dust (GC)
Q Music World and Folk
Andrew Morris: See the Smoke (BRIS)
Modern Music Rock
Kate Bradley: No Start/ Red Light (BRIS)
Pinnacles Jazz
Louise Denson and Ingrid James: Time to Be (BRIS)
Sony BMG Hip Hop
Briztronix (Scott Barker & Ben Eltham): Beats from the East (BRIS)
Skinny’s/Rockinghorse Alternative
Tim Steward: Not the Same (BRIS)
Nightlife Music and Video Pop
Keir Nuttall (Performed by Kate Miller -Heidke): Shoebox (BRIS)
MGM Country
Chris Pickering: The Humming Song (BRIS)
Q Music Gospel/Spiritual
Jaime Wells: Just a Dreamer (BRIS)
Mission Australia Indigenous
Rich Man’s Hoax (Luke Peacock): Abacus (BRIS)
Starving Kids/Audio Embassy Secondary School
Emma- Louise Lobb: Kims Song (Cairns)
APRA Electronic/Dance
PTY LTD (D Tainsh, T Tainsh, P Golikov): Make Amends (BRIS)
ABC Regional
The McMenamins (Fleur and Simon McMenamin): How it is (Nth Qld)
Q Music Primary School
Terry Reid & the Children of 7R, Trinity Anglican School, Cairns: Crikey Mate (Nth Qld)
4zzzFM 102.1 Punk/Metal
The Quickening (C Farrer, D Bell, S O'Donnell): The Lord Wine’s Press (BRIS)
The Courier- Mail People’s Choice Awards
Emma-Louise Lobb: Kim’s Song (Nth Qld)
Ellaways Song of the Year
Tim Steward: Not the Same
Published Song of the Year
The Grates: Science is Golden
Grant McLennan Lifetime Award
Kev Carmody
Q Music Encouragement Award
Danny Widdicombe: Cold River |
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