The full lineup playing the 9th Coopers AMP Shortlisted! event at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl this Australia Day has been finalised.
Taking place at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl this Sunday 26th January, Shortlisted! is a free-to-the-public event where the final shortlist of nine nominees in the running for the coveted $30,000 Australian Music Prize will be drawn from the impressive Longlist of over 40 Aussie albums. The AMP winner will then be announced in March 2014.
Performing live at Shortlisted! alongside previously announced headliners – 2012 AMP winners, funk hop duo Hermitude – is a selection of four AMP nominees, who combined will treat the audience to two hours of free music in an event that will be co-hosted by singer-songwriter (and new Spicks And Specks host) Ella Hooper and Urthboy, aka Elefant Traks co-founder Tim Levinson.
Sonic innovator and multi-talented guitarist Kirin J Callinan is shortlisted for the 9th Coopers AMP for his debut album Embracism, and he’ll presenting his distinctive brand of warped masochism, spooked crooning, and creative six-string assaults as part of the Shortlisted! lineup.
Joining Callinan on Australia Day lineup is all-female fuzz rock five-piece Beaches, in the AMP Longlist for their She Beats record. Singer-songwriter Jen Cloher has also been recognised for her crowdfunded record, In Blood Memory, and will be on hand to perform at Shortlisted! Rounding out the bill is Aussie hip hop luminary Dialectrix – whose nominated for his The Cold Light Of Day LP.
Shorlisted! follows in the vein of last year’s AMP Alive event, where Hermitude and a selection of AMP nominees performed live between hosting duties from Clare Bowditch and Kevin Mitchell (of Jebediah/Bob Evans fame), before unveiling the AMP winner; Hermitude’s HyperParadise beating out finalists Urthboy, Tame Impala, Flume, the Presets,and more to join the list of previous AMP winners: The Jezabels (2011), Cloud Control (2010), Lisa Mitchell (2009), Eddie Current Suppression Ring (2008), The Mess Hall (2007), Augie March (2006), and inaugural winners The Drones (2005).
Our Tone Deaf writer certainly hopes that Melbourne indie twosome Big Scary joins that hallowed list of AMP winners, putting forward the Top 6 reasons that Big Scary deserve to win for their second album Not Art.
The 9th Coopers AMP Shortlisted! Concert
Sunday 26th January 2014 @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne.
Free entry, 6-8pm
Featuring co-hosts Ella Hooper & Tim Levinson and live performances from:
Hermitude
Kirin J Callinan
Beaches
Jen Cloher
Dialectrix
The 9th Coopers AMP Longlist Selections
Gossling – Harvest Of Gold
Ainslie Wills – You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine
World’s End Press – World’s End Press
The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie
High Highs – Open Season
Montero – The Loving Gaze
Melanie Horsnell – The Cloud Appreciation Society
Sara Storer – Lovegrass
Songs – Malabar
Dog Trumpet – Medicated Spirits
Adalita – All Day Venus
Cloud Control – Dream Cave
Palms – Step Brothers
Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream
Fluent Form – Flu Season
Jagwar Ma – Howlin’
Josh Pyke – The Beginning And The End Of Everything
Machine Translations – The Bright Door
Paul Kelly with James Ledger, Genevieve Lacy & ANAMlly – Conversations With Ghosts
Heath Cullen – The Still And The Steep
Jimblah – Phoenix
Jimmy Tait – Golden
New Gods – Beloved
Ross McClennan – The Night Deeds Are Vapour
Dick Diver – Calendar Days
Brighter Later – The Wolves
Sam Buckingham – I’m A Bird
Luke Howard – Sun, Cloud
Pikelet – Calluses
Horrorshow – King Amongst Many
Kirin J. Callinan – Embracism
PVT – Homosapien
Jen Cloher – In Blood Memory
Beaches – She Beats
The Tongue – Surrender To Victory
The Delta Riggs – Hex.Lover.Killer
Standish/Carlyon – Deleted Scenes
The Drones – I See Seaweed
Bob Evans – Familiar Stranger
Abbe May – Kiss My Apocalypse
Big Scary – Not Art
Dialectrix – The Cold Light Of Day
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
