Ben Lee, Wolfmother, the Drones, Go-Betweens among Australian Music Prize finalists

from undercover.com.au

The Australian Music Prize Final Eight Announced

by Tim Cashmere

February 6 2006

The final eight for the Australian Music Prize was finally announced today. The shortlist is made up of the eight highest rated albums, judged by a panel of 61 judges from Australia’s media and retail industries, as well as a varied group of musicians.

The final eight is diverse, with some of the bigger albums mixing it with relative unknowns, showing the AMP 2005.

These albums will now be re-judged, from best to worst by a large number of judges, which will result in a single album winning $25,000 prize money and an awful lot of free publicity.

Congratulations to all the artists who made it into the top eight. The albums are:

Wolfmother – Wolfmother

The Mess Hall – Notes from a Ceiling

The Drones – Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By

Tex, Don and Charlie – All Is Forgiven

TZU – Smiling At Strangers

The Devastations – Coal

The Go Betweens – Oceans Apart

Ben Lee – Awake Is The New Asleep