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1995 ARIA Music Awards
Date20 October 1995 (1995-10-20)
VenueSydney Convention & Exhibition Centre,
Sydney, New South Wales
Most awardsSilverchair (5)
Most nominationsSilverchair (9)
Websiteariaawards.com.au
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNetwork Ten
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The Ninth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) was held on 20 October 1995 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.[1][2] There had been a 18-month gap since the previous award ceremony which was moved to be "closer to the business end of the music industry's year" and so reflect that year's works.[1][3] Presenters distributed 28 awards from 1060 eligible submissions.[3] Big winners for the year were Silverchair with five awards and Tina Arena with four, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year – both first time they were won by a female.[1][3]

In addition to previous categories, the former category Best Pop/Dance Release was split into Best Pop Release and Best Dance Release.[3] Another new category Best World Music Album was also presented for the first time.[1][3] The ARIA Hall of Fame inducted: The Seekers.[1]

Ceremony details

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Presenters and performers

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The ARIA Awards ceremony was hosted by radio and TV personality Richard Stubbs.[3] Presenters and performers were:

Presenter(s) Performer(s) Ref.
Peter Asher Tina Arena [3]
Billy Birmingham
Kimberley Davies
Suze DeMarchi Merril Bainbridge
Diesel
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Graney Melissa Etheridge
Janet Jackson
Gina Jeffreys
Alison Drower/Ian Rogerson Deni Hines/Renegade Funktrain/Swoop
Montell Jordan
Hon
Michael Lee Screaming Jets
Molly Meldrum
Rick Price
Max Sharam Silverchair, Tim Rogers – "New Race" [4]
Greedy Smith Take That [3]
Michael Spiby
Mandawuy Yunupingu TISM
Adam Thompson
Monica Trapaga

Dubious acceptance speech

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Itch-E and Scratch-E won the inaugural award for Best Dance Release.[3] One of the duo, Paul Mac's acceptance speech included:

We'd like to thank all of Sydney's ecstasy dealers, without whom this award would not be possible.[5]

— Paul Mac, 20 October 1995

One of the sponsors of the ceremony was the National Drug Offensive, which withdrew their financial backing. The jargon term, ecstasy, for a psychoactive drug was bleeped for the TV broadcast.[5] In 2005 Mac explained that he did not expect to win and so had no speech prepared.[5]

Awards

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Final nominees are shown, in plain, with winners in bold.[6]

ARIA Awards

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Fine Arts Awards

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Artisan Awards

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ARIA Hall of Fame inductee

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The Hall of Fame inductee was:

Notes

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  1. ^ ARIA website includes Silverchair's Frogstomp as a final nominee in the 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' category. Frogstomp won the related 'Breakthrough Artist – Album' category.[1] Silverchair have no single/track named "Frogstomp". ARIA's original nomination list and 1995 Yearbook states "Tomorrow" is the nominee. Other nominees are as ARIA's original nomination list and 1995 Yearbook.
  2. ^ ARIA introduces the 1995 Awards page with a summary section that includes "The Best Pop/Dance Release was this year split into two categories, won by Tina Arena and Itch-e & Scratch-e respectively." The main listing of the awards does not show any information on 'The Best Dance Release' category.[1] However, the winners and nominees were published in ARIA's 1996 Yearbook.[6]
  3. ^ ARIA lists "I've Got a Plan" as the winner of 'Best Adult Contemporary Album' category.[1] "I've Got a Plan" is an album track on Brood.
  4. ^ The actual title for this album is Dream Children.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Winners by Year 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Australia 1995 ARIA Awards". ALLdownunder.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k O'Grady, Anthony. "The 9th Annual Aria Music Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 16 December 2000. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. ^ Condon, Dan (26 November 2019). "7 Great Performances from the History of the ARIA Awards – Music Reads". Double J. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Jenkins, Jeff; Ian Meldrum (2007). Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia. Melbourne, Vic: Wilkinson Publishing. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1. Archived from the original on 24 June 2009.
  6. ^ a b "9th Annual ARIA Awards - Nominations & Winners". Yearbook 1996. Australian Record Industry Association. 1996.
  7. ^ a b "17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2013. Note: User may be required to access archived information by selecting 'The History', then 'By Award', 'Producer of the Year' or 'Engineer of the Year' and 'Option Show Nominations'.
  8. ^ a b Blair, Dale (August 2017). "Life in a Padded Cell: A Biography of Tony Cohen, Australian Sound Engineer" (PDF). Dale Blair. p. 167. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2020. Note: this source states that Cohen's 1995 ARIA Artisan Awards were both for the Cruel Sea's album, Three Legged Dog. He shared Engineer of the Year with Paul McKercher.
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