ARIA Music Awards of 1995

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]

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

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

Presenters and performers

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

Dubious acceptance speech

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

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

ARIA Awards

Fine Arts Awards

Artisan Awards

ARIA Hall of Fame inductee

The Hall of Fame inductee was:

Notes
  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.

References
  1. "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. 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. 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. "9th Annual ARIA Awards - Nominations & Winners". Yearbook 1996. Australian Record Industry Association. 1996.
  7. "17th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 23 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. Blair, Dale (August 2017). "Life in a Padded Cell: A Biography of Tony Cohen, Australian Sound Engineer" (PDF). Dale Blair. p. 167. 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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