Nominees Announced For The 2023 National Live Music Awards – The Music

Following a two-year break, the National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are returning to numerous locations across the country on Wednesday, 11 October.

Today, at BIGSOUND, the NLMAs shares its expansive list of nominees for this year’s award ceremony, with King Stingray and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard leading the nominations, each holding six nods. On five nominations is Electric Fields, four apiece for Genesis Owusu and ACT punks Glitoris, while Amyl & The Sniffers, RVG, Ngaiire, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Cash Savage And The Last Drinks, and Camp Cope are all nominated for three awards.

Elsewhere, Baker Boy, Big hART & Songs for Freedom, Prinnie Stevens, G-Flip, and Josh Pyke have received a nomination for the all-important Musicians Making A Difference (MMAD) award.

This morning, the National Live Music Awards revealed its recipients of the Live Legends program: Yothu Yindi and Frontier Touring’s Susan Heymann.

Voting in the public categories – Best Live Act, Voice, Event, and Venue is now open via the NLMAs website.

“What a welcome sight it is to see the host of nominees for this year’s National Live Music Awards,” NLMA Founding Board Member Damian Cunningham said in a press release. “The awards are here to honour all those amazing artists, bands and individuals who have made your live music industry one of the best in the world.

“We look forward to welcoming nominees, industry and the public to our events around the country in October to find out who wins.”

Only 50 free tickets are available to attend the intimate NLMA events across the country (you can buy tickets here), with more tickets made available once people vote in the public categories. Tickets are available now until 19 September, with each vote going in the draw to win tickets.

The Darwin Railway Club, Adelaide’s Jive, Melbourne’s Music Market, Hobart’s Simple Complex, Brisbane’s Stranded, Northbridge’s The Bird, Sydney’s The Great Club, and Canberra’s UC Hub are the sites for the National Live Music Awards events.

Check out all the nominees below.

For his work in celebrating the Yolngu language through music and connecting First Nations young people in remote communities to their potential.

Big hART & Songs for Freedom

For their advocacy work in raising awareness of the disproportionate incarceration rates of Aboriginal children in Australian prisons through their national touring production.

For celebrating the historic power of the female voice and the transformation of pain into music through her album and stage show, ‘Lady Sings The Blues’

For their advocacy work in encouraging conversation about gender identity.

For championing indigenous languages through music in primary schools while raising funds through Busking for Change.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Yirrŋa Yunupiŋu (King Stingray)

Zaachariaha Fielding (Electric Fields)

Andrew Glitoris (Glitoris)

Chloe Dadd (May-a, Peach PRC, Solo)

Joey Walker (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard)

Roy Kellaway (King Stingray)

Sophie McComish (Body Type)

Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich (Camp Cope)

Lucas Harwood (King Gizzard)

Steele Chabau (Butterfingers, James Johnston, Katie Noonan and more…)

Sarah Thompson (Camp Cope)

Michael Cavanagh (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard)

Lewis Stiles (King Stingray)

Kirsty Tickle (Party Dozen)

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

Tamworth Country Music Festival

Gang of Youths – Emile Frederick

Genesis Owusu – Alex McCoy and Pat Babekuhl

Rüfüs Du Sol – Matthew Smith and Alex ‘Katzki’ George

Tame Impala – Rob Sinclair

Vera Blue – Nathan Dagostino, Nicholas Beachen and Rachael Johnston

Angel Olsen – Big Time Tour 2023 – Supersonic

Ed Sheeran – + – = ÷ x Tour – Frontier Touring

Harry Styles – Love on Tour – Live Nation

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Australian Carnage Tour – Supersonic

Sleaford Mods – AUS Tour 2023 – Handsome Tours

Cash Savage and the Last Drinks 

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Jack Biilmann & The Black Tide 

Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys 

Hana and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits

Mark Curtis and the Flannelettes

Emma Donovan and the Putbacks

Australian String Quartet

Australian Vocal Ensemble (AVÉ) feat. Katie Noonan, Fiona Campbell, Andrew Goodwin and Andrew O’Connor 

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Emma Donovan and the Putbacks

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

Deena Lynch (Jaguar Jonze)

Fortitude Music Hall
The Brightside

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

Cormac McKahey (Sonic Reducer)

Tasha Nauenburg (Bad Lunar)

UCLivex – UC Refectory & UC Hub

Southeast Desert Metal Band

Aidan Lijanga (Katanga Junior)

Yirrŋa Yunupiŋu (King Stingray)

Epilogue Lounge & Rooftop Bar

SA – Presented by Three D Radio

Zaachariaha Fielding (Electric Fields)

Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival

PAK Music Live at Wundenbergs

TAS – Presented by Edge Radio 99.3FM

Pangaea – a festival of the arts, culture & sustainability

Brendon Humphries (The Kill Devil Hills)

Hidden Treasures – Fremantle’s Music Series