APRA Silver Scroll Awards Winners

9th September 2010

The winning song of the APRA Silver Scroll Award for 2010 is Young Blood written by Alisa Xayalith, Thom Powers and Aaron Short, better known collectively as The Naked and Famous.
The second single from the band’s just released debut album, Young Blood debuted at No.1 on the nation’s Singles Chart mid-June and was described by APRA’s NZ head Anthony Healey as being stroppy, youthful and energetic. “It seems like the perfectly written song for this very point in time. It should take the world by storm.”
Fourmyula, a band who could well have attracted the same description back in the 1960s were inducted in the NZ Music Hall of Fame. The Fourmyula members include Wayne Mason, Carl Evenson, Martin Hope, Alistair Richardson and Chris Parry.

Among other awards presented at the 45th annual Silver Scroll Award ceremony at Auckland’s Town Hall were the APRA Maioha Award, the SOUNZ Contemporary Award and two Most Performed Work (most played on radio and television) awards.

Jamie Greenslade aka Maitreya Maioha Award which celebrates contemporary Maori music for his single Sin City which features Nesian Mystik’s Awa.
The SOUNZ Contemporary Award recognising creative excellence by a contemporary composer was won by Chris Cree Brown for his piece for solo clarinet and electronics called Inner Bellow.
Neil Finn’s eternal Don’t Dream It’s Over claimed its annual Most Performed Work Overseas while the award for the Most Performed Work in NZ was won by Dane Rumble’s Cruel.