The 2009 ARIA Award winners
open up about anything and everything after a few too many champers!
10.
SIA (BEST DVD)
"I wasn't expecting that - I was playing scrabble
on my iPod." (Adelaide-born artist Sia forgot her shoes and just made it
on stage in time to receive her award.)
9. HILLTOP HOODS (BEST URBAN
RELEASE)
"We learnt to thank our girlfriends next time we won an
ARIA" (Suffa on what he's learnt since his last ARIA Award win).
8.
THE PRESETS (BEST DANCE RELEASE)
"We've both gotten a little bit
fatter and we couldn't fit into our suits that we wore last year" (Jules
on how they've grown - literally - as artists since last year).
7. LADYHAWKE
AKA PIP BROWN (BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST ALBUM, BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST SINGLE)
"I've
learnt a lot … I dunno - how to talk properly" (on how fame has changed
her)
"I get more messages on MySpace from Mexicans than I do anywhere
else" (on her fan base)
6. JOSH PYKE - (BEST ADULT CONTEMPORARY
ALBUM)
"The record labels will drop me if I get rid of the beard"
(on his commercial viability)
5. THE WIGGLES - (BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM)
"When
people come up to us in the middle of a long flight and yell 'Wake up Jeff!' it
kind of gets a bit old." (on how it's not all fun and games being The Wiggles).
4.
DANIEL MERRIWEATHER (BEST MALE ARTIST)
"Apart from getting ridiculously
drunk the last four years on the road, it's been fun." (on how being sober
has not been a factor at all in his giant success)
3. C.W. STONEKING
(BEST BLUES & ROOTS ALBUM)
"I thought the dinner was not very
good for four hundred dollars." (on why he raided the lolly jar backstage
at the ARIAs).
2. SARAH BLASKO (BEST FEMALE ARTIST)
"I
was painting my house before the awards and couldn't get it off my hands."
(on why her hands were covered in silver paint on the night!)
1. EMPIRE
OF THE SUN (BEST POP RELEASE, BEST GROUP, ALBUM OF THE YEAR, SINGLE OF THE YEAR)
"After
we won that award, Robbie Williams said, 'I want to work with you man, lets do
some stuff.'" (Pop's golden boy wants a piece of Empire's success)
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