Awards

Goodshirt's Sophie takes video gong

Article source:  Stuff NZ

Date:                 9 April, 2003

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The technical award winners have been revealed early to provide the finalists and winners "with their very own Tuis spotlight," according to a Recording Industry Association of New Zealand press release.

Other nominees for the video award, which went to Jon Lonie and Goodshirt, were Chris Graham and Bic Runga for Something Good and Che Fu for Misty Frequencies.

Sophie was the only New Zealand single to reach No 1 in 2002 and helped push the album Good to platinum status, the release said.

Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds won the Best Cover Design award for Campbell Hooper-Johnson. Other finalists were Damian Alexander and Blindspott for Blindspott and Spencer Levine for Trade Secrets.

Other technical award winners were:

New Zealand Music Radio Programmer of the Year for 2002: Andi Dawkins from More FM in Christchurch. Other finalists were Andrew Szusterman from Channel Z, John Budge from Classic Hits and Mai FM's Manu Taylor.

-New Zealand's Producer of the Year: Bic Runga for Beautiful Collision. The album was released in New Zealand in July and later in Australia and the USA. Other finalists for Producer of the Year were Geoffery Maddock for the Goldenhorse album Riverhead and Peter Wadams for Big Things by P Money.

-Engineer of the Year: Clint Murphy and Dave Rhodes for Blindspott. The overall sound of the album is a blend of hip-hop and metal. Murphy, the recording engineer and Rhodes, who mixed the album, says they set out to make a big 'phat' international sound using a combination of the best vintage and modern technology. The other three finalists were Jeremy Geor for Carbon-50Hz, Barbara Griffin for Annie Crummer's Love not War and Simon Holloway and Shane Mason for K'Lee.

RIANZ Music Awards spokesperson Mark Ashbridge said it was important for the technical people to be recognised.

"2002 was a big year for New Zealand music and we feel a big part of the momentum has been the creative role video and production play in bringing top music to the people," he said in a statement.

"We decided this year to recognise these contributions in a ceremony separate to the awards night so we could put the spotlight on their achievements in an appropriate manner."

The rest of the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards winners will be revealed on April 30 at the Aotea Centre in Auckland.

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