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Elle Hunt, Steph Harmon and Janine Israel

Arias 2016: Flume cleans up as Crowded House joins Hall of Fame – as it happened

Sydney artist Montaigne, aka Jess Cerro, accepts the Aria for breakthrough artist during the 30th annual Aria awards at The Star in Sydney on Wednesday night.
Sydney artist Montaigne, aka Jess Cerro, accepts the Aria for breakthrough artist during the 30th annual Aria awards at The Star in Sydney on Wednesday night. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Flume cleans up at Australian music's night of nights

He led the nominations and came out on top with awards, too – Flume won five Arias for his album Skin, including Album of the Year (“the one I really wanted”) and Best Male Artist.

Flume with his Aria loot.
Flume with his Aria loot. Photograph: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images

He used one of his appearances at the podium to rally against Sydney’s lockout laws, which he says deny others the creative opportunities he’s benefited from. Other artists, Montaigne and Sarah Blasko, also expressed support for the campaign to Keep Sydney Open.

Troye Sivan won two Aria awards for Youth: Best Video and Apple Music Song of the Year, the latter presented to him by a cheerily disdainful Robbie Williams. Sivan claimed his wins for all of Australia’s LGBTQI community, while Sia’s award for Best Female Artist was accepted on her behalf by a marriage equality campaigner.

Violent Soho won Best Rock Album and Best Group, while Montaigne was named Breakthrough Artist and Hilltop Hoods, Best Live Act.

Crowded House were inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame, in spite of some territorial posturing on behalf of New Zealand by the Flight of the Conchords. Their performance of Distant Sun raised one of the biggest responses from the crowd of the night, as well as John Farnham’s You’re the Voice, which closed the ceremony.

If you’ve not had your fill of the Arias, Channel Ten is broadcasting a retrospective of 30 years of the event – but on behalf of Guardian Australia, I’m tagging out for the night. Thanks for following along with our liveblog. I for one welcome our new overlord Flume.

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Full list of winners

Telstra Album of the Year: Flume – Skin (Future Classic)

Best Male Artist: Flume – Skin (Future Classic)

Best Female Artist: Sia – This is Acting (Monkey Puzzle/Inertia)

Best Dance Release: Flume – Skin (Future Classic)

Best Group: Violent Soho – WACO (I Oh You)

Breakthrough Artist: Montaigne – Glorious Heights (Wonderlick Recording Company)

Best Pop Release: Flume – Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) (Future Classic)

Best Urban Album: Drapht – Seven Mirrors (The Ayems/Sony Music)

Best Independent Release: Flume – Skin (Future Classic)

Best Rock Album: Violent Soho – WACO (I Oh You)

Best Adult Contemporary Album: Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk (Dew Process/Universal Music)

Best Adult Alternative Album: Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return (EMI)

Best Country Album: Sara Storer – Silos (ABC Music/Universal Music)

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (Flightless Records/Remote Control Records)

Best Blues & Roots Album: Russell Morris – Red Dirt Red Heart (Chugg Music/MGM)

Best Children’s Album: The Wiggles – Wiggle Town! (ABC Music/Universal Music)

Best Video: Troye Sivan – YOUTH Acoustic (Sydney Session) (EMI)

Best Australian Live Act: Hilltop Hoods – The Restrung Tour (Golden Era Records/Universal Music Australia)

Apple Music Song of the Year: Troye Sivan – Youth (EMI)

Best International Artist: One Direction – Made in the A.M. & Four (SYCO/Sony Music Entertainment)

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John Farnham’s on stage to perform “Australia’s unofficial anthem” – you know the one. Thirty years old this year, just like the Arias. (The Veronicas actually bowed down to Farnham as he took the stage.)

You’re the Voice, actually written by four British songwriters – Chris Thompson, Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder – began its life on 25 October 1985, the same day some 100,000 people took to the streets of London to march in support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Thompson, who was kicking himself for missing the march, watched it on TV instead. It was the protesters’ passion that inspired the song’s refrain and title.

The songwriters knew they’d penned something special, but Thompson was adamant an Australian “joke” like Farnsy, who was then best-known for Sadie the Cleaning Lady, would never get his mitts on the track.

But he did, adding it to his 12th studio album, 1986’s Whispering Jack – still the best-selling Australian album of all time, having racked up some 1,680,000 sales.

John Farnham’s performance tonight is rousing, spine-tingling, but he has some mishaps with his mic stands, in his sheer excitement throwing it in the air and failing to catch it.

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Album of the Year: Flume – Skin

Bernard Fanning and Missy Higgins – past recipients of Album of the Year – have presented Flume with his fifth and final Aria award. Not a bad return from 11 nominations.

Flume says in his acceptance speech: “In a time of singles and songs, albums still matter.”

And that’s that!

Best Male Artist: Flume – Skin

Flume – in case it’s his last award for the night – is thanking everyone with a peripheral connection to his career. There’s only album of the year to go, but he’s nominated for that, too.

Flume accepts the Aria for Best Male Artist.
Flume accepts the Aria for Best Male Artist. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

John “The Voice” Farnham is closing the show with a performance of – I’m betting – You’re The Voice.

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And what do you know – here are Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse now, on stage to introduce Troye Sivan, who’s performing his Song of the Year, Youth.

Minogue and Sasse encourage the audience to get behind the campaign to Say “I Do” Down Under, with Sasse adding that 2017 could be the year that Australia is “back on the right side of history”.

Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse show us their pro marriage equality T-shirts at the Aria awards.
Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse show us their pro marriage equality T-shirts at the Aria awards. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

What with Flume, Sarah Blasko and Montaigne rallying against the lockout laws, and Troye Sivan and Sia claiming wins for the LGBTQI community, it’s been quite a socially progressive Arias, really.

Just as I typed that, John Butler and Ben Lee, on stage to present the artist for Best Male Artist, acknowledged the traditional custodians of the land for the first time (on the television broadcast, at least) tonight. Lee also adds: “We also want to use this opportunity to say we stand with Standing Rock.”

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Best Female Artist: Sia – This is Acting

Sia, nominated for a handful of awards tonight, has won a big one: Best Female Artist for This Is Acting.

The notoriously private artist is not on hand to accept it herself, and there’s a moment of confusion when an unknown blonde woman takes her place at the podium. She introduces herself as Angie Greene, a campaigner for marriage equality in Australia – and receives one of the biggest responses of the night.

“I can just walk off now,” she jokes after the sustained applause.

Sia had asked her to accept the award, she said, on behalf of “every single non-hetero and gender-diverse person, who can currently not marry the person that they love in this country”.

She’s wearing the same shirt as Margot Robbie did on Saturday Night Live, a design by Kylie Minogue’s fiancé, Joshua Sasse.

If you’re watching the Channel Ten broadcast, you just saw how the television event covers an awards ceremony that’s been going for more than four hours and is still underway – that is, at breakneck speed.

There was a little medley of smaller award presentations, in which One Direction – in the past, one of the Arias’ big tickets – followed Sara Storer.

After a lengthy acceptance speech from Neil Finn, as well as a few words from other members of Crowded House, their induction into the Hall of Fame has been marked by performances of Fall at Your Feet by Missy Higgins and Better Be Home Soon by Bernard Fanning.

They’re both lovely covers that do justice to the place this band occupies in New Zealand’s (and, I suppose, Australia’s) history. Higgins is on her first orchestral tour of Australia at the moment and if this performance – on grand piano, backed by string quartet – is a fair representation, it would be worth heading along to.

I’m told there are journalists in the green room reaching for their tissues. Then again, it is the first dry Arias – as you can’t help but be reminded of whenever the camera shows the “moshpit”.

Crowded House are now performing Distant Sun from their 1993 album Together Alone, Neil Finn still in his very purple suit.

In mid-show break, we received reports that the vibe inside the event centre is “stilted” and “a bit bleak”, with quite a few leaving early to hit a nearby pub.

The Arias are a dry event this year, meaning there was no booze until half-time. If an hour and a half without a beer doesn’t sound like a downright tragedy to you, you are clearly not a member of the Australian music industry – as the break wrapped up and the second half began, there seemed to be a heap of empty seats.

If the broadcast runs late, and/or is packed with ad breaks – a bunch of label execs running to the bar for a final drink could be one of the reasons why...

Here’s a glimpse of the bar during the half-time break. Spot the stars, if you can...

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Crowded House join the Arias Hall of Fame

The Flight of the Conchords are on stage to welcome Crowded House into the Arias Hall of Fame. The “partially Australian, partially New Zealand” band is claimed by both countries, though that is obviously a cop-out because everyone knows that Crowded House would have been nothing without Neil Finn and he’s a New Zealander, so. (As am I.)

Brett McKenzie and Jemaine Clement say they’ve been sent by the New Zealand government “to stop it from happening”, brandishing a letter to that effect from “John”. If you have any knowledge of the New Zealand government and its head, prime minister John Key, this is not unbelievable.

“We can’t let this happen. You have enough bands in Australia,” says Clement.

“We really need Crowded House, our musical Hall of Fame is more of a Doorway of Fame. So stop it Australia,” says McKenzie.

Taking the stage to accept the award, flanked by members of Crowded House, Neil Finn expresses surprise that the duo were let in by Australian immigration, given their “subversive message”.

He also makes a sly dig at Montaigne for reading her speech from her iPhone – he appears to have written his on the back of a run sheet.

But I am especially pleased that Finn gives a shout-out to his wife Sharon Finn. She owns a shop in Auckland that sells chandeliers, called Sharondelier – a fact I find myself regaling people with surprisingly often.

Crowded House accept the Aria hall of fame induction
Crowded House accept the Aria hall of fame induction, with Neil Finn thanking their late drummer Paul Hester: ‘We wouldn’t have been anywhere near as engaging or amusing ... without Paul. I’m so happy his beautiful daughters, Sunday and Olive are with us tonight.’ Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

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On the television broadcast, Violent Soho have just been named Best Group. They were presented with the award by three members of Sheppard, who are still coasting on their hit Geronimo!, now two and a half years old.

“We’re up to present the award for Best Group, which is probably Aria reminding us that we’re not up for any awards this evening,” says George Sheppard, flanked by his two sisters, dressed as 2010 Katy Perry, as they are every year.

No one really seems to laugh, and the awkward moment is extended as it becomes apparent that Violent Soho are not in the venue – “perhaps celebrating their previous win”.

After an excruciatingly long pause, during which the Sheppard siblings stand on stage stony-faced, what seems to be a random assortment of women – but turns out to be their partners – accept the award on Violent Soho’s behalf. It is the best bit of the television broadcast so far.

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In her acceptance speech for Breakthrough Artist, just aired on the television broadcast, Montaigne read quotes from her namesake 16th century philosopher off her phone and referenced her bowel movements – three times a week, apparently.

That, er – doesn’t seem like enough?

If you’ve been following Montaigne’s career, however, this won’t be news to you. In April last year she told Guardian Australia that her favourite Michel de Montaigne line is “Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our arses”.

Try as I might, I can’t immediately verify that quote.

Robbie Williams wore this green, satin (... sateen?) jacket to present Troye Sivan with Song of the Year, and said no more than 100 words total before legging it off the stage. Maybe not even that.

I don’t know if he’s been paid to appear here, but if so, that’s a good dollar-per-word rate.

Best Group: Violent Soho – WACO

Another win for Violent Soho, and one they weren’t expecting. In fact they were drinking beers downstairs when the award was announced, and they had to weave their way back up to the main event while their partners took to the stage to accept on their behalf.

“How do you keep your hair looking so great?” is an excellent question posed in the green room.

“Grapeseed oil and coconut oil,” is the reply. It is unclear if it’s a joke.

Violent Soho pose in the awards room with one of their Arias.
Violent Soho pose in the awards room with one of their Arias. Photograph: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images

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Breakthrough Artist: Montaigne – Glorious Heights

Montaigne, the 21-year-old Sydney singer-songwriter was nominated for three awards tonight – and she’s just won one of them, with Best Female Artist and Producer of the Year still to be announced.

Montaigne, aka Jessica Cerro, was a Triple J Unearthed High finalist in 2012. She adopted the moniker in 2013, inspired by the 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne (whom she paraphrased in her acceptance speech and in the green room).

Queer-friendly and vegan, Montaigne wears her politics on her sleeve – or her chest, as seen on the red carpet earlier:

Singer songwriter Montaigne arrives at the 30th ARIA Awards at The Star, in Sydney, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING
Montaigne makes a statement entrance. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

She told Guardian Australia “People Over Profit” was an expression in support of the Keep Sydney Open campaign against the lockout laws (which Flume has also rallied against), and the Pokies Free Sydney campaign which is soon to kick off.

“This is about the government’s relegation of the arts and culture scene in Sydney to the bottom of their priorities, which is, I think, foolish,” she said on the red carpet. “Obviously from an artist’s perspective it’s detrimental to me and my friends ... people making art and wanting to perform music.

“These lock out laws totally restrict us. And it’s not just unfair in the sense that the artists are suffering financial, but also unfair to humanity in general: we thrive on art. ... We need it to grow as people, to just be able to develop compassion and empathy for each other. To put a pause on that is just silly to me.”

Backstage in the green room after winning her award, Montaigne opens up to the roomful of journalists: “I recently had a brush with a near depressive episode, which was weird for me,” she said. “I was having an intense period of body dysmorphia. After a few days my sister said a beautiful thing to me: ‘Your body does not define who you are ... Your fans love you for who you are’.”

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Ah, there we go, The Veronicas have their kit off on the TV. I quite like their song, In My Blood, but I was distracted by thoughts of the logistics of the body glitter. There is no way that body glitter that densely applied did not create an unholy mess in both application and removal. No wonder they opened the live show with the performance – this would not have been a quick costume change.

Backstage after his Song of the Year win, 21-year-old Troye Sivan says he has learned more in the last year than he has in his entire life.

“It’s been a roller coaster. Heaps of ups, heaps of downs, and I’ve come out the other side a much more well-rounded person,” he says.

Troye Sivan
Perth YouTube star Troye Sivan poses for a photograph after winning the Aria for Song Of The Year. Photograph: David Moir/AAP

One of his YouTube videos, on coming out from 2013, has now clocked more than 7 million views. He came into the music industry as a gay person, and has been an outspoken advocate of LGBTI issues including marriage equality.

“To me this is an issue that feels like it’s no longer an issue of the people and more just an issue of the politicians,” he said, when asked about the recently-blocked plebiscite. “It’s only a matter of time, but that doesn’t mean that we can get complacent. We’ve got to keep going, keep pushing forward, and all just do what we can.

“Socially it feels like Australia is an amazing, progressive, open, inclusive country and I’m so proud to be from here – and it just kind of sucks that it doesn’t feel like that’s represented politically ... What I can do is just keep pushing the envelope as far as the opinion of the public goes. And that’s what I’m going to try and keep doing.”

Sivan says he occasionally freaks out about the idea of being a role model. “It’s a lot of pressure, but it would be irresponsible for me to not do my best to embrace it as much as I can. I’ve been so blessed to have an amazing platform to talk to so many people, and I’m going to use it every second I can to talk about the things I think are really important, and to fight for the things I think are really important.”

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Song of the Year: Troye Sivan – Youth

Robbie Williams, Millennium hitmaker and perennial lad, is presenting the Apple Song of the Year award.

“These are the songs that get stuck in your head, the ones that make you cry, the ones that make you want to get up and dance,” he says. “That’s what the auto-prompt says.”

Robbie, you’ve still got it!

The award goes, not to Flume, but to Troye Sivan for Youth (though Flume was nominated. There should be an Aria award for not being Flume).

“This is for every gay Australian kid who wants to go and make music, every LGBTQ kid who wants to go and make music – you can totally do it, and win an Aria too,” he said.

If you’ll permit a little editorialising, I think Troye Sivan deserves every success. He seems sensitive, a thoughtful lyricist – and, as one of The Veronicas just pointed out on the TV broadcast, he has really quite remarkable skin.

... There’s really no acceptable way to remark on that, is there.

Troye Sivan models his youthful skin – and an Aria for Best video.
Troye Sivan models his youthful skin – and an Aria for Best video. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

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Best Live Act: Hilltop Hoods – The Restrung Tour

After describing the Veronicas’ video clip with Ruby Rose as “hot hot hot” (wonder if that will make the Channel Ten broadcast), Dave “Hughesy” Hughes presented the Aria for Best Live Act to Hilltop Hoods.

They’ve won eight Arias over the years, and beat Flume (!), Courtney Barnett, Gang Of Youths, King Lizzard et al, RÜFÜS, Tame Impala, The Living End, Violent Soho and You Am I to this one.

Is it just me, or are the same nominees cropping up in every category? Are there only, say –12 artists currently active in Australia, once you drag Ben Lee away from the essential oils biz?

Anyway, Hilltop Hoods thank their wives and partners and children and urge the audience to support their Side of Stage collaboration with CanTeen: “Google Canteen and pledge your allegiance to this project so young people can come and see live music.”

Hilltop Hoods pose in the awards room with an Aria for Best Australian Live Act.
Hip-hop veterans Hilltop Hoods pose with an Aria for Best Australian Live Act. Photograph: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images

Backstage, Suffa is asked if he has any standout memories from 30 years of the Aria awards.

“Our last Arias that I was here, my wife had had a really bad week ... My wife was visibly upset and Delta Goodrem turned around to her and told her: ‘Can I just tell you how beautiful you’re looking tonight.’ So, yeah, a Delta Goodrem fan over here,” he says pointing to himself.

Meanwhile, on Channel Ten, there has been a second ad break.

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Bear with me, gentle reader, as I grapple with a liveblog vortex. We are now operating in three timezones: the awards themselves, of which we’re about three-quarters of the way through; ongoing interviews with award winners backstage; and the television broadcast.

At the Arias according to Channel Ten, Flume has already won one award and the Veronicas are wearing clothes, not body paint. (But for how long?!) And 20 minutes in, there’s already been an advertisement break.

There may well be a sensible reason for this set-up, but it does hark back to an era of “appointment viewing” that doesn’t exist anymore. With most of the award winners already tweeting out their acceptance speeches in 140-character increments, there’s not much hope of saving the “reveal” for the broadcast on Ten.

Flume has just performed a medley of his two biggest hits: Say It with Tove Lo and Never be Like You with Kai. Both follow a formula. I imagine many viewers will be discovering for the first time that one of the shining lights of modern Australian pop music does his work at a turntable.

“I used to play in a band that was accused of being a dad rock band,” said Bernard Fanning, ex-Powderfinger, who won in the adult contemporary category for his third solo record Civil Dusk. “We were never nominated for this award but I’ve brought it home tonight. Very proud.”

Speaking to the media in the green room later, he said he was really surprised for the win. “I thought Paul Kelly would win that,” he said. “I was hoping Robert Forster would win it actually.”

Robbie Buck, hosting the Q&As in the green room, asked what has happened between Powderfinger and now.

“Well I released a record that nobody listened to,” Fanning said, referring to Departures. He received sympathetic noised from the room. “No, that’s alright. It’s okay. I listened to it. I liked it.”

The Arias may be celebrating their 30th anniversary, but there was no temptation – or offer – to get Powderfinger back together to celebrate.

“I think the Arias understood that that’s not a very realistic proposition,” Fanning said. “They probably just didn’t waste their breath.”

“Never going to happen?” presses Robbie.

“Fuck, Robbie. Well, who knows.”

Fanning and Ben Lee have made up after their infamous spat in 2005, but hard-hitting Guardian journalist Janine Israel asked: “Is it still weird being in the same room. Have they spoken tonight?”

“It’s not weird. We’ve spoken. And I didn’t use the C-word at any stage,” Fanning answered.

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Sarah Blasko, who took out the best adult alternative album, reveals she first came to the Arias with a friend as a university student, to review the Arias for Tharunka, the University of NSW newspaper. “We had a ball and a photo with Molly Meldrum. That was the most memorable [Arias]’”.

Sarah Blasko accepts the Aria for Best Adult Alternative album.
Sarah Blasko accepts the Aria for Best Adult Alternative album. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

Blasko is asked about how she feels about Sydney’s lockout laws. “I’m totally in support of the Keep Sydney Open campaign. As a musician I’ve enjoyed many late nights of playing shows... and dancing like a moron at late hours. It’s been an important part of my development as a human being.

“Culturally it’s very important for people to be able to experience the city at all hours, and for people to be able to address the drinking problems as separate – not one and the same as a late night.”

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Looking back on 30 years of the Arias (apparently Elton John hosted the first!) “makes a bloody good mixtape”, according to the retrospective airing on Channel Ten.

The package did remind me of two Australian songs that still bang:

Then, quite abruptly, the broadcast goes into Jessica Mauboy and Jimmy Barnes’ energetic duet of the Easybeats’ Good Times – we haven’t even heard from any presenters yet. And the camera panning down the aisles to reveal the small crowd at the foot of the stage doesn’t do much to build excitement.

Still, Mauboy and Barnes are gunning for it.

Jimmy Barnes and Jessica Mauboy perform the Easybeats’ Good Times.
Jimmy Barnes and Jessica Mauboy perform the Easybeats’ Good Times. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

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The broadcast is just getting started on Channel Ten, so join us as I juggle the television coverage from Guardian Australia HQ and the updates from my colleagues, Steph Harmon and Janine Israel, at the Star event centre.

Here’s a highlight reel of the red carpet appearances.

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Best Dance Release: Flume – Skin

Steve Aoki and Charli XCX have presented the Aria for Best Dance Release to ... Hayden James! Just kidding, it’s gone to Flume again. (James was nominated, as were The Avalanches, L D R U and RÜFÜS.)

He’s getting a fair few opportunities to make acceptance speeches, and has gone for a political one this time.

“I want to say a big thank you to the venues – especially the small venues and the small parties that are doing what they’re doing, because that’s where music evolves, that’s where all the exiting stuff happens, and that’s what’s getting shut down right now.

“To our policy makers and our politicians, please Keep Sydney Open so that the young artists, so that the next generations of musicians, can have the same opportunities that i had.”

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Best Adult Contemporary Album: Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk

Bernard Fanning won this award – for the most adult and contemporary – over Paul Kelly, Robert Forster, Tina Arena and Bob Evans for his album Civil Dusk.

Presenting the award, comedy duo Roy and HG roundly made fun of the category: “Each of the artists nominated tonight had their first gigs in a golf club!”

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Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity

This has gone to the Melbourne psychedelic rock band for their album, Nonagon Infinity – their eighth full-length release since 2012.

Twelve Foot Ninja, The Amity Afflication, Parkway Drive and Hellions were nominated.

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Best Video: Troye Sivan – Youth (Acoustic)

Like Best International Act, Best Video is voted on by the public – and this time it’s gone to Troye Sivan for the “Sydney session”, acoustic clip of his song Youth. You can check it out here.

Sivan’s career kicked off on YouTube, and he still has a sizeable online following as Perth’s biggest pop export.

With the seal of approval from Taylor Swift, Sam Smith and Adele, “everyone, it seems, loves Troye Sivan” – so wrote Everett True in his five-star review of Blue Neighbourhood last year.

What’s not to love about a star who carries his own umbrella?

The out and proud singer has been very proactive in depicting same-sex couples in his video clips and has also been vocal on gay rights. Check out his video clip for Wild:

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Having taken out Best Urban Album for Seven Mirrors, Drapht is speaking to the media in the green room backstage about the four-year break he took after releasing his fourth album, The Life of Riley.

He wasn’t feeling the music industry anymore, and need to re-spark the flame, he said.

“The Life of Riley was considered, from an outsider perspective, my most successful record, and I just wasn’t enjoying it.

“I decided to take a little hiatus to open an organic wholefoods restaurant in Perth. I created a monster. I actually didn’t know how hard hospitality was until the first six months kicked around – that whole thing people say that so many new businesses don’t make it after the first year is so true. It was the most stressful six months of my life.

“But it gave me so much and I learnt so much and we soldiered on. I had the restaurant for four years. And now I’m here.”

Going back into music has “been amazing”, he said. The restaurant – Solomon’s cafe, which closed earlier this year – worked as a means of taking the pressure off his art.

“It wasn’t for my livelihood,” he said. “It was solely a venting process, an outlet.”

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Best Pop Release: Flume – Never Be Like You

Flume’s won another award!

Sophie Monk and Kyle Sandilands have handed the wunderkind another pointy trophy, this time for Best Pop Release for Never Be Like You. (Illy, Sia, The Veronicas and Troye Sivan were also nominees.)

“This song was really about the fans – they really made it their own,” Flume says, joined at the podium by Kai, who features on the track. “When we started this song in New York we definitely didn’t expect it to translate so well, to communicate with so many people ... Thanks everybody. Peace.”

Flume’s got a string of stadium shows coming up next month, including two at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney – not bad for a 25-year-old on the back of only his sophomore album.

An update from Kurt Coleman: he has taken to social media to clarify that he is not taking a break from social media, he is in fact back online after having taken one a month ago.

The time off was presumably restorative as he is now retweeting all the online coverage of his red carpet appearance.

Jimmy Barnes and Jessica Mauboy are now performing Good Times, an Easybeats song that was covered by Barnes and INXS in 1987, and this year by Jessica Mauboy on her album, The Secret Daughter.

Speaking of Mauboy, she recently become the first Indigenous artist to reach number one on the Aria albums chart with The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series (which she also stars in).

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Best Independent Release: Flume – Skin

Flume’s number has just come up for the first time tonight in the Best Independent Release category – but with 11 nominations total, it’s sure not to be his last.

With this win, he beat out Jarryd James, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Violent Soho and – impressively – Sia with his second studio album Skin, which has already won in all three of the artisan categories.

Flume arrives for the 30th Annual ARIA Awards 2016 at The Star on November 23, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

At the 2014 Aria awards, he was nominated for seven awards for his self-titled record, of which he won four. He told Guardian Australia on the red carpet earlier today that he was feeling a lot less nervous, with those wins having taken the pressure off.

“I hope I get some more,” he said, “but I’m just happy about having a few in the bag already.”

Wearing a pin in support of the Keep Sydney Open campaign, he was critical of the lockout laws. “It’s a little sad to see how it’s affected the city. So many of my favourite places have shut down. So many of the places that I started playing at. And so many places that helped me get to where I am now. I hope that things change. It’s important for young artists to have the same opportunities I had.”

He’s seen a rise in warehouse parties outside of the city as a result of the lockout laws – many of them illegal. They’re fun, he says, but no real replacement: “I’m a real snob about sound, and a lot of the systems at those places aren’t very good.”

Best Adult Alternative Album: Sarah Blasko – Eternal Return

Tim Rogers, the You Am I frontman, is on stage to present the best adult alternative album. Among the nominees are Jarryd James, Matt Corby, Peter Garrett and The Temper Trap.

But it’s Sarah Blasko who has the most adult, the most alternative album of them all.

Just how adult and alternative is she? In her acceptance speech, she thanks the guy who runs her local video shop.

Writing in the Guardian last year, Everett True gave Eternal Return five stars, describing it as “quite an extraordinary record”:

Her songwriting craft is so advanced, her grasp of pop so redolent, it is sometimes easy to forget how great a singer Blasko is.

Read his full review here.

Best International Artist: One Direction – Made in the A.M. & Four

One Direction has been named Best International Artist for the fifth consecutive year, setting a new record for the Arias – and against tough competition, too: Adele, Beyonce, Coldplay, Drake, Meghan Trainor, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Twenty One Pilots and the Weeknd.

It must be noted, at this juncture, that the award winner is voted on by the public. One assumes it can only help your chances to have a large group of highly motivated fans active online.

This one’s as much a win for the Directioners as it is for One Direction, which, post-Zayn, are a shadow of the group they once were.

At least the Swifties are being gracious about it.

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Best Country Album: Sara Storer – Silos

This one’s gone to the multiple Golden Guitar award-winner now based in Darwin.

Adam Brand and the Outlaws, Bill Chambers, Fanny Lumsden, and the Wolfe Brothers were also nominated.

Best Urban Album: Drapht – Seven Mirrors

Drapht has beaten out Citizen Kay, Koi Child, L-FRESH The LION and Urthboy to win the Best Urban Album award for his fifth album, Seven Mirrors. Here’s his self-described party anthem, Mexico.

He cuts a nervous figure as he takes to the stage – and a tall one. The mic is too short for him. “My anxiety’s got anxiety at the moment,” he begins.

A fellow nominee is quick to congratulate him on Twitter.

Best Blues & Roots Album: Russell Morris – Red Dirt Red Heart

Russell Morris has won Best Blues & Roots Album for Red Dirt Red Heart. He beat out Jimmy Barnes, Kev Carmody, Russell Morris, The Wilson Pickers and The Cat Empire to secure this, his third Aria in this category.

He thanks his “great mate, Ian Molly Meldrum”, who produced his debut single The Real Thing back in 1969.

Had the award been for Best Blues & Roots Album Title, I assume it would have gone to The Wilson Pickers for You Can’t Catch Fish From a Train, which has just struck me as quite profound.

Are you sure, Wilson Pickers?

Best Children's Album: The Wiggles – Wiggle Town

We’re ripping through the awards now at a breakneck pace. Katie Noonan, singer-songwriter and self-described “very happy mummy”, has presented the Aria for Best Children’s Album to The Wiggles for Wiggle Town.

It’s their 14th Aria, and the 13th time they’ve won this category. You can’t help but feel for the other nominees: Justine Clarke, Pat Davern, Play School and Sam Moran.

Australian children’s entertainers The Wiggles pose for a photo during the 30th ARIA Awards at The Star in Sydney.
Let’s just say they were quietly confident. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/EPA

It speaks to their longevity and their dominance of the Australian children’s music market that, in their acceptance speech, they thank Wiggles fans who grew up, had children themselves, and still listen to the Wiggles as parents.

They then sing their acceptance speech. Red Wiggle, aka Simon Pryce, gets a bit operatic. An aria at the Arias.

Best Rock Album: Violent Soho – WACO

Jimmy Barnes has just presented Violent Soho with the Aria for Best Rock Album.

Apparently made entirely of hair, the Brisbane quartet arrive on stage and promptly get down on their knees and start bowing to Barnes. They thank both their record executives and their wives and children, and they dedicate the award to Dean Turner, bass player of Australian indie rock band Magic Dirt, who died of cancer in 2009.

Boy & Bear, Ball Park Music, Gang Of Youths and The Living End were also nominated in the category; Violent Soho’s win – for their album WACO – is proof that grunge didn’t die with Kurt Cobain. Here’s them rocking the red carpet earlier.

Music group Violent Soho arrive at the 30th ARIA Awards at The Star, in Sydney, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

There may be more awards to come for Violent Soho tonight – they’re also nominated for Best Group, Best Independent Release, Best Video and Best Australian Live Act.

On Monday, Matt and Alex announced they would be leaving the Triple J breakfast slot on 16 December. For Alex, it marks the end of an elongated era – at 28 years, he’s been working at the station for over a third of his life.

“Things have been shook up at work,” he told Guardian Australia on the red carpet earlier. “There’s been tears. There’s been smiles –”

“There’s been prawn and smoke salmon salad,” Matt interjected, shocked. “For dinner!”

“There’s also been prawn noodles. At 2am at your place,” said Alex.

The nation will miss this banter, I offered. Does the outpouring of support from their fans give them pause for second thoughts about leaving the station?

“For moments, you do think that,” Alex said. “But then when you think about it a bit more, this is the best possible way to end it.”

Yesterday, Triple J announced Adelaide radio presenters Ben & Liam as Matt and Alex’s replacements.

“They’re young – just like the people who are listening to them,” said Alex. “It’s the perfect time to go.”

This is Alex’s seventh Arias. What’s been the highlight? Watching Yothu Yindi perform Treaty with Jessica Mauboy, Paul Kelly, Dan Sultan and Peter Garrett. “It was so wonderful. Such a special moment,” he said.

The low? “Probably last year when Danny Clayton from Channel V interviewed my groin. I was on stilts.”

From red carpet to red body glitter – the Arias are underway

The Veronicas, wearing red latex pants and red body glitter, have opened the show with a performance of In My Blood – well, two performances. I’m told the first time, they couldn’t hear their mics, so they started over.

You’ll have to wait for the television broadcast to see the show for yourself, but in the meantime you can familiarise yourself with the number-one single.

In other Origliasso news, the twins have just put out a new video clip for their song On Your Mind. It’s making headlines because it was written and directed by Ruby-Rose, the Australian model, actor, DJ and Jess Origliasso’s new girlfriend.

The couple also star in the clip. Lisa Origliasso, the second Veronica, has joked that she feels like she is “third wheeling”.

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Montaigne makes her point: ‘People over Profit’
Montaigne makes her point: ‘People over Profit’ Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Montaigne has a message for the masses. She’s nominated for Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Artist for her album Glorious Heights.

Singer songwriter Montaigne arrives at the 30th ARIA Awards at The Star, in Sydney.

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Missy Higgins has recently opened up about her obsession with apocalyptic climate fiction, by the way.

The television broadcast will be worth watching tonight for performances by Flume, Troye Sivan, Jimmy Barnes, Illy, Missy Higgins, Bernard Fanning, Violent Soho, Vera Blue and Jessica Mauboy.

Many of them are nominees – and surely Crowded House won’t make it into the Hall of Fame without a singalong?

Any minute now, the Veronicas will open the show, allegedly in glitter body paint – and I am prepared to bet significant money that John Farnham will perform You’re The Voice. It is the thirtieth Arias, after all.

Here’s a flashback to some of many memorable performances at the ceremony over the years.

Stars of Australian music: a look back 30 years of Aria performances

Troye Sivan has selfies taken with his fans.
Troye Sivan has selfies taken with his fans. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Flume, looking a little wet.
Flume, looking a little wet. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Peking Duck with some unexpected companions.
Peking Duck with some unexpected companions. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

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Allowing herself a reprieve from a pair of painfully tall shoes, Megan Washington promised her third album will be out in the first half of 2017.

There There, her previous album, debuted in the top five of the Aria charts in 2014. This next one “is about sex and death,” she said. “It’s quite meaty.”

The first single off the record, Saint Lo, came out earlier this month – her first new song in two years. The film clip was helmed by Nick Waterman – an acclaimed director who she married after just a three-month-long relationship.

“I don’t think I would have accepted that vision from anybody else,” she said of the clip. “The great thing about Nick – and one of the myriad reasons why I love him, is that he’s actually an artist. He sees visuals the way I hear music. He sees things that don’t exist but need to, and I hear things that don’t exist but which I think need to exist. And it’s also just lovely to have someone to work with who’s not on the clock!”

She said Saint Lo offers a good indication of what her next album will sound like. “I’ve headed in an electronic direction lately just out of necessity, because I’ve been travelling so much. I have to make music on my computer, that’s all I can do,” she said.

Of married life, she’s still getting used to it.

“Every once and a while I’ll just, like, walk into the living room and go, ‘I’m your WIFE.’ And he’ll go, ‘I know. It’s crazy. It’s CRAZY.’”

Ben Lee, looking resplendent in a yellow suit, is presenting an award tonight. He lives in the US with his actor/director wife Iona Skye and their two children, but is back home in Australia to promote his 11th solo album Freedom, Love and the Recuperation of the Human Mind – values which, it seems, are sorely missing in the world right now. Does Lee, a Los Angeles transplant, feel the urge to leave the land of Trump and move back to Sydney?

“Here’s the thing,” says Lee, warming instantly to the subject. “Dostoevsky used to write his books in the village square. Gurdjieff, who’s a philosopher I like, used to travel to countries in political upheaval in order to be inspired within that. I think we can have a very positive attitude and whatever comes stay very focused on emanating love and emanating joy and positivity and find solution-based thinking in the midst of all the insanity.”

If those comments don’t uplift you – surely his canary yellow suit will.

Lee, who once wanted to be the next Bob Dylan, says he’s currently honing his writing skills via a musical he’s working on with the writer Tom Robbins.

“He’s such a good writer and he’s making me lift my game a lot as a writer. Here’s the thing: all of us, we’re tradies. Musicians are craftspeople. And it’s just about incrementally refining over years and years and years and hopefully in your 80s you can be like Slim Dusty and go: ‘Yeah, I made a little headway, I made a little progress’.”

Musicians these days, it seems, are also businesspeople. (Lee and Skye have a new side business venture called Skye Lee Essential Oils, selling essential oils to the unanointed masses.) Music fans don’t buy CDs these days, Lee explains.

“We have to be very pragmatic in the music industry these days in order to survive.”

From the red carpet – to the real deal

The stars have left the red carpet, meaning the awards themselves will be underway at the Star event centre within the hour. My colleagues, Steph Harmon and Janine Israel, are in the media room poised to bring you the latest from the winners as they’re announced.

A quirk of the Arias that causes headaches for Australian arts journalists every year (or is it just us?) is that the television coverage of the event doesn’t begin on Channel Ten until 7:30pm when the awards are in fact midway through.

This means that if you’d rather keep some surprises in store for a night in front of the small screen, this liveblog – and probably social media – will shortly be replete with spoilers. Check back in after the broadcast is over, when we’ll have a full list of the winners.

If you broke up with broadcast television long ago, stick with us for the results as they happen.

In the meantime, enjoy our gallery of red carpet looks. They weren’t kidding about that rain.

Here’s more from your new favourite social media influencer, Kurt Coleman. He expanded to Guardian Australia on his alleged “break” from social media (already called into question by his three Instagram posts in a day).

“I just feel like, I don’t know, I need to know what’s real in the world, you know? So I just took a break just like, to see the real life,” said the Gold Coast’s professional selfie-taker famous for his catchphrase “killing it, babe”.

When asked what he’s going to do next – where he’ll be in ten years – he confessed to not really caring.

“Oh – I’m going to be on TV and stuff. I don’t really care,” he said. “I just feel like social media has changed into something it’s really not meant for. There’s a lot of negativity on it. And especially if you’re spending more time on it than your real life – that’s so bad, right? I just feel like, I needed to know what is around me more than what’s not around me.”

These days, he said, he doesn’t even go on his phone – and he has no time for the social-media obsessed. “People I hang out with, when they just sit on their phones, I’m like, ‘get off! I don’t want to hang out with you! That’s not real life! Just live your life!”

His last post to Facebook was on Saturday. His last tweet was 18 minutes ago.

No Crowded (Opera) House, says Neil Finn

It’s a big couple of days for Crowded House – they’re being inducted to the Aria Hall of Fame tonight (including drummer Paul Hester, who died in Melbourne in 2005). Tomorrow, they perform at the Opera House forecourt, a full 20 years after their Farewell to the World concert.

“We’re really excited about playing four shows in a row,” Neil Finn tells Guardian Australia.

On 24 November 1996, more than 100,000 fans packed into that forecourt - for free. Now tickets are over $100 and only 5,000 people a night are allowed in. What’s changed in Sydney in two decades?

“Health and safety,” shrugs Finn.

Has Sydney become an over-regulated nanny state?

“It’s a little bit of that. It’s a shame really, but in the end there were too many people there last time and it was a miracle nobody got hurt. Maybe somewhere in the middle would be good,” Finn says, adding that he’s glad authorities have agreed to lift noise restrictions.

“So I’m happy about that. That was bad.”

Two years ago at the 2014 Aria awards, when Neil Finn performed with his friend Paul Kelly, Neil tweeted before his performance: “I believe the detention and mistreatment of asylum seekers is completely unacceptable but tonight I celebrate music with my friend Paul.”

Is he still concerned about the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centres?

“It’s the same,” says Finn. “It seems like a very strange place to be commenting on it but it’s a deeply concerning thing. It really is.”

Peking Duk make a detour on their dog walk.

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There was a time in England in the late 1990s when it seemed that there was nothing that Robbie Williams couldn’t do. I was a child at the time, and my dad used to drive around the block when Angels or She’s The One came on the radio so that we wouldn’t reach our destination before it ended. He was so beloved, so front-of-mind in the public consciousness, that he could probably have stood for prime minister, had he wanted to. (In light of recent events, doesn’t seem that far-fetched, does it?)

Anyway, here he is on a red carpet in the rain in Australia.

Robbie Williams arrives for the 30th Annual ARIA Awards 2016 at The Star on 23 November.

As I just said, Flume is set to clean up at tonight’s awards, with 11 nominations – the most nominations of any group or individual.

Real name Harley Streten, he is a record producer, musician and DJ who’s had a banner year since the release of his sophomore album, Skin, in May.

Like many 25-year-olds from the northern beaches, Flume is an outspoken critic of the Sydney lockout laws and is today wearing a pin in support of the Keep Sydney Open group on the red carpet. In September he contributed music to one of their videos.

Samantha Jade strikes a pose
Samantha Jade strikes a pose Photograph: Caroline McCredie/Getty Images
... but she’s somewhat outdone by Steve Aoki
... but she’s somewhat outdone by Steve Aoki Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
He’s on form, even if the weather isn’t.
He’s on form, even if the weather isn’t. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Peking Duk have reportedly brought dachshunds onto the red carpet. If they were worried that no one would want to interview them, this is a smart move. I go out of my way to talk to people with dachshunds all the time.

While I scour the internet for photos of them, here’s Tove Lo. She is a Swedish pop star who’s had a few big hits, including a collaboration with Flume, the Australian electronic music producer who’s nominated in 11 categories tonight.

You will note she is wearing a dress with ovaries on it – as effective a red-carpet icebreaker as dachshunds, though I know which I personally would prefer to talk about.

I am willing to bet that Kurt Coleman’s departure from social media means nothing to you, but allow me to endeavour to interest you in it. An Australian teenager addicted to spray tan, he is best – only – known for having inexplicably large followings on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

Basically all of his posts are like this (yes, that’s him):

So the fact that Coleman is now saying “social media doesn’t mean anything” is sort of like Neil Young saying he no longer believes in rocking in the free world. (I am likening him to Neil Young deliberately to annoy you.)

He’s still walking the red carpet at the Arias, so one might say social media has served its purpose. I note, however, he has posted to Instagram three times in the past day so it might be worth taking his “break” with a pinch of salt.

Megan Washington working the hell out of salmon-pink frills and that umbrella. Seriously, the whole ensemble looks styled.

Here is Simon Pryce, identified by Steph only as Red Wiggle.

That’s his fiancée, Lauren Hannaford, pictured – she is an Instagram fitness star, not a Wiggle, but the couple met when she was a dancer with the group.

As was the case last year, the Wiggles get one go-around the red carpet in their black tie, and a second in their costumes. I don’t know if they then change back into their finery, or sit through the whole ceremony in their skivvies. Guess they must be used to it by now.

Here’s Steve Aoki, an American electro house musician in Australia ahead of his performance at MTV’s Beats & Eats festival in Wollongong on Saturday.

But two days ago in Los Angeles getting temporary tattoos with Sharknado star Tara Reid, who described him as her “bestie”. Now he’s in Sydney, telling Steph about Australia’s “sunny, happy, tropical” electronic music. Guess you never know what the day’s going to throw at you, as an “EDM party king”.

That’s not my descriptor but Music Feeds, who interviewed Aoki earlier this week. He noted that Australia’s festival culture was under threat with the loss of Stereosonic and Future.

“Where do artists like myself, in the electronic space, go to play and to build our careers down here? ...

“I remember when I first started coming out here, I always listed Australia as a country where pound-for-pound it was a festival culture country. ... I think maybe at the end of the day Australia needs some time, some breathing room to regrow again.”

Welcome to the Arias 2016 liveblog!

Good afternoon to all you Australian music lovers and celebrity-spotters, and welcome to our liveblog of the 30th Australian Recording Industry Association awards.

My colleagues, Steph Harmon and Janine Israel, are at the Star casino in Sydney, ready to report back from the red carpet, which has just got underway, despite a storm setting in. Crowded House, this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, can look forward to lots of opening lines about having brought the Weather With Them. (Or there being Four Seasons in One Day.)

The awards ceremony will start at 5:30pm AEDT, and we’ll be reporting on the winners as soon as they’re announced. Be warned: television coverage of the event doesn’t start on Channel Ten until 7.30pm, so spoilers ahead. If you’d prefer to keep your surprises for the broadcast, we’ll be posting a full list of winners once it’s over.

Of course we already know some of what’s in store – Robbie Williams will make a guest appearance, and Flume is poised to sweep the awards with a total of 11 nominations. In behind is Troye Sivan with seven and Illy, Sia and the Avalanches with six each.

Performing live for your viewing pleasure will be Jimmy Barnes (once with Jessica Mauboy), Bernard Fanning, Flume, Illy, Missy Higgins, the Veronicas, Troye Sivan, Violent Soho, and Crowded House.

But any joy to be found in awards ceremonies of this nature is unscripted. (Or presented as such, as with every MTV Video Music Awards “controversy” in the past five years.)

Will Bernard Fanning, who once famously called Ben Lee a “precocious little cunt”, revive his feud with the Catch My Disease singer? Or will Lee, who is presenting an award tonight, get to hand Fanning (nominated for four of them) one of those pointy trophies?

Will Robbie Williams, who nuzzled his nose in a German TV presenter’s bosom at Berlin’s Bambi awards last week, find a more family-friendly place tonight to bury his head?

Will John Farnham, who released You’re the Voice 30 years ago, bring the house down with a rousing rendition of his famous protest ballad? And will WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange be beamed in live from London’s Ecuadorian embassy to join him for a duet?

Julian Assange dons mullet to sing You’re the Voice

We can only hope. Get at me with your predictions and reactions on Twitter, or in the comments below.

Writing the liveblog from the office is usually the short straw in covering events like these – you get the long day with none of the red carpet action or perks backstage (like last year: spagbol in a plastic cup). But this year I’m feeling pretty good about it.

According to AAP, the red carpet is “very wet” and the rain has “poured down”. Olympia, the singer-songwriter from Melbourne, and electronic artist KLP were among the first to make an appearance earlier this afternoon.

Olympia – real name Olivia Bartley, nominated for Breakthrough Artist – told AAP she was braving not only the weather but some kind of sickness, and was “actually on anti-nausea drugs”. I mean, those can’t hurt.

My correspondents, Steph Harmon and Janine Israel, are split on whether the rain constituted a “downpour” (Janine says yes; Steph says no, adding that “but I have lived in the tropics”).

Either way, it’s eased now, and they’re stuck into interviews on the red carpet – which, by the looks of Steph’s tweet, involves a lot of strategic elbowing.

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Some early pictures from the red carpet ...

Olivia Bartley arrives for the 30th Annual ARIA Awards.
Olivia Bartley arrives for the 30th Annual ARIA Awards. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
The Wolfe Brothers get snapped.
The Wolfe Brothers get snapped. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Carissa Walford blends in with the carpet.
Carissa Walford blends in with the carpet. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

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