Chris Cheney and Sarah Blasko have both picked up International Songwriting Awards from the USA.
Chris won first place in the Rock Category for his song ‘White Noise’ by his band The Living End.Sarah Blasko took home the Folk/Singer-Songwriter category for ‘Bird On A Wire’ from her third album ‘As Night Follows Day.
Other Australia’s getting awards were Troy Cassar-Daley for second place in Country with ‘I Love This Place’, Nicola Watson with Folk/Singer-Songwriter for ‘Windmills’ and Marcela Taylor in the Instrumental category for ‘Sand Storm’.
Third place Aussie winners included Eskimo Joe for Rock for ‘Foreign Land’, Nathan Hudson from Faker for Top 40 for ‘This Heart Attack’, Alexander Gow and Thomas Savage of Oh Mercy for Adult Contemporary for ‘Not For You’, Cam McKellar for Lyrics for ‘Where I’m Calling From’ and Nadia Sunde for Children’s with ‘The Goat and the Goose’.
Honorable Mentions
“Love Is A Cruel Machine” - Ben Stewart - Brisbane, QLD- AAA (Adult
Album Alternative)
“Mary” - Alexander Burnett (Sparkadia) - Sydney, NSW - AAA (Adult
Album Alternative)
“The Boat” - Garth Adam - Edgecliff, NSW - AAA (Adult Album
Alternative)
“Tore My Heart Out” - Danielle Caruana (Mama Kin) - Fremantle, WA
- Adult Contemporary (AC)
“Come What May” - Matt Joe Gow (Matt Joe Gow And The Dead Leaves) -
Melbourne, VIC - Americana
“Heart Of Mine” - Matt Ellis - Sydney, NSW - Americana
“Moody Liz” - Daxton P Monagahn (Daxton) - Sydney, NSW - Blues “Yellow Moon” - 8 Ball Aitken - Brisbane, QLD - Blues
“1985” - Russell Berther, John Chaplin-Fleming (Scared Weird Little
Guys) - Melbourne, VIC - Comedy/Novelty
“Colostomy Bag” - Colin Germano (Col Meredith) - Noosa Heads, QLD -
Comedy/Novelty
“Don't Come Over ‘Til I'm Over You” - Andrew Cochrane, Simon Boyce -
Mackenzie, QLD - Country
“I Like Girlz” - Leonie Polley (DiamondTrick) - Geelong, VIC -
Dance/Electronica
“Feel Like Walking” - Sam Buckingham - Sydney, NSW -
Folk/Singer-Songwriter
“Every Time” - Tom Poulter, Angela Cox - Shellharbour, NSW -
Gospel/Christian Music
“Footsteps Of My Father” - Roma Waterman - Melbourne, VIC -
Gospel/Christian Music
“Minsk” - Mark Isaacs - Bonnet Bay, NSW - Jazz
“Solid Rock (Street Warriors Version)” - Shane Howard, Abie Wright,
Warwick Wright (Street Warriors), Directed
by Matthew Chuang - Greenacre, NSW - Music Video
“Howl” - Jai Pyne. Xavier Nughton, Ivan Lisyak (The Paper Scissors)
- Sydney, NSW - Performance
“Polka” - Michael Tomlinson (Yves Klein Blue) - Brisbane, QLD -
Performance “Seen Her b4” - Mason Rachinger - Palm Beach, QLD - Performance
“The Good News” - Simon Berckelman, Joel Beeson (Philadelphia Grand
Jury) - Strawberry Hills, NSW - Performance
“Small Town Girl” - Andy Bull - Sydney, NSW - Pop/Top 40
“The Right Time” - Charlie Bailey (Chasing Bailey) - Waverton, NSW
- Pop/Top 40
“Look To The Skies” - Ryan Ritchie (True Live) - Dingley, VIC -
R&B/Hip-Hop
“Chin Up” - Nicholas Green, Michael Sullivan, Peter Carter (Heartbreak
Club) - Sydney, NSW - Rock
“Joseph” - Joseph Andrew Thomson, Kahl Wallace, Charles Thomas, Jhindu
Lawrie (The Medics) - Cairns, QLD - Rock
“One Will Hear The Other” - Jon Toogood (Shihad) - Melbourne, VIC -
Rock
“Social Currency” - John Mackay (Children Collide) - Melbourne, VIC -
Rock
“With This Ship” - Walter De Backer, Kristen-Jurgen Schroeder (The
Basics) - Melbourne, VIC - Rock
“Bad With Love” - Tommaso Parisi (Tom Ugly) - Sydney, NSW - Teen
“City” - Andrew James Redford - Maroochydore, QLD - Teen
