Just ahead of the ARIA’s the Artisan awards happened on Tuesday November 10, recognising outstanding acheivements in production, engineering, videography and graphic design.
Empire of the Sun dominated the awards with thier Album ‘Walking on a dream’ picking up Producer of the Year (Empire of the Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes), Best Cover Art (Aaron Hayward and David Home of Debaser) and Best Video for the albums title track (Josh Logue).
The Engingeer of the Year title was shared with two contenders; DJ Debris of the Hilltop Hoods and Greg Wales who produced and engineered You Am I’s album Dilettantes