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ARIA brand takes a hit

Media today is now dissecting the remains of the ARIA Awards, following anger over the presentation on TEN on Sunday night.

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Media today is now dissecting the remains of the ARIA Awards, following anger over the presentation on TEN on Sunday night.

Last night The 7PM Project played three “comic” presentation moments, including Jessica Mauboy, Bob Katter and Lara Bingle. The show of course comes from Roving Enterprises, a previous ARIAs producer. But even they couldn’t ignore some of the more alarming moments.

Celebs who had been involved in the night spoke up via Twitter.

Ronan Keating suggested they be called the Hilarias: “Cannot believe Guy did not get at least 3 Awards at Aria’s last night. Industry folk are a joke. Guy is best artist in the country.”

Eddie Perfect said: “And Jess Mauboy’s error could easily have been avoided. She made it in rehearsal. Terrible no-one corrected her, actually.“

Ricki-Lee: ‘For those that didn’t understand the joke that was scripted in last nights show with Eric Stonestreet – the ‘awkwardness’ WAS the joke….”

Meanwhile The Age suggests the ARIAs head off to Pay TV.

“The future of the ARIA Awards on free-to-air commercial television is in doubt following a disastrous showing on Ten on Sunday night,” it wrote. “The two-hour broadcast of Australian music’s ‘night of nights’ averaged just 624,000 viewers in the five mainland capital cities.”

The Herald Sun: “Producers tried a different tack with the show, broadcasting from the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House.

“Presenters were perched messily on the edge of the crowd and lacked any authority.”

The Daily Telegraph said, “There is no dispute the performances of the 2010 ARIAs were its saving grace but the rest of it was so shambolic, too many people switched off before Washington pulled off her Broadway-style triumph or Sebastian rose to the occasion with his I Like It Like That choir.

“The resounding criticism was levelled at putting the presenters in the middle of the crowd on the Sydney Opera House steps where most of the winners, organisers and fans couldn’t find them. And their patter was cringeworthy.”

Yesterday The Australian said, “As well as the broadcast on Network Ten at 8.30pm, the MTV at the 2010 ARIA Awards Red Carpet was screened earlier on pay TV’s MTV from 6:30pm. It was no better.”

A number of readers on TV Tonight drew comparisons with a much better SBS broadcast of RocKwiz presents the ARIA Hall of Fame, produced by Renegade:

“Interesting contrast between the Rockwiz presented Aria Hall of fame and Ten’s main Aria presentation. One event was cool, sophisticated, funny and well produced the other was a bigger car-crash than the one that claimed young Ms Rafter last week!”

“Rockwiz did a far better job with the hall of fame. A much more classy event”

“The Hall Of Fame event last week was fantastic. ARIA, please give the event to the same producers as the Hall Of Fame.”

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  2. Nathan from Extra Source Podcast says:
    November 9, 2010 at 7:56 am

    “… Who has even heard of Dan Sultan?? Not i and i work in a music store…”

    Nathan, this comment highlights nothing but your lack of suitability to be working in a record store. I don’t own or know any Dan Sultan songs of the top of my head (he’s an amazing talent from what have seen and heard though), however my job doesn’t require me to have a jot of musical knowledge. I guess though, punching & into the search system at the counter is far easier than giving a toss about what you do.

    Extra Source hey? You’ve spelled ‘Source’ wrong. I think you mean ‘Sauce’ because you’re clearly not a ‘source’ of anything.

    I didn’t watch the ARIAs.

  3. @ Jason Arrhhhaaahhhaa, please your comment is making me cry with laughter. we have the “worst music”…. “there is no interest in Aussie music” …. are you serious!

    Maybe you have no interest but the music scene is alive an well in Australia… especially Melbourne. You need to get out man and go see some live bands. I know JJJ do a great job in promoting aussie music, but there a whole lot of other bands who do get a mention on JJJ that are fantastic.

    If you are going to be bagging anyone it should be commercial radio for playing the same mindless crap over and over again, and not making the fantastic music out there available to its listeners.

    I don’t understand why people listen to commercial radio anyway there are two perfectly good radio stations that support our local and music and they have no stupid adds JJJ and 3RRR, you should give them a listen sometime.

    You might be interested to know that they normally play stuff about 6 months before commercial radio picks it up… if they ever do that is.

  5. Love how Riki Lee had to explain the joke. It might have been funny in 1970 but not 2010.

    Please Ronan there is no way Guy Sebastian deserved to win any Aria’s. If the Aria’s start to be a popularity contest as to what the mainstream listens to then they will totally lose any shred of creditability they have left. I don’t even think Guy is that popular in the main stream anyway, maybe amongst 12 yo girls??…. Nar actually they are into Justin Bieber.

    I hope that the Arias are given to the Aria Hall of Fame producers and shown on SBS at least they will do it with some class. I can’t see foxtel doing any better….

    Bottom line, the winners deserved their Aria’s, the presenters and organisers are the ones that fell short.

  6. The live performances were actually some of the best I’ve seen at the ARIAs. The problem is that because most of the music is not mainstream pop like on 2DAY FM or Nova, the core audience of 12 to 16 year olds probably didn’t even watch it! Also, since most of the music was stuff Triple J play, the Triple J audience of 16 to 25yos didn’t watch it because they are too cool to watch commercial TV.

  9. Maybe it’s about time the networks looked outside the Fremantlemedia/Endemol/Shine/Granada box at talented independents like Renegade who have been making the excellent RocKwiz for years – producers who know how to produce talent, and who care about the music.

  10. Bahahaha.. Ronan Keating quote on Guy Sebastian! hahaha gosh how out of touch with the Australian mucic industry.

    The awards went to the right people – Ronan should tune into Triple J and he will discover truly talented musicians!

  11. Wrong Wrong Wrong….some of Australia’s biggest (yes top selling) acts are these “unknowns” you so wrongly label as niche, just because they fall into the indie category and get playlisted on JJJ doesn’t mean they’re niche. The problem with pop in this country is our acts don’t stand a change against the likes of Katy Perry/Beyonce/GaGa etc etc who have hits handed to them on a platter; International Pop acts for all intensive purposes are just an exercise in branding. The reason we celebrate acts like Angus & Julia Stone & The Temper Trap is for their authenticity & because they aren’t manufactured.
    The Arias were poorly conceived and produced, but it failed on several other levels. Multi channelling now provides choice to viewers.
    Without Oz Idol it’s hard to fill the program with mainstream Aus acts – didn’t it traditionally provide a strong lead in with seamless flow? I could go on.

  12. The credits on the telecast said that a full list of production credits could be found at ten.com.au/arais Can’t find them myself. Are people trying to distance themselves???
    Tony

  13. The ARIA Awards have had their day. Hopefully Sunday nights event killed them for good. As a television event they are absolutely woeful and embarrassing as a viewer, how must the industry feel that it’s a luaghing stock and not a presitigious event?
    And the credibility of the ARIAs have always been dodgy much like the Logies. I mean it’s good they haven’t given Kylie too many awards. She sells records, but she can’t sing and makes terrible music so i’m glad they don’t acknowledge her. But it’s just an Indie fest these days. Big Jet Plane is a terrible song, but hey let’s give it to these hippy siblings that will be cool. How did Vanessa Amorosi not get nominated or win this year? She had a brilliant year, no. 1 song, great singer & songwriter but nothing.

    They need to take it off television, and just allow the industry to celebrate Australian music. Maybe they could hold a free concert with ARIA winners the next night for the fans. But the event needs to be about the music and artists. Not about Nat Bass and how loud she can yell, or how big Carmen Electra’s boobs are.

  14. I’m actually happy the awards are by the industry. If you went by sales, they are indicative of how popular someone is, not necessarily how good they are. And there really is a big difference. I’ve even attended ‘songwriting’ competitions where the winner had the weakest songs, but had the most fans in the audience.

    As for the performances – Julia and Angus Stoner were so distant they were practically not even there! My God – could they have made any Less effort?

  15. @Andrew, yes, I agree. Jessica Mauboy’s inexcusable blooper should have been picked up at rehearsal and corrected forthwith. That segment producer must have been too busy updating their Facebook page to be paying much attention to Jessica’s mangling of the English language. I note that Ten have taken down clips of Sunday’s ARIAs, claiming copyright infringement. Strangely, clips from many other years ARIAs are still there. Clearly, Ten must be beyond mortified over this monumentally terrible broadcast and want no trace of it in cyberspace. Also agree that it has turned into an indie snob-fest. What a night of humiliation for Australian music.

  16. music is very subjective, i think the winners should be determined by the ARIA Charts (strange thought right?) and the cd stores/itunes results, not though a clearly dated judging panel.

  17. Ronan Keating is right. As long as the ARIA’s remain an indie music snobfest where the majority of awards are judged by ARIA themselves, rather than on sales or at least airplay, then the awards night has very little credibility. What on earth would be the criteria for awards like “Best Single” anyway, especially when it’s not transparent?

  18. @cjschris, the performance by Guy Sebastian at the ARIAs was one of the best of the night and he actually outshone a lot of the performances of the winners of awards on the night.

  19. Rickie Lee just doesn’t get it, does she? We know it was scripted, we know what the joke was. The problem was that ‘the joke’ was just badly conceived, badly written, badly performed, not funny and out dated. In fact it was a perfect exemplification of most of that show.
    Jessica Mauboys stupendous blooper was the fault of a terrible attention to detail by whichever producer was supposed to be supervising the rehearsal (was probably playing with their blackberry at the time), but the fact remains that this was a humiliating night for Idol alumni.
    And now having Ronan Keating bleating about Guy Sebastian not winning awards, emphasises this.

    These people all need to quietly fade into oblivion.

  22. @cjschris… Guy is Australia’s best artist. Who has even heard of Dan Sultan?? Not i and i work in a music store. The ARIA’s have massive problems…one of them which is they never rewarded pop artists only unknown alternative singers who will always remain unknown cause that’s apparently ‘cool’.

  23. This just shows why our country is behind the rest of the world in music and entertainment. We have the worse music and the worse producers for an award show.
    And exactly, guy isn’t even that good, no Australian artist is good besides Kylie minogue. This is why the show didn’t pull in the ratings, there is no interest in Aussie music.
    And seriously, the performances were soo boring compared to the MTV or Grammy award shows around the world.
    And who are angus n Julia stone lolll

    The MTV ema’s on Monday night is what I call a perfect entertaing awards show!!!

  24. The merciless caning the event has received is justified as it was, quite simply, a horrifying broadcast. For some reason, I thought Fremantle produced it, I didn’t realise it was Roving Enterprises. Shame on them, it was horrible. Also puzzled as to why Guy Sebastian deserved “at least three awards”. He is ordinary at best.

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