Cub Sport, Jem Cassar-Daley Win Big at 2024 Queensland Music Awards

With two wins every, Cub Sport, Jem Cassar-Daley and Bluey composer Joff Bush have been the standouts on the 2024 Queensland Music Awards, introduced Wednesday, April 17 at Fortitude Music Corridor in Brisbane.

Homegrown electro-pop act Cub Sport nabbed album of the yr for his or her ARIA No. 1 assortment Jesus At The Homosexual Bar, and the digital award for “Songs About It.”

“That is very surprising,” drummer Dan Puusaari mentioned from the dais as Cub Sport collected greatest album honors. “We’ve been a band for 13 years, gained our first QMA 12 years in the past, it’s very cool to nonetheless be up right here, nonetheless making music. It’s an enormous privilege. That is the fifth file we’ve made. To be acknowledged like that is actually cool.”

Jem Cassar-Daley snagged the pop award and music of the yr, the QMAs’ prime honor, each for “King of Disappointment.”

With the music of the yr award, Cassar-Daley, daughter of homegrown nation nice Troy Cassar-Daley, scores a chief piece of actual property – a plaque on the Stroll of Fame within the metropolis’s Brunswick Road Mall.

As she accepted trophy, Cassar-Daley thanked “each single considered one of you on this room for uplifting me to pursue music, even throughout COVID when every thing had locked down and we’d all misplaced gigs.”

Composer Joff Bush gained kids’s music award for “Dance Mode” and the music for display screen award for “Cricket,” each written for the favored animated sequence Bluey.

Nation veteran James Blundell was honored with the lifetime achievement award, recognition of a decades-long profession throughout which he has recorded 14 studio albums, gained 9 CMAA Golden Guitars, and earned induction into the CMAA Position of Renown and the CMC Corridor of Fame.

“It’s an acknowledgement of survival,” he mentioned of his newest award, which he celebrated with members of his household. “I say to all of the younger artists I work with that longevity is a significant a part of the equation. You might be fabulous for a nanosecond however to maintain a profession, properly you’ve acquired to be a bit extra fascinating (laughs). Now I’ve by no means claimed or meant to be an fascinating artist, however I’ve lived very truthfully and really a lot within the public eye. So, I’m very grateful to obtain this award.”

Different winners included Busby Marou (blues/roots award), DZ Deathrays (heavy award), Tia Gostelow (Indigenous award), Sahara Beck (soul/funk/RnB class).

“We’re massively proud Queenslanders, and we’re impressed by the younger fellas coming by way of. And naturally, all of the previous fellas too,” remarked Thomas Busby, one-half of Rockhampton roots act Busby Marou. The “magnificence of constructing music,” he added, is that you simply” make buddies all alongside the way in which, then you definitely hold them.”

The 2024 Queensland Music Awards are produced by QMusic, which is supported by the Queensland authorities. Visitors within the room included Queensland premier Steven Miles.

2024 Queensland Music Awards winners:

Main Awards

Track Of The Yr

Jem Cassar-Daley – ‘King Of Disappointment’

Album Of The Yr

Cub Sport – Jesus At The Homosexual Bar

Lifetime Achievement Award

James Blundell

Scholarships

2023 Billy Thorpe Scholarship

Lottie Mcleod

2023 Carol Lloyd Award

Jo Davie

Dennis “Mop” Conlon Scholarship

Kristal West

2023 Grant Mclennan Fellowship

Georgia Potter

Dalwood-Wylie Basis Scholarship

Ethan Roberts

Class Awards

Blues | Roots Award

Busby Marou – ‘Dialog’

Youngsters’s Music Award

Joff Bush – ‘Dance Mode’ (Bluey)

Up to date Classical & Music For Stage

Karin Schaupp – ‘Cybernylon’

Nation Award

Tori Forsyth – ‘Generally’

Digital Award

Cub Sport – ‘Songs About It’

People Award

Minor Gold – ‘Cannonball’

Heavy Award

Dz Deathrays – ‘My Thoughts Is Consuming Me Alive’

Hip Hop Award

Ozi Jarel – ‘Uptown’

Indigenous Award

Tia Gostelow – ‘Spring To Life’

Jazz Award

Andrew Butt Trio – ‘Le Baiser Salé’

Music For Display screen

Joff Bush – ‘Cricket’ (Bluey)

Pop Award

Jem Cassar-Daley – ‘King Of Disappointment’

Rock Award

Felony. – ‘Everybody I Like Desires To Kill Themselves’

Soul | Funk | Rnb Award

Sahara Beck – ‘Compromise’

World Award

Taitu’uga – ‘Falealili Manusamoa’

Youth (Ages 10 – 17) Award

Parker – ‘Couch Mattress’

Regional | Regional Award

Lt – ‘Act Your Age’

Video Award

Luis Campbell, Adam Hasa & Julian Panetta – ‘Make It So Straightforward’ By Jordan Briton Feat. Juno

Export Award

Pores and skin On Pores and skin

Highest Promoting Single

Fisher & Kita Alexander – ‘Ambiance’

Highest Promoting Album

Brad Cox – Acres

Venues + Pageant Of The Yr Awards

Folks’s Alternative Award Metro Venue Of The Yr

The Fortitude Music Corridor

Folks’s Alternative Award Regional Venue Of The Yr

Kings Seashore Tavern

Folks’s Alternative Award Pageant Of The Yr Nominees

Gympie Music Muster

Accessible Venue Of The Yr

Kingston Butter Manufacturing facility Cultural Precinct