Dom Dolla, Alice Ivy & Kevin Parker Dominate MPEG Awards

This year’s Music Producer and Engineers’ Guild (MPEG) Awards were held in Sydney last night (26 February), and some of Australia’s finest producers took home major awards.

The second annual event, hosted at Aerial, Ultimo, honoured the country’s music producers, engineers, and studios—the people and spaces that make music from your favourite artists possible.

Alice Ivy and Xavier Dunn co-hosted the event, which ended up being a night of celebration commemorating the talent and dedication of Australia’s music industry.

In addition to the awards, which saw mega-producer Dom Dolla, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, songwriter and producer Alice Ivy, and ARIA Award-winning producer Chris Collins (Royel Otis, Matt Corby, Old Mervs) receive some absolutely massive awards, Chelsea Warner and Boy Soda offered some stunning live performances.

Michael Carpenter closed the night with a rousing rendition of Friday On My Mind by the legendary Easybeats, honouring George Young and Harry Vanda—this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

Last year, Charles Fisher was named MPEG’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Fisher put his magic touch on formative releases by Radio Birdman, Ray Burton and Moving Pictures. By the turn of the 2000s, he’d linked up with everyone from the Hoodoo Gurus, Mental As Anything, Skyhooks and Midnight Oil to The Police, INXS, Savage Garden, and Elvis Costello.

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Of course, Vanda and Young didn’t just write and produce songs for The Easybeats. They also worked with AC/DC, John Paul Young, and others; in 2009, Alberts joined forces with APRA AMCOS to introduce the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition.

The full list of this year’s MPEG Award winners is as follows: