Thelma Plum & The Jungle Giants Win Big At 2020 Queensland Music Awards

The winners of the 2020 Queensland Music Awards have been unveiled, with The Jungle Giants picking up two awards for Heavy Hearted, and Thelma Plum taking home the coveted Album Of The Year for Better In Blak. 

The Jungle Giants' hit scored both the Pop Award and Song of The Year, following the band's Album Of The Year win for Quiet Ferocity in 2018 and Best Rock Song win for Used To Be In Love in 2019. 

Hosted by Brisbane singer-songwriter Jeremy Neale, New World Artists' Dominic Miller, The Grates’ Patience Hodgson and comedian Mel Buttle, tonight’s awards ceremony took place at The Fortitude Music Hall, with performances from Jaguar Jonze, Cub Sport, Nat Dunn, Busby Marou and Order Sixty6.

The Kite String Tangle cleaned up with two awards, taking out the Electronic/Dance Award for the third year running and the Video category for his track P()L4R. Elsewhere Carmouflage Rose won the Hip Hop/Rap Award; Eliza & The Delusionals took out Rock; DZ Deathrays were awarded the Heavy category; and Singer Songwriter/Folk went to Jaguar Jonze. 

“2019 was a stellar year for Queensland music and tonight we got to celebrate some of our finest homegrown talent who are at the forefront of Queensland artists making big waves on the national and global music front,” said QMusic CEO Angela Samut.

Presented with the QMusic Honorary Award, Sony Music Executive Denis Handlin used his speech to announce his commitment to the Queensland music scene and the news that Sony Music would be opening an office in Brisbane next month. 

Brentyn ‘Rollo’ Rollason, an icon of the Brisbane punk scene, was also posthumously honoured with the Grant McLennan Lifetime Achievement Award after his untimely death in April last year. 

Check out all the winners below. 

2020 Queensland Music Awards

Album Of The Year - Presented by APRA AMCOS 

Thelma Plum - Better In Blak

Billy Thorpe Scholarship - Presented by Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

Harry Phillips 

QMusic Honorary Award

Denis Handlin 

Blues / Roots - Presented by Byron Bay Bluesfest 

Busby Marou - Naba Norem (Thomas Marou, Jeremy Busby) 

Country - Presented by CMC Rocks 

Oh Harlow - Give It A Miss (Tiana Dennis, Briannah Dennis, Nolan Wynne) 

Electronic / Dance - Presented by The Big Pineapple Music Festival 

The Kite String Tangle - P()L4R (Daniel Harley, Bridgette Amofah) 

QMusic Emerging Artist Of The Year - Presented by Noisegate 

Hope D

Export Achievement Award - Presented by Lyrical Road 

Nat Dunn 

Grant McLennan Life Achievement Award - Presented by QMusic

Brentyn ‘Rollo’ Rollason

Heavy - Presented by The Tshirt Mill 

DZ Deathrays - Still No Change (Shane Parsons, Simon Ridley, Lachlan Ewbank) 

Hip Hop / Rap - Presented by The Sound Garden 

Carmouflage Rose - Sele (Graham Herrington, James Angus, Matthew Khabbaz) 

Highest Selling Single 

Amy Shark - Mess Her Up 

Highest Selling Album 

Conrad Sewell - Life 

Indigenous - Presented by TRYP Fortitude Valley Hotel 

Mau Power featuring Marcus Corowa - Arrived (Patrick Mau) 

Jazz - Presented by Running Boards 

Sean Foran - Money 

Pop - Presented by Hit Network 

The Jungle Giants - Heavy Hearted (Sam Hales)

Rock - Presented by The Triffid 

Eliza & The Delusionals - Just Exist (Eliza Klatt, Kurt Skuse, Ashley Martin) 

Schools (Grade 6 - 12) - Presented by JMC Academy 

HANNI - Wired (Hannah Schloman, Marco Ghikas) 

Singer-Songwriter / Folk - Presented by Savannah In The Round 

Jaguar Jonze - Beijing Baby (Deena Lynch, Tim Tan) 

Song Of The Year - Presented by Green Beacon Brewing Co 

The Jungle Giants - Heavy Hearted (Sam Hales) 

Soul / Funk / RNB - Presented by Katarzyna 

Pink Matter - Soul Fruit (Kerry Raywood, Isobel De Leon, Megan Christensen, Elizabeth Scott) 

World - Presented by Howard Smith Wharves 

Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra - Make Everything (Matthew Hsu, Ashleigh Finlay)

Regional - Presented by Azentro 

Leanne Tennant - Bring It All Back 

Remote - Presented by Telstra 

Miiesha - Drowning (Miiesha Young, Stephen Collins, Mohamad Komba) 

Video - Presented by Nightlife Music 

The Kite String Tangle -  P()L4R (Caitlin Johnson, Lucs Thyer, Liam Connor & Brian Lowe)

People’s Choice Awards - Presented by Oztix and The Music 

Metro Venue Of The Year

The Triffid 

Regional Venue Of The Year 

Solbar

Festival Of The Year

Big Pineapple Music Festival