Straight off the back of rave reviews from their first ever live shows headlining the national Parklife music festival comes the news that Empire Of The Sun have received ELEVEN nominations at this year’s Australian ARIA Awards across all key categories – more nominations than any other artist this year!
Nominations include:
- Album of the Year – Walking On A Dream
- Single of the Year - Walking On A Dream
- Best Group
- Best Pop Release
- Highest Selling Album - Walking On A Dream
- Highest Selling Single - Walking On A Dream
- Producer of the Year - Empire Of The Sun and Donnie Sloan with Peter Mayes
- Best Video for Walking On A Dream - Josh Logue from Mathematics
- Best Video for We Are The People - Josh Logue from Mathematics
- Best Cover Art - Aaron Hayward & David Homer from Debaser
- Engineer of the Year - Peter Mayes
As ARIA observers reach for the record books it tops off a great 12 months for The Empire whose acclaimed debut Walking On A Dream album has surpassed 100,000 album sales in Australia and is on its way to Double Platinum, propelled by singles Walking On A Dream, We Are The People, Standing On The Shore and Without You.
Of the haul of nominations Emperor Luke Steele said, “This is wild, solid marks of recognition to the music. How can I explain, I’m talking to myself. I’m walking on a dream.”
But there’s more music to come!
On November 20 the Walking On A Dream special edition will be released both digitally and as a 2CD album. It includes the Walking On A Dream album on Disc 1 along with a new song Girl and live favourite Breakdown as part of the 12 bonus tracks on Disc 2. The track listing for Disc 2 is as follows –
1. Breakdown
2. Romance To Me
3. Walking On A Dream – Sam La More 12” Remix
4. Standing On The Shore – Losers Remix
5. We Are The People – Shapeshifters Vocal Mix
6. Without You (New Version)
7. Swordfish Hotkiss Night – Fron Mezza Remix
8. Standing On The Shore – Hey Today! Remix
9. Walking On A Dream – Ben Watt Remix
10. We Are The People – Shazam Remix
11. Girl
12. Etude
If you missed the Empire Of The Sun debut performances as Parklife toured the country with a feature film’s worth of visuals, dancing swordfish, pink guitars and more, fret not as the band has also today been announced as the very first headliner of the Future Music Festivals for 2010. The full Future Music Festival line up will be announced next Monday and tickets are on sale from Wednesday 21st October.
