APRA Music Awards 2008
No doubt about it, Daniel Johns is the darling of Australian rock’n’roll. His mantlepiece already groaning with ARIA Awards, last night the flamboyant frontman of the Newcastle trio Silverchair cemented his place in Australian songwriting history, being named APRA songwriter of the year a record third time.
‘Straight Lines’, which he co-wrote with Julian Hamilton, of the Presets, also won Johns APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) awards for song of the year and most played Australian work.
The swag of awards reinforced Johns’s return to centre stage, following his struggle with depression and anorexia in the late 1990s and treatment for a rare form of arthritis in 2002. Read the full article here .
Song of the year : Straight Lines by Silverchair
Songwriter of the year : Daniel Johns
Breakthrough songwriter of the year : Sally Seltmann
Blues and roots work of the year : Good Excuse by The John Butler Trio
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