Folk act Tempus Sun took out the top spot, with a panel of industry selecting their track Owls as the standout of the night after a stellar performance at Melbourne’s iconic Hamer Hall.
The Moonee Ponds outfit scored a career-making prize worth over $60,000, including studio time with a producer, mixing and mastering engineers to record an EP, concept design, production, filming and editing of two film clips, 500 CD copies of the EP, a radio plugger, manager and booking agent, media training and styling, On The Map PR services for a month, an east coast tour and a spot at the legendary Beyond The Valley music festival.
Victorians chose 12 semi-finalists from over 500 submissions that showcased a broad range of homegrown musical talent before the final four battled it out for the top spot.