Modular People

Every year, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) holds a little event that goes by the name of the ARIA Awards. Yesterday, nominees across twenty-eight categories in the 2008 ARIA Awards were announced at a special industry gathering in Sydney. We are psyched to tell you that from the Modular family, The Presets received eight nominations, Cut Copy received two and Wolfmother have gotten one as well.

Capping off an already mammoth year, The Presets took home awards for Best Artwork (Jonathan Zawada), Best Clip (Kris Moyes), Best Producers (Kim Moyes, Julian Hamilton) but unfortunately missed out on Best Engineer Scott Horscroft. On top of that they've been nominated for Album Of The Year Apocalypso, Single Of The Year ("My People"), Best Dance Album (Apocalypso) and Group Of The Year.

Cut Copy have also had a stellar 12 months and have been nominated for Best Dance Album (In Ghost Colours) and only just missed out the award for Best Artwork (Alter) which went to label mates The Presets.

Finally, Wolfmother were nominated for Best Music DVD (Please Experience).

The actual event rolls around on Sunday, 19 October at Acer Arena, Sydney Olympic Park and The Presets will be playing live. If you can't be at Acer Arena, catch all the ARIA Awards action live on Network Ten, 7.30pm, Sunday October 19. It'll be on this date that we find out the final results.

Oh yeah, the lovely flick above is of The Presets manager Will Larnach-Jones and artist Jonathan Zawada. Oh, and Heath Modular is sneaking around in the background there. Onya boys!