Hello music sport fans. Wednesday night’s ARIA Awards is the night of nights after the day of days full of the hour of hours. Or something like that. Some of us just think of them as a chance to put on a clean pair of pants and iron some socks. But for others this could be the night that changes their lives, or at least their mantlepiece decorations and toilet roll holders. Who’s going to win? What do I know? Do I look like Denis Handlin? But as a civic duty I’ll take a stab

Making sense of the nonsense, laying waste to the wastrels, and picking the eyes out of the blind-leading-the-blind nominations – the second part of your guide to what deserves to win at Tuesday’s ARIAs. Alongside what cold reality means will actually win at the ARIAs. If you haven’t already seen part 1 from yesterday, look right and indulge. Then take this early, with a coffee, and late, with a strong drink. Enjoy. Best male D.D. DUMBO – Utopia Defeated DAN SULTAN – Killer I

The ARIA Awards on Tuesday night will be fabulous, ridiculous, tragic, hilarious, embarrassing, moving. The winners will be well deserved, unlikely, shameful, ho-hum. As Tony Hadley once told me, I know this much is true. What about the winners? Well if you were a betting person and were tempted to put some money on those you would be (a) mad (b) reckless and (c) did I mention mad? And if you were betting based on my predictions I’d be hoping it was your money and not mine. (

The ARIA Award nominations, and the winners a few of the off-Broadway categories the TV stations don’t want to televise such as best art work (a category which had no women worth considering apparently), world/classical/jazz, producer and engineer, were announced on Tuesday. There were a few issues you could say. Here’s a wrap of some of them via the tweets I occupied myself with as the morning wore on. There’s more to all of these, and some other areas for later discussion,