Lorde, Kings and Bic Runga among 20 APRA Silver Scrolls finalists named

Lorde, Kings, Bic Runga, Aldous Harding, Cut Off Your Hands and Lawrence Arabia are among the major names making up the Top 20 finalist list of New Zealand’s most prestigious song awards, the APRA Silver Scroll Awards. 

The lucky nominees were chosen by fellow songwriters from 200 entries, with the 10,000-strong New Zealand members of the Australasian Performing Right Association now choosing five finalists from this shortlist as the nominees for the best song of 2017 award.

The winner will be presented at Dunedin Town Hall on Thursday September 28.

Past recipients of the esteemed Silver Scroll include Dave Dobbyn, Don McGlashan, Shona Laing, Neil Finn, Bic Runga, Ray Columbus, James Milne & Luke Buda, Ella Yelich-O’Connor (Lorde) & Joel Little, and Aaron Young, Alisa Xayalith & Thom Powers (The Naked and Famous).

The other awards presented on the night are:

• APRA Maioha Award, celebrating exceptional waiata (songs) featuring te reo (Maori language)
• SOUNZ Contemporary Award, celebrating excellence in contemporary composition
• APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award
• APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award 

As a part of the celebrations APRA will also be inducting a songwriter/s into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, with more details to be revealed closer to the event.

The Top 20 finalists are:

(listed alphabetically)

’Close Your Eyes’, written by Bic Runga and Kody Nielson, performed by Bic Runga

’Cold Steel’, written and performed by Troy Kingi and Mara TK

’Don’t Worry ‘Bout It’, written by Kingdon Chapple-Wilson, performed by Kings

’Green Light’, written by Ella Yelich-O’Connor, Jack Antonoff, and Joel Little, performed by Lorde

’Hate Somebody’ written by Nick Johnston, Philip Hadfield, Brent Harris, performed by Cut Off Your Hands

’Horizon’, written by Hannah Topp, performed by Aldous Harding

’Hundred Waters’, written by Grayson Gilmour and Cory Champion, performed by Grayson Gilmour

’If Only’, written by Te Karehana Toi, performed by Teeks

I Know Not Where I Stand, written and performed by Shayne P Carter 

Liability, written by Ella Yelich-O’Connor and Jack Antonoff, performed by Lorde

Life of the Party, written by Chelsea Jade Metcalf and Leroy James Clampitt, performed by Chelsea Jade

’Little Did She Know’, written by INF aka Amon McGoram, SPYCC aka Daniel Latu, and SmokeyGotBeatz aka Isaiah Libeau, performed by SWIDT

’Lucky Girl’, written by Amelia Murray and Gareth Thomas, performed by Fazerdaze 

’O Heathcote’, written by James Milne, performed by Lawrence Arabia

’One and Only’, written by Brooke Singer, performed by French For Rabbits 

Rainbow, written by Louis Baker and Bradford Ellis, performed by Louis Baker

’Richard’, written and performed by Nadia Reid

’Sober’, written and performed by Lydia Cole

’Sunday Best’, written and performed by Seth Haapu

’Urutaa’ written by Lewis de Jong, Henry de Jong, Ethan Trembath, performed by Alien Weaponry