Empire of the Sun - Aria Awards 2009 - Walking on a Dream

The winners of the 2009 ARIA Awards were announced last night at a dazzling event held at Sydney's Acer Arena with EMPIRE OF THE SUN storming the winner's scoreboard.
Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore's EMPIRE OF THE SUN has capped off an incredible year of worldwide chart success and critically acclaimed live appearances by taking home an impressive four ARIA Awards from the 2009 ceremony. They swept the main categories with their instant classic debut album Walking on a Dream which took out the Awards for BEST POP RELEASE, BEST GROUP and the coveted title of ALBUM OF THE YEAR. The effervescent single of the same name garnered the prestigious SINGLE OF THE YEAR. Already awarded BEST VIDEO (Josh Logue for Mathematics), BEST COVER ART (Aaron Hayward & David Homer Debaser) and PRODUCER OF THE YEAR (with Donnie Sloan and Peter Mayes) at the ARIA Artisan Awards, EMPIRE OF THE SUNs phenomenal success has shown the true creative prowess of these princes of pop!

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Music

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• luke steele
• nick littlemore
• empire of the sun
• aria
• arias
• awards
• walking on a dream
• 2009

[Firstriver333]

LUKES NOT MASTURBATING HIS HAND IS JUST SPAZZING BECAUSE ITS HOW HE KEEPS IN TIME WITH THE VOCALS. USUALLY HE HAS HIS GUITAR IN HIS HANDS TO KEEP IN TIME.

There that should clear things up.

[ATandCRproductions]

jacking off in the middle of the song O.o 0:13

[23CrazyAsian]

@Thexderx AHHAHA your stupid HAHAH

[Thexderx]

I'd hardly call this live...what exactly is being played live here?

[MikeyD9]

@aintnoswan exactly, i hate when people say that too

[SudoMade]

Pnau rock, luke did good. Anybody have "celebrate the failure"?

[aintnoswan]

@GeneralHoohah Are you for real if this is lip sinking then you would be a deaf mute as you can hear how pitchy this is. Still rather good but it's live. Luke wouldn't do it any other way.

[darkeclipse693]

@Firstriver333 I don't think anyone really cares because they see what they see, I dig this band and would love to see a concert of them.

[dirtleg27]

@jasmoof23de Nah I don't think it's similar at all, listen to the track and come back and listen to this, you can tell he's not lip syncing. Especially the last verse where he sings "All we got is tonight" sounds liked he struggled with it, or his voice cracked