At the Aotearoa Music Awards, one act always wins everything.
A brief history of our one-sided music industry showcase.
In 2008, the year I attended the New Zealand Music Awards for the first time, I sat at a table at the back of Vector (now Spark) Arena with a group of journalists I didn’t know. Two Nelson Mail staff members shook my hand, sat down, then turned their attention to sucking each other's faces off. I picked at my salmon, tried to ignore them and wondered if…
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