ARIA Awards announce line up for 2023 ceremony

The Australian music industry’s night of nights will see performances by Hall of Fame inductees Jet as well as chart-topping singers G Flip, Budjerah, Jessica Mauboy and many more.

Country star Brad Cox will perform at the ARIA’s. Photo: Chris Elder

An all Australian star line-up of artists including G Flip, Budjerah, DMA’S, Brad Cox, Fanny Lumsden, Jessica Mauboy, Meg Mac and Peach PRC are set to perform at the 2023 ARIA Awards.

Additionally, Barkaa, Bliss n Eso, 1200 Techniques, DJ Krissy, and Sound Unlimited Posse

featuring Kye will celebrate 50 Years of Australian Hip Hop with a special performance.

G Flip is one of five artists up for the night’s biggest award, the coveted Album of the Year gong.

“I’m just really shocked,” they told Confidential.

“I was really hoping to get nominated for Best Live Act because I always give performing my all. To get nominated for five others is one of the highlights of my life.”

Australian rock band Jet will this year be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and perform a medley of their hits to close out the show. Photo: Martin Philbey/Supplied.

G Flip is also nominated for Best Australian Live Act, Best independent Release, Best Rock Album, Best Solo Artist and Best Video, earning the same number of nominations as top of the pops exports Troye Sivan and Kylie Minogue.

G Flip is nominated for six ARIA Awards this year and will be performing at the Hordern Pavilion.. Photo: Callum Walker Hutchinson/Supplied.

Confidential can reveal Flip will be attending the Australian music industry’s night of nights

with their wife, American actor and host of Selling Sunset Chrishell Stause, at the Hordern Pavilion on November 15.

When Stause went public with their relationship in a reunion episode of the smash hit reality series in 2022, it made headlines around the world.

“They said ‘Chrishell’s dating an Australian non-binary musician’,” Flip recalled.

“She could see and I could see that we’d be confronted with a lot of backlash. She told the world she was dating me even though she knew she was going to cop a lot of ugly comments online. I really love and respect her and think Chrishell is unbelievable. She’s so beautiful for choosing to love me, even though she knew it was going to be a rougher road than dating a 6ft guy.”

Chrishell Stause and G Flip attend Christian Siriano's 15 Year Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles. Photo: Presley Ann/Getty Images.

Flip’s sophomore album Drummer cracked the No. 1 album spot on the ARIA charts in September, making the 30-year-old one of a handful of homegrown artists to chart in 2023.

At every concert of their sold-out Australian tour earlier this year, Flip gave a heartfelt dedication of the love ballad Be Your Man to their wife. At both Sydney shows at Enmore Theatre, a fan held up a sign asking the LGBTQ+ singer to help them come out.

“Coming out is such a vulnerable time in your life and it’s something that you treat very delicately. For people to feel safe enough to do it in my crowd is just so lovely, I feel so honoured to share that huge moment in a person’s life,” Flip said.

“I take being the role model I never had growing up very seriously.”

G Flip hugging a fan at one of their sold out Drummer concerts at Sydney's Enmore Theatre. Photo: Supplied.

There is little doubt that Flip will take to the ARIA’s stage with “darn good song” ‘Australia’, their recently released “love letter” to home, with a music video filmed on Darling Harbour.

Meanwhile, country artist Fanny Lumsden said performing at the ARIAs “will be pretty surreal”.

“I’ve watched the ARIAs since I was little growing up on a farm a long way from the city. It’s also a huge honour to represent the Australian Country Music community.”

Australian country music star Fanny Lumsden will be performing at the 2023 ARIA Awards. Photo: Dan Stanley Freeman/Supplied.

...As will Jessica Mauboy. Picture: Richard Dobson/The Daily Telegraph.

“I’m going to do everything I can to make this night legendary for everyone in the room and watching from home,” Aboriginal singer Budjerah added.

Early noughties rockers Jet, who will be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this year, will close out the evening with an array of their iconic hits.

Kylie Minogue during her concert at the opening of Voltaire at Venetian Las Vegas, 03 November 2023. Picture: BACKGRID/Michael Anthony.

Troye Sivan has been announced as a presenter of the 2023 ARIA Awards. He is nominated for five awards. Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images.

The full list of presenters announced today includes: Troye Sivan, Dolly Parton, Baker Boy, Claudia Karvan, Dylan Alcott, Marica Hines, Cub Sport, Dermot Kennedy, Jack River, Jessica Mauboy, Joel Corry, Kate Ceberano, Pia Miranda, Thelma Plum, Poppy Reid, Smallzy, Hau Latukefu and Triple J’s Bryce & Concetta.

Notably absent from the performance line-up is pop princess Kylie Minogue, who Confidential understands will not be attending due to her six-month residency in Las Vegas which she started this weekend.

Minogue’s euphoric chat-topping album Tension earned her four ARIA nominations. If she takes an award home, it will be her first in 21 years.