Hello cloudstreet! Next year you'll be featuring if I'm not mistaken. I too am sad about Dr Faustus. I'm really pleased for Jim Moray getting the double of course but maybe...just maybe...the Horizon might have been enough if only Benji/Paul/Tim & Rob had got best album?

How are they chosen? It's the votes of around 100 people from the biz who earn their living from writing, producing etc. That's except for the 'best live act' which this year went out to 'public vote'. The winners have a notoriously strong and vociferous following among some 'ladies of a certain age. Draw your own conclusions.