Dancing Toys The Mockers Peking Man MOST PROMISING MALE VOCALIST Mark Loveys (Satellite Spies) Paul Eversden (Katango) James Gaylyn (Rise) MOST PROMISING FEMALE VOCALIST Debbie Harwood Dianne Swann (Everything That Flies) Betty Monga (IQU) MOST PROMISING GROUP Satellite Spies – Destiny in Motion Everything That Flies – Bleeding Hearts Katango – Dial L for Love INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT Dame Kiri Te Kanawa DD Smash Dalvanius Prime & The Patea Maori Club BEST VIDEO Fane Flaws – Diamonds on China (The Narcs) Debra Bustin – Krazy Legs (The Pelicans) Roger Guise – I Like To Drive (Scotty & Co) BEST FILM SOUNDTRACK Hammond Gamble / Beaver – Should I be good Should I Be Evil Stephen McCurdy – Out in the Cold (Came A Hot Friday) BEST PRODUCER Nigel Stone – For Today Glyn Tucker Jnr- Forever Tuesday Morning (The Mockers) Graeme Myhre – Lift Your Head Up High (Peking Man) BEST ENGINEER Graeme Myhre – Lift Your Head Up High Nigel Stone – For Today (Netherworld Dancing Toys) Nigel Stone – Painted Years (Netherworld Dancing Toys) BEST JAZZ ALBUM Jacqui Fitzgerald – The Masquerade Is Over Martin Winch – Sahara Alan Broadbent Trio – Song of Home BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM Tamas Vasmas – Brahms Dolce Consort – Recorder Music National Youth Choir – Peter Godfrey Conducts the National Youth Choir of NZ BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Patsy Riggir – You Remind Me of a Love Song Suzanne Prentice – I Wish I Was Waltzing With You Richie Pickett & The Inlaws – Gone For Water BEST FOLK ALBUM Alan Young – That's No Way To Get Along Martha Louise – The Sailor / Mixed Feelings Mike Harding – Time on the Road BEST GOSPEL ALBUM Jules Riding – On This Night Gray Bartlett – Two Shades of Gray Wellington Salvation Army – Where Glory Dwelleth POLYNESIAN ALBUM OF THE YEAR Herbs – Long Ago Aotearoa – Maranga Ake Ai Howard Morrison – Songs of New Zealand BEST COVER Debra Bustin – Krazy Legs (The Pelicans) Norman Te Whata & Emily Karaka – Long Ago (Herbs) Paula Reid – State House Kid (Last Man Down) See: 1985 in music Performing arts Benny Award presented by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand to Toni Savage BEM QSM. Radio and television The Broadcasting Tribunal awards the rights to broadcast a third channel to TV3. Julian Mounter is appointed the TVNZ Director-General. The Auckland Television