The title of the album Shangri-La , refers to an illusory island paradise , a lost utopia that exists only in imagination and metaphor an apt name considering it was almost abandoned as an impossible project . In an interview Phil Kakulas commented '' " It was named before , back when I still had all faith that it would be released , " Kakulas begins , " but it seems almost prophetic in that we did almost lose it . The name ' Shangri-La ' seems to sum up a lot of what the album is about . The songs seem to deal with what happiness might be and where you might find happiness . Also I 've been listening to a lot of the Shangri-Las , the girl group , and I like that seedy neon lights appeal . My vision of Shangri-La is much more like Vegas or something like that . It 's a fools paradise . " '' '' Shangri-La '' was nominated for ' Best Adult Contemporary Album ' at the 2003 ARIA Awards , missing out to John Farnham 's '' The Last Time ''
2003 ARIA Awards
ARIA Music Awards of 2003
Shangri-La (The Blackeyed Susans album)