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FORMER Savage Garden member Daniel Jones is competing against himself in this year's top APRA music awards.
The Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) Music Awards - to be held on June 3 in Sydney - recognise composers and songwriters behind the nation's most popular music.
Both Jones and Darren Hayes, his former songwriting partner from now-defunct Savage Garden, have been nominated for a song.
But vying for the same award in the Most Performed Australian Work category are Jennifer Waite and Grant Wallis of Aneiki, a new group produced by Jones.
For Jones, the choice of which nominee should take out the category from a field of five, is not the dilemma one would expect.
He thinks Aneiki with its song Pleased To Meet You should win.
"From my heart, it would be Aneiki because I've put as much effort into them as I did with Savage Garden," Jones told AAP.
"I really feel that Savage Garden has won enough accolades to be satisfied. We've won quite a few with the ARIAs and APRAs and World Music Awards.
"I actually hope Aneiki win it, totally."
Savage Garden's very public split came in almost farcical circumstances last October when Jones' former bandmate Hayes announced in a newspaper interview that the band would no longer exist.
But there was unfinished business with Savage Garden, with offers for compilation and television material, Jones said, adding that he was on talking terms with Hayes despited media reports of a rift.
"It (Savage Garden) has a presence, it's just not requiring me 24 hours a day and not requiring me to jump on a tour bus and travel the world," Jones said.
"I speak to Darren. We're back on talking terms, not that never really were ... we sort of let each other go for a second just to have some breathing space."
Aneiki's lead singer is former Savage Garden backing vocalist Jennifer Waite, who according to Jones combined model looks with her talent a "great lyricist and singer" for a result which "caught my eye".
"The whole package? It will help because the whole world is such a superficial place," he said.
Country singer Kasey Chambers and popular dance artist paulmac (paulmac) lead the field of nominees in the awards.
Chambers has four nominations, two for each of her songs On A Bad Day and Runaway Train and paulmac has two nominations for hit song Just The Thing and another for Sound Of Breaking Up.
Veteran APRA winners Graham Goble, Andrew Farriss, Rick Price and the late Michael Hutchence also feature in the list of nominees.
The list of nominations was read out by Ella and Jesse Hooper from ARIA and APRA Award-winning group Killing Heidi, after an acoustic performance of their song Heavensent (Heavensent).
Aneiki also took to the stage at Sydney CBD venue The Basement for an acoustic rendition of Pleased To Meet You.
This year's list of nominees features a new wave of songwriters credited with hits by artists including Alex Lloyd, Something For Kate, George, Gerling and Aneiki.
The growing popularity of dance music has been acknowledged with the new category of Most Performed Dance Work.
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