Wins six ARIA Awards

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996 Hourly, Daily , and the related singles, provided nine nominations, with the group winning six trophies: Album of the Year, Best Group, Best Independent Release, Producer of the Year, Best Video (” Soldiers “, directed by Andrew Lancaster ) and Engineer of the Year (Paul McKercher and Wayne Connolly). The album was certified platinum by ARIA by the end of 1997 to acknowledge the shipment of 70000 units. It was listed at No. 55 in 100 Best Australian Albums where the authors felt the group were “heavily under the spell of late ’60s English music… in particular the Pretty Things’ S.F. Sorrow … [which] follows the journey of the character… from birth through love, war, tragedy, madness and old age.”