The secret is out: Iva Davies’ ICEHOUSE have been presented with Icon status at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards.
Across a 45-year career – and counting – the alternative rock greats landed eight ARIA top 10 albums and more than 30 ARIA Top 40 singles, including classics “Great Southern Land”, “Electric Blue”, “Crazy”, “Hey Little Girl”, “Street Café”, “No Promises”, “We Can Get Together”, and many others.
Davies was on hand at the fifth annual ceremony, presented Wednesday night, April 9th, at the ivy, Sydney, where his legendary act performed two of those classic songs, “Crazy” and “Great Southern Land”.
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“Great Southern Land” couldn’t be left out, and “Crazy”, Davies exclusively told Rolling Stone AU/NZ prior to the show, well, he has a particular soft spot for that one.
“I had a manager in America and I was in Australia. We had this arrangement that I’d call him every week at a certain time,” he recounted. “I was in a phone booth and he said ‘Crazy’ has just gone into the American top 20. I just about fell over. It really did the hard work and of course, ‘Electric Blue’ followed it and went on to eclipse it in the US charts. There was a certain point where we had two songs in the American top 20, which was amazing after all those years of chipping away.”
ICEHOUSE also crashed charts around Europe and the UK, where five songs impacted the singles tally, including a top 20 hit in 1983 with the Primitive Man classic “Hey Little Girl”. The hitmakers were elevated into the ARIA Hall of Fame during a ceremony in 2006 and global album sales top nine million.
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With the Icon award, ICEHOUSE become the third act to collect the coveted honour following Tina Arena in 2023 and last year’s recipient, Neil Finn’s Crowded House.
The Icon was one of seven categories announced at the 2025 Rolling Stone Australia Awards, including Best LP or EP, the Global Award, and the Readers’ Choice.
ICEHOUSE headlined the recently-completed Red Hot Summer Tour 2025, topping a bill that included Noiseworks, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe and Baby Animals. More live dates are locked in for the year ahead, including a show Saturday, August 23rd at the Coliseum Theatre in Rooty Hill, Western Sydney.
