 His score has been described as "pioneering" and "an important contribution to Australian film scoring".In 1988, Davies and co-collaborator John Oates won an APRA Music Award for the Icehouse song "Electric Blue" (from the "Man of Colours" album) in the Most Performed Australasian Popular Work category.On 25 January 1988, Icehouse performed "Electric Blue" at the Royal Command, New South Wales Bicentennial Concert in front of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.