Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2010 nominees announced

Darragh

Heya Folks

At the launch of the 2010 Meteor Ireland Music Awards - got the nominee shortlist in front of me and it's as follows:

EDIT: I've just amended the post so that if you click on the headings, you'll be brought to the relevant voting page on the Meteor Awards website:


Best Radio DJ - National

• Ian Dempsey - Today FM
• Damien Farrelly - 2FM
• Tony Fenton - Today FM
• Ray Foley - Today FM
• Larry Gogan - 2FM
• Dan Hegarty - 2FM

Radio DJ - Regional

• Leigh Doyle - BEAT
• Jim & Niamh - FM 104
• KC & Lenny - Red FM
• Michelle McMahon - Spin SW
• Jon Richards - Galway Bay FM
• Shona Ryan - Spin 1038

Best Irish Band

• Bell X1
• The Coronas
• Delorentos
• Snow Patrol
• U2

Best Irish Male

• Colin Devlin
• Jerry Fish
• Jack L
• Christy Moore
• Mundy

Best Irish Female

• Wallis Bird
• Julie Feeney
• Valerie Francis
• Laura Izibor
• Dolores O' Riordan

Best Irish Pop Act

• Delorentos
• Laura Izibor
• The Blizzards
• The Script
• Westlife

Best Irish Album

• Blue Lights on the Runway - Bell X1
• Tony was an Ex-Con - The Coronas
• The Duckworth-Lewis Method - The Duckworth-Lewis Method
• Up to Now - Snow Patrol
• No Line On The Horizon - U2

Best Irish Live Performance

• Bell X1
• Christy Moore
• The Script
• Snow Patrol
• U2

NON VOTING CATEGORIES

Best Folk/Traditional

• Kathleen Loughnane
• Kila with Bruno Coulais
• Christy Moore
• Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
• Sharon Shannon

Best International Band

• Black Eyed Peas
• Florence & The Machine
• Green Day
• Kasabian
• Muse

Best International Male

• Michael Buble
• Jay-Z
• Morrissey
• Paolo Nutini
• Bruce Springsteen

Best International Female

• Lily Allen
• Lady Ga Ga
• Little Boots
• Pixie Lotts
• Taylor Swift

Best International Album

• Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian
• Lungs - Florence & The Machine
• Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
• Sunny Side Up - Paolo Nutini
• The Fame Monster - Lady Ga Ga

Best International Live

• Leonard Cohen
• Coldplay
• Florence & The Machine
• Bruce Springsteen
• Take That

Awards will be held at the RDS Friday February 19 2010, presented by Amanda Byram. Performing on the night will be Westlife, Snow Patrol, the Script, Florence and the Machine, Paolo Nutini, The Coronas, Pixie Lott and "many more to be announced".

More details on the website here: http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/

The most anticipated television event in the Irish music calendar will be aired by RTE on Sunday 21st February 2010 on RTE 2 at 9pm.

As with previous years Irish music fans will be able to decide the winners of nine major categories:

• Best National D.J.
• Best Regional D.J.
• Best Irish Band
• Best Irish Male
• Best Irish Female
• Best Irish Pop Act
• Best Irish Album
• Best Irish Live Performance
• Most Promising New Artist for 2010

A further nine awards will be decided by votes cast by representatives of the Irish music industry with a total of eighteen awards presented on the night.

Public voting will be live from today allowing the public to decide who will be awarded the accolade of a Meteor Ireland Music Award. Voting for Most Promising New Artist for 2010 will be live from 19th January.

To vote is easy, simply text VOTE to 085 7114444 to receive a list of keywords and categories, then choose who you want to win!

Birneybau

Completeley irrelevant as usual....

The awards that is..

Not you Darragh

DoubleJoe7

Snow Patrol's Best Of is up for best album?!

How Partridge-esque

Mars Bar

bleh.

It's the same people every year!

delbertgrady

Horslips are the default winners of Best Irish Live Performance, but they must have decided to share with the other children, and politely offered it to the other contestants to fight it out.

coconut5

When can you vote for this? Why are there non-voting categories?

I think the public should have some say in who's nominated, it might not be quite so samey then?

SherryD

coconut5 wrote: »

When can you vote for this? Why are there non-voting categories?

I think the public should have some say in who's nominated, it might not be quite so samey then?

They have nonvoting for international categories because they just give the award to whoever will show up. Hence why Pixie Lott will win best International Female.

You can vote now on http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/

iguy

Where is the mention of i102104 or i105107.

raindog.promo

I guessed about 90% of the nominees before even reading the thread.

How absolutely boring.

OnaedInSpace

Just give everything to Christy Moore, at least he sweats for his work

culabula88

whose playing at this on the night as i might buy a ticket...

Bonkers_xOx

culabula88 wrote: »

whose playing at this on the night as i might buy a ticket...

The Script, Westlife, Pixie lott, Bell X1, Snow Patrol, Florence and The Machine, Paulo Nutini and the Coronas.
I bought tickets myself, thought it was a decent line-up.

iGotAquestion

great band deserve a bit of success please vote for them by following this link
http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/competitions/voting/2801/
you get one vote per day so please take a moment to vote for them daily! cheers

http://www.sixteenlayers.com/index.php

Dennis the Stone

iGotAquestion wrote: »

great band deserve a bit of success please vote for them by following this link
http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/competitions/voting/2801/
you get one vote per day so please take a moment to vote for them daily! cheers

http://www.sixteenlayers.com/index.php

Vote Sixteen Layers for Shameless Spammers Award 2010.

maccored

every band in ireland seems to be in the 'best new artist' longlist. They just threw in all the entries regardless (well, thats what it looks like)

syrupy

Jesus, seems like that lot (performing) are going to get the award just for being there...

odonopenmic

maccored wrote: »

every band in ireland seems to be in the 'best new artist' longlist. They just threw in all the entries regardless (well, thats what it looks like)

You're right of course. We were nominated and although it's nice to get a nod (even along with everyone else), it's also a bit maddening. Either you have promise or you don't - getting thousands of your mates to vote for you shouldn't come into this at all. As if the Meteor Awards weren't taking the p!ss enough already....:rolleyes:

Ah well, I supppose you should never look a gift horse in the mouth. :pac:
Still, it'd be nice to know, realistically, which bands are 'rated' by the industry and not the ones either there because Hot Press said so or cos people who know them, and nothing about their music, know how to work an online poll.

Geeze, hope that doesn't sound too bitter and twisted :D

DrumSteve

I lol'd heartily at the suggestion that the coronas should be nominated for any award... plus why the **** is a best of album (snow patrol)up for an award? why wasn't codes album recognized for what it was: one of the best irish debuts of the last 10 years? where the hell was the recognition for Imelda May? She's only bleedin play with jeff beck...