Nominees For The 2005 Meteor Ireland Music Awards

BrianD

NOMINEES FOR THE 2005 METEOR IRELAND MUSIC AWARDS

The show will be held on February 24 and hosted by Ed Byrne. You will be able to vote via www.meteor.ie or by text.

Best Irish DJ : PUBLIC VOTE
Alison Curtis
Ray D'Arcy
Ian Dempsey
Tom Dunne
Dave Fanning
Jenny Huston
Ryan Tubridy


Best Irish Band : PUBLIC VOTE
Bell X1
Blink
Future Kings Of Spain
Snow Patrol
The Frames
The Thrills

Best Irish Male : PUBLIC VOTE
Paddy Casey
David Kitt
Brian McFadden
Mundy
Declan O'Rourke
Damien Rice

Best Irish Female: PUBLIC VOTE
Cathy Davey
Bronagh Gallagher
Sinead O’Connor
Ann Scott
Eleanor Shanley
Juliet Turner

Best Irish Pop Act: PUBLIC VOTE
Carol Anthony
D. Side
Ronan Keating
Brian McFadden
Carol Anthony
The Corrs
Westlife



Best Irish Album
“Burn The Maps” Frames
”Deep Inside The Sound Of Sadness” Blink
“Final Straw” Snow Patrol
‘Let’s Bottle Bohemia’ The Thrills
“Raining Down Arrows” Mundy
“Since Kyabram” Declan O'Rourke


Best International Male
Eminem
George Michael
Morrissey
Usher
Kayne West
Robbie Williams

Best International Female
Anastacia
Natasha Bedingfield
PJ Harvey
Kylie Minogue
Bic Runga
Joss Stone


Best Folk/Trad
Kila
Mary McPartlan
George Murphy
Declan O'Rourke
Planxty
Pauline Scanlon

Best International Album
"Aha Shake Heartbreak" Kings Of Leon
"American Idiot" Green Day
"Franz Ferdinand"
"Hopes and Fears" Keane
"Hot Fuss" Killers
"Scissor Sisters"

Best Live Performance Visiting Act
Franz Ferdinand
Killers
Madonna
Metallica
Pixies
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Best International Group
Franz Ferdinand
Keane
Killers
Outkast
REM
Scissor Sisters

Amz

I'd love to see Declan O'Rourke do well, his album is fantastic and he deserves some recognition.

G'Wan Ray D'Arcy for best DJ!

scarfacemj

Dave Fanning coz he's so fokin' 'cool' man.......my Bollocks!

dead air

nah, dave fanning's alright. I like his (newish) show on the drivetime slot on 2fm.

But, as for voting on best DJ, that would be a tie between my two favourite ex-phantom DJs. I know this is a "popular" music awards ceremony, but its a damn shame that for best DJ you ultimately have a choice between Today FM (3 djs) and 2FM (4 djs). Even though I don't listen to Spin (for example), surely one of their DJs should have been nominated to at least balance out the diversity of radio listenership in this country. Fanning and Dunne get nominated every year, I'm sure they wouldn't care less if they weren't nominated. Maybe its because 2fm and today fm are the only national stations, that's probably why, I don't know.

Tiriel

where can you vote on www.meteor.ie ? or am I just being daft and can't see the link anywhere!!

scarfacemj

Probably the latter, too lazy to check.

Amz

dead air wrote:

Even though I don't listen to Spin (for example), surely one of their DJs should have been nominated to at least balance out the diversity of radio listenership in this country.

Unfortunately there's no particularly good DJ on Spin. Cliona O'Leary's voice is headwreckin'! I'd listen to them the odd time when going to or from college, but only coz there's very little yapping going on at those times.

I think people like Fanning and Dunne appeal to a wider audience than a DJ on Spin would, given that Dave Fanning discusses current music and music from older artists like the Beatles and what not, plus he does movie features etc. Not too familiar with Tom Dunne as I'm usually at training when his show is on.

There isn't really much choice when it comes to the nominees for the individual artist awards, male or female.

I can't believe they have Madonna nominated for best live act! 'Tis a bit of a joke really.

And I wasn't joking about Ray D'Arcy either.

scarfacemj

Mr De Arcy is cool although the music is crap, but thats the mainstream for ya. What about Ray McGowan? he was just so dreamy.....
I'm voting Madonna in for widest gap, both vaginal and dental. Like a Virgin my ass!

Amz

scarfacemj wrote:

Like a Virgin my ass!

*snigger*

Is that a pun?

scarfacemj

Ah very good! I'll never tell......

Pearl

Who the hell is Kayne West or am I just getting old?

Amz

He's a "rapper" does a lot of collaborations. "Jesus Walks" is one of his songs doing the rounds at the moment.

I wouldn't be a fan.

Shanannigan

http://www.meteor.ie/meteor_ireland_music_awards.html here ya go you lazy ppl vote away... i hope the killers sweep the internationa awards board

scarfacemj

Mr West is a rapper, nuff said. And don't vote, I thought we were supposed to be the underground voice or is it the underground voice sponsored by McDonalds?

stereo_carol

I think Joe and Keith on Spin in the morning are brilliant!! Tehy just crack me up! They're way better than the strawberry alarm clock. Anyone else??

Richard III

It has to be Bell X1. Commiserations to the rest.

Gonzorex

I hope Brian 'nine pigs for breakfast/fat-f*ck waiting to happen/adulterer extraordinaire/Guy Chamber's Karaoke machine technician' wins. I like him.

Richard III

None of those albums are any good!.....what's going on?

scarfacemj

Thats modern day music for ya man, if only William Melvin Hicks were alive today.....take this fu*king thread down, music awards? PR me thinks.....wonder will the usual Z list be there....