Choice Music Prize nominations announced

By Phil Udell on Wednesday, 14 January 200912 Comments | Print this post

The Choice Music Prize shortlist has been announced today. The ten best albums as judged by a panel of media professionals including one of the State team is (in alphabetical order):

Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion (Model Citizen)
Mick Flannery – White Lies (EMI)
Halfset – Another Way of Being There (Casino Gravity Records)
Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew (Own label)
David Holmes – The Holy Pictures (Canderblinks)
Jape – Ritual (Co-Op)
Messiah J & The Expert – From The Word Go (Inaudible)
Oppenheimer Take The Whole Mid-Range And Boost It (Fantastic Plastic)
R.S.A.G. – Organic Sampler (Psychonavigation)
The Script – The Script (Sony Music)

The judges are:
Niall Byrne (State/Nialler9 blog)
Edel Coffey (Irish Independent)
Ian Dempsey (Today FM)
James Foley (Record of the Day)
Andrew Hamilton (Clare People)
Kieran Hurley (Cork Campus Radio)
Paul Mallon (Irish Daily Star Sunday)
Lauren Murphy (Entertainment.ie)
Sinead Ni Mhorda (Phantom FM)
Ed Power (Freelance)
Rigsy (BBC Northern Ireland¹s Across The Line/ATL TV)
Ian Wilson (2FM)

The Choice Music Prize live event will be held at Vicar Street, Dublin on Wednesday March 4th.

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12 Comments »

Jules said:

1

woo-hoo! go RSAG!

- 14 January 2009 at 3:30 pm

Dave said:

2

Yeah, I just noticed that Niall was a judge. Interesting…

I was surprised/gutted not to see Adebisi Shank on there, since the general blog commenters’ consensus seemed to be they had a decent chance, but I guess it’s still not the kind of music that excited everyone. That shall change!

I still think Jape will win, although I have several records here I’d prefer to it. RSAG’s is my favourite of the nominees.

- 14 January 2009 at 3:41 pm

IndieLimerick said:

3

ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL!!! where are they

- 14 January 2009 at 3:48 pm

Lou said:

4

What about story of hair?? They had an amazing album, cheap rate… ??? I’m bewildered!

- 14 January 2009 at 4:29 pm

Jellyman said:

5

The Script??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

- 14 January 2009 at 4:32 pm

Beardy said:

6

YUS! The Script woohoo, my panites are wet with glee, i am gonna kiss my Danny O’Donoghue posters tonight i can tell you!

- 14 January 2009 at 4:32 pm

Dave said:

7

Is there any significance to the way the albums are ordered on the site? It seems like anything other than alphabetical order would be a bit counter-intuitive.

- 14 January 2009 at 5:09 pm

Niall Byrne said: