Well that probably confirms that the Meteor Music Awards won’t be back anytime soon. The telecommunications giant are now putting their backing behind the Choice Music Prize. Ireland’s pick for the best Irish album that year.
Last year pop won out with Two Door Cinema Club taking home the coveted prize and donating their €10,000 prize to charity. Top lads. Now it’s time for 2011 to be dissected for all the album releases and whittle it down.
Judges are now listening and relistening to as many albums as possible and a shortlist will appear 11th of January 2012.
The winning album will be selected at the Meteor Choice Music Prize live event in The Olympia, Dublin on Thursday 8th March 2012. The event will be broadcast live in a special Paul McLoone Show on Today FM with exclusive behind the scenes content and highlights of the gig through the operator’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/meteor.
To help build anticipation of the event, Meteor and Choice will be running a few events starting with “An evening with Snow Patrol” which will take place in The Button Factory, Dublin on November 1st 2011.
Tickets to this exclusive gig can only be won via Meteor’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/meteor, its twitter profile, @meteor_mobile and through Meteor’s Goodie Bag customer loyalty programme www.meteorgoodiebag.ie. Snow Patrol will play tracks from their new album along with fond favourites from their back catalogue of worldwide hits.
The recipients of the Choice Music Prize thus far are as follows:
2010: Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History (Kitsune)
2009: Adrian Crowley – Season of the Sparks (Chemikal Underground)
2008: Jape – Ritual (V2/Cooperative Music)
2007: Super Extra Bonus Party – Super Extra Bonus Party (Alphabet Set)
2006: The Divine Comedy – Victory for the Comic Muse (Parlophone)
2005: Julie Feeney – 13 Songs (Julie Feeney)
Irish Times music journalist and critic Tony Clayton-Lea is the chairman of the judging panel. The project’s organiser is David Reid of Broadcast Management & Events.