We have to apologise that it is Monday before we got around to posting this, we’ve been recovering.

Last Thursday night at the Irish Web Awards, Goldenplec was fortunate enough to retain the Irish Web Award for Best Music Site. We are stunned to have managed to win it for a second time. It’s a real honour among the quality of website whom we have been up against in both years. Thursday truly was a bizarrely unique night from the minute the team walked through the door. I (Aidan) dressed up in full on PSY costume, joined by a couple of the team dressed up in costume too as we struggled to let go of Halloween.

The venerable Rick O’Shea carried proceedings, using myself as a prop to pick things up during any lulls (there weren’t many), to do the Gangnam Style dance. I was fortunate in the second half to be joined by 15-20 other nutters, who joined me in this Gangnam fun, making for some extremely memorable photos. We had a lot of fun. The cupcakes and sweets were delicious and the money grabbing machine (think Crystal Maze) gave the night a truly fun filled centre.

I’d like to personally thank the Broadsheet.ie comments for not being overtly harsh, Entertainment.ie and those who video’d the group Gangnam and got such amazing snaps of our unexpected involvement as entertainment for the night. I need to thank every last one of the contributors on Team Goldenplec, who have tirelessly worked on the site over the years. We can’t name everyone so check out our staff list [HERE]. However I do need to name Kieran Frost, our photography editor – who decides and filters the images and manages our entire photography team, Ros Madigan, Stephen Byrne and Sean Noone for their sub-editing work, which helps to try improve the standard of writing on Goldenplec each week and finally Sean Smyth, who has been an integral cog in all things social on the site (entering competitions via Twitter, Facebook, growing our numbers, The Plec Picks, all him).

We have a special team of volunteers, who work so hard on the site covering as many gigs around Ireland as we can muster, reviewing as many Irish albums and EPs as we can get through  and providing you with great interviews with Irish and international acts. It’s an immense amount of stuff to cover and hopefully to you the readers, whom we do all this for, enjoy the site, the writing, the photography and coverage of music in Ireland we provide.

Thanks so much for being a part of Goldenplec. Now for another busy, busy year!

Here’s some pictures to tell the tale of Thursday night. Oh and the video of us doing Gangnam Style, naturally!

Web Awards 2012 Gallery

Photos by Michelle Geraghty