February 28th, 2006
Choice Music Prize announced tonight
For anyone at a loose end tonight and game enough to brave the intermittent snow and Arctic wind chill, the winner of the The Choice Music Prize will be announced at a ceremony in Vicar Street. Nine of the 10 nominated acts will be playing live, including Sigla’s personal favourite Julie Feeney who made the shortlist with her unique debut, 13 Songs. Tickets are 25 euro and doors open at 7.30pm.
EDIT 11pm - Yes! Julie Feeney takes the prize - and well deserved it is too.
February 28th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
my fave’s Duke Special…not his hairstyle…or his dance routine
doors open at 70.30pm.is that Irish time?
February 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
It’d be kind of late wouldn’t it? You going along?
March 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Was just about to comment that Julie won - but see you were in before me with an update!
Only found out recently that 2 of my friends are good friends of Julie’s and were roped into listening to demos and going to early gigs.
I was in the middle of recommending her to one of them, and then stopped midsentence - suddenly rememebering that he had invited me a little gig somewhere by a friend of his who was really good and different - named Julie Feeney!
Small small world.
March 1st, 2006 at 9:05 am
Did you go along to any of those early gigs? I’ve only seen Julie live once, at the Speigeltent last year. When I reviewed her album for the Ticket, it came to me in quite an unorthodox one. Most CDs come from record companies or music PR folk, but Tony said something like “There’s this girl called Julie Feeney that you could review. Here’s her mobile number if you need to get a copy of the album”. It was one of the first reviews that appeared and a LOT of people asked me about her and I (as I am wont, á la Cougar and Kelley Stoltz) have been forcifully recommending it to people ever since. I even persuaded a friend who’s a buyer for a record shop to stock it when it came out.
From the minute I heard it, I knew it was something special. There was a uniqueness to it that I haven’t heard on an Irish album in a long time.
On top of all that, given the ratio of men to women in Irish music, I’m in some small way delighted that a women has won a prize like this. If only to encourage more women to get involved in music.