Comments on: 2008 Choice Music Prize - some thoughts http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/ Sinéad Gleeson's blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:58:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: John Updike http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134738 John Updike Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:58:06 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134738 "...this is a blog post, not an article... ...My thoughts, and like everyone else there - fans, bloggers, journos, bar staff - I had thoughts, views and opinions. They’re different from yours perhaps, but that’s ok isn’t it? ...EVERYONE is allowed to disagree with a vote/decision like this... ...that’s what happens with these things." Yes. I know, I agree. Right back at ya! “…this is a blog post, not an article… …My thoughts, and like everyone else there - fans, bloggers, journos, bar staff - I had thoughts, views and opinions. They’re different from yours perhaps, but that’s ok isn’t it?

…EVERYONE is allowed to disagree with a vote/decision like this… …that’s what happens with these things.”

Yes. I know, I agree. Right back at ya!

]]> By: Sinead http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134735 Sinead Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:51 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134735 "John Updike" (and we both know you're not he, but that's ok), this is a blog post, not an article, and it's purpose was summarised in the post title "some thoughts". My thoughts, and like everyone else there - fans, bloggers, journos, bar staff - I had thoughts, views and opinions. They're different from yours perhaps, but that's ok isn't it? As I said to Niall on Saturday night, EVERYONE is allowed to disagree with a vote/decision like this, that's what happens with these things. Even the winners have to expect that. “John Updike” (and we both know you’re not he, but that’s ok), this is a blog post, not an article, and it’s purpose was summarised in the post title “some thoughts”. My thoughts, and like everyone else there - fans, bloggers, journos, bar staff - I had thoughts, views and opinions. They’re different from yours perhaps, but that’s ok isn’t it?

As I said to Niall on Saturday night, EVERYONE is allowed to disagree with a vote/decision like this, that’s what happens with these things. Even the winners have to expect that.

]]> By: John Updike http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134733 John Updike Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:15 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2008/02/28/2008-choice-music-prize-some-thoughts/#comment-134733 You don't think the sebp record is the best irish record of the year, fair enough, nobody can argue with that. Besides that, the most prominent point coming across here seems to be that on the night some of your colleagues in the media were also pissed off with the result. They, funnily enough, are part of the same media that judged the sebp record as the best irish record of the year, and the same media that received the sebp record very well. So, you've highlighted there are differences of opinion in the media... wow... i wonder did anyone have any idea about that before they read this article? "When the result was announced, not a single person within a 40 feet of where I was standing responded. It was weird. Total widespread shock." The audience, i presume was mainly composed of fans friends and family of the different bands, so naturally enough in different areas, the result wouldn't have been received as well, or at all, or negatively, or whatever... Listen to the roar on the audio of the guy announcing the result, A lot of people reacted very well indeed! You don’t think the sebp record is the best irish record of the year, fair enough, nobody can argue with that.

Besides that, the most prominent point coming across here seems to be that on the night some of your colleagues in the media were also pissed off with the result. They, funnily enough, are part of the same media that judged the sebp record as the best irish record of the year, and the same media that received the sebp record very well. So, you’ve highlighted there are differences of opinion in the media… wow… i wonder did anyone have any idea about that before they read this article?

“When the result was announced, not a single person within a 40 feet of where I was standing responded. It was weird. Total widespread shock.”

The audience, i presume was mainly composed of fans friends and family of the different bands, so naturally enough in different areas, the result wouldn’t have been received as well, or at all, or negatively, or whatever… Listen to the roar on the audio of the guy announcing the result, A lot of people reacted very well indeed!

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