Choice Music Prize date announced

The search to find Jape's successor has started!

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 26 Nov 2009

This year’s Choice Music Prize will take place on March 3 in Vicar St., with one very chuffed Irish artist going home €10,000 the richer thanks to the generosity of the Irish Music Rights Organisation and the Irish Recorded Music Association.

12 as-yet-unnamed music professionals are currently whittling down last year’s 200+ Irish releases into a 10-album shortlist, which will be revealed on January 13 and doubtless provoke much furious pub debate.

It’s the fifth time the prize has been awarded, with the previous winners Julie Feeney’s 13 Songs, The Divine Comedy’s Victory For The Comic Muse, Super Extra Bonus Party’s eponymous debut and the current album of Choice, Jape’s Ritual.

Having had a good look through the runners and riders, we’re putting our €1.50 each-way on the fabulous Duckworth-Lewis Method.

The Hot Press Newsdesk

The shortlist has been announced for the fourth annual Choice Music Prize, which is worth a cool €10,000 to the winners.

2009-01-14

The shortlist for this year’s Choice Music Prize was announced last night on Tom Dunne’s Today FM Pet Sounds show.

2008-01-10

Hosted by Channel 6’s Michelle Doherty and Across The Line presenter David “Rigsy” O’Reilly, the second Choice Music Prize, set out to showcase the ten best albums of the previous year and, of course, to decide a winner.

2007-03-08

With just a day to go before the Choice Music Prize is awarded, Si Schroeder and The Immediate are joint favourites to win.

2007-02-27

The Choice Music Prize ceremony night will host an plethora of live performances from the nominated bands.

2007-01-24

Snow Patrol have been installed as the 6/4 favourites to win this year’s Choice Music Prize with their Eyes Open set.

2007-01-10

Watching so many acts in sequence, the audience may have discerned a hierarchy. Those on the cusp of mainstream success played with a cocky disregard for the actual event.

2006-03-09

Irish labels, bands and artists often face an uphill struggle to garner recognition, even on their home turf. Which is why hotpress and HMV have undertaken their own combined initiative, to coincide with the announcement of the shortlist for the first Choice Irish music prize. As a product of this initiative, all ten albums will be specially stocked and displayed in HMV stores all over Ireland on the run-in to the announcement of the winning album later this month. Here, we take a look at the list – and reflect on those that have been omitted.

2006-02-17

Dubbed Ireland's version of the Mercury Music Prize, the Choice Music Prize is taking place on February 28 - and you can be there.

2006-02-07

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