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Last Post 1/11/2005 1:50 PM by milky

Meteor Awards Nominations

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milky

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1/11/2005 1:50 PM
Frames score double whammy in Meteor awards nominations 11/01/2005 - 13:23:46 The Frames have been nominated in two categories for the Meteor Ireland Music Awards - Best Irish Album and Best Irish Band. Other nominees across the categories include Snow Patrol, Paddy Casey, Brian McFadden, Kylie Minogue and Franz Ferdinand. The star-studded event, which is now in its fifth year, will be hosted by Irish comedian Ed Byrne and televised by RTE. Sixteen Meteor Ireland Music Awards will be presented this year. The public will be invited to vote for short-listed nominees in five categories compiled from the votes cast by representatives from every area of the Irish music industry. Adi Roche will be presented with The Humanitarian Award for her work with the children of Chernobyl. The award is accompanied by €100,000 which will be donated to Ms Roche's nominated charity. Previous recipients of the award are Sister Stan, Elton John, Christina Nobel and Bono. Music fans can vote for short-listed nominees in five categories - Best Irish DJ, Best Irish Band, Best Irish Male, Best Irish Female and Best Irish Pop, by texting VOTE to 53500 or online by visiting www.meteor.ie (link below). Voting will be live from Thursday, January 13. NOMINEES FOR THE 2005 METEOR IRELAND MUSIC AWARDS Best Irish DJ : PUBLIC VOTE Alison Curtis Ray D'Arcy Ian Dempsey Tom Dunne Dave Fanning Jenny Huston Ryan Tubridy Best Irish Band : PUBLIC VOTE Bell X1 Blink Future Kings Of Spain Snow Patrol The Frames The Thrills Best Irish Male : PUBLIC VOTE Paddy Casey David Kitt Brian McFadden Mundy Declan O'Rourke Damien Rice Best Irish Female: PUBLIC VOTE Cathy Davey Bronagh Gallagher Sinead O’Connor Ann Scott Eleanor Shanley Juliet Turner Best Irish Pop Act: PUBLIC VOTE Carol Anthony D. Side Ronan Keating Brian McFadden Carol Anthony The Corrs Westlife Best Irish Album “Burn The Maps” Frames ”Deep Inside The Sound Of Sadness” Blink “Final Straw” Snow Patrol ‘Let’s Bottle Bohemia’ The Thrills “Raining Down Arrows” Mundy “Since Kyabram” Declan O'Rourke Best International Male Eminem George Michael Morrissey Usher Kayne West Robbie Williams Best International Female Anastacia Natasha Bedingfield PJ Harvey Kylie Minogue Bic Runga Joss Stone Best Folk/Trad Kila Mary McPartlan George Murphy Declan O'Rourke Planxty Pauline Scanlon Best International Album "Aha Shake Heartbreak" Kings Of Leon "American Idiot" Green Day "Franz Ferdinand" "Hopes and Fears" Keane "Hot Fuss" Killers "Scissor Sisters" Best Live Performance Visiting Act Franz Ferdinand Killers Madonna Metallica Pixies Red Hot Chili Peppers Best International Group Franz Ferdinand Keane Killers Outkast REM Scissor Sisters Additional awards including Hope for 2005 as voted by 2FM listeners, The Humanitarian Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and The Industry Award will also be presented.

Rev Jules

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1/11/2005 3:20 PM
I don't know about you but I am going to vote for Bryan McFadden in every category I can. I just can't take any more whining, wailing, tuneless, off key acoustic guitar wielding hobbits.

kierry

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1/11/2005 3:28 PM
spot the difference! Best Irish Band Nominations 2004 Bell X1 The Frames Future Kings Of Spain The Thrills Snow Patrol The Tycho Brahe Best Irish Band Nominations 2005 Bell X1 The Frames Future Kings Of Spain The Thrills Snow Patrol Blink

bonzo

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1/11/2005 3:28 PM
I don't know about anybody else but I really hate the Meteor Awards. I don't know if I can describe why.

Rev Jules

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1/11/2005 3:30 PM
quote: Originally posted by kierry spot the difference! Best Irish Band Nominations 2004 Bell X1 The Frames Future Kings Of Spain The Thrills Snow Patrol The Tycho Brahe Best Irish Band Nominations 2005 Bell X1 The Frames Future Kings Of Spain The Thrills Snow Patrol Blink Classic....and the winner is...U2 ! By the way, for what good deed exactly did Elton John receive a humanitarian award ?

kierry

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1/11/2005 3:36 PM
swearing at reporters in a humanitarian fashion? picking stupid fights with madonna? almost sueing scissor sisters for playing his song? ah elton...

flipperstired

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1/11/2005 4:20 PM
guys just remember, the irish music scene is so small.... In ten years time we'll probably be laughing about the nominations then. Only at that stage, the Frames will receive outstanding contribution to music award, Brian Mcfadden will be hosting a talk show, the future kings of spain WILL be the kings of spain, daniel of the thrills will have become a girl (he is heading that way with that voice) and Snow Patrol will be the new kings of Ireland.... hey changes are good.... elton john will be singin candle in the wind 2015, "and it seems to me, i lived my life, like an ignorant overstuffed pig".... Kierry, priceless... but expect more next year.... and the year after ..... and the year after that.... blah blah blah blah blah i am so content in life blah blah blah blah...

clamps

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1/11/2005 5:28 PM
Classic....and the winner is...U2 ! By the way, for what good deed exactly did Elton John receive a humanitarian award ? .......for being a gay coke addict who owns/use to own (?) a football team

Nick The Greek

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1/11/2005 6:14 PM
The musicians, dj's etc.. dont give a sh*t about the awards, it's just an excuse to rob a couple of thousand teenage girls of their pocket money. Ireland needs a no nonsense highly respected accolade such as the Mercury Prize, forget about the various categories - just have a prize for best album / band full stop.

Archie

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1/11/2005 7:51 PM
Grecian Nick my friend, you can't just generalise like that: for some people, it may mean a lot to even be nominated. That goes especially for new acts, as opposed to people like the Frames or ahem Elton John, they would be glad to be recognised. Speaking as a teenage girl, I feel I shoudl argue that point too, but to be honest, I can't. Perhaps reducing the amount of categories is a good idea though. Why do we seperate male/female artists?

Binokular

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1/11/2005 10:27 PM
quote: Originally posted by Archie Perhaps reducing the amount of categories is a good idea though. Why do we seperate male/female artists? Good point, music is not an Olympic sport!

Rev Jules

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1/11/2005 10:57 PM
quote: Originally posted by Binokular Good point, music is not an Olympic sport! It is where drink, drugs and sex are concerned. If there was an olympic category for heroin, Keith Richards would win gold...every four years. (The Reverend Jules Earl Jackson Esq does not condone the use of drugs...however Waylon Jennings $10,000 a day coke habit was pretty impressive)

Antistar

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1/12/2005 12:57 AM
Oh God, the Meteor awards. I cannot fking wait. Roll up the usual Irish 'indie' types: The Thrills, Snow Patrol, Paddy Casey, Damien Rice blah blah blah...yawn.And ctface Brian McFadden.I'd love to rip that Kurt Cobain t-shirt I saw him wearing once in a photo and fking strangle the pig-nosed fker with it. Oh Yes, The Frames. You gotta have The Frames in there. The skies will darken, a hard rain's gonna fall and the whole world will slip on its axis if the Frames are not fking nominated in some stupid fking Irish end-of-year poll/critics' choice/awards show every fking year. Of course, they'll win cos everybody loves The fking Frames. Sinead O'Connor, what the fk has she done in the past year? Best Irish DJ Dave Fanning. How fking original. He must have 2,456 'Best Irish DJ' gongs at this stage. George Murphy??? Anyone who bought this pig-eyed runt's album should really commit suicide, or, alternatively, they could continue living on the condition that they give the CD to charity and go out and buy Luke Kelly's back catalogue instead. Wouldn't it be great if say, Luke Kelly and Phil Lynott were still alive and Brian McFadden and George Murphy were dead. How fking cool would that be? And all this hosted by that fking scrawny, pasty-faced,desperately unfunny f**khead Ed Byrne. Oh Sweet God, I'm emigrating.

flipperstired

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1/12/2005 1:16 AM
ok... Antistar.. you have serious issues!! I am available to chat anytime about the above.... cos i agree with 99% of it... only thing i dont like to see from anyone is throwing the name Snow Patrol into the "usuals" category, i think those guys have earned their time and have got there through a fantastic album.. but the rest... i will emmigrate too!

Archie

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1/12/2005 6:27 PM
quote: Originally posted by Antistar I'd love to rip that Kurt Cobain t-shirt... I HATE T-shirts with people's faces/band names on it. But for different reasons than you methinks.

vandala

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1/12/2005 9:49 PM
I love that pop music, me. Sure, it's lovely.

mutch

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1/13/2005 5:28 PM
quote: Originally posted by Antistar Oh God, the Meteor awards. I cannot fking wait. Roll up the usual ... hosted by that fking scrawny, pasty-faced,desperately unfunny f**khead Ed Byrne. Oh Sweet God, I'm emigrating. nail on the head! the curse of grunge was that everyone picked up a guitar, even the wierdos who in school used to shave stripes into their leg hair (10euro for whoever can tell me which of the current crop of silly people with guitars and just long enough to be cool just short enough to be acceptable hair, that is? no clues!) picked up guitars and cos of the everyman status of the music thought they should be heard. WELL NO! they shouldnt. smoetimes they should take up jobs on toll bridges like the modern trolls they are! haha

boywonder

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1/13/2005 5:41 PM
I Agree that Snow patrol should be there but It does bbeg the question why once again after so many quality independent releases thoughout the last several years do the Meteor awards insist on ignoring these bands who have been doing it themselves. It really just seems to be a pat on the back for usual industry suspects.

Unicron

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1/13/2005 6:32 PM
Um, the Frames are an independant band.

Protein biscuit

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1/14/2005 3:04 PM
Howdy y'all! New to this site and have found the opinions here to very interesting. Good to have an Irish forum to discuss music etcetera. On the subject of the Meteor awards i'll have to agree with boywonder's statement that it's a pat on the back for the usual industry suspects. I've only ever cast a sideways glance at them on TV and read the results the next day and find them most uninspiring, anodyne and a bit of a joke really. I mean, the comparison between '04 and '05 in a previous post with regard to new bands just sums up the laziness of it all. Eh .... if you're a best new band in 2004, can you still be a best new band in 2005 as well? Or does it mean that 2004 was an abysmally s**te year for new music?

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