The 2010 Choice Music Prize nominees

Now in its fifth year, the Choice Music Prize is well established as a key milestone on the Irish music scene's calendar. The albums shortlisted for this year's prize represent a diverse and intriguing mix of Irish releases of the last year. The winner will be announced in Vicar Street on 3 March 2010 (8 of the 10 nominated acts are confirmed to play on the night).

Always going that extra 1609 metres for its readers, CLUAS prepared a set of questions for each act nominated for the 2009 award. We've so far gotten replies from 6 of the 10 acts, check out the links below to see what each act had to say:

• Interview with Valerie Francis (nominated for her album 'Slow Dynamo')
• Interview with Dark Room Notes (nominated for their album 'We Love You Dark Matter')
• Interview with Adrian Crowley (nominated for his album 'The Season of the Sparks')
• Interview with Laura Izibor (nominated for her album 'Let the truth be told')
• Interview with The Duckworth Lewis Method (nominated for their self-titled album)
• Interview with And So I Watch You From Afar (nominated for their self-titled album)

The other artists nominated this year were:

• Julie Feeney (for her album 'Pages')
• Bell X1 (for their album 'Blue Lights on The Runway')
• CODES (for their album 'Trees Dream in Algebra')
• The Swell Season (for their album 'Strict Joy')

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