So the Meteor’s were on last night. A few surprises if you ask me. Didn’t expect Aslan (priced at 8/1 yesterday morning) to get Best Irish Band and certainly didn’t think Paddy Casey would nab Best Album, but what can you do eh?
Here’s the list of winners from last night…

Best National DJ - Ray Foley […]

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They’ve just been awards the Hope For 2008 awards at last night’s Meteor Music Awards so here they are as your video of the day for Saturday - Ham Sandwich with ‘Words’ as recorded for Balcony TV.

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Kilkenny native (now living in the big smoke) Majella Murphy is amongst the nominees at tonight’s 2008 Meteor Music Awards in the RDS. She’s in the non-public voting category of ‘Best Irish Folk Traditional’ and finds her name in lights alongside Tommy Fleming, Damien Dempsey, Kila, Moving Hearts and Sharon Shannon.
Certainly a tough group for […]

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Oh yeah…. the weekend has landed.
To help you on your way, here’s ‘Hot Stepper’ from Ina Kamoze.
Delightful.

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Ilya K are three individuals on a quest for a common goal. The goal? To “write, record and perform great original music”.
Since the first time I met the band (over 2 years ago now at this stage), I’ve continued to be impressed by their musical endeavours.
Things paid off for them last year as they were […]

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Getting to ten podcasts was one thing, getting to 41 is a whole other issue, but we’ve done it and continue to roll out on a weekly basis. Myself (Ken) and Ross back behind the mic again with another dose of news from around the web, some interesting facts on Valentines day, some zombie love […]

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Ah come on, it’s Valentine’s day, you HAVE to have a little bit of Marvin Gaye in your day. The coolest cat in the business, 28 years ago performing his absolute timeless gem ‘Let’s Get It On’.
Rumour has it was played at a funeral back in the 80s and lost it’s meaning for a while. […]

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We’re getting closer and closer to the announcement of the first bulk of acts due to hit Electric Picnic this summer. The 2008 festival runs August 29-31st in Stradbally and is being hyped as “bigger than ever”.
All the early bird tickets were sold out and organisers had said before Christmas that we’d see the lineup […]

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Leading Irish singer and performer Dave Browne (of Picturehouse) arrives in Kilkenny this Saturday night at Cleere’s Theatre.
Known as a uniquely talented vocalist, songwriter, piano and guitar player, and now no stranger to Kilkenny, Dave appears in promotion of current EP ‘Prelude’ before releasing his debut solo album ‘Windows To The Soul’. ‘Prelude’, released in […]

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A bit different to the album version, but here’s some Wilt for your Wednesday with ‘No Worries’.
Those were the days…

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