Winners of 2007 Meteor Ireland Music Awards

The seventh year of the Irish music industry’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards was held on Thursday and broadcast on RTE last night.

They might not mean a whole lot except perhaps give an idea of how Irish people inclined to vote in such things regard Irish music at the moment.

Here’s the 2007 List of winners of the main categories:

Voting Categories
Best Irish Band - Snow Patrol: Website • MySpace
Best Irish Male - Damien Dempsey: Website • MySpace
Best Irish Female - Luan Parle: Website • MySpace
Best Irish Pop Act - Westlife: Website • MySpace
Best Live Performance - Snow Patrol: Website • MySpace
Best Irish DJ - Ray D’Arcy: Today FM

Non Voting Categories
Best Int’l Group - Scissor Sisters
Best Int’l Male - Justin Timberlake
Best Int’l Female - Lily Allen
Best Int’l Album - Arctic Monkeys - “Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not”
Best Folk/Traditional - Sharon Shannon: Website • MySpace
Best Irish Album - Snow Patrol – “Eyes Open”
Best Irish New Act - Director: Website • MySpace

Not the most exciting list in the world, but maybe if you don’t live in Ireland you’re not familiar with Director or with Stevie Nicks. Sorry I mean Luan Parle. And Damien Dempsey is still the biz.

Clannad were awarded the Lifetime Achievement one, Paul Brady the Humanitarian one, and the truly legendary DJ, Larry Gogan, the Industry one. Supposedly there was an award called the Hope 2007 Award but I can’t find who that was awarded to so perhaps there is no hope for 2007.

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2 Responses to “Winners of 2007 Meteor Ireland Music Awards”

Primal Sneeze responds: February 5th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Royseven won the Hope for 2007 award, Eolaí.

I would have gone for The Blizzards personally. Luan Parle was in the list too, but I guess she jumped straight from being a ‘hope’ to a ‘best’.
eolai responds: February 5th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Ah, thanks Primal - though I’m going to cling to the belief that the judges at least had the option of considering there was no hope for the year.

Have read of both Royseven and The Blizzards, but need to do some work on the familiarity front.

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