Forget the Meteors, the big Irish music awards ceremony this year is the Digital Socket Awards. Taking place in the Grand Social on February 3rd, it’ll be a glitzy bash featuring performances from Groom, Meljoann, and very, very special guests.
The full list of nominees were announced this morning. Check them out here:
http://www.digitalsocketawards.com/2011/01/14/the-digital-socket-awards-2011-shortlist/
1. Best Design (Website, Artwork, Posters)
Adebisi Shank – This is the Second Album
Cathy Davey – The Nameless
Halves – It Goes, It Goes (Forever and Ever)
O Emperor – Hither Thither
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
2. Best Independent Label
Any Other City
Osaka Records
Out On A Limb
Popical Island
Richter Collective
3. Best Video
Ambience Affair – Devil in detail
BATS – Star Wormwood
Cathy Davey – Little Red
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands – Contact Sports
Rubberbandits – Horse Outside
4. Best Music Photography
Kieran Frost
kDamo
Ruth Medjber
Alessio Michelini
Loreana Rushe
5. Best Radio Show
Alison Curtis
Donal Dineen – The Small Hours
I-con Phanotm FM
Paul McLoone
Right Click 2XM
6. Best Pop
Cathy Davey – The Nameless
The Divine Comedy – Bang Goes the Knighthood
Fight Like Apes – The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner
So Cow – Meaningless Friendly
Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
7. Best Folk
Simon Fagan – Outside Looking In
Halves – It Goes, It Goes (Forever and Ever)
James Vincent McMorrow – Early in the Morning
O Emperor – Hither Thither
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
8. Best Rock and Alternative
Adebisi Shank – This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called…
Enemies – We’ve Been Talking
Jogging – Minutes
Redneck Manifesto – Friendship
Thread Pulls – New Thoughts
9. Best Electronic & Hip Hop
Meljoann – Squick
Not Squares – Yeah OK
R.S.A.G. – Be It Right or Wrong
Shit Robot – From The Cradle To The Rave
Solar Bears – She Was Coloured In
10. Best Indie
The Cast of Cheers – Chariot
Grand Pocket Orchestra – The Ice Cream
Groom – Marriage
Ham Sandwich – White Fox
Jogging – Minutes
11. Best EP
The Ambience Affair -Patterns
And So I Watch You From Afar – The Letters
Angkorwat- Early..
The Holy Roman Army – Desecrations
Sacred Animals – Welcome Home
12. Best Newcomer
The Cast Of Cheers
Jennifer Evans
Hipster Youth
James Vincent McMorrow
Solar Bears
13. Song of the Year
Adebisi Shank – ‘Genki Shank’
The Cast Of Cheers – ‘I Am Lion’
Cathy Davey – ‘Little Red’
Squarehead – ‘Fake Blood’
Villagers – ‘The Meaning of the Ritual’
14. Album of the Year
Adebisi Shank – This is the Second Album
The Cast Of Cheers – Chariot
Cathy Davey – The Nameless
James Vincent McMorrow – Early in the Morning
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
And thanks to all the judges who voted. These are they…
- 2UIBestow
- Asleep On The Compost Heap
- Bull Black Nova
- Chris Jones
- Cubikmusik
- Drop-d.ie
- Electric Whipcrack
- Goldenplec
- Harmless Noise
- Indie Limerick
- Lauren Murphy
- Like A Drummer
- Music Review
- My Event Guide
- Nessymon
- Nialler9
- On The Record
- Quarter Inch Collective
- Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff
- Secret Fireworks
- Steven O'Rourke
- Swear I'm Not Paul
- Sweet Oblivion
- The Point Of Everything
- The Torture Garden
- Those Geese Were Stupefied
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Apart from The Divine Comedy and The Villagers I do not have any of the nominated albums. I’m so out of touch with what the cool kids like.
Sure fly back to Ireland, pay a tenner in and you can experience some brand new cool kid music!