Blindboy Boatclub and CMAT had criticised RTÉ for the omission. RTÉ has said that a technical issue was to blame for Irish band Lankum’s acceptance speech at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize being initially omitted from a recording of the event. The folk band took home the album of the year prize at the ceremony […]

2 years ago

The RTÉ Choice Music Awards took place this week, celebrating some of the best music Ireland has had to offer over the past year. The big winner on the night was singer songwriter CMAT, who was announced as the winner of Irish Album of the Year 2022 for her debut album If My Wife New […]

3 years ago

Who will win? More importantly, who should win? Denise Chaila triumphed last year, but how does it look this time around? The RTÉ Choice Music Prize shortlist for best Irish album of the year – from 2021, of course – has officially been revealed. Unveiled by Choice Music Prize co-founder and chairman Jim Carroll on the […]

4 years ago

Who will triumph? You get to decide… It is widely accepted that 2019 was a very good year for Irish music, an opinion reflected quite sharply in the recently-revealed album nominations for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize. We’ll remind you of those further down the page but for now, the exciting news of those nominated […]

6 years ago

Because we all need some wry Americana in our lives… Having been rightly hailed for releasing one of the very best Irish songs of 2017* by those overseeing the RTÊ Choice Music Prize, Dublin outfit Tandem Felix make a welcome return. Headed up by David Tapley, a man with a fondness for dry laconic wit, pedal […]

7 years ago

Last night the RTE Choice Music Awards took place last night in Vicar Street, and the Limerick/Shannon based hip-hop trio Rusangano Family took home the top prize. Their album Let The Dead Bury The Dead was presented with the €10,000 prize by Snow Patrol’s Jonny Quinn, after nine of the ten nominees performed, with only James […]

9 years ago