psycho
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Ha ye just read that Pete Go on Mr.Kitt!
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in one respect the award concept is silly (this work is better than that work according to ten random people etc) but on a practical level it can generate/revive interest in an album/artist.
2009 was a really good year for Irish artists, particularly underground artists being creative and working with small budgets. it was a very positive aspect of a fairly depressing year for this country. it would be nice to celebrate that fact and give those records that extra bit of attention.
Me too. Well, I don't hate AC.
It's funny when influential and powerful (relatively) media figures dismiss bands that nobody has ever heard of for that very fact, when they themselves have the opportunity to make whatever band they choose heard by people. People like Scutter, in his car.
yer man John Caddel off phantom just said something along the lines of;
some of whom have not heard 10% of the albums released in a given year
This is the key point really.
Judges should be signed up a year in advance to realistically do this correctly, not get given a list of 180 albums and asked at short notice to decide who their favourites are.
I know if i was given a long list of stuff to decide on I would probably look for the names of bands I knew, not the ones I havent heard about.
is there a special olympics equivalent for music?
This is the key point really.
Judges should be signed up a year in advance to realistically do this correctly, not get given a list of 180 albums and asked at short notice to decide who their favourites are.
I know if i was given a long list of stuff to decide on I would probably look for the names of bands I knew, not the ones I havent heard about.
I have generally avoided making any real comment on the Choice as I was tipped to make the cut a few years ago but it didn't work out, so I'm wary of how my comments might come across. (Incidentally, while I was disappointed at the time I didn't feel hard done by.)
Accusations of sour grapes is the easiest and laziest way to avoid real discussion. It drives me mental when people indulge in this
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