For the sake of tradition 2008 awards thread! (1 Viewer)

[bohs punks]

Irish Album of the year – Moutpiece


Irish Single of the year – Divisions Ruin


Best female Dancer: Teresa - non biased, she's simply the best


The John Sargent Award for Best male dancer: Roy Varuka


The Mary Harney award for Best haircuts: Female: Tanya, Male: Paul Section 4


Best distro / stall : The button badge lads.


The Not Ballymoreuseless award for Best festival: GGI, Drumancoo


Best Zine: Riot 77


Best gigs, foreign bands: Juggling Jugulars at Bohs, Left for Dead at the Tap


Best gig's Irish bands – Complan at GGI, The Undertakers at Drumancoo


The Mastermind “I've started so I'll finish”award : Blood or Whiskey at Drumancoo


Best new town for punk: Letterkenny


Most punk award: the fine people of Everton Avenue for the above and beyond the call of duty sessions


Bad trend of the year: violence at gigs, cans at gigs, macho dancers


Good trends of the year: more varied people doing gigs, new venues, better smoke, female dancers.


Best / maddest rumour of the year: Eric Measa snared being a sexist in Australia.


The Mero award for taking years to come out: Freebooters CD


Messiest sessions: “Why are we out in the shed” Everton bash aka the night the king of men was unleashed, the Eric and Ella Trip to Tipp


Best Food: Lentil Disorder.


Overall deserving the credit for stand out achievement award:
Moutpiece – different class.

Feel free to add /delete catogories!

 

[Napalm]

Best Extra in a Video... Gazza's Dog

 

[GO]

And the winners are.....

Best Irish Live Act - Excuses

The Budgie award for best demo - Realistic Train

The Mero award for best bearded bear-a-like -Fucked Up.

The "I wanna know what love is" award for best band of Foreigners - Fucked Up.

Best teenage Brits in Holland award - Shitty Limits

Greatest Booze up ever award goes to..surprise surprise- GGI

Stag/Hen weekend of the year - Trousersnakes.

The Linda Eastman award for achievements in the photographic field - Janer

And finally,the Laurel and Hardy award for "you could'nt make it uppedness" - Blood and Whiskey.

 

[cesspooldublin]

best stuff - stuff

worst stuff - other stuff

 

[OLP]

Bob Geldof award for getting thing's done - Club Racan and The Bad Obruni

Best Release - Moutpiece LP

"Shooting Star" Where did they go? award - Knocking Boots promotions

 

[cesspooldublin]

Best underused phrase of the year - "Akuna Matata"/"Konichiwa Bitchtits"

Best interpretive dance to Lionel Riche songs at a public event- Rory "all night long" Conaty

Best possible heavy metal band name invented by a 4 year old while driving through some town in Tipperary- Dragonwolf

Best crisps - Walkers sweet chili. Tayto are clearly for the weak.

Best pointless promotional gimmick stolen from work I have yet to find a use for - stealth mints

Most enjoyable shit - 9th december, 4.32pm

Good trend of the year award - bringing sexy back after finding the receipt / watching celebrity ballroom dancing with a blindfold on and the sound off, then trying to guess what dance they're doing

Bad trend of the year award - ingrown nasal hair catching fire without warning / the continued non freedom of "the 'Henge"

Best cheese - Kilmeaden

Award for services to the cause of public urination - Aongus "My Sex Is On Fire, possibly due to injecting my penis with heroin" McEvoy

Best way of avoiding people & things I don't like - moving out to The Fortress of Solitude

Best new person or thing I don't like - the 25a bus and its' superb collection of drivers and "kerrazy" teenage passengers who insist on playing their dance music ringtones at full blast while talking about "slipping her the hand"

Most likely to be the scene of a murder in 2009 - Reads' bookshop, Nassau street

Man of the Year award - Lionel Hutz, attorney at law

Best band I liked in 2008 but wouldn't really admit to it until this year - Naughty by Nature

Best Jill Daly heckle - "BUUUUUMMMM!!!BUUUM BUUUM BUUUUUUMMMMM!"

"With Sexy Results" award for most random phrase used regularly - "Right now, this building is on fire"

Achievement of the year award - continuous respiration and functionality/not dying

"no,seriously, you're a fucking idiot" award - can drinkers at gigs

Best Trevor Meehan text message award - "What's your favourite Phil "The Power" Collins song?"

"Fuck this, I'm off to bed" award - me

Dissapointment of the year - me not actually slagging anyone in the awards this year. Everything's deadly.

 

[shin shan]

Irish Single of the year – Divisions Ruin

cheers conor, but unfortunately that was actually out in 2007 so it doesnt count.

 

[Cormcolash]

Best thread on Thumped of the year: Wanking off to Bratz Dolls.

 

[sludgegrinder]

Best Trevor Meehan text message award - "What's your favourite Phil "The Power" Collins song?"

I get about 10 a day of the fucker.....asks me to tell him what I had for lunch and to give it a rating out of 5....bit of a weird fish so he is...

 

[cesspooldublin]

okay, serious one for a second:

Best trend this year -the ongoing Metal/DIY crossover: take a bow Altar of Plagues, Council of Tanith, Siorai Geimhreadh etc.. the Doom Over The Deck gigs have been fucking great, and I hope they continue throughout 2009

 

[nooleen]

Best / maddest rumour of the year: Eric Measa snared being a sexist in Australia.

what's this? i'm gonna take this and run with it in the absence of actual evidence, can't wait til he's back.

best snow: norwich
best rediscovery of old favourite albums: mechanical animals, the fragile, the black album
best chav arsehole: beur dickhead on tram, orléans
best tesco offer: punnet of blueberries for £1
best chav insult: 'nice shoes! - not!'
best volcano: ambrym, vanuatu
best inept courier service: DHL vanuatu
best mad housemate: mine
best german-themed christmas activity in edinburgh: gluhwein and the big wheel/chairoplanes with the mccarthy bros
best murder: that guy who killed an 11 year old, whose girlfriend says he's a hero
best success in putting the bins out in time: last tuesday

etc etc

 

[Anarcho Munk]

Worst list of the year award: nooly

 

[cesspooldublin]

Xmas tradition I will miss in 2008 - bumping into Nooly at the bar in the Lower Deck at some gig and awkwardly trying to have a conversation in spite of not being able to hear her over whatever band is on.

 

[Bastard Eoin]

Yeah, deffo!! Best buzz all year has been the cross-pollination of scenes!! Moshspacers at the Eirecore gigs, MetalIreland going D.I.Y. !! Deadly buzz altogether.

Bit tired now but I'll try and get a more humorous list up in the next day or too.

Heres to 2009!!!

 

[nooleen]

Worst list of the year award: nooly

best collection of 'oh yeah i think that band is rad too' posts: anarcho munk

 

[nooleen]

Xmas tradition I will miss in 2008 - bumping into Nooly at the bar in the Lower Deck at some gig and awkwardly trying to have a conversation in spite of not being able to hear her over whatever band is on.

hey, i'll be there buddy.

let's start a list of potential conversational gambits in advance:

so what's cormy up to;
how's the littlun;
where's una;
whatever happened to rob levinge;
what do you think of X and Y, mad eh?;
dyou want a pint?;
great, mine's a guinness;

etc.

 

[dregin]

Worst list of the year award: nooly

It all ended at "the black album"...................................................

 

[cesspooldublin]

hey, i'll be there buddy.

let's start a list of potential conversational gambits in advance:

so what's cormy up to;
how's the littlun;
where's una;
whatever happened to rob levinge;
what do you think of X and Y, mad eh?;
dyou want a pint?;
great, mine's a guinness;

etc.

as i won't be around sadly, I'll answer now
1)playing hilarious pranks on Ian Moore
2)deadly.she pulled the curtain rail out of the wall reenacting Kung Fu Panda last week
3)at home asleep or lurking on this boards (stick the kettle on there Una if you're reading)
4)he's living in Belfast, working in a video shop
5) yeah, madness. I can't believe it took 4 days for Y to realise there was human faeces in their hair. That wacky X, eh?
6)no thanks, do you?
7)no bother

 

[kenn]

Best album - Moutpiece

Best gig - Insuiciety followed closely by the Moutpiece album launch

Best band in the back of the van - Freebooters

Best gaff for the oul session - Everton Avenue

Contribution to the scene goe's to - The Karate club practice space. Loads more bands starting thanks to this place.

Trouble with their vans but still trucking award goes to - Sean and his transit and Tob and his transporter

Booking a good fun tour award goes to - Conor

The getting their shit together band wise award goes to - Revolution of a sun

The "those lads are always up for the mad session" award - Section 4

The best place to go on the mad session - Galway

 

[Carlow Punks!]

Living the Irish Scene Vicariously While Abroad Awards
2008

Award for Irish humour and offsetting homesickness: Eirecore

Best thread: The Watty / Exploited one

Biggest shock : Jamie is a funny guy (based on this thread at least)

'1984' Award for most and/or fastest edits: Strange Guy

Best thing I missed (not my fault): Drumancoo

Best thing I missed (my fault): going to Leipzig for Neurosis... it was only fucking two hours on the train away!!

Possibly best album I missed (based on other peoples reviews): Mouthpiece

Best zine I hope I don't miss: New Kotsp... where can I get it in Dublin when I'm back before Christmas??

Activity I most miss: drinking cans in the lower deck...