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2012 Albums List

Irish Albums List 2012

Alale – Breakfast in Mayo (Own Label)
Altan – Gleann Nimhe – The poison Glen (Compass Records)
Aslan – Nudie Books and Frenchies (EMI)
Autumn Owls - Between Buildings, Toward The Sea (Epintonic.com)

Bantum - Legion (Self Released)
Bats – The Sleep of Reason (Richter Collective)
Breanndan Ó Beaglaoich - Fé Scáth/In The Shadow (Own Label)
Seamus Begley & Oisin Mac Diarmada – Together (Ceol Productions)
Wallis Bird – Wallis Bird (Rubyworks)
Bitter Roc – Cold City (Self Released)
Valentine Black – Desire Lines (Self Released)
Blackpenny – Blackpenny (IND)
Luka Bloom – This New Morning (Bigsky Records)
The Bonnevilles – Folk Art & The death of Electric Jesus (Twenty Stone Blatt)
Fintan Bray – Under The Great Shady Tree (Self Released)
Dan Brouder - The Lark's Air (Own Label)

John Carroll - Let Every Tounge (Self Released)
Cars Love Girls – Skip School (Vacation 58 Records)
Paddy Casey – The Secret Life Of (Rimecoat)
Paul Casey – Big World (IND)
The Cast of Cheers – Family (Schoolboy Error)
Ceol Sa Chistin – Music In The Kitchen (Own Label)
Cheap Freaks – Bury Them All (Big Neck Records)
Joe Chester – Hope against Hope (Self Released)
The Chieftains – Voice of Ages (Concord)
Christian Bookshop – Christian Bookshop (Owl & Hat)
Cormac O Caoimh – A New Season For Love (EMI)
Sinead O' Connor – How About I Be Me (And You be You) (One Little Indian)
Connor & The Crooks – Connor & The Crooks (Self Released)
Briana Corrigan – Redbird (Redbird and Anchor Records)
Mary Coughlan – The Whole Affair (Indi Entertainment)
Cocophone – Reservoir (Self Released)
Kevin Crawford - Carrying the Tune (Bally O Records)
The Cranberries – Roses (Downtown Records)
John Cronin & Daithi Kearney – Midleton Rare (Own Label)
Croupier – Croupier (Eleven Eleven)
Crow Black Chicken – Electric Soup (Self Released)
Adrian Crowley – I See Three Bird Flying (Chemikal Underground)
Darragh Cullen – Whispers and Silent Screams (Self Released)

Dark Room Notes – Dark Room Notes (BBE)
Deaf Joe – Burrowings (Delphi) Deetrich – Tug of War (Reekus)
Robert Delaney – Rising Tide (Self Released)
Delorentos – Little Sparks (Delo Records)
Damien Dempsey – Almighty Love (Sony)
Detboi – Darkside (Deep Thrills)
Dick Farrelly & Matt Walklate – Keep It Clean (Self Released)
Gerry Diver – Speech Project (One Fine Day Records)
Kevin Doherty – Seeing Things (Self Released)
Martin Donohoe – The Lady's Plaything (NYAH CD)
Peter Doran – Overheard The Stars (Self Released)
Maria Doyle Kennedy – Sing (Mermaid Records)
Drunken Boat – Tie The Knots (Saywhatyoumean Records)
Duke Special – Oh Pioneer (Adventures in Gramaphone)
Stevie Dunne – Banjo (Self Released)

Eazy Tyger – Earn Your Stripes (Self Released)

Farriers – Years Ago In Our Backyard (Self Released)
The Feekers – Tarbolten (Own Label)
Julie Feeney - Clocks (Mittens)
Mick Flannery – Red to Blue (EMI)
Fidil - The Old Wheel of Fortune (Own Label)
Filthy Angels – Lafa (Self Released)
Fling – Fling (Own Label)
Seamus Fogarty – God Damn You Mountain (Fence Records)
Brian Friel – Karrusel (Own Label)
The Frank And Walters – Greenwich Meantime (FIFA)
Frantic Jack – Last One To Leave (Live Loud Music)
Funeral Suits – Lily of The Valley (Model Citizen)

Bronagh Gallager – Bronagh Gallagher (Self Released)
The Gandhis – After Autumn (1969 Records)
Mark Geary – Songs About Love, Songs About Leaving (Sonablast!)
General Fiasco – Unfaithfully Yours (Dirty Hit)
Ghost Estates – Ghost Estates (Slap in The face)
Mary Gillespie - Over The Years (Own Label)
Ginnels – Crowns (Popical Island)
Goitse – Transformed (Own Label)
Grand Pocket Orchestra – Ronald and Sylma (Popical Island)
Grouse – Heads (Self Released)

HAL – The Time The Hour (Hal Music)
Half Shot – High Walls and Free Falls (Self Released)
Kieran Halpin - The Devil and his Dealing (SOS Records)
Mickey Harte – Forward To Reality (Swerve)
Glen Hansard – Rhythm & Repose (Plateau)
The Hard Ground – Broken Conversations (Self Released)
Heathers – Kingdom (Warner)
Grainne Holland - Teanga na nGael (Ghm2011)
Noel Holmes – Identify (Self Released)
The Holy Roman Army – One Army That Was You (Self Released)
House of Cosy Cushions – Haunt Me Sweetly (Outcast Cats)
Nina Hynes - Goldmine (Self Released)

Jedward – Young Love (Universal)
J Roots – Soapbox Fury (Loza Records)
Jogging – Take Courage (Out on A Limb)
Daniel Jones – Forever, In Disguise (Index Records)
Cathy Jordan – All The Way Home (Blix Street Records)

Katie Kim – Cover and Flood (Flaming June)
Kaplin – Devastating Ways (Self Released)
Bap Kennedy – The Sailer's Revenge (Proper)
Billy Kennedy – This Old Life (Self Released)
Nuala Kennedy – Noble Stranger (Compass Records)
Keywest – The Message (Alphastar)
The Kilfenora Ceili Band - Chapter Eight (Own Label)
Louise Killeen – Brilliant Tease (LK Music)
Knoxville Morning - Knoxville Morning (Self Released)
Kopek – White Collar Lies (Religion Music)
The Koubas – Things I Don't Like to Talk about (Formality Records)

Large Mound – Another Year of Rock (Self Released)
Last Days of 1984 - Wake up to the Waves (Osaka)
Lethal Dialect – LD50 Part 11 (Working Class Records)
Denis Liddy & Elvie Miller – Tradaree (Own Label)
The Lofires – The Lofires (Paraphernalia)
Logikparty – Oh Cult (White Plague Records)
The Lost Brothers – The Passing Of The Night (Lojinx)

The Man Whom – The Greatest Event (Self Released)
Master & Dog – Master & Dog (Self Released)
Doimnic MacGiolla Bhride – Smúidghealach (Own Label)
Adrian McAuliffe and Cathal Flood - Between The Strings (Own Label)
Eamon McCormack – Heal My Faith (True Talent)
Paul McGlinchey - The Boys of the Town (Own Label)
Charlie McGettigan - The Man from 20 (Own Label)
Derek McGinley & Tara Connaghan - The Far Side of the Glen (Own Label)
Eric McGrath – Little Ripples (White Cliff Records)
Pearse McLoughlin & Nocturnes – In Movement (Urchin)
Sarah McQuaid – The plum Tree and The Rose (Waterbug Records)
Katie Melua – Secret Symphony (Dramatico Records)
John Moloney – Grace (Own Label)
Van Morrison – Born To Sing: No Plan B (Blue Note)
Movement - Broken Down (Distort the Scene)
Mumblin' Deaf Ro – Dictionary Crimes (Popical Island)
Michelle Mulcahy - Suaimhneas Clo Iar Chonnachta (Own Label)
David Munnelly Band - Tight Squeeze (DMB)

Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas – Times of Transition (Mad Molly Records)
Caitlin Nic Gabhann – Caitlin (Own Label)
No Monster Club – Dublin (CF Records)
The Night Ablaze – In My World (Self Released)

Ocho – Young Hunting (Self Released)
The Original Rudeboys – This Life (Gotta Run Records)
Orphan Code – I Am A Country (Continuous Ink)
Our Krypton Son – Our Krypton Son (Smalltown America)
Owensie – Citizens (Out On A Limb)
Pat O' Connor & Friends – Tales To Tell (Own Label)
Sean O' Driscoll – So There You Go (Own Label)
Seamus O' Muineachain – Seamus O' Muineachain (Psychonavigation)
C O' Neill & Co – Introducing (Self Released)
Camille O' Sullivan – Changeling (Little Cat Records)
Noreen O' Sullivan - The Quite House (Own Label)

The Pale – I Woke Up And I Was Gone (1969 Records)
Paranoid Visions – Escape From The Austerity Complex (Overground Records)
Colm Phelan – Full Circle (Own Label)
The Plea – Dreamers Stadium (Planet Function Records)
Protobaby – The Spark (Big Bang Productions)

The Quicksand Band – Approaching Rain (Independent)

The Radiators From Space – Sound City Beat (Chiswick Records)
Ram's Pocket Radio – Trajectories (Self Released)
Fionn Regan – The Bunkhouse Vol.1:Anchor Black Tattoo (Universal)
The Riptide Movement – Keep On Keepin' On (IND)
The Roaring Forties – There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Skullmike Records)
Rogue Male – Nail It (Rm2kmusic)
Roisin O – Secret Life of Blue (Self Released)
Rory & The Island – Auntie Depression & Uncle Hope (Buddy Records)
Rural Savage – I Fell In The Bog And Saw God (Self Released)
Gavin Ryan –Time (GRM)
Joey Ryan - Morning Will Come Soon (Silverwood)

Maverick Sabre – Lonely Are The Brave (Mercury)
Saturday Captains – Saturday Captains (Self Released)
Fergal Scahill – Wayfaring (Own Label)
Screenreader – Disconnect the Dots (Self Released)
The Script - 3 (Sony)
Sea Pinks – Freak Waves (Self Released)
Seti The First – Melting Cavalry (Self Released)
Seven Summits – Fossils (Self Released)
Sfumato –These Things Between (Learn To Love Records)
Sharon Shannon – Flying Circus (Irish Music Licensing)
Laura Sheeran – What the World Knows (Flaming June)
The Shoos – Panic Slowly (Self Released)
Declan Sinnott – I Love The Noise It Makes (Warner)
Skelocrats -The Complete Skelocrats (Popical Island)
Solar Taxi – Broken Brother's Secret Bells (Self Released)
Mia Sparrow – Mee-Uh-Spar-O (Flaming June Records)
The Spook of The Thirteenth Lock – The Brutal Here and Now (Transduction Records)
Don Stiffe – Life's Journey (MSP)
Sunken Foal – Friday Syndrome Vol. 1 (Countersunk)

Therapy – A Brief Crack of Light (Blast Records)
This Club – Highlife (Warner)
Paul Tiernan – Painkillers (Right Stuff Records)
Dylan Tighe – Record (Self Released)
Time Is A Thief – We're Not Strangers (Self Released)
Emmet Tinley – Emmet Tinley (Mass Market Recordings)
Christine Tobin – Sailing to Byzantium (Babel Label)
Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon (Kitsune)
Toy Soldier – Calling Up The Dusk (Self Released)
Pierce Turner – Songs For A Very Small Orchestra (Self Released)

Valentino is Dead – Misadventures in Punk Rock (Ireland Records)
The Velourias – The Velourias (Self Released)

Kieran Wade – Out On The Back Roads (Own Label)
Wallpurgis Family – Dawn (Popical Island)
The Walls – Stop The Lights (Dirtbird Records)
We Banjo 3 – Roots of the Banjo Tree (Own Label)
Gavin Whelan – Homelands (Tallaght Records)
Windings – I Am Not The Crow (Out on A Limb)

Live Event

The Meteor Choice Music Prize Live Event will take place on Thursday March 7th in Vicar Street Dublin.

Tickets are on sale now for €22.50 from Ticketmaster.

The line-up is as follows (artists listed in alphabetical order):

Wallis Bird
The Cast of Cheers
Adrian Crowley
Damien Dempsey
Delorentos
Julie Feeney
Heathers
Mumblin Deaf Ro
Windings

(Two Door Cinema will be on tour in Germany)

The Meteor Choice Music Prize will be broadcast live on the night on Today FM in a special four-hour extended programme during the Paul McLoone show. Tickets for the Meteor Choice Music Prize live event are on sale from all Ticketmaster outlets and from http://www.ticketmaster.ie, priced €22.50 including booking fee.

The winning act will receive €10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). All of the shortlisted acts will receive a specially-commissioned award, courtesy of IMRO and IRMA. Culture Ireland will fund the attendance of key overseas delegates at the event. The Recorded Artists Actors & Performers (RAAP) will host a pre-event reception on the evening of Thursday March 7th.

Meteor Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year

The nominees are -

The Coronas – Mark My Words (3U)
Delorentos - Care For (Delo Records)
Glen Hansard – High Hope (Plateau)
Heathers - Forget Me Knots (Warner)
Gavin James – Say Hello (Believe)
Kodaline - All I Want (Sony)
Le Galaxie feat Elaine Mai – Love System (Delphi)
The Script – Hall of Fame (Sony)
SOAK - Sea Creatures (Self Release)
Villagers – The Waves (Domino)

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