Comments on: Meteor Awards outdo themselves…

By: CB

CB — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:15:33 +0000

A bit late wading in here, and while i have no grá for the Meteors or Snow Patrol at all, what you’ve listed about were the nominations for ‘Best Irish Pop Album’ – what else would expect?
Also, being best irish pop album it isn’t a ‘self respecting accolade that seeks to reward new creativity’ as you put it above…seems fairly reasonable to me that Snow Patrol should be in there.
The Meteors are fairly mainstream awards, if all the bands you *wished* were nomination actually were, then awards like the Choice award etc would be pretty redundant.
I don’t see any pop fans looking at the nominees for the Choice & moaning that they’ve not heard of the bands…which is pretty much the equivalent of you looking & the meteors and feeling put out nobody you like is nominated.
Just my 2 cents.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:35 +0000

As per snowpatrol.com

“Up To Now – the best of Snow Patrol – is now available in the shops in the UK & Irelandand to download worldwide (Including North America, where it available from today).”

So it is a Best Of. And regardless of how you want to spin it, a collection that predominantly features previously released material is not eligible for any self respecting accolade that seeks to reward new creativity.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:06:48 +0000

“Up To Now” is an anthology rather than a best of. The deluxe edition certainly should qualify as a Best Album nominee – it’s a brilliant package.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:41:18 +0000

Haven’t a clue! Got the nominees on boards.ie!

By: Aidan Cuffe

Aidan Cuffe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:51:41 +0000

Hey

Who runs or does the PR for the meteors, i never get any mails about it (even if its choices leave a lot to be desired)

would appreciate any info, cheers