Jape has walked away with the Choice Music Prize and a cheque for ten grand. Richie Egan won for ‘Ritual’, having played the Vicar St award show with Fight Like Apes, Mick Flannery, Halfset, Jape, MJEX and RSAG. The other nominees on the night were Fight Like Apes “Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of [...]

This is an album that may not have made many critics’ lists for the Choice Prize (then again no one thought The Script would) but Caller No. 9 snuck onto mine from very much under the radar. The whole point of the Choice Prize is to champion Irish music, and the aim of this feature [...]

As always there’s been much debate over this year’s Choice Music Prize, with much of the heat aimed towards those responsible for throwing The Script into the mix and giving the Dublin 3-piece a nod ahead of other Irish acts. Rather than vent our spleen and spit vitriol at the judges involved we hope, in [...]