Ever since I saw Lisa Hannigan perform ‘O Sleep’ with John Smith’s wonderful backing vocals, it’s been in my brain repeating itself over and over for the last month. Above, Lisa performs it with James Vincent McMorrow at the Meteor Choice Prize gigs. Lisa is one of the most likely artists to be picked in today’s Choice Music Prize shortlist which is announced at 3pm on TodayFM.
My predictions:
It’s a difficult task to predict the top 10 albums that 12 different judges will pick, especially if you don’t know who they are but here’s my guess at 2012’s list:
And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs
BellX1 – Bloodless Coup
Cashier No.9 – To The Death of Fun
Jape – Ocean Of Frequency
Fred – Leaving My Empire
Lisa Hannigan – Passenger
Snow Patrol – Fallen Empires
The Minutes – Marcata
Tieranniesaur – Tieranniesaur
We Cut Corners – Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards
* Albums I considered for the top 10 but could still be a wild card:
Iarla O’ Lionard – Foxlight
Land Lovers – Confidants
Le Galaxie – Laserdisc Nights 2
Royseven – You Say, We Say
Squarehead – Yeah Nothing
The Japanese Popstars – Controlling Your Alliegance
The Kanyu Tree – People Street
You can try it out yourself with this 2011 album list.
Elsewhere: If Nialler9 readers were the judges….
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
