It’s the final part of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts, and as tradition, it’s the one where and Niall and Andrea Cleary get loose.
With wine and whiskey coffee in hand, we nominate winners in increasingly esoteric categories, aka shoe-horn things into an episode so we can talk about them.
What was the best sax solo of 2021? What were our favourite live gigs? Best song discovered in a film? Biggest dose? Most disappointing album of 2021? A trend you wish would go away? Best rap guest verse(s) aka The Andre 3000 award? Best cover song? Best music film? Plus, our chance to completely talk Succession spoilers and share our Discord community’s end of the year poll results.
It’s the Nialler9 Podcast Awards.
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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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.