The IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Award nominees were released yesterday, with the live award-ceremony happening on February 21st at the organisation’s Dublin headquarters. Musical guests: Overhead, the Albatross and Soulé, with more TBC.
One overall winner is totted up from votes from the national shortlists, while Hot Press readers/digital subs also get a shout in on the Hot Press Venue of the Year award via the mag’s Readers’ Poll.
Writes Liza Geddes:
More than 11,500 IMRO members considered hundreds of venues across the country for the shortlist. Venues were judged on their commitment to providing the core elements that make for a great live music venue – atmosphere, sound and lighting, staging, diversity of programming and importantly, the staff and management of each venue. IMRO members also voted on Ireland’s music festivals, delivering a shortlist of their top ten festivals.
Live music venues and festivals play a vital role in the music industry in Ireland, giving international and homegrown artists a platform to engage with fans and build new audiences. They also play a central role in urban and rural communities across the country, providing a social gathering space for varied audiences, and contributing hugely to the domestic economy.
See the shortlists, get to voting for your favourite local venue, and chuck votes in for half-remembered non-local gaffs at the voting page.
IMRO and Hot Press working together – two of the most parasitic music organisations in Ireland
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There, there, pet.
Where? Where?
agree
IMRO blood suckers. All they do is promote international i.e British and American acts.
You’re all just trying to stoke an argument.
There is no deniall
I’m surprised Hot Press is still going tbh
Why did you write for them also?
Two words
Just for you
One relates to sex
The other to travel
lol
You see that’s your problem right there
Too many words and not saying what
You actually mean
Yet
You make it so easy