Past winners shortlisted for Meteors

Two Door Cinema Club are nominated for Beacon, the chart-topping follow-up to their debut Tourist History

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Thu, Mar 7, 2013, 00:00

First published: Thu, Mar 7, 2013, 00:00

Three previous winners are among the 10 acts nominated for Ireland’s premier music prize – the Meteor Choice award.

Julie Feeney (2006), Adrian Crowley (2010) and Two Door Cinema Club (2011) all feature in the shortlist for the award which will be announced at a special awards ceremony tonight.

Feeney has been nominated for Clocks, Crowley for I See Three Birds Flying and Two Door Cinema Club for Beacon, the chart-topping follow-up to their debut Tourist History, which was both a critical and commercial success.

The Cast of Cheers get their second nomination for Family as do Delorentos for Little Sparks.

<br/> <a href="http://www.muzu.tv/meteorchoicemusicprizeirishsongoftheyear2012/meteor-choice-music-prize-2012-live-stream-music-video/1735663/">Meteor Choice Music Prize 2012 - Live Stream</a> on <a href="http://www.muzu.tv/">MUZU.TV</a>.</p> <p>Wallis Bird gets her first nomination for her self-titled album which is her third release. Damien Dempsey, a surprise omission from previous shortlists, is nominated for his sixth album Almighty Love.<br/> <br/> Twins duo Heathers, Dublin-based songwriter Mumblin’ Deaf Ro and Limerick-based band Windings are all first-time nominees.<br/> <br/> Among the significant omissions on this year’s shortlist were Van Morrison for Born To Sing: No Plan B, Sinead OConnor’s How About I Be Me (And You be You) and The Script’s third album 3.</p> <p>Online music video service Muzu.TV has teamed up with Meteor to live stream the awards ceremony which can be viewed on this website from 7.30pm.</p> </section> <div class="row"> </div> <div class="article_footer"> <div class="update_and_social_holder hidden_print"> <div class="last_updated"> <p><a href="#">Sat, Mar 9, 2013, 06:08<i></i></a></p> <div class="metadata"> <p><strong>First published:</strong> Thu, Mar 7, 2013, 00:00</p> </div> </div> <div class="social_article_share"> <ul> <li> <span class="c-count"> <a class="scroll" href="#article_comments_holder"><span class="a"></span><span class="b"></span></a> </span> </li> <li><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:action="recommend" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a></li> <li><a class="addthis_button_tweet" id="tweet_button" tw:via="IrishTimes" tw:related="IrishTimes"></a></li> <li><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium" g:plusone:count="false"></a></li> <li><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="page_tools hidden-phone"> <span class="print" onclick="location.href=' /news/past-winners-shortlisted-for-meteors-1.1319710?mode=print&ot=example.AjaxPageLayout.ot'" value="Print this page"> </span> <a href="/cmlink/the-irish-times-news-1.1319192" target="_blank"><span class="rss_feed"> </span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <section id="discussion" class="with-ad"> <link href="/assets/css/rtb_2013.css?rev=123456789" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery.noConflict(true); 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