Top acts vie for Choice Music Prize

Tonight will see the eighth annual Choice Music Prize awarded to one of ten Irish acts, half of whom have been nominated and/or won the gong before.

The event runs at Vicar Street in Dublin, and the winners will get a cheque for €10,000.

Julie Feeney won the inaugural Choice Prize in 2005, Adrian Crowley took it home in 2009, while Two Door Cinema Club won two years ago, to the surprise of almost everybody who had backed VIllagers’ debut to the hills (me!). The Cast of Cheers were also on that shortlist for their online-only and since deleted debut album Chariot.