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Music | Meteor Choice Music Prize event details announced

As Thursday grows ever closer, music fans rejoice at the excitement of the Meteor Choice Music Prize live event, in association with IMRO and IRMA, will take place on 27 February.  The event is now sold-out, with the following acts performing on the night.

MCMPBell X1
Girls Names
Little Green Cars
Mano Le Tough
O Emperor
Lisa O’ Neill
Villagers

The show will be streamed live on http://www.rte.ie and http://www.meteor.ie.

This year, for the first time, RTE 2 Television will broadcast a one-hour highlights programme of the Meteor Choice Music Prize on Sunday 2 March at 10.30pm.

The shortlist is as follows (artists listed in alphabetical order):

And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House)
Bell X1 Chop Chop (Belly Up Records)
Girls NamesThe New Life (Tough Love)
KodalineIn A Perfect World (Sony Music)
Little Green CarsAbsolute Zero (Universal Music)
Mano Le ToughChanging Days (Permanent Vacation)
My Bloody ValentineMBV (MBV Records)
O EmperorVitreous (Big Skin)
Lisa O’ NeillSame Cloth or Not (Song Seeds Records)
Villagers {Awayland} (Domino)

The Meteor Choice Music Prize live event will be broadcast live on Today FM in a special four hour extended programme during the Paul McLoone show.

The winning act will receive €10,000, a prize fund which has been provided by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). All of the shortlisted acts will receive a specially-commissioned award, courtesy of IMRO and IRMA. HMV Xtra-vision are the official retail partners of the project. RAAP and Music Week are also official project partners.

[The Meteor Choice Music Prize in association with IMRO & IRMA. Official Project Partners are Today FM, RAAP, HMV and Xtra-vision, RTE 2 & Music Week]