The Irish Blog Awards “Best Music Blog” Longlist

I feel honoured to leak that the (quite substantial) longlist is:

http://egoeccentric.blogspot.com Egoeccentric

http://iprefertheobscureremix.wordpress.com I Prefer the Obscure Mix
http://nialler9.com/blog Nialler9
http://kilkennymusic.com Kilkenny Music
http://www.ireland.com/blogs/ontherecord On the Record

http://indielimerick.blogspot.com Indie Limerick
http://cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/Key_Notes.aspx Key Notes
http://indiehour.wordpress.com The Indie Hour
http://mattvinyl.blogspot.com Matt Vinyl
http://musicroad.blogspot.com Music Road

http://theredscrapbook.blogspot.com The Red scrapbook
http://www.testindustries.com Test Industries
http://wordpress.hotpress.com/offherrocker Off the Rocker
http://sineadgleeson.com/blog Sinead Gleeson
http://mp3hugger.com MP3 Hugger

http://unarocks.blogspot.com Una Rocks
http://thetorturegarden.blogspot.com The Torture Garden
http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling House is a Feeling
http://magooo.org Magoo
http://bbc.co.uk/blogs/radioulster/stuart_bailie Stuart Bailie

http://donal.ie Donal O’Caoimh
http://digitalsole.info Digital Sole
http://cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/French_Letter.aspx French Letter
http://cubikmusik.typepad.com Cubik Music
http://cheebah.net Cheebah
http://onavery.blogspot.com Asleep on the Compost Heap

I don’t envy the judges their job…

~ by Rick O'Shea on January 29, 2008.

19 Responses to “The Irish Blog Awards “Best Music Blog” Longlist”

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  2. Woo hoo! Nice to get onto this list, quite an impressive batch too.

  3. Wow-I am chuffed to be included on this. What a superb list and now my day is to be spent exploring some of these that I hadn’t heard of before.

    Does that mean I have to campaign now?
    :)

  4. Wowzer! Delighted (and a bit gobsmacked) at having been included in this list! Loads of great blogs there - and one or two that I will have to check out as well.
    Thanks for the leak Rick.

  5. Wow, I’m in shock, how nice. Some great blogs in there.
    Oops, I’m a wordpresser, not a blogspotter.
    You can get me on this - http://iprefertheobscureremix.wordpress.com/

  6. Some great blogs in there, and ones I shall definitely be having a goo at.

    Congrats to all :D

  7. [...] Found out via Rick O’Shea’s blog that the indie hour has made it to the (very) long list for Best Irish Music Blog for the upcoming [...]

  8. Hi Rick, spelling correction, tis egoeccentric. I should really have predicted the confusion..
    Cheers, and best of luck!

  9. That’s what happens with leaks…

  10. [...] 2FM presenter Rick O’Shea has published the long list for Best Music Blog, which features three Limerick music bloggers, [...]

  11. I agree Damien, I blame the bloody leaker. So unprofessional…

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  16. good to be included, thanks. looking forward to checking out other several others I hadn’t come across. best of luck to all.

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  19. Really Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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