SOAK performing at Electric Picnic 2015
This weekend saw the Mandela Hall, Belfast playing host to the 2015 Northern Ireland Music Prize, now in its third year, with Derry~Londonderry’s SOAK receiving the award for her debut album, ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’.
Selected by a board of Northern Irish music and media figures, the award for SOAK follows the nomination as one of the twelve shortlisted albums for this year’s Mercury Prize.
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon was also honoured with an Oh Yeah Legend Award, before performing an hour long set.
Presented by the Oh Yeah Music Centre and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the event tied in with the culmination of Sound Of Belfast; a nine-day festival of gigs and workshops.
Previous winners include Foy Vance and Robyn G. Shiels and the full shortlist was: A Plastic Rose, And So I Watch You From Afar, Axis Of, BeeMickSee, Ciaran Lavery & Ryan Vail, Duke Special, The Lost Brothers, Malojian, Not Squares, SOAK, Therapy? and Tim Wheeler.
