Joshua Burnside, who won the NI Music Prize Album of the Year in 2017
The shortlist for the NI Music Prize 2018 has been announced, with details of the nominees for ’Album of the Year’ announced alongside the 3 additional categories of ‘Best Single’, ‘Oh Yeah Contender Award’ and ‘Best Live Act’.
The winners of all 4 categories will be revealed at an event in The Ulster Hall on November 15th.
Over 80 industry and media figures cast their votes in the four categories, which will now see a second round of voting for Album of the Year, Best Single and the Oh Yeah Contender Award which is for the ‘best emerging act’.
The Best Single award will go to a public vote later this week.
This year will also see a cash prize awarded to the winner of each category, with Album of the Year receiving £3,000 and the others £1,000 each.
The Shortlist is:
Album of the Year
And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering
Ash – Islands
Bicep – Bicep
Brand New Friend - Seatbelts For Aeroplanes
Ciaran Lavery - Sweet Decay
Girls Names - Stains on Silence
Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
Malojian - Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home
Robocobra Quartet - Plays Hard To Get
Ryan Vail - Distorted Shadows
Snow Patrol - Wildness
The Wood Burning Savages - Stability
Best Single
Arvo Party - Liberté
Ash - Buzzkill
Brand New Friend - Girl
Cherym - Take It Back
Hot Cops - Decay
Joshua Burnside - A Man of High Renown
Kitt Philippa - Human
Robocobra Quartet - You’ll Wade
ROE - Hey Thomas
Rosborough - Burn Blue
Snow Patrol - Life on Earth
The Wood Burning Savages - I Don’t Know Why I Do It To Myself
Oh Yeah Contender Award
Cherym
Hand Models
Hunkpapa
Rebekah Fitch
Roe
Best Live Act
And So I Watch You From Afar
Brand New Friend
Robocobra Quartet
Ryan Vail
The Wood Burning Savages
The NI Music Prize is coordinated by the Oh Yeah Music Centre and is supported by Belfast City Council, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Performing Rights Society, PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited), Help Musician’s Northern Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and Tourism Ireland.
