The Meteor Awards hosted by Podge and Rodge was a colourful night to say the least as the crème de la crème of Irish A and B list celebrities gathered together to pay homage to the finest in today’s music industry.

Favourites Snow Patrol swept the board taking home 4 awards in total – Best Irish Band, Best Irish Album for their 2006 “Eyes Open”, Most Downloaded Song for “Chasing Cars” and Best Live Performance for their sell-out show in Marley Park. For the third year in a row, Best Irish Radio DJ was won by Today FM DJ Ray D’Arcy despite 2FM really getting behind their DJs this year in an effort to win. Best Irish Pop Act was won by Westlife who were joined on stage by Ronán Keating during the night to perform the song “Shall We Dance”off their new love album. The song is a Garth Brooks classic that Ronán had planned to do a version of for his new album but decided against when he heard Westlife also had similar plans. Best female went to Luan Parle and Best Male went to Damien Dempsey for the second year in a row.

Highlights of the evening were performances by the Immediate who are hopefuls for the upcoming Choice Music Awards; they played a song “Ghosts in this House” off their debut album. Kaiser Chiefs also made an appearance to play the first single “Ruby” off their long awaited new album “Yours Truly, Angry Mob”. The star attraction of the night, of course was female supergroup the Pussy Cat Dolls who performed an energetic version of their hit “Buttons”. In the press room after the show, lead “Pussy Cat” Nicole Scherzinger confirmed that she has no plans to leave the group upon the release of her solo self-titled album due out in March.

Originally published in Trinity News.

Brendan McGuirk is the editor of Analogue, and former Chair of Trinity FM.
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