Winner – Foy Vance
Album – Joy of Nothing
With Bangor tale-telling master Foy Vance walking away with the inaugural award for the extraordinary Joy of Nothing, last year’s Northern Ireland Music Prize was truly a night remember – and then some. As well as the eagerly-anticipated announcement at the end of the night, Belfast-based singer-songwriter Anthony Toner, alt-punk trio Axis Of, garage-blues duo The Bonnevilles, the globetrotting Girls Names and the cosmically-inclined electronic wizard that is Space Dimension Controller all delivered stellar sets throughout the course of the night.
THE SHORTLIST
THE LONGLIST
A Plastic Rose - Camera Shutter Life
Aggressors BC - The Tone Of The Times
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Andy White - 21st Century Troubadour
Anthony Toner - Sing Under The Bridges
Axis Of - Finding St Kilda
Barry Douglas - Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Vol. 2
Bear // Face - Beat Tape
Before Machines - Tundra
Ben Reel - Darkness And The Light
Black Mountain Transmitter - Playing With Dead Things
Black Star Riders - All Hell Breaks Loose
The Bonnevilles - Folk Art & The Death Of Electric Jesus
Brendan Monaghan - Never Too Late to Come Home
Ciaran Lavery - Not Nearly Dark
David Browne Murray - Lift & Drag
Defcon - In Binary Shrines
Desert Hearts - Enturbulation = No Challenge
Documenta - Drone Pop #2
Dutch Schultz - Tonight We Hunt
Fighting With Wire - Colonel Blood
Foy Vance - Joy Of Nothing
Furlo - Now Is Always
Gama Bomb - The Terror Tapes
Girls Names - The New Life
Japanese Popstars - Disconnect/Reconnect
Jetplane Landing - Don’t Try
Joby Fox - End Of The War
Coney Island Sound - Klang!
The Cyclist - Bones In Motion
Dana Masters Sextet - JAZZnBELFAST
John McSherry - The Olllam
Kab Driver - Kab Driver
Kowalski - For The Love Of Letting Go
Last Rush - Waiting To Be Found
Le Carousel - Le Carousel
Linebacker Dirge - Take Shelter
Lost Brothers - The Passing Of The Night
Lulubelle III - Foyle Delta Blues
Malojian - The Deer’s Cry
Mary Dillon - North
Master & Dog - Master & Dog
Michael McHale - The Irish Piano
Mo and The Tiger - Ringing In Sympathy
Our Krypton Son - Our Krypton Son
Pete Gardiner - Six String Love Stories
Psychojet - The Sea Is Never Full
The Ronnie Greer Band & Friends - A Lifetime With The Blues
Sea Pinks - Freak Waves
Simon McBride - Crossing The Line
Slomatics - A Hocht
Space Dimension Controller - Welcome To Mikrosector-50
Stormzone - Three Kings
Tired Pony - The Ghost Of The Mountain
Trucker Diablo - Songs of Iron
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Ulster Orchestra - John Knowles Paine
Ulster Orchestra - Morean, E.J.
War Iron - The Fifth And Final Sun
West Ocean String Quartet - An Indigo Sky
Yakuza - Insane Plight In Plain Sight
