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2008 Meteor Awards

Republic of Ireland national music award ceremony

Field	Value
name	2008 Meteor Awards
image	Meteor 2008 Logo.jpg
imagesize	150px
caption	Meteor Awards 2008 logo
date
location	RDS Simmonscourt
presenter	Dara Ó Briain
website
network	RTÉ Two
previous	[2007](2007-meteor-awards)
main	Meteor Music Awards
next	[2009](2009-meteor-awards)

The 2008 Meteor Music Awards ceremony was held in the RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, on Friday, 15 February 2008. Nineteen awards were presented. It was the eighth edition of the Republic of Ireland's national music awards. The event was later broadcast on RTÉ Two on Saturday, 16 February at 21:00 and was hosted by comedian Dara Ó Briain for the first time since 2004.

Duke Special and Cathy Davey won the Best Irish Male and Best Irish Female Awards respectively, whilst veteran rockers Aslan won the Best Irish Band Award and Paddy Casey's Addicted to Company won Best Irish Album. For the eighth consecutive year Westlife won the Best Irish Pop Act accolade. Ham Sandwich were presented with the Hope for 2008 Meteor Award by RTÉ 2fm DJ Rick O'Shea. The Blizzards won Best Irish Live Performance for their Main Stage appearance at Oxegen 2007, whilst Muse picked up the award for Best International Live Performance, which also occurred at Oxegen the previous year. The award for the Most Downloaded Song was given to Mundy and Sharon Shannon's chart hit "Galway Girl". The Saw Doctors were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award and were also amongst the performers at the event.

Performances

There were performances at the event from The Saw Doctors, Boyzone, The Coronas, Cathy Davey, Westlife, Shayne Ward, Tom Baxter, Paddy Casey and Scouting for Girls, as well as exclusive duets between Sinéad O'Connor and Mick Pyro of Republic of Loose, who performed the Curtis Mayfield song, "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" and Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan who performed, live for the first time, "Some Surprise" from The Cake Sale charity album.

Nominations

Public voting categories

Best Irish Male

Paddy Casey
Damien Dempsey
Duke Special
Glen Hansard
David Geraghty
Declan O'Rourke

Best Irish Female

Andrea Corr
Cathy Davey
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Róisín Murphy
Sinéad O'Connor
Dolores O'Riordan

Best Irish Band

Ash
Aslan
Fight Like Apes
Delorentos
The Flaws
Future Kings of Spain

Best Irish Album

Addicted to Company
Tales of Silversleeve
In Love with Detail
Achieving Vagueness
Nervousystem
Kill Your Darlings

Best Irish Live Performance

Bell X1 – Malahide Castle
The Blizzards – Oxegen 2007
Duke Special – Vicar Street
Fight Like Apes – Whelan's
Future Kings of Spain – The Village
Damien Rice – Marlay Park

Best Irish Pop Act

Bell X1
The Blizzards
The Coronas
Brian McFadden
Róisín Murphy
Westlife

Best National DJ

Ray D'Arcy – Today FM
Ian Dempsey – Today FM
Tom Dunne – Today FM
Dave Fanning – RTÉ 2fm
Ray Foley – Today FM
Rick O'Shea – RTÉ 2fm

Best Regional DJ

Pete Casey
Keith Cunningham
Leigh Doyle
Joe & Keith
Mark Noble
Jon Richards

Hope for 2008

Leanne Harte
Owen Brady
The Kinetiks
We Should Be Dead
Ham Sandwich

Non-public voting categories

Best Traditional/Folk

Damien Dempsey
Tommy Fleming
Kíla
Moving Hearts
Majella Murphy
Sharon Shannon

Best International Male

Richard Hawley
Bruce Springsteen
Timbaland
Justin Timberlake
Rufus Wainwright
Kanye West

Best International Female

Björk
PJ Harvey
Kylie Minogue
Kate Nash
Rihanna
Amy Winehouse

Best International Band

Arcade Fire
The Killers
Kings of Leon
Radiohead
The Shins
Take That

Best International Album

Neon Bible
Boxer
White Chalk
Sound of Silver
Raising Sand
In Rainbows

Best International Live Performance

Arcade Fire – Olympia Theatre
Björk – Electric Picnic 07
Muse – Oxegen 2007
The Police – Croke Park
Bruce Springsteen – The Point
Justin Timberlake – RDS Arena

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Saw Doctors

Most Downloaded Song

"Galway Girl" – Mundy and Sharon Shannon

References

(2007-12-14). "The Meteors are on the way…". meteormusicawards.meteor.ie.
(2008-02-16). "Stars out for the Meteors". [[RTÉ]].
(2007-12-05). "Dara Ó Briain to host MIMA '08…". meteormusicawards.meteor.ie.
(2008-02-22). "LOADED: At the Meteor Awards". [[Irish Independent]].
(2008-02-02). "Old and new stars dazzle at Meteor awards". [[The Irish Times]].
(2008-02-15). "Meteor eight in a row for Westlife…". [[Breaking News.ie]].
(2008-01-11). "Saw Doctors to be honoured at Meteors". [[RTÉ]].
(2008-01-23). "Sinead cuts Loose with new band…". [[Irish Independent]].
(2008-01-22). "Loose to Duet with Sinead". [[BBC Northern Ireland]].
(2008-01-22). "O'Connor duet to light up Meteor Awards". [[Irish Examiner]].
(2008-01-24). "Gary Lightbody Surprise". [[BBC Northern Ireland]].
(2008-02-19). "Watch Meteor Ireland Music Awards on RTÉ.ie". [[RTÉ]].

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