READER WIVES IN WHELANS

Nothing like a Sunday with Ghostbusters 2.
Went to see the Readers Wives gig last night upstairs in Whelans. I've never been in that room. Tis very nice. Although at some times I felt the floor would fall through as the band rocked the joint.
It was a bloomin marvelous gig. I encourage everybody and anybody to go out and get the bands album, but especially there after to seek them out like.
The gig had tons of highlights, but my favorite moment was when the band were heckled into playing this song. Apparently they never play it anymore. For what reason, I don't know.

READERS WIVES and U2 NOSTALGIA TRIP

Was watching Bono and the Edges performance at the Nelson Mandela birthday gig last night. Great to see Bonos voice was in full form.
After the watching the vid, I found myself watching some vintage U2 interviews. This is a particularly great one from the Late Late Show 20 years ago. It comes in five parts. Heres part 2, 3, 4 and 5.
There are some very interesting answers in the mix. Good stuff. Great to see the old Late Late footage too. How this type of stuff hasn't been archived online and DVD to me is a mystery to me.
Heading to see the great Readers Wives gig tonight in Whelans. Readers Wives performed and were nominated at last weeks BalconyTV Music Video Awards. Here they are on The Last Broadcast earlier in the month.

SUNDAY WORLD

I should have told the world by now, but we've teamed up with Irelands biggest selling Sunday newspaper The Sunday World, to feature our past weeks shows on their new website. It works out as more exposure for the artists who feature on BalconyTV. The Sunday World were a big help in staging last weeks BalconyTV Music Video Awards, so kudos to them we say!
Here is a link to the new Sunday World website. You will see our videos featured on the front page.

STEVE DUFFY FEATURED

Congratulations to Steve Duffy for being featured front page of YouTube Ireland today. The views are piling up for him already. He belted out some great tunes last night in the Zodiac Sessions in Bruxelles in Dublin. He'll be playing there every Wednesday night.

BLOGTASTIC

Another kind review of the BalconyTV Music Video Awards 2008 has popped up here. Thanks Sheena!

BTMVA TITBITS

We have had some great feedback on the BalconyTV Music Video Awards. Thanks to everyone who has emailed and commented on the night.

Hotpress and OffHerRocker have published a good online review here.

Trev at MusicReview has put up a nice review with photos here.

You can still see photos from Entertainment.Ie here.

Una Mullally who presented an award on the night has an iccle bit here.

And YouTube have featured the award winning videos on the global site here which is brilliant.

Apart from that, I discovered this great video of Best Female Winner Luan Parle on The Late Late Show when she was just iccle. Great vid.

BalconyTV Music Video Awards 2008

Thanks to all who attended the BalconyTV Music Video Awards last night in the Sugar Club. We hope your entertainment was polar opposite to our stress in organizing the event.

It was great to see so many recognizable faces in the crowd who have supported BalconyTV to date. It was also good to see a few of the people who performed on BalconyTV in the past couple of years.

The highlight of the night was undoubtedly the performance of Alberto The Musicbox from BalconyTV Hamburg who had the audience wailing in delight. My personal other highlights were RoySeven who opened the show, and AlanAlda and Tango Flash Mob.

Other great performances on the night came from the legendary John Spillane, the classically gifted Zoe Conway and John McIntyre, songstriss Adela Meally, the cuss wording Readers Wives, The Kinetiks with their rocking finale, and Soularia for traveling from far to be with us on the night.

Our award presenters on the night were Colm Lynch, Roddie Cleere from WLRFM, Lauren Guillery, Paul from RoySeven, Lars and Johanna from BalconyTV Hamburg, Leanne Harte, and Una Mullally.

If anyones interested in photos of the night you can find a chunk here provided by Entertainment.ie.

Congratulations to all the winners who were:

Best Male
Keith O Brien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYcagucCFgg

Best Female
Luan Parle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiMcO5u_qD8

Best International Act
Apes in the Orange Grove - Netherlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUXlv_IyjQ

Best Alternative Show
Raven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=475cNghCtck

BalconyTV Hamburg
Jan Baruschke & Markus Rollwage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBqCGfmisI

Best Show
Zoe Conway & John MyIntyre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gsGzGGt7wc

Best Band
The Script
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoe00rmEAQA

Thank you to all the judges.

More thanks yous go to Ian on the desk in the Sugar Club who did an amazing job in dealing with a jam packed line up, and a very awkward visual display. Thanks to our sponsors. Budvar for the complimentary beers, The Sunday World, Captive Advertising and The Clarion Hotel. Thanks to Barbara and the Goethe Institute for bringing over the two acts from BalconyTV Hamburg. Thank you Maghnus for watching the side bar, and to Sean Bodie for making the top secret award delivery. Thanks to Sue at Sink.ie for designing our cool site and awards poster (and Happy Birthday;-)

Stephen, Tom and Pauline
Co-Founders
BalconyTV.Com

LO DOWN ON TONIGHTS AWARDS

This is a final reminder about the BalconyTV Music Video Awards 2008 that will be taking place tonight in Dublins Sugar Club.

Admission is free, but we recommend you get there by about 8.30 in order to get in, as once the venue is full there will be no further admission.

We will be featuring some great BalconyTV shows on the Big Screen from about 8.15, and the event itself will start at 9PM sharp running till 11PM.

We have a great line up of performers including RoySeven, The Kinetiks, John Spillane, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre, Readers Wives, Adela Meally, AlanAlda and Tango Flash Mob, Alberto The Musicbox, Soularia.

We will be providing a complimentary beer for the first 250 people thanks to Budvar.

The BalconyTV Music Video Awards 2008 is brought to you in association with The Sunday World, The Goethe Institute, Captive Advertising, Clarion Hotels and Budvar.

You can watch last years awards here -
http://www.balconytv.com/musicvideo.htm

The nominees for this years awards are:

Best Male
John Spillane
Mumblin Deaf Ro
Ray Heffernan
Declan O' Rourke
Keith O Brien

Best Female
Luan Parle
Pamela Connolly
Siobhan O Brien
Christine Deady
Adela Meally

Best International Act
The Hedrons - Scotland
Apes in the Orange Grove - Netherlands
Moksha - Italy
Monde Yeux - Sweden
Velha Gaiteira - Portugal

Best Alternative Show
Raven
Mike Igoe
Singing Lessons with Nyle Wolfe
Tango Flash Mob
Dustin The Turkey

BalconyTV Hamburg
Flowin Immo
Soularia
Alberto
Ruben Cossani
Jan Baruschke & Markus Rollwage

Best Show
Elavator
Paddy Casey
Royseven
Red Kid
Zoe Conway & John MyIntyre

Best Band
The Script
Camogie Lovers
Readers Wives
The Coronas
The Flaws

FREDERICK AND THE GOLDEN DAWN

I was at the launch of the HWCH last night in The Button Factory. Tons of recogniseable faces there including this band who performed on BalconyTV a long long time ago.

MONDAY RAMBLINGS

Its a bank holiday Monday here in Dublin which means everything is shut down for the day. The sun is shining and the weather is scorching. It was like waking up in an oven this morning. Its strange, because last week or the week before it was actually quite cold. That's global warming for you. No matter what weather happens these days its global warming.
I have been absolutely woeful with blogs of late. So lazy on the subject. Inspirationless, if thats a word. I need to get back to it. But what to write about?
Global warming? Nah, its been done to death.
My Irish Broadband connection speed has been pitifully slow of late. Once again I have been tempted to throw the box from the balcony, take a shotgun and practice my play pigeon shooting. Coupled with our external hard drive that stores all the shows acting up that explains why the daily shows are uploaded later that usual of late.
This blog is so directionless.
I saw Indiana Jones. Wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. Its quite fun actually. Not as good as the others, but worth the view. Here is a great review of it by the Angry Video Game Nerd. I largely agree with what he says.
The Angry Video Game Nerd is my new YouTube discovery. Hes basically this loop the loop, who review very bad old Nintendo video games. Well worth the look for any video game or Nintendo geeks out there. Heres just one example of what he does.