ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. The Gloaming - "2"
2. Bellowhead - Live: the Farewell Tour
3. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
4. Shovels & Rope - Little Seeds
5. John McCusker - Hello, goodbye
6. The Rolling Stones - Blue and lonesome
7. Damien Dempsey - No Force on Earth
8. Seth Lakeman - Ballads of the Broken Few
9. Daoirí Farrell - True Born Irishman
10. Ducking Punches - Fizzy Brain
LIVE GIGS
1. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Circus Maximus, Rome
2. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls (show #2000), Rock City, Nottingham
3. Lynched, Vicar Street, Dublin
4. Flook, Sugar Club, Dublin
5. Lúnasa, Dervish + Triad, Printworks, Dublin Castle
6. Le Vent Du Nord, Sugar Club, Dublin
7. The Unthanks, Set Theatre, Kilkenny
8. Lindi Ortega, Grand Social, Dublin
9. Daoirí Farrell, Whelans, Dublin
10. Bronagh Gallagher, Áine's living room, Dublin
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
1. Gogol Bordello, Cambridge Folk Festival
2. P J Harvey, Glastonbury
3. The Waterboys, Folkfest Killarney
4. We Banjo 3, Folkfest Killarney
5. Christy Moore, Cambridge Folk Festival
6. Kíla, Cambridge Folk Festival
7. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Cambridge Folk Festival
8. Sharon Shannon, Glastonbury
9. Iarla O Lionáird & Steve Cooney, Folkfest Killarney
10. Máirtín O Connor Band - Folkfest Killarney
SONG OF THE YEAR
Something familiar - Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Soul Picnic: The music and passion of Laura Nyro - Michele Kort
(from 2002, but best music book I bought and read this year)
FILM OF THE YEAR
Gimme danger: The story of the Stooges - directed by Jim Jarmusch
