Last night a few of us Culch.ies went along to the IMTV Irish Music Video Awards to see what it was all about. This was the first of the IMTV Video Music Awards and they did a great job. In The Sugar Club - always a great venue - the awards started off relatively on time and kept going at a good pace with intervening music from bands such as The Chapters, Noise Patrol and Julie Feeney, among others. We were also treated to some of the Best Video of 2009 nominees between each of the awards.
You can see all of the nominees on Sharon’s earlier post, and here are the winners of the night:
Best Live Video
Act: And So I watched you from afar
Video: Set Guitars to Kill
Director: Will McConnell
Best Dance Video
Act: Le Galaxie
Video: YOU FEEL THE FIRE
Director: Killian Broderick & Le Galaxie
Best Styled Video
Act: Julie Feeney
Video: Impossibly Beautiful
Director: Vittoria Colonna
Best Solo Male Video
Act: Pearse McGloughlin
Video: Ways to Kill a Werewolf
Director: Kevin McGloughlin
Best Solo Female Video
Act: Wallis Bird
Video: To My Bones
Director: Philipp Kaessbohrer
Most Original Concept for a Video
Act: Fight Like Apes
Video: Something Global
Director: Eoghan Kidney
Best Production or Special Effects in a Video
Act: Cap Pas Cap
Video: We are men
Director: Sam Boyd
Best Video by a Newcomer (this one was by public vote)
Act: Bowlegged
Video: Red Lights
Director: Peter J McCarthy
Director of the Year
Best Video 2009
Act: Valerie Francis
Video: Punches
Director: Eoghan Kidney
Congratulations to all of the nominees and especially to the winners! It looks like that Eoghan Kidney is one to watch, three wins on the night!
It was great fun and the bands that played really rocked the hell out of the stage. Especially Le Galaxie who seemed determined to live up to their newly received award for best dance video. Energetic lil bunnies!
Le Galaxie! They were the only other band to play besides the ones I mentioned, I couldn’t remember their name. Thanks Sharon.
Excellent to see Eoghan Kidney win, a very talented creative, one to watch out for in 2010. Thanks for posting
No worries Stephen, thanks for reading