Just like last year the Balcony TV crew pulled off another great award show with some of the best acts around the music scene today, it was great to see so many good people at the awards from the music industry the support was fantastic and hats off to Stephen, Tom and Pauline for another wonderful music video award ceremony, the seven award winners were
The first live performance was by Royseven who were last years best band winners and kicked the show off with some great energy and real punchy beats and grooves you could feel every beat like electricity running through your body Royseven have a crisp look about them with some fantastic stage presence and what a way to launch an award ceremony thumbs up guys …
Adela Meally took to the stage strumming out some catchy tunes one tune that really caught me was Party for three its got real charm and charisma about the song, pop folk with the ska trimmings, great vocals.
Zoe Conway & John McIntyre This fine duo played some wonderful fiddle and guitar music while keeping the crowd entertained with there duelling melodies and abstract riffs.
John Spillane embraced us with some smart folk grooves and great artistic humour, John played a very tight set and drawing the full attention from the audience, pure poetry in music..
Alanalda and the tango flash mob, the guys from Alanalda went all out for there set bringing the Tango mob along to strut there stuff while the played their superb tune Always someone watching.
Alberto the musicbox this guy came up to the mic doing some old skool beat box and he has it to a tee if you like the Michael Winslow (Police academy) you will love Alberto, the crowd went crazy when he started to rhyme of some dance club hits excellent stuff…
Soularia hit the stage with a funky soul train of melodies with a touch of stardust to their set great vocal ability from the lead singer Yvonne and fantastic stage presence.
Readers Wives this was a very energetic performance from the band giving it socks with lots of sax, you could here lots of ska influences yet the music was kicking like a grunge outfit went down excellent on the night.
THE KINETIKS were the last and final act to take the stage this was a real treat one of Irelands rising acts, pulsating rock flowing from the stage when they got into their set great show from their front man Gaz super stuff guys.
