Our songs are top secret right now... ;)

Sorry I won't be there, D+D night.

What time does this thing start? I can't find that info anywhere.

I'm sure Roger is going right? He's up for the lifetime acheivement award. I'll probably go in support of the "scene" as we say. And, I'll have an excuse to drink somewhere different, but seeing as there isn't one award in this poll for being a bunch of drunks (don't ask me why that category didn't make the list) I suspect we will go home empty handed.

Who won?

It was good to see Roger, Shame, Scott Mclennan, & others. Nice to meet some new folks also.Would have been cool if more of the winners actually showed up.All in all not a bad event.White Chocolate always a good time.Clear the Way and XXX The Owl... mighty impressive;)

I'm surprised that there is no list of winners anywhere yet. I think the folks at the Pulse might still be hungover from last night.

The one thing that I will say was cool about how they were doing the awards last night (and mind you, I was there for maybe a half hour and fifteen minutes of that was talking to Kaz) was that they had someone upstairs (between the audio sound board - by the way, you forgot to put Geoff from Switchblade Suicide's mic on) and Barney on the lightboard, on a laptop controlling a projection screen behind the stage. Maybe it was Powerpoint or something, but when they announced a category, the screen would say the category, and then one at a time, put photos of the bands in question up, and then when Carmelita announced the winner, that band's photo went back up while they received their award. When I got there Switchblade Suicide was playing to a huge backdrop of a black and white photo of themselves. It was a slick touch.

The sound upstairs is a little rough, though. They had a professional staging setup with black curtains surrounding the side and back of the stage (creating a sort of backstage area.) The sound was rough, however, because that room just seems so echoey and even with a packed house of "sound absorbers" as I like to call them, the sound was pretty muffled and echoey.

I've only been to Irish Times once before, to see Mike O'Connell's CD release party, so I don't know what the norm is. Just sayin'...

Oh, and Craig Gaumond, if you're reading this, I went over to say hi to you and got sidetracked by Jody Ryan and when I turned around, you were gone.... like a thief in the night...

So +1 for slick production values with the slide projections, and -1 for muffled sound (not really their fault.... you can't treat a room like that very easily). I didn't try the buffalo wings, so I can't review that. Ali Bombz had some, so maybe he can review the food.

Roger

Jediah, Trebek tops at local music awards

By Scott McLennan Entertainment Columnist
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