IMRO Venue Awards.

Bonjour tout le monde!

On Tuesday 26th of February, I went to IMRO Venue Awards. For those who don't know what IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation) is, it's a 'national organisation that administers the performing right in copyright music in Ireland on behalf of its members and on behalf of the songwriters, composers and music publishers of the international overseas societies that are affiliated to it' (Thanks Wikipedia).
The night started with a band, called Pillow Queen that is composed of 4 girls from Dublin. I would describe their music as rock/indie.
Then, a band called Moncrieff, played. The voice of the main singer remind me a bit of Hozier's voice. They described their genre as 'Neo Noir'.
The last band, called Inhanler. Everybody was expecting them as the main singer, Elijah Hewson, is the song of Bono from U2. They're a young band as they only have a song or two released. But during the night, they sang 4 songs which sounded a bit like U2, but you would expecting that. Even though what they're doing are really good. You can have a listen below.
All the band that were singing were from Ireland (of course) but they played very well. You should definitely give a listen If you're into Rock/indie. Ireland have amazing artists, in my opinion and that night showed it perfectly.

In others news, the awards were given throughout the night. The main winners were :

IMRO National Live Venue of the Year 2018 – The Sugar Club, Dublin

IMRO Dublin Live Music Venue of the Year 2018 – The Sugar Club, Dublin

IMRO Rest of Leinster Live Music Venue of the Year 2018 – The Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth

IMRO Connacht Live Music Venue of the Year 2018 – Monroe’s, Galway

IMRO Munster Live Music Venue of the Year 2018 – Live at St Luke’s, Cork

IMRO Ulster Live Music Venue of the Year 2018 – An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

IMRO Music Festival of the Year 2018 – All Together Now

IMRO Small Music Festival of the Year 2018 – Wexford Spiegeltent Festival

IMRO Tech Crew of the Year Award 2018 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin

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