Artistic licence: Eyes on the prize
The first text arrived just hours after the shortlist for this year’s Choice Music Prize was announced. ‘‘Turn your face to the wall,” it read. ‘‘No Future Kings of Spain? No A Lazarus Soul? Shame on you.” And with that (only half-joking) message, my
The first text arrived just hours after the shortlist for this year’s Choice Music Prize was announced. ‘‘Turn your face to the wall,” it read. ‘‘No Future Kings of Spain? No A Lazarus Soul? Shame on you.” And with that (only half-joking) message, my tenure on the judging panel for this year’s Choice Music Prize, Ireland’s relatively newly-established equivalent of the Mercury Prize, began in earnest.
Never having judged anything in my life ...
