Best Album
Overhead, The Albatross – Learning to Growl
Best EP
Carron – Roots
Best Single
All Tvvins – Unbelievable
Best Music Video
Kaz Hawkins Band – This is Me
Best Female (Solo act)
Áine Cahill
Best Male (Solo act)
Daithí
Best Live Act
King Kong Company
Best Newcomer
Aoibhín
Best Festival
KnockanStockan
Best Live Music Venue
Whelan’s
Best Radio (Community)
Near fm 90.3
Shortlist below for the 2016 Pure M awards.
Best Album
Overhead, The Albatross – Learning to Growl
Nathan Carter – Stayin’Up All Night
MMOTHS – Luneworks
Ciaran Lavery – Let Bad In
The High Kings – Grace & Glory
Rusangano Family – Let the Dead Bury the Dead
Walking on Cars – Everything This Way
Land Lovers – The Rooks Have Returned
The Gloaming – 2
Cian Nugent – Night Fiction
Best EP
Frankenstein Bolts – Cinematic Views
Carron – Roots
Brass Phantoms – City of Wolves
Niamh Crowther – Self-titled
Stomptown Brass – Locomotive
Pleasure Beach – Dreamer to the Dawn
TooTawl – House on the Moon
Transmission Club – Salt
Daithi – Tribes
Tigwara – Tigwara
Best Single
All Tvvins – Unbelievable
Bitch Falcon: Clutch
Dermot Kennedy – After Rain
Róisín O – Give It Up
This Side Up – Signs feat. Verb T & Moreone
The Pale – Such Dumb Luck
Fangclub – Loner
Kolumbus – I Hope You Find Happiness
Walking On Cars – Speeding Cars
Penrose – Sign On
Best Music Video
Rosa Nutty – Fine Print
Sample Answer – Collision
King Kong Company – Scarity Dan
Cathy Davey – The Pattern
Kaz Hawkins Band – This is Me
The Strypes -Scumbag City
Ciara O’Neill – Ghosts
Chris Haze – Let Us Be Heroes
Wyvern Lingo – Letter to Willow
Brass Phantoms – City of Wolves
Best Female (Solo)
Roisin Murphy
Nella
SOAK
Naoise Roo
Cathy Davey
Sinead White
Luan Parle
Kaz Hawkins
Áine Cahill
Katie Laffan
Best Male (Solo)
Maverick Sabre
Brian Deady
Sample Answer
Daithí
Peter M. Smith
Ryan Vail
Glen Hansard
Jem Mitchell
James Vincent McMorrow
Mick Flannery
Best Live Act
King Kong Company
OTHERKIN
Hermitage Green
Pleasure Beach
Aslan
TooFools
The Strypes
Saint Sister
Stomptown Brass
Bitch Falcon
Best Newcomer
Davie Furey
RUTH
Pine The Pilcrow
Girlfriend
Sarah Buckley
Aoibhín
Ian Brennan
Small Town Crisis
THUMPER
Small Fish
Best Festival
Kilkenny Roots Festival
Vantastival
Forbidden Fruit
K-Fest
Canalaphonic
Townlands Carnival
Longitude
Groove Festival
KnockanStockan
Indiependence
Best Live Music Venue
JJ Smyth’s
Coughlan’s
Roisin Dubh
Dolan’s
The CobbleStone
Whelan’s
Brewery Corner
The Workman’s Club
Grand Social
Sweeney’s
Best Radio (Community)
CCR 946 | Claremorris Community Radio
Dublin South 93.9 FM
Dundalk FM
Near fm 90.3
Liffey Sound 96.4 FM
Wired FM
Phoenix FM
Flirt FM
Raidió na Life 106.4FM
Tipperary Mid West Radio