WESTLIFE SET RECORD AT IRISH AWARDS
WESTLIFE landed the Best Pop Act honour at the annual Meteor Ireland Musi= c Awards on Friday (19Feb10) - for a record tenth time.
The boy band, who have enjoyed a career spanning more than a decade, we= re honoured at Dublin’s RDS venue.
Snow Patrol landed the Best Band trophy, while The Script scooped the B= est Irish Live Performance of the Year for their set at the Oxygen festiv= al in the city last year (Jul09).
U2’s No Line on the Horizon was beaten to the Best Album award by The C= oronas’ record Tony Was An Ex-Con - and the group was stunned to be hande= d the top honour.
Lead singer Danny O=E2=80=99Reilly says, "I know people say this all th= e time, but we really, really didn=E2=80=99t expect this. We just assumed= like everyone else that U2 would win. We hadn=E2=80=99t a clue." Other winners at the annual prizegiving included Florence and the Machi= ne, who took home the Best International Band award, and Brian Kennedy, w= ho received this year’s (10) Lifetime Achievement Award. (CL/WNWCDAM&WNWC=
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