We need your nominations for the Gooseberries 2009!
SO WHAT THE BLEEDIN' HELL ARE THE GOOSEBERRIES?
Ask Amanda Brunker, Brendan O'Connor or Westlife. They all won
Gooseberry Awards for the worst in Irish music and media in previous
years and it was you the public who voted for them. The good news is,
its nomination time again for the 2009 Awards.
SO WHY BOTHER VOTING THEN?
Because there are far too many awards ceremonies and mutual
backslappings going on in Ireland that we at The Gooseberries decided
to mix things up. We always see people winning prices for the best,
but what about the worst? Surely we can't just forget about them? The Gooseberries give you the vote on who gave us the worst contributions in Irish radio, TV, journalism, music and advertising in 2009.
GRAND SO BUT HOW DOES IT WORK?
The Gooseberries are unique in that the public has complete control of
not just who gets the final vote in each category but who gets
nominated beforehand too. There are ten categories ranging from Worst
Irish Album of 2009 to Worst Irish Ad of 2009. For each category, you
are allowed to give up to three nominations. The three most nominated
in each category will go on to the final selection.
SO WHEN IS ALL THIS TAKING PLACE?
The nomination stage is now open until December 30th 2009. The final selection list will be released on Monday January 4th 2010. You will then have until January 12th 2009 to cast your vote here on the thegooseberries.com website. The results will be released at an amazing awards bash in Dublin on January 14th. Got it? Good. Now get cracking and give us your nominations people!
HANG ON; SURELY THE SAME EEJITS WHO WON EVERYTHING LAST YEAR WILL WIN
ALL OVER AGAIN FOR 2009?
Now that just wouldn't be fair! Plus there are plenty more out there.
We also made the rule that
anyone who won a Gooseberry award last year can't be nominated for 2009.
Again, anyone who picked up a Gooseberry in 2008 can't be nominated
for 2009. So just as a reminder here are the winners the from last
year.
1. Boyzone - Worst Irish Act of 2008
2. Meteor Christmas TV - Worst Irish Ad of 2008
3. Colm & Jim Jim - Worst Irish Radio DJ of 2008
4. Colm & Jim Jim's Homerun - Worst Irish TV Programme of 2008
5. Hardy Drew and The Nancy Boys (There's no one as Irish as Barack
Obama) - Worst Irish Single of 2008
6. Mickey Modelle (Irish Country Club Anthems) - Worst Irish Album of
2008
7. The Seoige Sisters - Worst Irish TV Host of 2008
8. The Meteor Awards - Worst Irish Gig of 2008
9. Social & Personal - Worst Irish Publication of 2008
10. Amanda Brunker - Worst Irish Journalist of 2008
2007 Winners
Here is the list of the winners that you, the readers of The Gooseberries picked for The
Gooseberries 2007!
Worst Irish Act of 2007
Westlife
Worst Irish Film of 2007
Shrooms
Worst Irish Radio DJ of 2007
Gerry Ryan
Worst Irish TV Programme
The Late Late Show
Worst Irish Single of 2007
Home by Westlife
Worst Irish Album of 2007
Home by Westlife
Worst Irish TV Host of 2007
Pat Kenny
Worst Irish Gig of 2007
Oxegen
Worst Irish Publication of 2007
The Sunday Independent
Worst Irish Journalist of 2007
Brendan O'Connor
Gooseberries Videos!
THE GOOSEBERRIES - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDPanti's speech
On Thursday 15th 2009 we held the award ceremony for The Gooseberries in The Odessa Club. It was a fantastic night out and we all had great craic! Especially when Panti presented Twink with her lifetime achievement award. Panti gave a speech that would have moved the hardest of hearts. She outlined how Twink has inspired her for decades and continues to do so today. Sadly, Twink wasn't there to accept her Gooseberry so Panti said a few words on her behalf. Enjoy!
THE GOOSEBERRIES HIT NETWORK 2!
The Gooseberries hit Network 2! On January 8th 2009 the Network 2 news show ran a piece all about our beloved Gooseberries. They interviewed one of The Elevator's directors and had a chat with one of the nominees Amanda Brunker who took it it all in great spirits. Fair play to ya Amanda! Apparently, some of the other nominees that RTE contacted "were unavailable for comment". Come on lads, lighten up a little!
The Irish Times
A half page in the Irish Arts and Entertainment Bible, The Ticket.Kevin Courtney seemed to understand exactly what we were up to and wanted to create, a platform for us Paddies to take the piss and have a giggle.As soon as the paper hit the shelves votes started coming in by the bucket load. Thanks a mill to The Ticket!
The Irish Examiner
No matter what happens now we can at least say that The Gooseberries made the cover of a national daily! A thousand thank yous to The Irish Examiner for the cover and the big piece on page three you gave us. We now solemnly promise never to slag anyone from Cork and will never, ever call it "The People's Republic of Begrudgers" ever again...Up the Rebel County!!
The Independent
If we actually had some revenue streams for this site and we could pay other writers to give us their contributions Ian O'Doherty would be our main man. Great enjoyable ranting written by a man with his finger on every pulse, as shown beautifully by his piece on The Gooseberries 2007. He starts his article with, "There's simply not enough pointless rage and bile and spite in the world." Ian, you speak our language fella!
The Star
You can't beat the auld red tops when it comes to catchy headlines. When we announced that we were going to award Gavin Lambe Murphy a "Lifetime achievement Award" with The Gooseberries they came up with the brilliant, "LAMBE TO THE SLAUGHTER". Fair fucks to ya boyos, we couldn't have said it better ourselves! The Star then followed up The Gooseberries Winners with a quick piece the morning after. Muchos gracias!
The Evening Herald
Well here it is folks, our first media war. That giant of daytime telly Mr. Joe O'Shea has picked a fight with us! In this article Joe tells the intrepid reporter that The Gooseberries are the work of "three guys sitting in a pub" and said the whole thing was "insignificant." To begin with Joe is probably sore about all the press that we've been getting. The only way that he could get that kind of attention would be if he were caught in flagrante delicto on air with his co host. Secondly he's probably even more annoyed that with all the dross and shite out there in Irish tellyland his show is rated by the public, not us ("three guys sittting in a pub") as one of the worst three out there. As The Late Late Show won for 2007 we will not allow it to be nominated for 2008 but rest assured that we will be campaigning to make sure that "Seoige and O'Shea" will take The Gooseberry next year. That's if you're still on air of course Joe.
The Daily Mail
Anyone who attended The Gooseberries on Jan. 10th will know that Michael O'Doherty the owner of VIP Magazine stole the show. Not only was he the only nominee to attend the event but he gladly accepted the award for Worst Irish Publication on behalf of The Sindo. What he said about the actual winners should not be repeated but suffice to say it was devilishly hilarious! The Daily Mail pointed out that he was the only one who bothered his hole to come down and they also printed a little blurb from Gavin Lambe Murphy who was awarded a lifetime Achievement Award from The Gooseberries.ie. He didn't seem to be too sure why he was presented with such a gong but in case anybody was wondering all they need to do his read his article. We gave you the lifetime achievement award because you are a Grade A geebag! Although to give him his dues at least he didn't have a hissy fit like Joe O'Shea.