With the podcast back and this week’s show having some more-than-usual Irish content (about time too some might say), here’s some link love to the Irish music bloggers currently sitting on the long list for Best Music Blog at the 2009 Irish Blog Awards.

The awards themselves are being held this coming Saturday night at the Cork International Airport Hotel in Cork, Ireland, and I’ll be there in the audience to meet, greet and catch up with a great bunch of people.

The long-listed nominees are…

• Asleep on the Compost Heap
• Nialler9
• On the Record
• The Torture Garden
• Drop D
• Indiehour
• Kilkenny Music
• Unreality TV
• frmckenzie
• mp3hugger
• Those Geese
• Analogue Magazine
• Off Her Rocker
• State Blog
• Swear I’m Not Paul
• Stuart Bailie
• Musical Rooms
• Nick Thinks

Best of luck to all and to those that make the eventual shortlist. If you see me there on the night be sure and say hello

A hat-trick in the bag for Nialler9? You never know…