Amble have won the RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize Song of the Year award for their track Schoolyard Days.<\/p>\n
The news was announced live on The Tracy Clifford Show on RT\u00c9 2FM hours before the main event kicks off in Vicar Street.<\/p>\n
The band said that it was “unbelievable” and they were “very, very happy and delighted”.<\/p>\n
They described the win as a “huge honour” and also said it was “a huge honour” to be nominated in four categories at this year’s awards.<\/p>\n
“It’s something that you don’t think about when you’re writing songs or playing music,” said Amble’s Robbie Cunningham.<\/p>\n
“You don’t write the songs for awards, but when you do get nominated, it is a lovely moment to sit back and soak in what’s really happened in the last couple of years. Hopefully, we have a couple of more awards at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n
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“Thank you to everyone who voted for us across Ireland,” his bandmate Ois\u00edn McCaffrey said. “It’s special, really special.”<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of people taking the stage tonight for the awards gig, people we looked up to for years,” McCaffrey continued.<\/p>\n
“I was in college in Galway listening to those people five or six years ago now – and now to share the stage with them is surreal, genuinely, and we’re very, very grateful for the whole thing.”<\/p>\n
For Amble’s Ross McNerney, being on stage at Vicar Street marks a milestone, as he attended the RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize show “twice as a punter”.<\/p>\n
“I was here in 2016 when Lankum won one Album of the Year, and that was my first time seeing them,” he recounted.<\/p>\n
“And I just came as a punter, as a music fan, and to be here in 2026 getting to play on the stage, it’s something I never thought of then. So, this is a celebration of Irish music, and we’re just proud to be a part of that.”<\/p>\n
The trio confirmed that there is a busy year ahead, with a second album in the works.<\/p>\n
Cunningham said that Amble is “supporting Dermot Kennedy around Europe, and then we are lined up for a couple of dates with Ed Sheeran in America, as well as our own, so we’re going to be busy men again in 2026”.<\/p>\n
Amble said that “hopefully, the three of us just remain best pals and the three boys behind us [on stage] as well”.<\/p>\n
Live coverage of the RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize continues on RT\u00c9 2FM throughout the evening.<\/p>\n