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Rigsy is twittering his way through his day as a judge of the . At 8pm he'll enter a room with eleven other judges to pick a winner. We're told, rather scarily, that "what happens in that room, stays in that room", but he has promised to tweet the winner the second it's announced, so we're hoping for something of an online exclusive.

Meanwhile, his rambling tweets will be pasted on this blog, so do enjoy a (fairly exceptional) day in the life of our man Rigsy...

10.39pm...
And the winner is... JAPE!ÌýHe humbly declares "it's much better being a sinking ship than a rat jumping off a sinking ship". He seems like aÌýlovely chap tbh.

10.15pm...
Finished. It was really really interesting and very fair. Winner twitted the second its announced. 15 mins I reckon.

7.53pm...
Ha. No, 2 hours of rowing ahead. Playing by the rules so no sneaky twits, but will try and be first with result!

7.51pm...
InÌýthe room! The debate starts here. It's cold, so I'll make this quick...

7.41pm...
Dinner finished. Judges all dead on, total musos. Tho strangely everyone avoiding chat about nominated bands.

7.33pm...
Does ur music preference change after u eat too much?

5.24pm...
Off to meet my fellow judges, get them drunk and convince them of rich rewards in Belfast if they fight for Holmer or the Opps. I jest. Kind of. Will try and tweet between dinner and us disappearing to fight it out xoxoxoxo

5.08pm...
ThoÌýI can't just storm in and only fight for the two nordies, no one will take me seriously... not that I'm expecting that anyway, ha.

5.00pm...
Listening to Oppenheimer and Holmer records, even thoÌýI know them inside out. Would be absolutely chuffed to bits and pieces if either won.

4.34pm...
Forgot how many decent tunes are on that MessiahÌýJ album. Last 2 singles are brilliant. If it was a vote on singles...

2.38pm...
The taxi driver asked what I'm down for.ÌýI told him. The only act he'd heard of was The Script.

1.45pm...
Really have to NOT let my crush on Lisa Hannigan interfere with the judging process.

1.42pm...
Mick Flannery record is grand and everything, butÌýI wouldn't want a singer-songwriter to win Irish album of the year. No fun.

1.27pm...
RSAG album is probably the most unique of the ten - weird samples buried beneath drums - soundtracks this rickety train journey quite well.

11.30am...
Up and getting the train to the choice awards in a bit. Gonna listen to the acts on the shortlist once again on the train down.