Other terms for practical jokes include gag, jape, or shenanigan. It featured author Irvine Welsh, Richie Egan from Jape and Stradbally Hall's owner Thomas Cosby. Richie Egan received one nomination at the 2009 Meteor Awards for his band Jape. Richie Egan is the principal songwriter but refers to the overall band as Jape. She likes bands such as Adebisi Shank, Giveamanakick, Grand Pocket Orchestra and Jape. JAPE transducers are used within GATE to manipulate annotations on text. "White Lies" lost to "Ritual" by Jape. So I Watch You from Afar, DELS, Le Galaxie, Jape, and We Are Scientists. Jape released the album "Ocean of Frequency" in 2011. The award was won by Jape for the album "Ritual" on 4 March 2009. As of March 2009, Jape had six songs written for a fourth album. JAPE is a finite state transducer that operates over annotations based on regular expressions. In January 2015 Jape returned with their fifth studio album "This Chemical Sea". Following the album's release Jape toured Europe, playing live shows across the continent. Jape performed at the Eurosonic Festival in 2012 when Ireland was the "Spotlight Country".