So, What's the ..... of the year?
Lists, lists, lists... We want your end of year lists!
Whilst the folks o' DiS are busy hanging holly and thinking about what THE .... of 2004, we'd like you, dear reader, to tell us what your:
- record(s)
- gig
- band / new band
- label
- festival
- mags
- radio
- websites
- places
- misc.
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So, What's the ..... of the year?
we suppossed to post it here?
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Lemme kick off...
- record(s)
1. thisGIRL 'UNO' - would say this cus I released it, but then, you don't release records because you think they're rubbish. Mental, graceful, creative wunderkids.
2. INTERPOL 'Antics' - the sound of rusting robots shaped like angels never sounded so poinant and uplifting.
- gig / festival
Iceland Airwaves, hands down, amazing. Especially The Shins and The Stills back to back.
- label
Can't decide between Saddle Creek and Wichita.
- mags
Loose Lips. For the Icarus Line feature alone. Looks beautiful, smells nice, finger on the pulse so hard babies are dieing.
- radio
Lamacqs always gonna be the winner.
- websites
Really like tinyvoices.co.uk - some nice writing going down.
Blah.
- record(s)
1. thisGIRL 'UNO' - would say this cus I released it, but then, you don't release records because you think they're rubbish. Mental, graceful, creative wunderkids.
2. INTERPOL 'Antics' - the sound of rusting robots shaped like angels never sounded so poinant and uplifting.
- gig / festival
Iceland Airwaves, hands down, amazing. Especially The Shins and The Stills back to back.
- label
Can't decide between Saddle Creek and Wichita.
- mags
Loose Lips. For the Icarus Line feature alone. Looks beautiful, smells nice, finger on the pulse so hard babies are dieing.
- radio
Lamacqs always gonna be the winner.
- websites
Really like tinyvoices.co.uk - some nice writing going down.
Blah.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
quite a wide scope, so ill just choose festival.
my favourite festival is truck festival in oxford, run by truck records. why do i love it so? because there is a massive variety of bands and styles, and somehow, they all seem to be really good. you get bands like the brakes playing in what is basically a marquee, the kind that your parents used when they had a few friends round for a barbeque. you get 80's matchbox headlining on a stage made from a flat bed lorry. and youthmovie soundtrack strategies playing in a cow barn, with only some of the cow crap cleaned out.
plus there is a great community feeling, possibly steming from the fact that you dont feel ripped off when you go to get a burger, beer or a near legendary banana smoothie. and its only 25 quid for 2 days worth of bands.
its not impossible to get tickets for and it hardly ever rains. and its not sponsored by bloody carling. surely that makes it the best festival there is...
my favourite festival is truck festival in oxford, run by truck records. why do i love it so? because there is a massive variety of bands and styles, and somehow, they all seem to be really good. you get bands like the brakes playing in what is basically a marquee, the kind that your parents used when they had a few friends round for a barbeque. you get 80's matchbox headlining on a stage made from a flat bed lorry. and youthmovie soundtrack strategies playing in a cow barn, with only some of the cow crap cleaned out.
plus there is a great community feeling, possibly steming from the fact that you dont feel ripped off when you go to get a burger, beer or a near legendary banana smoothie. and its only 25 quid for 2 days worth of bands.
its not impossible to get tickets for and it hardly ever rains. and its not sponsored by bloody carling. surely that makes it the best festival there is...
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record: Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Gig: Arthur Lee at the Forum
New band: Bloc Party
Festival: Reading (only one I went to, but it was ace)
Label: Barsuk
Mags: Modern Toss
Radio: John Peel, Lamacq, Late Junction on R3's good too
Websites: theonion.com, tinymixtapes.com
Gig: Arthur Lee at the Forum
New band: Bloc Party
Festival: Reading (only one I went to, but it was ace)
Label: Barsuk
Mags: Modern Toss
Radio: John Peel, Lamacq, Late Junction on R3's good too
Websites: theonion.com, tinymixtapes.com
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Reuben's "Racecar is Racecar Backwards" - Tons of well made tunes, an album that I can listen to start to finish without skippage which is rare for me these days.
- gig
Evan Dando in Studio ... something ... in Edinburgh, he played with a two broken fingers and still came out for two encores.
- band / new band
I quite love this old classic sludgy sound from The Clams. Still to see em live but their singles are braw.
- festival
TMF in Essex. Simply outstanding. It beat T in the Park from 2003 hands down. Reuben, Engerica, Amplifier, 80s Matchbox...I hope it's this good next year too.
- radio
John Peel, respect to the late and great DJ.
- websites
www.rocktoons.com - Cos I'm still a kid at heart.
- misc.
Seeing my favourite bands loads of times, and travelling across the country in some instances just to see the band play again.
Reuben's "Racecar is Racecar Backwards" - Tons of well made tunes, an album that I can listen to start to finish without skippage which is rare for me these days.
- gig
Evan Dando in Studio ... something ... in Edinburgh, he played with a two broken fingers and still came out for two encores.
- band / new band
I quite love this old classic sludgy sound from The Clams. Still to see em live but their singles are braw.
- festival
TMF in Essex. Simply outstanding. It beat T in the Park from 2003 hands down. Reuben, Engerica, Amplifier, 80s Matchbox...I hope it's this good next year too.
- radio
John Peel, respect to the late and great DJ.
- websites
www.rocktoons.com - Cos I'm still a kid at heart.
- misc.
Seeing my favourite bands loads of times, and travelling across the country in some instances just to see the band play again.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Thermals 'Fuckin A'/Q And Not U 'Power'/Graham Coxon 'Happiness In Magazines' (also Amusement Parks On Fire/Isis/Adem/Polyphonic Spree/The Features/The Shins) - I think this year has been really good for albums, I've bought stacks of them. Their are a load more, but these are the first three that come to mind because I keep going back to listen to them again and again.
- gig
Kaiser Chiefs @ The Barfly, Patrick Wolf @ Infinity, Art Brut/Special Needs @ The Barfly
- band / new band
Kaiser Chiefs
- label
Sub Pop. Back to its best.
- festival
Reading - as with the Colonel, it was the only one I went to but it was the best yet. Amazing weekend.
- mags
Don't really read any. Mayfair, if any.
- radio
XFM I suppose, esp. John Kennedy.
- websites
PopJustice.com. Funny as fuck.
- places
Reading at festival weekend
- misc.
Cider. Deserves some sort of mention, for being there when I needed it the most.
The Thermals 'Fuckin A'/Q And Not U 'Power'/Graham Coxon 'Happiness In Magazines' (also Amusement Parks On Fire/Isis/Adem/Polyphonic Spree/The Features/The Shins) - I think this year has been really good for albums, I've bought stacks of them. Their are a load more, but these are the first three that come to mind because I keep going back to listen to them again and again.
- gig
Kaiser Chiefs @ The Barfly, Patrick Wolf @ Infinity, Art Brut/Special Needs @ The Barfly
- band / new band
Kaiser Chiefs
- label
Sub Pop. Back to its best.
- festival
Reading - as with the Colonel, it was the only one I went to but it was the best yet. Amazing weekend.
- mags
Don't really read any. Mayfair, if any.
- radio
XFM I suppose, esp. John Kennedy.
- websites
PopJustice.com. Funny as fuck.
- places
Reading at festival weekend
- misc.
Cider. Deserves some sort of mention, for being there when I needed it the most.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Once Over Twice - Special Moments To Detonate Themselves - it didn't hit me for the first few listens, but when it did, this album knocked me sideways. Frantic, urgent yet always with a sense of melody but never drivelling along a n d n ever go i n g anywhere, always with a point. They also put on a rather good live show.
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell - Yeah yeah, came out last year, blah blah blah. I'm including it because it finally got the treatment it deserves this year, and because it's bloody outstanding. You can call it a little bit long, but frankly, calling a Ryan Adams album too long is a bit like complaining your cat can't bark. The title suggests a mopey, self-indulgent mess, but what you get are some perfect little nuggets of music, with some beautiful instrumentation.
Seafood - As The Cry Flows - Derided by many because, like, THEY DON'T MAKE LOTS OF NOISE ANYMORE AND ITS JUST RUBBISH AND AND AN- oh, do be quiet. Three years between albums is not what the band wanted, but when they can return with a collection of songs this stunning, I wouldn't complain too much. Not only some of their best written songs, but some of the best music they're written as well - check the instrumental passages in "I Dreamt We Ruled The Sun". Spine-tingling.
- gig
Without a doubt, Jetplane Landing on their May tour. I saw them three times in less than a week, after 25+ dates and as they drew towards the finishline, and you know what? They got better each gig. I'd have to single out the London, show, however, as being the finest. Killer setlist, typically mental performance, great support bill and a near packed venue, and basically the culmination of everything they've worked for over the last 2 years. Fan-fucking-tast-fucking-ic.
- band / new band
Mentions must be made for:
Bloc Party
Do Me Bad Things
Fickle Public
Distophia
Youthmove Soundtrack Strategies
Help She Can't Swim
- label
Smalltown America - their Public Service Broadcast compilations rule the roost.
- festival
Truck Festival - Like, a festival where the organisers give a shit about music, the security don't harass you and the food / drink don't bankrupt you [this just in - £7 for a 7" pizza at the CarlingNestleRobert Mugabe weekend this year - fuck right off]. Like, wow. Count me in next year. And the year after. And the year after that. Just to see if the barn ever smells any better, if nothing else.
The Once Over Twice - Special Moments To Detonate Themselves - it didn't hit me for the first few listens, but when it did, this album knocked me sideways. Frantic, urgent yet always with a sense of melody but never drivelling along a n d n ever go i n g anywhere, always with a point. They also put on a rather good live show.
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell - Yeah yeah, came out last year, blah blah blah. I'm including it because it finally got the treatment it deserves this year, and because it's bloody outstanding. You can call it a little bit long, but frankly, calling a Ryan Adams album too long is a bit like complaining your cat can't bark. The title suggests a mopey, self-indulgent mess, but what you get are some perfect little nuggets of music, with some beautiful instrumentation.
Seafood - As The Cry Flows - Derided by many because, like, THEY DON'T MAKE LOTS OF NOISE ANYMORE AND ITS JUST RUBBISH AND AND AN- oh, do be quiet. Three years between albums is not what the band wanted, but when they can return with a collection of songs this stunning, I wouldn't complain too much. Not only some of their best written songs, but some of the best music they're written as well - check the instrumental passages in "I Dreamt We Ruled The Sun". Spine-tingling.
- gig
Without a doubt, Jetplane Landing on their May tour. I saw them three times in less than a week, after 25+ dates and as they drew towards the finishline, and you know what? They got better each gig. I'd have to single out the London, show, however, as being the finest. Killer setlist, typically mental performance, great support bill and a near packed venue, and basically the culmination of everything they've worked for over the last 2 years. Fan-fucking-tast-fucking-ic.
- band / new band
Mentions must be made for:
Bloc Party
Do Me Bad Things
Fickle Public
Distophia
Youthmove Soundtrack Strategies
Help She Can't Swim
- label
Smalltown America - their Public Service Broadcast compilations rule the roost.
- festival
Truck Festival - Like, a festival where the organisers give a shit about music, the security don't harass you and the food / drink don't bankrupt you [this just in - £7 for a 7" pizza at the CarlingNestleRobert Mugabe weekend this year - fuck right off]. Like, wow. Count me in next year. And the year after. And the year after that. Just to see if the barn ever smells any better, if nothing else.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record - Elliott Smith 'From a Basement on the Hill', narrowly edging out The Walkmen and Graham Coxon
Gig - Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Nick Cave, Steve Mason at Brixton Academy
Band - The Walkmen
New band - Bloc Party
Label - Domino
Festival - Summer Sundae, Leicester. Yeah, it's shit but it's the only one I went to this year and I had a good time.
Mag - Nuts!
Radio - Peel
Website - ProjectRockstar.com
Misplaced hype of the year - Razorlight. Shitter than Shed Seven
Gig - Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Nick Cave, Steve Mason at Brixton Academy
Band - The Walkmen
New band - Bloc Party
Label - Domino
Festival - Summer Sundae, Leicester. Yeah, it's shit but it's the only one I went to this year and I had a good time.
Mag - Nuts!
Radio - Peel
Website - ProjectRockstar.com
Misplaced hype of the year - Razorlight. Shitter than Shed Seven
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Most unwelcome new trend of the year:
Lists. (See: Q magazine, NME and every other publication in sight)
Lists are the new award ceremonies.
Lists. (See: Q magazine, NME and every other publication in sight)
Lists are the new award ceremonies.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
...so I won't do a list, but no review of the year can go without a mention of Peel.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
rekkid: royal society - embld.
gwwwwweat especially the last three songs, industrial bang bang white noise and grungey oooohhing and dings and glitches and creepy gee-tar noises. mmm.
gig: british sea power at london garage a couple of weeks ago. don't want to talk about this though in the fear that i will get very embarressingly emo. special.
band: brakes.
truly original + unpretentious. best press release ever - something about them being scenester friendster hipsters who are so the bomb they shit out of their asses. brilliant. plus brakes contain members of electric soft parade yet fails to be total wank and twee. this is a massive achievement for which they must be congratulated.
mag: andrenalin.
so good at its job that it has single handedly convinced me that aged 16+ skating isnt just for laughable moronic private school baggy jeaned frosted tipped assholes afterall. infact some skaters seem like pretty gweat people. (fyi ive always liked aged 15- skaters. they are cute.) nice photography. stephanie zinone also endorses loose lips a lot.
label: trash aesthetics.
i like the word aesthetic almost as much as the word hiatus.
gwwwwweat especially the last three songs, industrial bang bang white noise and grungey oooohhing and dings and glitches and creepy gee-tar noises. mmm.
gig: british sea power at london garage a couple of weeks ago. don't want to talk about this though in the fear that i will get very embarressingly emo. special.
band: brakes.
truly original + unpretentious. best press release ever - something about them being scenester friendster hipsters who are so the bomb they shit out of their asses. brilliant. plus brakes contain members of electric soft parade yet fails to be total wank and twee. this is a massive achievement for which they must be congratulated.
mag: andrenalin.
so good at its job that it has single handedly convinced me that aged 16+ skating isnt just for laughable moronic private school baggy jeaned frosted tipped assholes afterall. infact some skaters seem like pretty gweat people. (fyi ive always liked aged 15- skaters. they are cute.) nice photography. stephanie zinone also endorses loose lips a lot.
label: trash aesthetics.
i like the word aesthetic almost as much as the word hiatus.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
No, no, lists were so last year.
And the 50years before that.
And the 50years before that.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s) - reuben racecar is racecar backwards
- elliott smith from a basement on the hill
- mclusky the difference between you and me
gig - the evens
band - reuben (highly under-recognised)
new band - blocparty *or* the evens
festival - TMF in essex
mags - the fly
radio - john peel
websites - questionablecontent.net
worse hype - razorlight or the libertines
misc. - next year look out for the continued slow rise of reuben.....the gratitude album from jonah.....and biffy becoming recognised as a religion
- elliott smith from a basement on the hill
- mclusky the difference between you and me
gig - the evens
band - reuben (highly under-recognised)
new band - blocparty *or* the evens
festival - TMF in essex
mags - the fly
radio - john peel
websites - questionablecontent.net
worse hype - razorlight or the libertines
misc. - next year look out for the continued slow rise of reuben.....the gratitude album from jonah.....and biffy becoming recognised as a religion
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Album- ...Oh christ, i just can't decide - there's a shortlist of 3 that i just can't find anything to seperate them
Reuben -RIRB
Isis - Panopticon
Mastodon - Leviathan
Gig- This will sound cliched, but it was a couple of nights ago at the Machine Head Gig in Southampton - it had it all, the naff first band on (i won't mention their name 'cos i interviewed them and they seemed nice enough for Germans), the spinetinglingly impressive middle band (God Forbid - if they're not fucking massive this time next year, i'll eat my own poo), and then of course, the main event, which was simply peerless, apart from the rather amateur sound. Also having a great debate with a smelly old metalhead about why the hell anyone bought seating tickets - it's a goddam metal show, not the bloody opera
anyhoos, we move onwards,
Label- mmm, again, i'm not sure, it's between a couple of the American underground ones.
Festival - Only went to Glasto, so there's only one winner, despite the fucking Gallaghers
Mags- i'd have to say i've been most impresed with some of the big-boys (Metal Hammer and Rock Sound) - NME and Q are just descending further into farce
Radio - it's just gotta be Lamacq
Websites - www.sinradio.co.uk (face it, it was going to get a mention somewhere) -soon to be expanded - muchos excitement!!
Places - It's just gotta be the Joiners, you just can't hate it.
So there we go, another year almost at the end - uni almost over, time to look for a proper job (Hint, hint Sean!)
Reuben -RIRB
Isis - Panopticon
Mastodon - Leviathan
Gig- This will sound cliched, but it was a couple of nights ago at the Machine Head Gig in Southampton - it had it all, the naff first band on (i won't mention their name 'cos i interviewed them and they seemed nice enough for Germans), the spinetinglingly impressive middle band (God Forbid - if they're not fucking massive this time next year, i'll eat my own poo), and then of course, the main event, which was simply peerless, apart from the rather amateur sound. Also having a great debate with a smelly old metalhead about why the hell anyone bought seating tickets - it's a goddam metal show, not the bloody opera
anyhoos, we move onwards,
Label- mmm, again, i'm not sure, it's between a couple of the American underground ones.
Festival - Only went to Glasto, so there's only one winner, despite the fucking Gallaghers
Mags- i'd have to say i've been most impresed with some of the big-boys (Metal Hammer and Rock Sound) - NME and Q are just descending further into farce
Radio - it's just gotta be Lamacq
Websites - www.sinradio.co.uk (face it, it was going to get a mention somewhere) -soon to be expanded - muchos excitement!!
Places - It's just gotta be the Joiners, you just can't hate it.
So there we go, another year almost at the end - uni almost over, time to look for a proper job (Hint, hint Sean!)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
actually make best band the evens . . .
ian mckayes is on another planet compared to blocparty
ian mckayes is on another planet compared to blocparty
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Yay for lists. Mmmmk...here goes:
Records: I cannae choose between these four
- Salvation by Cult Of Luna
- Antics by Interpol
- Panopticon by Isis
- Miss Machine by Dillinger Escape Plan
Gig(s): Once again far too many:
- Explosions In The Sky/ Part Chimp/ Bikini Atoll at the ICA
- Sonic Youth at Brixton
- The Icarus Line at the Oxford Zodiac
- Pelican at Camden Underworld
- (I'd also anticipate that Dillinger/PTW tomorrow and ...Trail Of Dead next week would make this list).
Band: Explosions In The Sky
New band: These Arms Are Snakes (though I was really impressed by Bloc Party on Later...)
Label: Matador/ Hydrahead
Festival: None consistently good enough to mention
Mags: Rock Sound for its general coverage of fantastic bands that no one else seems willing to touch, Loose Lips Sink Ships for looking very cool.
Radio: Peel Show (R.I.P.)
Websites: DiS (aww...), Buddyhead, Pitchfork
Places: Reading. Hahahahahaha....sorry...I shouldn't laugh at my own jokes. London cos, well it's cool. And Oxford cos it's not full of pikes and is home to the Zodiac, the venue of the gods. No matter who's playing it never, ever sells out and it gets some fucking awesome bands playing there.
Misc: Any year that witnesses the reformation of Slint can hardly be a bad one.
Records: I cannae choose between these four
- Salvation by Cult Of Luna
- Antics by Interpol
- Panopticon by Isis
- Miss Machine by Dillinger Escape Plan
Gig(s): Once again far too many:
- Explosions In The Sky/ Part Chimp/ Bikini Atoll at the ICA
- Sonic Youth at Brixton
- The Icarus Line at the Oxford Zodiac
- Pelican at Camden Underworld
- (I'd also anticipate that Dillinger/PTW tomorrow and ...Trail Of Dead next week would make this list).
Band: Explosions In The Sky
New band: These Arms Are Snakes (though I was really impressed by Bloc Party on Later...)
Label: Matador/ Hydrahead
Festival: None consistently good enough to mention
Mags: Rock Sound for its general coverage of fantastic bands that no one else seems willing to touch, Loose Lips Sink Ships for looking very cool.
Radio: Peel Show (R.I.P.)
Websites: DiS (aww...), Buddyhead, Pitchfork
Places: Reading. Hahahahahaha....sorry...I shouldn't laugh at my own jokes. London cos, well it's cool. And Oxford cos it's not full of pikes and is home to the Zodiac, the venue of the gods. No matter who's playing it never, ever sells out and it gets some fucking awesome bands playing there.
Misc: Any year that witnesses the reformation of Slint can hardly be a bad one.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) Biffy Clyro-Infinity Land. Really twisted and odd but still beautiful. Converge-You Fail Me, or the new Joan of Arc.
- gig: Pixies on the thursday at Brixton!! Best gig ever.
- new band-Bloc party-Love 'em to bits.
- label-Jade Tree
- festival- Leeds. Had great fun, saw Morrisey.
- mags- Rock Sound
- radio- John Peel. Will be missed forever.
- places- Barfly and Probe Records in Liverpool. These places have eaten my student loan.
- gig: Pixies on the thursday at Brixton!! Best gig ever.
- new band-Bloc party-Love 'em to bits.
- label-Jade Tree
- festival- Leeds. Had great fun, saw Morrisey.
- mags- Rock Sound
- radio- John Peel. Will be missed forever.
- places- Barfly and Probe Records in Liverpool. These places have eaten my student loan.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
aaargh. Quick correction. Best Record was actually Penance Sioree by the Icarus Line.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record - banquet
gig - bloc party/ymss/ship's a going down at buffalo bar - opened my eyes and ears and is the reason i'm on the vaunted fable of a site
band - ymss, jason & the astronauts
ex band - the agenda
label - trash aesthetics - for making my vinyl more valuable than ozzy's jewelery (not that i'll sell)
fest - nuther one that only went to reading - stereolab were my highlight - does that make me really old?
mag - i only read books - honest
radio - peelie
place - dacre arms - best pub in the world
gig - bloc party/ymss/ship's a going down at buffalo bar - opened my eyes and ears and is the reason i'm on the vaunted fable of a site
band - ymss, jason & the astronauts
ex band - the agenda
label - trash aesthetics - for making my vinyl more valuable than ozzy's jewelery (not that i'll sell)
fest - nuther one that only went to reading - stereolab were my highlight - does that make me really old?
mag - i only read books - honest
radio - peelie
place - dacre arms - best pub in the world
So, What's the ..... of the year?
that should have been THIS vaunted blah blah blah
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record - q and not u - power
- gig: Part Chimp/You Judas - Bar XV Burton
- band - biffy clyro
- new band- that fucking tank
- label- jealous records
- festival- T in the Park
- radio- xfm
- gig: Part Chimp/You Judas - Bar XV Burton
- band - biffy clyro
- new band- that fucking tank
- label- jealous records
- festival- T in the Park
- radio- xfm
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record : cistm confliqt - The Mad Capsule Markets
Gig: Muse, Glasto.
Band: Muse, for Glasto.
New band: I'm going for Selfish Cunt, just to annoy everyone else.
Label: Planet Mu
Festival: Glasto. Didn't see that one coming, did you?
Radio: 1.
Gig: Muse, Glasto.
Band: Muse, for Glasto.
New band: I'm going for Selfish Cunt, just to annoy everyone else.
Label: Planet Mu
Festival: Glasto. Didn't see that one coming, did you?
Radio: 1.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
hmmm. cambridge has christmas lights up now (including a pretty shoddy looking tree). i'm sure it's bad luck or something...
records: magnetic fields, sufjan stevens, annie, go! team, stereolab, wilco, julie doiron, the go betweens reissues, the low box set, devendra banhart, cocorosie and some others...
gig: the shins at somerset house, mercury rev at the cambridge junction, magnetic fields at the cambridge corn exchange
band: the shins, predictably enough
new band: bloc party/the research
label: domino/sub pop
radio: john peel. not listening to rob da bank on account of him having a stupid name. next year this category will be left blank
places: the king street run in cambridge. good jukebox
website: popmatters.com, pitchforkmedia.com, onion.com... the usual
resolution for 2005: to quit uni and therefore actually have some time to write for DiS
records: magnetic fields, sufjan stevens, annie, go! team, stereolab, wilco, julie doiron, the go betweens reissues, the low box set, devendra banhart, cocorosie and some others...
gig: the shins at somerset house, mercury rev at the cambridge junction, magnetic fields at the cambridge corn exchange
band: the shins, predictably enough
new band: bloc party/the research
label: domino/sub pop
radio: john peel. not listening to rob da bank on account of him having a stupid name. next year this category will be left blank
places: the king street run in cambridge. good jukebox
website: popmatters.com, pitchforkmedia.com, onion.com... the usual
resolution for 2005: to quit uni and therefore actually have some time to write for DiS
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Dangermouse - The Grey Album
The Go! Team
- gig
Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell & the London Sinfonietta Orchestra - really interesting night of music and Jamie Lidell was just wow
- band / new band
Lyca Sleep - always stunning live and their single is the best of the year I'd say.
- label
Warp - Still doing great things and they've signed Maximo Park too which is nice.
- festival
Only went to Reading this year. It was pish.
- radio
Breezeblock - best show on the radio by a country mile. Lamacq is shite. PMS is also great, just a wide swathe of great music.
- places
Liverpool. So many great bands and great nights. Ladytron are doing the biz with their night. Big up to Zombina too, Useless is still rocking my world.
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Dangermouse - The Grey Album
The Go! Team
- gig
Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell & the London Sinfonietta Orchestra - really interesting night of music and Jamie Lidell was just wow
- band / new band
Lyca Sleep - always stunning live and their single is the best of the year I'd say.
- label
Warp - Still doing great things and they've signed Maximo Park too which is nice.
- festival
Only went to Reading this year. It was pish.
- radio
Breezeblock - best show on the radio by a country mile. Lamacq is shite. PMS is also great, just a wide swathe of great music.
- places
Liverpool. So many great bands and great nights. Ladytron are doing the biz with their night. Big up to Zombina too, Useless is still rocking my world.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Annie - Anniemal (Bittersweet disco/house/pop revival. Richard X proves himself again on 'Chewing Gum'. 'My Heartbeat' is song of the year. I expect it to get much more attention when it gets wider release next year)
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Junior Boys - Last Exit , Ghostface - Pretty Toney, Enslaved - Isa
- gig
Tom Waits/Hammersmith, Dizzee Rascal/ATP
- band / new band
The Departure, Home Video, Lil' Jon
- label
Areal
- festival
All Tommorow's Parties 2, 2004.
- mags
Pass...
- radio
Peely
- websites
www.freakytrigger.com, www.ilxor.com, www.ultrasecretwebsite.com, www.bidpip.com (rip?)
- places
Exeter Cavarn
Annie - Anniemal (Bittersweet disco/house/pop revival. Richard X proves himself again on 'Chewing Gum'. 'My Heartbeat' is song of the year. I expect it to get much more attention when it gets wider release next year)
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Junior Boys - Last Exit , Ghostface - Pretty Toney, Enslaved - Isa
- gig
Tom Waits/Hammersmith, Dizzee Rascal/ATP
- band / new band
The Departure, Home Video, Lil' Jon
- label
Areal
- festival
All Tommorow's Parties 2, 2004.
- mags
Pass...
- radio
Peely
- websites
www.freakytrigger.com, www.ilxor.com, www.ultrasecretwebsite.com, www.bidpip.com (rip?)
- places
Exeter Cavarn
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Best of the year (so far) Aereogramme - Seclusion
runners up
Interpol - Antics
Shins - Cutes too Narrow
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Oceansize - Music For Nurses
Rueben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
- gig / festival
Shins (twice at the Academy 2 Birmingham)
Rufus Wainwright @ Warwick arts centre
Best of the year (so far) Aereogramme - Seclusion
runners up
Interpol - Antics
Shins - Cutes too Narrow
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Oceansize - Music For Nurses
Rueben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
- gig / festival
Shins (twice at the Academy 2 Birmingham)
Rufus Wainwright @ Warwick arts centre
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Sufjan Stevens' Michigan was so touching, feeling positive about America became harder than ever this year and yet Sufjan still made visions of rural America seem idyllic.
- gig
Explosions in the Sky at the free butt and Conor Oberst's solo show at the ULU were both pretty life changing, eits for their devestating power and conor for being conor.
- band / new band
Bright Eyes are still the best band in the world.
- label
Saddle Creek.
- festival
Glastonbury, my first time, the best thing ever.
Sufjan Stevens' Michigan was so touching, feeling positive about America became harder than ever this year and yet Sufjan still made visions of rural America seem idyllic.
- gig
Explosions in the Sky at the free butt and Conor Oberst's solo show at the ULU were both pretty life changing, eits for their devestating power and conor for being conor.
- band / new band
Bright Eyes are still the best band in the world.
- label
Saddle Creek.
- festival
Glastonbury, my first time, the best thing ever.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- band/new band
erm, bloc party! (check how cool I am!)
- record(s)
Interpol: Antics
Even though it's not as good as their first album, it's probably the 'coolest' album that's out this year.... hang on, is it still ok to like the libertines? cos they also released an album this year.... oh bugger!! erm... this is so hard! Need. To. Appear. Cool. Why haven't bloc party released an album yet!?
- radio
Zane Lowe! erm, shit, no erm.... blad guy, dead, wossisname... erm,. PEEL! that's it, this year's cool answer is JOHN PEEL! or possibly that little guy who looks a bit like Todd Carty from The Bill, formerly known as "Mark off eastenders".
erm, bloc party! (check how cool I am!)
- record(s)
Interpol: Antics
Even though it's not as good as their first album, it's probably the 'coolest' album that's out this year.... hang on, is it still ok to like the libertines? cos they also released an album this year.... oh bugger!! erm... this is so hard! Need. To. Appear. Cool. Why haven't bloc party released an album yet!?
- radio
Zane Lowe! erm, shit, no erm.... blad guy, dead, wossisname... erm,. PEEL! that's it, this year's cool answer is JOHN PEEL! or possibly that little guy who looks a bit like Todd Carty from The Bill, formerly known as "Mark off eastenders".
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Streets
The Futureheads
Scissor Sistes
- gig
Scissor Sisters
- band / new band
Rhe Futureheads/ Kaiser Chiefs & Maximo Park
- label
Purr Records
Kistchen Records
- festival
Leeds
Beached
- mags
Word
- radio
John Peel, Andy Kershaw, Steve Lamacq, Mark Radcliffe, Marc Riley
- websites
thisisfakediy.co.uk (though down for maintenance at the moment)
- places
Stonehenge.....or is that not what you meant ;)
The Streets
The Futureheads
Scissor Sistes
- gig
Scissor Sisters
- band / new band
Rhe Futureheads/ Kaiser Chiefs & Maximo Park
- label
Purr Records
Kistchen Records
- festival
Leeds
Beached
- mags
Word
- radio
John Peel, Andy Kershaw, Steve Lamacq, Mark Radcliffe, Marc Riley
- websites
thisisfakediy.co.uk (though down for maintenance at the moment)
- places
Stonehenge.....or is that not what you meant ;)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
- gig/festival
Death Cab For Cutie/Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Oxford Zodiac.
!!!, Reading.
- band / new band
Bloc Party
- label
Saddle Creek
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
- gig/festival
Death Cab For Cutie/Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, Oxford Zodiac.
!!!, Reading.
- band / new band
Bloc Party
- label
Saddle Creek
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Here's my top 10 records, if anyone should care:
1) Dears - no cities left
2) HOTS - the lost riots
3) futureheads
4) dev banhart - rejoicing in the hands
5) Modest Mouse - Good news
6) Willy Mason - where the humans eat
7) Iron & wine - our endless numbered days
8) Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
9) The Streets - a grand
10) real tuesday weld - i, lucifer
making lists is much more fun than doing assignments
1) Dears - no cities left
2) HOTS - the lost riots
3) futureheads
4) dev banhart - rejoicing in the hands
5) Modest Mouse - Good news
6) Willy Mason - where the humans eat
7) Iron & wine - our endless numbered days
8) Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
9) The Streets - a grand
10) real tuesday weld - i, lucifer
making lists is much more fun than doing assignments
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record: Tv on the Radio - Desperate.... The only completely unique and very enjoyable album i've heard this year (so far) and New Health Rock indicates theres more to come in the future.
Other Contenders: Futureheads: Just very fun
Arcade Fire - Funeral Took a few a listens to get into it but cant get enough now
gig: Herman Dune/Kimya Dawson - first gig of the year and also the best, wish it could have gone on all night
new band: Bloc party: cant think of anyone else and they're pretty damned good
Label: Superglider www.superglider.com Go download the mp3's now
Website: www.theplasticashtray.tk Best music forum on the net that i know of.
Radio - John Peel: No one else will ever come close
Other Contenders: Futureheads: Just very fun
Arcade Fire - Funeral Took a few a listens to get into it but cant get enough now
gig: Herman Dune/Kimya Dawson - first gig of the year and also the best, wish it could have gone on all night
new band: Bloc party: cant think of anyone else and they're pretty damned good
Label: Superglider www.superglider.com Go download the mp3's now
Website: www.theplasticashtray.tk Best music forum on the net that i know of.
Radio - John Peel: No one else will ever come close
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record: Tv on the Radio - Desperate.... The only completely unique and very enjoyable album i've heard this year (so far) and New Health Rock indicates theres more to come in the future.
Other Contenders: Futureheads: Just very fun
Arcade Fire - Funeral Took a few a listens to get into it but cant get enough now
gig: Herman Dune/Kimya Dawson - first gig of the year and also the best, wish it could have gone on all night
new band: Bloc party: cant think of anyone else and they're pretty damned good
Label: Superglider www.superglider.com Go download the mp3's now
Website: www.theplasticashtray.tk Best music forum on the net that i know of.
Radio - John Peel: No one else will ever come close
Other Contenders: Futureheads: Just very fun
Arcade Fire - Funeral Took a few a listens to get into it but cant get enough now
gig: Herman Dune/Kimya Dawson - first gig of the year and also the best, wish it could have gone on all night
new band: Bloc party: cant think of anyone else and they're pretty damned good
Label: Superglider www.superglider.com Go download the mp3's now
Website: www.theplasticashtray.tk Best music forum on the net that i know of.
Radio - John Peel: No one else will ever come close
So, What's the ..... of the year?
-record(s): Midlake.Bamnan and Slivercork -why no DIS coverage? Worthy mentions for the Shins, Hope of the States, Adem, Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire.
- gig: Adem @ Bar36 Sunderland.
- band / new band: Midlake
- label: Captains of Industry ;)
- gig: Adem @ Bar36 Sunderland.
- band / new band: Midlake
- label: Captains of Industry ;)
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
1. The Disconnection - Carina Round (released on Interscope this year, so its eligible!)
2.Hot Fuss - The Killers (fucking good fun!)
3.Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins (ace!)
- gig
Ray Lamontagne @ The Waterats
- band / new band
The Killers (band I most want to see live at the mo - they'd better not dissapoint as others have suggested)
- festival
Glasto
- mags
no thanks
- radio
XFM
- websites
c'mon, don't make me say it.
1. The Disconnection - Carina Round (released on Interscope this year, so its eligible!)
2.Hot Fuss - The Killers (fucking good fun!)
3.Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins (ace!)
- gig
Ray Lamontagne @ The Waterats
- band / new band
The Killers (band I most want to see live at the mo - they'd better not dissapoint as others have suggested)
- festival
Glasto
- mags
no thanks
- radio
XFM
- websites
c'mon, don't make me say it.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) - The Futureheads debut album, The Shins album Chutes Too Narrow
- gig - My friend's band Alloy's first gig at a posh public school. http://www.alloyband.co.uk- "GET DA PLUG IN!"
- band / new band - Bloc Party, most definitely. The Stills as well I guess, I hadn't heard of them before 2004.
- label - Dunno, don't keep track of the labels.
- festival - Didn't go to any for some reason.
- mags - Bizarre, Zoo for copying FHM but being cheaper.
- radio - 6 Music, XFM
- websites - http://www.videojuegos.com - Spanish games website, a great way to spend a free period at college.
- places - The inner sanctum of my mind.
- misc.- Well the tributes paid to El Peel were great, everyone forgot their little spats for the moment and celebrated the life of a legend. Of course the flip side to that was that he died in the first place. Oh and that toasted cheese sandwich with the face of the virgin Mary on it. Brilliant, shows how wonderfully absurd this whole life shabang is.
- gig - My friend's band Alloy's first gig at a posh public school. http://www.alloyband.co.uk- "GET DA PLUG IN!"
- band / new band - Bloc Party, most definitely. The Stills as well I guess, I hadn't heard of them before 2004.
- label - Dunno, don't keep track of the labels.
- festival - Didn't go to any for some reason.
- mags - Bizarre, Zoo for copying FHM but being cheaper.
- radio - 6 Music, XFM
- websites - http://www.videojuegos.com - Spanish games website, a great way to spend a free period at college.
- places - The inner sanctum of my mind.
- misc.- Well the tributes paid to El Peel were great, everyone forgot their little spats for the moment and celebrated the life of a legend. Of course the flip side to that was that he died in the first place. Oh and that toasted cheese sandwich with the face of the virgin Mary on it. Brilliant, shows how wonderfully absurd this whole life shabang is.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Gig - Interpol (will be on december 13th in sunny belgium...i know itll be the best of the year)
Or Libs (minus pete)
Band - Kaiser Chiefs
New Band - Les Incompetants!
Label - Rough Trade
Festival - Glasto sounded rather good...
Record(s) - Hope Of TheStates, The Streets...
Radio - Peel (RIP), The Lock Up
Website - www.nm.......www.drownedinsound.com!
The Rotonde, at the Botanique, in Brussels having seen the likes of Killers, Franz etc..alongside only 249 others (not much better than that)
Or Libs (minus pete)
Band - Kaiser Chiefs
New Band - Les Incompetants!
Label - Rough Trade
Festival - Glasto sounded rather good...
Record(s) - Hope Of TheStates, The Streets...
Radio - Peel (RIP), The Lock Up
Website - www.nm.......www.drownedinsound.com!
The Rotonde, at the Botanique, in Brussels having seen the likes of Killers, Franz etc..alongside only 249 others (not much better than that)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) - ben kweller: on my way, goldrush: ozona EP (listen on www.goldrush.mu if u havent heard it), dunno if cosmic rough riders: too close to see far came out this year or not but its nice. the walkmen. the black keys.
- gig - black keys in manchester, rufus wainwright in sheffield, thisGIRL on oxford was good too
- band / new band - Muse for glasto, goldrush cos theyr great
- festival - didnt go to any cos was in france. prob truck and glasto tho.
- mags - the fly
- radio - 6 music
- websites - this one. ryan-adams.com is usually strange
- gig - black keys in manchester, rufus wainwright in sheffield, thisGIRL on oxford was good too
- band / new band - Muse for glasto, goldrush cos theyr great
- festival - didnt go to any cos was in france. prob truck and glasto tho.
- mags - the fly
- radio - 6 music
- websites - this one. ryan-adams.com is usually strange
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
Ghosts of the Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone - The Unicorns
Aw C'mon/No You C'mon - Lambchop
Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Interpol - Antics
gig
Pixies at the Move festival
The Shins at Liverpool Academy
band / new band
The Shins / Futureheads
festival
Leeds (esp. Moz, Shins, Stereolab)
label
Sub Pop - home of The Shins
radio
Peel
websites
pitchforkmedia.com
shittest band in the world ever
The Others, this year and every other year. Closely followed by Razorlight.
Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins
Ghosts of the Great Highway - Sun Kil Moon
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone - The Unicorns
Aw C'mon/No You C'mon - Lambchop
Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Interpol - Antics
gig
Pixies at the Move festival
The Shins at Liverpool Academy
band / new band
The Shins / Futureheads
festival
Leeds (esp. Moz, Shins, Stereolab)
label
Sub Pop - home of The Shins
radio
Peel
websites
pitchforkmedia.com
shittest band in the world ever
The Others, this year and every other year. Closely followed by Razorlight.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s): The Fiery Furnaces' "Blueberry Boat"; maybe Interpol's "Antics" or the Walkmen's, "Bows + Arrows"
- gig: Nothing I've seen around here could be called the gig of the year :(
- band / new band: I really like the Arcade Fire. Their record is one of the best, too
- label: Err. It's been a nice month or so for Saddle Creek :)
- festival: Coachella
- mags: Err. I got a nice issue of "Magnet" once
- radio: Station? I've been listening to Sirius' Left of Center, it's choices are a little obvious but it's all good
- websites: Err. I go to a ton
- places: Places? I dunno?
- misc.: Nope.
That wasn't helpful, but oh well. Listing is the best.
- gig: Nothing I've seen around here could be called the gig of the year :(
- band / new band: I really like the Arcade Fire. Their record is one of the best, too
- label: Err. It's been a nice month or so for Saddle Creek :)
- festival: Coachella
- mags: Err. I got a nice issue of "Magnet" once
- radio: Station? I've been listening to Sirius' Left of Center, it's choices are a little obvious but it's all good
- websites: Err. I go to a ton
- places: Places? I dunno?
- misc.: Nope.
That wasn't helpful, but oh well. Listing is the best.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best record - Interpol: Antics
Best live performance - Babyshambles@Norwich waterfornt (In your face DiS)
Best band / new band - Departure and 10,000 things
Best festival - V festival (just for the Strokes)
Mags - Play magazine for Norwich
Radio - xfm
Websites - Fantasyfootballpremiership@com
Best live performance - Babyshambles@Norwich waterfornt (In your face DiS)
Best band / new band - Departure and 10,000 things
Best festival - V festival (just for the Strokes)
Mags - Play magazine for Norwich
Radio - xfm
Websites - Fantasyfootballpremiership@com
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best Album: Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Best Gig: Ryan Adams @ Bristol Academy
Best Band: Hell i don't know...... New Rhodes.
Best New Band: My Chemical Romance
Best Mags: Uncut (for the in-depth writing) Big Cheese (Even though i dislike much of the music covered. i feel that they have a good attitude to discovering new music + they have built themselves up from being a Fanzine)
Best radio: excepting Mr peel (RIP) the radio still sucks.
Best Website: You're reading it.
Best Gig: Ryan Adams @ Bristol Academy
Best Band: Hell i don't know...... New Rhodes.
Best New Band: My Chemical Romance
Best Mags: Uncut (for the in-depth writing) Big Cheese (Even though i dislike much of the music covered. i feel that they have a good attitude to discovering new music + they have built themselves up from being a Fanzine)
Best radio: excepting Mr peel (RIP) the radio still sucks.
Best Website: You're reading it.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) - loads, but I have a mental block and can only remeber The Stills album. And anything Bloc Party released this year...
- gig Jetplane Landing at the Islington Academy - inspirational!
- band / new band _ Death Cab, because I only found out about them this year, and they're wonderful
- label - Fierce Panda for giving me the above band in this country
- festival - Reading (only one i went to)
- mags - you know, it's just too close to call between Zoo and Nuts :)
- radio - LBC - they interviewed my band!
- websites - www.explodingdog.com
- places - Exeter - I miss it for some reason
- misc. Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Putney
- gig Jetplane Landing at the Islington Academy - inspirational!
- band / new band _ Death Cab, because I only found out about them this year, and they're wonderful
- label - Fierce Panda for giving me the above band in this country
- festival - Reading (only one i went to)
- mags - you know, it's just too close to call between Zoo and Nuts :)
- radio - LBC - they interviewed my band!
- websites - www.explodingdog.com
- places - Exeter - I miss it for some reason
- misc. Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Putney
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record: Converge - You Fail Me. Emotion, just emotion spilled out onto a record. Goregeous.
Gig: Green Day, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin. Tiny venue for such a big band. Requests. Old songs. New songs before the album was released. Special for me, i'll never forget it.
Band: Biffy Clyro. For being rocking motherfuckers for another year and releasing another defining album. Tremendous.
New band: Amusement Parks On Fire. Stunning debut and much much more fun for the future.
EP: Oceansize - Music For Nurses. I dare you to find a better one this year.
Label: Smalltown America. For pinning together a credible underground scene and replying to my e-mails.
Website: This place of course. Honourable mention to the (sometimes dreadful but usually great) Biffy Board.
thats all i really have to say.
Gig: Green Day, Ambassador Theatre, Dublin. Tiny venue for such a big band. Requests. Old songs. New songs before the album was released. Special for me, i'll never forget it.
Band: Biffy Clyro. For being rocking motherfuckers for another year and releasing another defining album. Tremendous.
New band: Amusement Parks On Fire. Stunning debut and much much more fun for the future.
EP: Oceansize - Music For Nurses. I dare you to find a better one this year.
Label: Smalltown America. For pinning together a credible underground scene and replying to my e-mails.
Website: This place of course. Honourable mention to the (sometimes dreadful but usually great) Biffy Board.
thats all i really have to say.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record:
-The streets - a grand don't come for free
-The Crimea - Tragedy Rocks (Don't know if it was released or anything, i live far from....London)
gig:
-brian Wilson, PJ harvey and Primal Scream, Tim Festival
band/newb band:
-Bloc Party (common place)
-The radio Dept.
label:
-Wichita
Festival:
-Tim Festival, brazil...the only one i saw.
-The streets - a grand don't come for free
-The Crimea - Tragedy Rocks (Don't know if it was released or anything, i live far from....London)
gig:
-brian Wilson, PJ harvey and Primal Scream, Tim Festival
band/newb band:
-Bloc Party (common place)
-The radio Dept.
label:
-Wichita
Festival:
-Tim Festival, brazil...the only one i saw.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record
dizzee rascal - showtime
especially the 'happy talkin' cover
- gig
sonic youth - brixton academy
especially the extended feedback/guitar dangling/accordian banging etc. and the new album's great. gig was horribly packed though
- band / new band
65 days of static
more bands should be like this
- label
barry's bootlegs
purveyors of cassetteboy and dj rubbish
- festival
glastonbury
especially the rainbow that appeared at about 5am on the saturday, right before the weather turned bad. although to be honest the line-up was a bit crap this year. orbital, basement jaxx, belle and sebastian and morrissey were all great, missed everything else i wanted to see. although we weren't there for the bands, were we? oh no, we were there for the drugs
- mags
i wish select was still going. i'll go for viz, followed by sfx
- radio
peel, obviously. and the end of mark and lard on radio one, particularly the dead air at the end of the last record
- websites
www.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk
seeing as log from www.disappointment.com seems to have given up on updates recently
- places
tesco at 6 o' clock on friday morning, near the bread
- misc.
www.projektako.co.uk
urusei yatsura live on, sort of. why did no one tell me sooner?
dizzee rascal - showtime
especially the 'happy talkin' cover
- gig
sonic youth - brixton academy
especially the extended feedback/guitar dangling/accordian banging etc. and the new album's great. gig was horribly packed though
- band / new band
65 days of static
more bands should be like this
- label
barry's bootlegs
purveyors of cassetteboy and dj rubbish
- festival
glastonbury
especially the rainbow that appeared at about 5am on the saturday, right before the weather turned bad. although to be honest the line-up was a bit crap this year. orbital, basement jaxx, belle and sebastian and morrissey were all great, missed everything else i wanted to see. although we weren't there for the bands, were we? oh no, we were there for the drugs
- mags
i wish select was still going. i'll go for viz, followed by sfx
- radio
peel, obviously. and the end of mark and lard on radio one, particularly the dead air at the end of the last record
- websites
www.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk
seeing as log from www.disappointment.com seems to have given up on updates recently
- places
tesco at 6 o' clock on friday morning, near the bread
- misc.
www.projektako.co.uk
urusei yatsura live on, sort of. why did no one tell me sooner?
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record(s)
Oceansize - Music for Nurses
Aereogramme - Seclusion
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Sucioperro - The Hidden Perils of Dancing
Gig
Oceansize/People in Planes at King Tuts
Jetplane Landing at the Cathouse (too drunk to remember the Barfly)
Festival - T in the Park but it wasn't that good music-wise except for the Pixies. And De Grassi. And Ash.
Websites - here and the onion.
Label - Smalltown America and Beggars (Biffy AND Oceansize!)
Places - Solid Rock West before it's demise. King Tuts.
New Band - Sucio
Happiest Return - My Vitriol to the studio and the web...
Worst Bands - Libertines, Razorlight, Twofold.
Oceansize - Music for Nurses
Aereogramme - Seclusion
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Sucioperro - The Hidden Perils of Dancing
Gig
Oceansize/People in Planes at King Tuts
Jetplane Landing at the Cathouse (too drunk to remember the Barfly)
Festival - T in the Park but it wasn't that good music-wise except for the Pixies. And De Grassi. And Ash.
Websites - here and the onion.
Label - Smalltown America and Beggars (Biffy AND Oceansize!)
Places - Solid Rock West before it's demise. King Tuts.
New Band - Sucio
Happiest Return - My Vitriol to the studio and the web...
Worst Bands - Libertines, Razorlight, Twofold.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
records:
the bees - free the bees
the shins - chutes too narrow
gig:
pixies @ brixton academy
shins @ leeds fest
fest:
glasto
websites:
here
leedsunited.co.uk
imdb.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
allmusic.com
label:
matador
new band:
kaiser chiefs
band of the year:
the shins/the bees
places:
louisiana - bristol
watershed & cube cinemas - bristol
Leeds!
radio:
bbc 6music generally - absolutely top radio station
misc:
aphex twin - coz he's the daddy
the bees - free the bees
the shins - chutes too narrow
gig:
pixies @ brixton academy
shins @ leeds fest
fest:
glasto
websites:
here
leedsunited.co.uk
imdb.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
allmusic.com
label:
matador
new band:
kaiser chiefs
band of the year:
the shins/the bees
places:
louisiana - bristol
watershed & cube cinemas - bristol
Leeds!
radio:
bbc 6music generally - absolutely top radio station
misc:
aphex twin - coz he's the daddy
So, What's the ..... of the year?
my top 10 records of the year
1) Modest mouse- Good news...
2) Eighties Matchbox - Royal society
3) The Futureheads - The Futureheads
4) NERD - Fly or die
5) Kings of leon - Aha shake heartbrake
6) The Cribs - The cribs (i think that was this year)
7) Hope of the states - The lost riots
8) The radio dept. - Lesser matters
9) Ed Harcourt - Strangers
10) 22-20's - 22-20's
Song - Has to be helicopter by Bloc party or killamangiro
Gig - Without a doubt, bloc party and mystery jets at the wedgewood rooms. what a gig!
1) Modest mouse- Good news...
2) Eighties Matchbox - Royal society
3) The Futureheads - The Futureheads
4) NERD - Fly or die
5) Kings of leon - Aha shake heartbrake
6) The Cribs - The cribs (i think that was this year)
7) Hope of the states - The lost riots
8) The radio dept. - Lesser matters
9) Ed Harcourt - Strangers
10) 22-20's - 22-20's
Song - Has to be helicopter by Bloc party or killamangiro
Gig - Without a doubt, bloc party and mystery jets at the wedgewood rooms. what a gig!
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
In no particular order:-
Razorlight - Up All Night
The Libertines - The Libertines
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
Kings of Leon - A Ha Shake Heartbreak
Interpol - Antics
Super Furry Animals - Songbook
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons
Kasabian - Kasabian
Razorlight - Up All Night
The Libertines - The Libertines
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
Kings of Leon - A Ha Shake Heartbreak
Interpol - Antics
Super Furry Animals - Songbook
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons
Kasabian - Kasabian
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
D'acre arms in Lee/Lewisham?
Blimey...
xg
Blimey...
xg
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Albums:
Richmond Fontaine - Post to Wire
Jim White - Drill A Hole...
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
Gigs:
The National, 93 Feet East
Pixies, Brixton Academy
Song:
Static On The Radio - Jim White
Wings - Josh Ritter
Richmond Fontaine - Post to Wire
Jim White - Drill A Hole...
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
Gigs:
The National, 93 Feet East
Pixies, Brixton Academy
Song:
Static On The Radio - Jim White
Wings - Josh Ritter
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s):
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
I Can Make A Mess Like Nobodies Business
- song: Bright Eyes - Lua / Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
- gig: The Killers @ Nottingham Rescue Rooms June '04
- band: The Libertines
- new band: Bloc Party
- label: Drive Thru Records
- festival: Leeds
- mags: NME
Rock Sound
Kerrang
- radio: Radio 1
- websites: www.drivethrurecords.com
www.drownedinsound.com
www.purevolume.com
- places: Sheffield and Leeds
- misc: Emo
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
I Can Make A Mess Like Nobodies Business
- song: Bright Eyes - Lua / Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
- gig: The Killers @ Nottingham Rescue Rooms June '04
- band: The Libertines
- new band: Bloc Party
- label: Drive Thru Records
- festival: Leeds
- mags: NME
Rock Sound
Kerrang
- radio: Radio 1
- websites: www.drivethrurecords.com
www.drownedinsound.com
www.purevolume.com
- places: Sheffield and Leeds
- misc: Emo
So, What's the ..... of the year?
records:
Hot Snakes: Audit in progress
Joanna Newsom: Milk-eyed mender
Pinback: summer in abbadon
Walkmen : bows and arrows
Ratatat: s/t
Go Team : Thunderlightning strike
Bloc Party : Ep
gig:
pixies @ everywhere
Mclusky @ pukkelpop
Twilight Singers @ pukkelpop
fest:
Pukkelpop (my only one this year)
websites:
Pitchfork
Indieto...
DIS
label:
Swammi
new band:
Bloc Party
band of the year:
Pixies
places:
Home
radio:
Lenoir
misc:
My band (2 rehearsals so far)
Hot Snakes: Audit in progress
Joanna Newsom: Milk-eyed mender
Pinback: summer in abbadon
Walkmen : bows and arrows
Ratatat: s/t
Go Team : Thunderlightning strike
Bloc Party : Ep
gig:
pixies @ everywhere
Mclusky @ pukkelpop
Twilight Singers @ pukkelpop
fest:
Pukkelpop (my only one this year)
websites:
Pitchfork
Indieto...
DIS
label:
Swammi
new band:
Bloc Party
band of the year:
Pixies
places:
Home
radio:
Lenoir
misc:
My band (2 rehearsals so far)
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
yup - like having a big bar in your front room - loads of local "characters" to chat to
no music, but you can imagine some sort of old joanna set up of the kind that certain scag fiends claim to have been immersed in as soon as their muvva drooped'em
no music, but you can imagine some sort of old joanna set up of the kind that certain scag fiends claim to have been immersed in as soon as their muvva drooped'em
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
records: Ray LaMontagne, Piney Gir, Arco, Peace Burial At Sea, Trademark, Empathy, Emma McGlynn.
gig: Mooney Suzuki @ Colchester Arts Centre or Piney Gir @ Chelmsford Bassment
band: Piney Gir
new band: Emma McGlynn
label: Truck
festival: Truck and TMF. Both were great fun albeit for different reasons.
gig: Mooney Suzuki @ Colchester Arts Centre or Piney Gir @ Chelmsford Bassment
band: Piney Gir
new band: Emma McGlynn
label: Truck
festival: Truck and TMF. Both were great fun albeit for different reasons.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) : Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Love Ends DIsaster! - Stories For the Dislocated (although it ain't out yet)
Felix Da House cat - Devin Dazzle
- gig: Ummmmmmmmm.....oh er.......I can't think.....Liars, Rescue Rooms Notts
- band / new band: Bloc Party.
- label: Denial records, of course.
- festival: oh they are so uncool these days. That Book thingy that the Guardian do somewhere in wales.
- mags: WIRE
- radio: Radio 4
- websites: www.pineapster.co.uk
genius collective yes yes
Love Ends DIsaster! - Stories For the Dislocated (although it ain't out yet)
Felix Da House cat - Devin Dazzle
- gig: Ummmmmmmmm.....oh er.......I can't think.....Liars, Rescue Rooms Notts
- band / new band: Bloc Party.
- label: Denial records, of course.
- festival: oh they are so uncool these days. That Book thingy that the Guardian do somewhere in wales.
- mags: WIRE
- radio: Radio 4
- websites: www.pineapster.co.uk
genius collective yes yes
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
TEAM - Penalyn,
- gig
Red Jetson
- band / new band
Red Jetson / The Kaiser Chiefs
- label
enraptured
- festival
none.
- mags
the fly?
- radio
kerrang (birmingham)
- websites
www.pineapster.co.uk
- places
bishops itchington
- misc.
cheers
TEAM - Penalyn,
- gig
Red Jetson
- band / new band
Red Jetson / The Kaiser Chiefs
- label
enraptured
- festival
none.
- mags
the fly?
- radio
kerrang (birmingham)
- websites
www.pineapster.co.uk
- places
bishops itchington
- misc.
cheers
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record - Baptism, Lenny Kravitz. There that should make people get all angry and shouty.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) – The Shins – Chutes too Narrow / The Projects - Let's Get Static / The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free / The Delgados - Universal Audio
- gig - Duran Duran, Wembley Arena / The Shins, Highbury Garage / Belle and Sebastian, Somerset House / Lloyd Cole and the Commotions , Apollo / Delgados, Bimbo's (San Francisco)
- band / new band – The Shins (both)
- label – Track and Field
- radio – John Peel
- websites – Bowlie, DiS
- gig - Duran Duran, Wembley Arena / The Shins, Highbury Garage / Belle and Sebastian, Somerset House / Lloyd Cole and the Commotions , Apollo / Delgados, Bimbo's (San Francisco)
- band / new band – The Shins (both)
- label – Track and Field
- radio – John Peel
- websites – Bowlie, DiS
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best record so far- You are the Quarry (deluxxe edition)
Finally a decent Morrissey record.
Come back toCamden must rate as one of the finest misery tunes ever.
Edges Explosions in the sky by a whisker, despite crap cover presentation.
Best single so far- The Rat by The Walkman
Pisses on all others, and is dancefloor dynamite.
Best festival - Glastonbury.
Makes other festivals seem very weak, year in year out.
May have lost a bit of the hippie spirit but generally full of things to see and do which beats waiting for the next band to come on, the only other option at Reading & V.
Best gig - Stills/Walkmen at the Garage, although Conor Oberst at ULU came close.
Best double header of the year by a country mile.
Best new band - The Stills, if they still count as new.
The next album will make or break them, but this one
had a legion of aural delights, and they put on a fine show.
Best DJ - John Peel.
Best label - The 'indie' 679 has the best lineup, but Matador still has the best records.
Best British label is still Seriously Groovy.
Worst band - Razorshite. Did a very bad cover of 'Boys don't cry' at Icon. A heresy!
Best websites - This one, pitchforkmedia, tinymixtapes
(which I was turned on to by this list).
Magazine I feel cheated by every time I buy it - NME.
Minimum of 3 pages of adverts to every page of reviews.
New years resolution is to stop buying the poxy rag.
Finally a decent Morrissey record.
Come back toCamden must rate as one of the finest misery tunes ever.
Edges Explosions in the sky by a whisker, despite crap cover presentation.
Best single so far- The Rat by The Walkman
Pisses on all others, and is dancefloor dynamite.
Best festival - Glastonbury.
Makes other festivals seem very weak, year in year out.
May have lost a bit of the hippie spirit but generally full of things to see and do which beats waiting for the next band to come on, the only other option at Reading & V.
Best gig - Stills/Walkmen at the Garage, although Conor Oberst at ULU came close.
Best double header of the year by a country mile.
Best new band - The Stills, if they still count as new.
The next album will make or break them, but this one
had a legion of aural delights, and they put on a fine show.
Best DJ - John Peel.
Best label - The 'indie' 679 has the best lineup, but Matador still has the best records.
Best British label is still Seriously Groovy.
Worst band - Razorshite. Did a very bad cover of 'Boys don't cry' at Icon. A heresy!
Best websites - This one, pitchforkmedia, tinymixtapes
(which I was turned on to by this list).
Magazine I feel cheated by every time I buy it - NME.
Minimum of 3 pages of adverts to every page of reviews.
New years resolution is to stop buying the poxy rag.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best record-
Isis - Panopticon. The best thing by far. I was a bit disappointed at first but now rate it higher than Oceniac. Also Antics by Interpol and Venice by Fennesz.
Best single - ?
Best festival - ATP
You actually get to see lots of good bands which is nice and even some you might not have heard.
Best gig - Hot Snakes at the Underworld. Just brilliant. Also Isis at ATP despite the technical problems.
Best band - Isis. Yes I do like Isis.
Best DJ - Dont really listen to the radio but John Peel for the past.
Best label - Matador
Worst band - Where to start. All those shit "London" trend bands. All those punk-funk bollocks bands who still fail to get close to the old stuff. Embarrassing.
Best websites - This one, pitchfork, aquariusrecords.org for a music store who actually care about original music.
Magazine - Terrorizer. The most intelligent music magazine along with the Wire. They actually have a passion for music and arent just a tasteless cynical fashion rag.
Isis - Panopticon. The best thing by far. I was a bit disappointed at first but now rate it higher than Oceniac. Also Antics by Interpol and Venice by Fennesz.
Best single - ?
Best festival - ATP
You actually get to see lots of good bands which is nice and even some you might not have heard.
Best gig - Hot Snakes at the Underworld. Just brilliant. Also Isis at ATP despite the technical problems.
Best band - Isis. Yes I do like Isis.
Best DJ - Dont really listen to the radio but John Peel for the past.
Best label - Matador
Worst band - Where to start. All those shit "London" trend bands. All those punk-funk bollocks bands who still fail to get close to the old stuff. Embarrassing.
Best websites - This one, pitchfork, aquariusrecords.org for a music store who actually care about original music.
Magazine - Terrorizer. The most intelligent music magazine along with the Wire. They actually have a passion for music and arent just a tasteless cynical fashion rag.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Oh shit I forgot TV on the Radio. Amazing album (if a bit patchy) and great live too.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
And I forgot to single out Kasabian for extra scorn. Just unbelievably shit and embarrassing. Who buys that crap?
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s): Skinnyman 'Council Estate of Mind'
gig: Hot Snakes @ The Camden Underworld
band / new band: Hot Snakes
label: Swami
festival: All Tomorrows Parties (both weekends back in april march and most likely next weekend too!!!)
mags: Kerrang.....long shot, don't really read magazines
radio: John Peel R.I.P
websites: Friendster
places: Barcelona
misc: Tennesee Fried Chicken, Camden Town
gig: Hot Snakes @ The Camden Underworld
band / new band: Hot Snakes
label: Swami
festival: All Tomorrows Parties (both weekends back in april march and most likely next weekend too!!!)
mags: Kerrang.....long shot, don't really read magazines
radio: John Peel R.I.P
websites: Friendster
places: Barcelona
misc: Tennesee Fried Chicken, Camden Town
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Blimey! I'm a regular in that pub, its my local. We've probably met, I spend enough bloody time in the place.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
single: Walkmen's The Rat or Bloc Party's Little Thoughts
album: to tight to call between Franz Ferdinand, TV On The Radio's, and Stellastarr (was that this year? i bought it when My Coco came out so i dunno). actually, add My Coco to the singles.
- gig: jeez, can't remember all the gigs i've been to this year. Mclusky's pre-Reading 'warm up' was amazing, and Jarcrew's support set were the best i've ever seen them. can't wait till i see the 'crew on the 11th.
- band/new band: hmm, it's been such a good year, i can't really pick one. honorable mentions to Bloc Party and i really like Sons And Daughters.
- label: Domino. Franz, Sons And Daughters, Adem. All great. One question tho: 'why the Blueskins?'
- festival: Reading was good, getting to see some of the bands we don't really get to see outside the bigger city's. Truck was also lovely, and it was a nice change not to feel ripped off at every stage of the festival.
- mags: don't really read many mags.
- radio: didn't really listen to peel that often, but it's sad that he's gone. I do like Lamaq's shows on radio 1 and 6Music, Zane Lowe is a bit of a twit but his heart's in the right place, and he did turn me on to the Go! Team so he can't be all that bad...
- websites: The Onion
- places: Ramon's in Cardiff (Salisbury Rd), the greasiest spoons ever. £3 for a monster breakfast, fantastic.
- misc. David Blunkett and any Pro Hunt protester are joint winners of Twat Of The Year.
single: Walkmen's The Rat or Bloc Party's Little Thoughts
album: to tight to call between Franz Ferdinand, TV On The Radio's, and Stellastarr (was that this year? i bought it when My Coco came out so i dunno). actually, add My Coco to the singles.
- gig: jeez, can't remember all the gigs i've been to this year. Mclusky's pre-Reading 'warm up' was amazing, and Jarcrew's support set were the best i've ever seen them. can't wait till i see the 'crew on the 11th.
- band/new band: hmm, it's been such a good year, i can't really pick one. honorable mentions to Bloc Party and i really like Sons And Daughters.
- label: Domino. Franz, Sons And Daughters, Adem. All great. One question tho: 'why the Blueskins?'
- festival: Reading was good, getting to see some of the bands we don't really get to see outside the bigger city's. Truck was also lovely, and it was a nice change not to feel ripped off at every stage of the festival.
- mags: don't really read many mags.
- radio: didn't really listen to peel that often, but it's sad that he's gone. I do like Lamaq's shows on radio 1 and 6Music, Zane Lowe is a bit of a twit but his heart's in the right place, and he did turn me on to the Go! Team so he can't be all that bad...
- websites: The Onion
- places: Ramon's in Cardiff (Salisbury Rd), the greasiest spoons ever. £3 for a monster breakfast, fantastic.
- misc. David Blunkett and any Pro Hunt protester are joint winners of Twat Of The Year.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) - sufjan stevens, seven swans. iron and wine, endless numbered days and secret machines, futureheads
- gig - brian wilson at benicassim. the JOY!!!!
- band / new band - Futureheads?
- label - DOMINO obviously!?!
- festival Benicassim festival, Spain. Last night beach party, loads of hot boys, wicked line up, beer by the litre. SXSW Austin, Texas. Thousands of bands, hot boys and lots of ribs, not to mention free daytime gigs with free food AND free beer!!! In Britain the best festival was Tapestry Goes West, held in a wild west town in Cornwall. When the bands end, everyone ends up around one of the assorted bonfires smashed out of their skulls, dancing to a bluegrass band. Genius. also ATP2 was HILARIOUS!
- mags - Word
- radio - Ha ha ha! You're kidding right? Maybe radio 4 in the morning?
- websites -pitchfork, friendster, livejournal
- places - tapestry under st aloysius church. best monthly night, great people
- misc - hot boys
- gig - brian wilson at benicassim. the JOY!!!!
- band / new band - Futureheads?
- label - DOMINO obviously!?!
- festival Benicassim festival, Spain. Last night beach party, loads of hot boys, wicked line up, beer by the litre. SXSW Austin, Texas. Thousands of bands, hot boys and lots of ribs, not to mention free daytime gigs with free food AND free beer!!! In Britain the best festival was Tapestry Goes West, held in a wild west town in Cornwall. When the bands end, everyone ends up around one of the assorted bonfires smashed out of their skulls, dancing to a bluegrass band. Genius. also ATP2 was HILARIOUS!
- mags - Word
- radio - Ha ha ha! You're kidding right? Maybe radio 4 in the morning?
- websites -pitchfork, friendster, livejournal
- places - tapestry under st aloysius church. best monthly night, great people
- misc - hot boys
So, What's the ..... of the year?
seeing as a lot of people are adding their worst of's i'd thought i'd join in the fun -
Worst moment of the Year - that day that no-one will forget EVER - so sad i was physically sick
Album - there's again, about three - Franz.. no, just can't bring myself to say their name. Kings Of Leon - there's a reason why all middle-amercians are inbred- they're all talentless gimps - and Maroon -fucking 5 - the first single was quite good, but then they got all loungey and i lost the will to live.
Single - Razorlight - Rip It Up - don't get me wrong, i quite enjoy 'Golden Touch', it's just painfull listening to them trying to 'rock'
Band - no doubt - The Libertines - somebody just kill them now, save me the hassle and the jail term
Mag - NME - i've hated them ever since they bought out Melody Maker - Cunts.
Venue - anywhere in Portsmouth - It's the not the venues per se - it's the diabolical transport - getting there's fine, but the last train's at 11.30 - thus meaning you have to leave halfway through the headline set to chase the train down the platform. Plus the place is a shit-hole full of Burberry-clad pikeys *shudder*
Misc -
A few lighter ones after the deluge of scorn -
-Band everyone should secretly love - McFly - not sure what it is, but they've got an eye for a tune, which is a rare thing for mainstream pop today.
-Album you want to buy, but don't have the balls to hand over in HMV - Britney Spears Greatest Hits (The demo was pinched from the station, which pissed me off, cos some of her stuffs not bad -pus the DVD should have been a could larff/ arrousing)
Worst moment of the Year - that day that no-one will forget EVER - so sad i was physically sick
Album - there's again, about three - Franz.. no, just can't bring myself to say their name. Kings Of Leon - there's a reason why all middle-amercians are inbred- they're all talentless gimps - and Maroon -fucking 5 - the first single was quite good, but then they got all loungey and i lost the will to live.
Single - Razorlight - Rip It Up - don't get me wrong, i quite enjoy 'Golden Touch', it's just painfull listening to them trying to 'rock'
Band - no doubt - The Libertines - somebody just kill them now, save me the hassle and the jail term
Mag - NME - i've hated them ever since they bought out Melody Maker - Cunts.
Venue - anywhere in Portsmouth - It's the not the venues per se - it's the diabolical transport - getting there's fine, but the last train's at 11.30 - thus meaning you have to leave halfway through the headline set to chase the train down the platform. Plus the place is a shit-hole full of Burberry-clad pikeys *shudder*
Misc -
A few lighter ones after the deluge of scorn -
-Band everyone should secretly love - McFly - not sure what it is, but they've got an eye for a tune, which is a rare thing for mainstream pop today.
-Album you want to buy, but don't have the balls to hand over in HMV - Britney Spears Greatest Hits (The demo was pinched from the station, which pissed me off, cos some of her stuffs not bad -pus the DVD should have been a could larff/ arrousing)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record-
Aha Shake Heartbrake - KOL
SMiLE - Brian Wilson (doesn't really count for this year)
Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
Killers - Hot Fuss (annoyingly enjoyable)
New Band-
Unoriginal as it is, Bloc party have to win this as they are set apart from all new bands I've heard this year.
Band-
Hope of The States (not quite good enough to be an album of the year but fucking great live)
Festival-
T in the Park (the only one I went to this year)
Truck is a top festival, great community spirit.
Website-
Dis obviously
Magazine-
I could say something cool and indie but the only one I regularly read is the NME, as much as I hate it.
Radio-
Do I even need to say the name
Funniest Band of the Year-
Goldie Lookin' Chain
Aha Shake Heartbrake - KOL
SMiLE - Brian Wilson (doesn't really count for this year)
Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
Killers - Hot Fuss (annoyingly enjoyable)
New Band-
Unoriginal as it is, Bloc party have to win this as they are set apart from all new bands I've heard this year.
Band-
Hope of The States (not quite good enough to be an album of the year but fucking great live)
Festival-
T in the Park (the only one I went to this year)
Truck is a top festival, great community spirit.
Website-
Dis obviously
Magazine-
I could say something cool and indie but the only one I regularly read is the NME, as much as I hate it.
Radio-
Do I even need to say the name
Funniest Band of the Year-
Goldie Lookin' Chain
So, What's the ..... of the year?
(Best Of's)
Records:
Isis - Panopticon
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - A Manual Dexterity Volume 1
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Franz Ferdinand - FF
Gig:
Pelican - London Underworld
Isis - ULU
Explosions in the Sky - Electric Ballroom
New Band:
These Arms Are Snakes
Band:
Isis
The Mars Volta
Festival:
ATP
Website:
DiS, The Comatorium, LiveJournal, Stylus Mag, Pitchfork
Magazine:
Difficult one... maybe Rock Sound or Terrorizer
Radio:
What can I say? John Peel R.I.P
Venue:
Highbury Garage/ULU/Barfly@Monarch
Records:
Isis - Panopticon
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - A Manual Dexterity Volume 1
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Franz Ferdinand - FF
Gig:
Pelican - London Underworld
Isis - ULU
Explosions in the Sky - Electric Ballroom
New Band:
These Arms Are Snakes
Band:
Isis
The Mars Volta
Festival:
ATP
Website:
DiS, The Comatorium, LiveJournal, Stylus Mag, Pitchfork
Magazine:
Difficult one... maybe Rock Sound or Terrorizer
Radio:
What can I say? John Peel R.I.P
Venue:
Highbury Garage/ULU/Barfly@Monarch
So, What's the ..... of the year?
i'll just chuck in my usual tuppennyworth about mystery jets being better than sliced bread, and truck being, as always, wonderful.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s) shins (was that really this year?) stereolab
- gig arthur lee and love, manc academy
- band / new band - the longcut
- mags - plan b
- websites - www.therams.co.uk, www.slsknet.org
- places - lover's island, anglesey
- misc. - neil young
- gig arthur lee and love, manc academy
- band / new band - the longcut
- mags - plan b
- websites - www.therams.co.uk, www.slsknet.org
- places - lover's island, anglesey
- misc. - neil young
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
- Jeniferever - Iris - brilliant band, played with them at the Acklam in Middlesborough in June and was fantastic. This EP is also fantastic, really well-structured songs.
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse - A continuation of return to form for SY, this can sometimes be more mellow and more dramatic simultaneously than their older stuff, still ace.
- Elliott Smith - From A Basement... - The final, last beautiful album. It's not a masterpiece, but it was never intended to be. This record illustrates Elliott in a way none of his previous records did. Whilst there is no "Needle In The Hay" or "Pitseleh", most of the songs are personal, and some are delightfully awkward, RIP SPS.
- Stories And Comets - Time To Write You Out - Post-hardcore may be a decreasingly popular genre, but this record is excellent at times. The layers are fantastic and in songs such as "A Pox, A Plague..." the songs feel like they are telling a story, and, despite the album being less than 40 minutes long, the songs seem to have an epic feel to them. Shame they split.
- The Futureheads - The Futureheads - Ace songs. That's all really, they really know how to craft the perfect 2 minute pop song. Also probably the most fun record of the year.
- gig
I'm unsure of this. Stories And Comet's last ever show at the Arena in Middlesborough was fantastic, i've never seen such passion on stage. Hope Of The States in Newcastle was also great, real positivity within the crowd and intense music onstage. The ones that were probably the most fun were one's I was playing at. But then again anyone would say that haha.
- band
I'm going to say Interpol, because they are continuously good good good.
- new band
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies really struck out to me on first hearing them, their songs are epic and really excellently executed. "Spooks the Horse..." is a particular favourite, lots of potential there.
Also Written From Negative I really enjoyed.
- label
Undergroove had some good stuff this year...
- festival
Didn't go to one, but Leeds was good apparantly.
- mags
Rock Sound cos, although they review and promote a lot of crap, about 20% is dedicated to thoroughly good music.
- radio
Nor.
- websites
www.haxed.co.uk
www.drownedinsound.com
www.pitchforkmedia.com
www.sweetadeline.net
- Jeniferever - Iris - brilliant band, played with them at the Acklam in Middlesborough in June and was fantastic. This EP is also fantastic, really well-structured songs.
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse - A continuation of return to form for SY, this can sometimes be more mellow and more dramatic simultaneously than their older stuff, still ace.
- Elliott Smith - From A Basement... - The final, last beautiful album. It's not a masterpiece, but it was never intended to be. This record illustrates Elliott in a way none of his previous records did. Whilst there is no "Needle In The Hay" or "Pitseleh", most of the songs are personal, and some are delightfully awkward, RIP SPS.
- Stories And Comets - Time To Write You Out - Post-hardcore may be a decreasingly popular genre, but this record is excellent at times. The layers are fantastic and in songs such as "A Pox, A Plague..." the songs feel like they are telling a story, and, despite the album being less than 40 minutes long, the songs seem to have an epic feel to them. Shame they split.
- The Futureheads - The Futureheads - Ace songs. That's all really, they really know how to craft the perfect 2 minute pop song. Also probably the most fun record of the year.
- gig
I'm unsure of this. Stories And Comet's last ever show at the Arena in Middlesborough was fantastic, i've never seen such passion on stage. Hope Of The States in Newcastle was also great, real positivity within the crowd and intense music onstage. The ones that were probably the most fun were one's I was playing at. But then again anyone would say that haha.
- band
I'm going to say Interpol, because they are continuously good good good.
- new band
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies really struck out to me on first hearing them, their songs are epic and really excellently executed. "Spooks the Horse..." is a particular favourite, lots of potential there.
Also Written From Negative I really enjoyed.
- label
Undergroove had some good stuff this year...
- festival
Didn't go to one, but Leeds was good apparantly.
- mags
Rock Sound cos, although they review and promote a lot of crap, about 20% is dedicated to thoroughly good music.
- radio
Nor.
- websites
www.haxed.co.uk
www.drownedinsound.com
www.pitchforkmedia.com
www.sweetadeline.net
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Futureheads - s/t
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
- gig
Ryan Adams
Bloc Party + New Rhodes
Hope of the States
- band / new band
New Rhodes
Komakino
- festival
Truck Festival
-radio
BBC6
The Futureheads - s/t
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
- gig
Ryan Adams
Bloc Party + New Rhodes
Hope of the States
- band / new band
New Rhodes
Komakino
- festival
Truck Festival
-radio
BBC6
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Records:
King Adora - Who Do You Love?
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
Miss Kittin - I Com
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Gigs:
King Adora - Stoke Sugarmill
Biffy Clyro - Nottingham Rock City (April and October, they were mind-blowing at the first one but they've come on in leaps and bounds again since)
Thea Gilmore full acoustic set at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
Bitch Alert when they supported 3 Colours Red in July, had no idea who they were and was totally and utterly convinced in the space of 20 minutes
My Ruin - Birmingham Carling Academy 2
Venues:
Nottingham Rock City - I don't know what it is about the place but there's a kind of magic to it, any band that plays there automatically seems ten times better than any other date on their tour...
Band:
King Adora / Manics... what else did you expect from me?
New Band:
Can't think of anyone new as such this year, I guess Hope Of The States count but I'm not a *huge* fan. There's a lot of stuff I only discovered properly this year though like PJ Harvey, Thea Gilmore and Le Tigre
Label:
Fuck labels, as much as it's nice when someone puts out music for the right reasons, I also only listen to music for the right reasons
Festival:
I'll have to say Leeds 'cuz it was the only one I went to, decidedly average line up though... *and* I missed Ikara Colt...
Mags:
Take 'em all with a pinch of salt
Radio:
Annie Mac on Radio 1, Thursday 9-11pm. It's billed as 'the best of house, hip-hop, bass and beats' which would terrify most people I know on sight but it *really* is the best two hours you'll find on any station at the moment in my opinion. No matter what kinds of music you listen to it's a bit of a mind-opener. For example... this week, mad out-of-this world drum 'n' bass meltdowns, a Led Zeppelin shuffle type bootleg that was surprisingly very good (and I can't even stand Led Zeppelin usually), the 'Anorak' moment where she talked about P-Funk, George Clinton and their relevance on music now and finishing with a Le Tigre remix... check it out, 'tis excellent
Websites:
www.drownedinsound.com
www.foreverdelayed.org.uk
www.nme.com ('Tis good for keeping up-to-date with stuff if you can stand reading between the hyperbole even if I wouldn't dream of buying the bloody thing)
www.audioscrobbler.com / www.last.fm
Jeez, can you tell I'm bored?
King Adora - Who Do You Love?
Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood
Miss Kittin - I Com
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Gigs:
King Adora - Stoke Sugarmill
Biffy Clyro - Nottingham Rock City (April and October, they were mind-blowing at the first one but they've come on in leaps and bounds again since)
Thea Gilmore full acoustic set at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
Bitch Alert when they supported 3 Colours Red in July, had no idea who they were and was totally and utterly convinced in the space of 20 minutes
My Ruin - Birmingham Carling Academy 2
Venues:
Nottingham Rock City - I don't know what it is about the place but there's a kind of magic to it, any band that plays there automatically seems ten times better than any other date on their tour...
Band:
King Adora / Manics... what else did you expect from me?
New Band:
Can't think of anyone new as such this year, I guess Hope Of The States count but I'm not a *huge* fan. There's a lot of stuff I only discovered properly this year though like PJ Harvey, Thea Gilmore and Le Tigre
Label:
Fuck labels, as much as it's nice when someone puts out music for the right reasons, I also only listen to music for the right reasons
Festival:
I'll have to say Leeds 'cuz it was the only one I went to, decidedly average line up though... *and* I missed Ikara Colt...
Mags:
Take 'em all with a pinch of salt
Radio:
Annie Mac on Radio 1, Thursday 9-11pm. It's billed as 'the best of house, hip-hop, bass and beats' which would terrify most people I know on sight but it *really* is the best two hours you'll find on any station at the moment in my opinion. No matter what kinds of music you listen to it's a bit of a mind-opener. For example... this week, mad out-of-this world drum 'n' bass meltdowns, a Led Zeppelin shuffle type bootleg that was surprisingly very good (and I can't even stand Led Zeppelin usually), the 'Anorak' moment where she talked about P-Funk, George Clinton and their relevance on music now and finishing with a Le Tigre remix... check it out, 'tis excellent
Websites:
www.drownedinsound.com
www.foreverdelayed.org.uk
www.nme.com ('Tis good for keeping up-to-date with stuff if you can stand reading between the hyperbole even if I wouldn't dream of buying the bloody thing)
www.audioscrobbler.com / www.last.fm
Jeez, can you tell I'm bored?
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
I missed 'Medulla' by Bjork from my top records... that's an amazing album :)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record - Its between The Rakes 'strasbourg' and thee Unstrung 'contrary mary'
- gig - The gig I went to last night! The Rakes in Northampton or maybe when I saw them at the barfly hmmmm
- band best band around now are the libertines / new band My marylin
- label - scratchy records
- festival- V
- mags - Artrocker
- radio - XFM I guess
- websites www.therocks.org www.theinternetatemysoul.com
- places - Saatchi gallery, Camden Barfly well actually just the whole of camden is pretty cool
- misc. The rocks
- gig - The gig I went to last night! The Rakes in Northampton or maybe when I saw them at the barfly hmmmm
- band best band around now are the libertines / new band My marylin
- label - scratchy records
- festival- V
- mags - Artrocker
- radio - XFM I guess
- websites www.therocks.org www.theinternetatemysoul.com
- places - Saatchi gallery, Camden Barfly well actually just the whole of camden is pretty cool
- misc. The rocks
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Libertines.
- gig
The Rapture. Astoria. May 11th
- band / new band
Bloc Party
- label
Domino
- festival
Reading.
- mags
X-Ray
The Libertines.
- gig
The Rapture. Astoria. May 11th
- band / new band
Bloc Party
- label
Domino
- festival
Reading.
- mags
X-Ray
So, What's the ..... of the year?
I'd just to like point out that contrary to the NME's opinions, I thought Strasbourg by the Rakes was crap.
P.S. To the person conventional_caviar, did you rip off my name or what? If you did I don't mind, it's great to have admirers.
P.S. To the person conventional_caviar, did you rip off my name or what? If you did I don't mind, it's great to have admirers.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) the Qua record.[Aussie band, brilliant]
- gig: Explosions in Chicago
- band / new band: Explosions in the Sky, best band by a mile. Truly new music.
- label: the smaller the better
- festival: didnt go to any
- mags: death to the NME, up Artrocker
- radio: resonance FM
- websites:DIS, blogosphere generally,
- places:IRAQ/Afghanistan/?
- misc: death to the BPI,RIAA,MIAA,anyotherIAA that exists and can push us all about for no reason at all by virtue of being a fat ba****d in the in crowd.
- gig: Explosions in Chicago
- band / new band: Explosions in the Sky, best band by a mile. Truly new music.
- label: the smaller the better
- festival: didnt go to any
- mags: death to the NME, up Artrocker
- radio: resonance FM
- websites:DIS, blogosphere generally,
- places:IRAQ/Afghanistan/?
- misc: death to the BPI,RIAA,MIAA,anyotherIAA that exists and can push us all about for no reason at all by virtue of being a fat ba****d in the in crowd.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Public Service Broadcast series, Jetplane Landing "There Is No Courage..." single/album/megolith,
- gig
Jetplane Landing @ Islington Academy, May 2004
- band / new band
Fighting With Wire
- label
Smalltown America
- festival
Didn't go to any. I suck.
- mags
Don't read the music rags.
- radio
Zane Lowe on Radio 1
- websites
DIS (of course), www.fightingwithwire.co.uk, google.
- places
home
- misc.
There's these new Cadbury's biscuit things. They're like Pringles but they're chocolate. damn, they're good.
Public Service Broadcast series, Jetplane Landing "There Is No Courage..." single/album/megolith,
- gig
Jetplane Landing @ Islington Academy, May 2004
- band / new band
Fighting With Wire
- label
Smalltown America
- festival
Didn't go to any. I suck.
- mags
Don't read the music rags.
- radio
Zane Lowe on Radio 1
- websites
DIS (of course), www.fightingwithwire.co.uk, google.
- places
home
- misc.
There's these new Cadbury's biscuit things. They're like Pringles but they're chocolate. damn, they're good.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Albums:
Brian Wilson - Smile
(Worth the wait and BETTER then Sgt. Bloody Pepper )
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
(They don't come more perfect then this. People should pay more attention to this band)
Franz Ferdinand
(A Dart of Pleasure into the collective consciousness)
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
(Like Radiohead bought up on soul music, and bound for greater things)
The Dresden Dolls
(The inner workings of a girl's mind played out like glorious cabaret. Get your tickets now!)
Singles:
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown (Books EP B-side)
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Morrissey - The First of the Gang to Die
The Kaiser Chiefs - Born to be a Dancer (Oh My God B-side)
Brian Wilson - Smile
(Worth the wait and BETTER then Sgt. Bloody Pepper )
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
(They don't come more perfect then this. People should pay more attention to this band)
Franz Ferdinand
(A Dart of Pleasure into the collective consciousness)
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
(Like Radiohead bought up on soul music, and bound for greater things)
The Dresden Dolls
(The inner workings of a girl's mind played out like glorious cabaret. Get your tickets now!)
Singles:
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown (Books EP B-side)
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Morrissey - The First of the Gang to Die
The Kaiser Chiefs - Born to be a Dancer (Oh My God B-side)
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots:
It's like... revolutionary, dude. not really, but still pretty.
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land : Boom! Crash!!!! Time sig change!!! Ace!
Interpol: They still sound like Joy Division. In a good way.
Smalltownamerica's Public Service Broadcast series: Long live DIY. Most important compilations of the year.
- gig
The Boxer Rebellion @ Lincoln Uni. Ace stuff.
- band / new band
Bloc Party
The Boxer Rebellion
- label
Smalltownamerica
- festival
Any mud-infested lovefest.
- mags
Logo. 'cause it's free.
- radio
Can't get radio in my room
- websites
www.192.com
www.rawkstar.net
www.jetplanelanding.com
www.indymedia.com
- places
Probably Paris, Tokyo, New York and London.
- misc.
Final Fantasy XI. love it.
Hope of the States - The Lost Riots:
It's like... revolutionary, dude. not really, but still pretty.
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land : Boom! Crash!!!! Time sig change!!! Ace!
Interpol: They still sound like Joy Division. In a good way.
Smalltownamerica's Public Service Broadcast series: Long live DIY. Most important compilations of the year.
- gig
The Boxer Rebellion @ Lincoln Uni. Ace stuff.
- band / new band
Bloc Party
The Boxer Rebellion
- label
Smalltownamerica
- festival
Any mud-infested lovefest.
- mags
Logo. 'cause it's free.
- radio
Can't get radio in my room
- websites
www.192.com
www.rawkstar.net
www.jetplanelanding.com
www.indymedia.com
- places
Probably Paris, Tokyo, New York and London.
- misc.
Final Fantasy XI. love it.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record - dresden dolls (a cross between brechtian things and once more with feeling, with extra screaming)
gig -british sea power (with mystery jets supporting!) at manchester academy 3. foliage, a heron,an owl, magpies. brilliant music. banging of drums. friendly bedrunken mancunians shouting salty water. running for train.
band - mystery jets (they are brilliant. have seen live twice, with bsp & bloc party. i'd really like to describe, but inadequate grasp of english fails me again, so look them up here and own website, and love them!)
p.s. i did go to other gigs, honest!
label - never take much notice
festival - never went :(
mags - the fly's good considering it's free!
radio - radio 4 (the archers, new hitchhikers series, clare in't community, only analogue radio stuff good now peel dead, haven't got a dab yet (hurry up santa).)
websites -theonion.com (bushbashing is always fun)
places -liverpool (i'll miss you when i'm gone)
misc. -mystery jets; tea
gig -british sea power (with mystery jets supporting!) at manchester academy 3. foliage, a heron,an owl, magpies. brilliant music. banging of drums. friendly bedrunken mancunians shouting salty water. running for train.
band - mystery jets (they are brilliant. have seen live twice, with bsp & bloc party. i'd really like to describe, but inadequate grasp of english fails me again, so look them up here and own website, and love them!)
p.s. i did go to other gigs, honest!
label - never take much notice
festival - never went :(
mags - the fly's good considering it's free!
radio - radio 4 (the archers, new hitchhikers series, clare in't community, only analogue radio stuff good now peel dead, haven't got a dab yet (hurry up santa).)
websites -theonion.com (bushbashing is always fun)
places -liverpool (i'll miss you when i'm gone)
misc. -mystery jets; tea
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Bloc Party aren't really a new band, are they?
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Records: interpol - antics; kings of leon - aha shake heartbreak; pink grease - pink grease; nick cave - abatoirre blues; kasabian - kasabian; stellastarr*
Gig: interpol + bloc party @ the forum
New band: the bravery
Label: Cass Records
Festival: Reading [excluding the mud]
Mag: Dazed and Confused [Or Vogue, simply for their article on Mr. David Viner]
Radio: it has to be xfm, Christian O'Connell or John Kennedy
Websites: err
Places: The man on the moon pub next to the barfly... Ive been in those 2 places all year
Party: That pirate party @ the key; Babyshambles, Neils Children etc. [Although the drinks were horrendously expensive]
Gig: interpol + bloc party @ the forum
New band: the bravery
Label: Cass Records
Festival: Reading [excluding the mud]
Mag: Dazed and Confused [Or Vogue, simply for their article on Mr. David Viner]
Radio: it has to be xfm, Christian O'Connell or John Kennedy
Websites: err
Places: The man on the moon pub next to the barfly... Ive been in those 2 places all year
Party: That pirate party @ the key; Babyshambles, Neils Children etc. [Although the drinks were horrendously expensive]
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
that's so cool you like Annie - I looooove that 'My heartbeat' song, c'est superb!
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
>misc: Tennesee Fried Chicken, Camden Town
That's beautiful, man. Beautiful.
That's beautiful, man. Beautiful.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s): Blood Brothers - "Crimes", thisGIRL - "Uno", LEftover Crack F*** World Trade
gig: only been to a few this year, but has to be Jetplane Landing at my SU Bar which was awesome!
band: Jetplane Landing
new band: The Bronx
label: Witchita, Household name
festival: ?
mags: Metal Hammer or Apex
radio: Radio 1 Mike Davies Lock up
websites: www.holdthebutton.com
places: SU Bar Cams, Junction
gig: only been to a few this year, but has to be Jetplane Landing at my SU Bar which was awesome!
band: Jetplane Landing
new band: The Bronx
label: Witchita, Household name
festival: ?
mags: Metal Hammer or Apex
radio: Radio 1 Mike Davies Lock up
websites: www.holdthebutton.com
places: SU Bar Cams, Junction
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best Record:
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Best Gig:
Bloc Party (october tour)
Best New Band:
dunno how new they are, but I really liked The Chemistry Experiment supporting the Hidden Cameras. Also (obviously), Bloc Party.
Best Label:
Not big on individual labels, but congrats to Domino on getting success with Franz.
Best Festival:
financial trouble. no festival :(
Best Magazine:
too much money to pay.
Radio:
Who needs radio when you have INTERNET?
Website:
www.pitchforkmedia.com - a nice place to feel unpretentious
other:
fave book of the year: Christopher Brookmyre - Be My Enemy. He's FUNNY, He's SATIRICAL and CUTTING, he has ACTION, he makes you feel EMPATHY for his CHARACTERS whether GOOD or EVIL. Everyone should read Chris Brookmyre books. :D
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Best Gig:
Bloc Party (october tour)
Best New Band:
dunno how new they are, but I really liked The Chemistry Experiment supporting the Hidden Cameras. Also (obviously), Bloc Party.
Best Label:
Not big on individual labels, but congrats to Domino on getting success with Franz.
Best Festival:
financial trouble. no festival :(
Best Magazine:
too much money to pay.
Radio:
Who needs radio when you have INTERNET?
Website:
www.pitchforkmedia.com - a nice place to feel unpretentious
other:
fave book of the year: Christopher Brookmyre - Be My Enemy. He's FUNNY, He's SATIRICAL and CUTTING, he has ACTION, he makes you feel EMPATHY for his CHARACTERS whether GOOD or EVIL. Everyone should read Chris Brookmyre books. :D
So, What's the ..... of the year?
go on then, I'll play cos I should be working and I'm on a 'break'
- record(s)
Miss kittin - I Com
Coachwhips - Bangers vs Fuckers
- gig
loads of em, but Art Brut in london Calling Amsterdam was a stormer (as was the rest of the night)
- band / new band
28 Costumes
Saso
Bitmap
- label
Gentle Electric
Rykodisc
Mute
Homesleep
- festival
Isle Of Wight was ace, cos it's an ace place
- mags
Artrocker is gonna be superb
- radio
Radio 6 is pretty ace
- websites
this one's alright innit
- places
Riga
- record(s)
Miss kittin - I Com
Coachwhips - Bangers vs Fuckers
- gig
loads of em, but Art Brut in london Calling Amsterdam was a stormer (as was the rest of the night)
- band / new band
28 Costumes
Saso
Bitmap
- label
Gentle Electric
Rykodisc
Mute
Homesleep
- festival
Isle Of Wight was ace, cos it's an ace place
- mags
Artrocker is gonna be superb
- radio
Radio 6 is pretty ace
- websites
this one's alright innit
- places
Riga
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Kudos to Fox_in_Snow for comparing Dresden Dolls to Once More With Feeling. What a class episode.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best Record(s):
Elliot Smith's From a Basement on the Hill.
Honorable Mentions: Interpol's Antics; the Libertines s/t; I think Trail of Dead had one too - which I've not purchased yet - but if it's anything near Source Tags & Codes then it'll be on this list; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Take Them On, On Your Own; British Sea Power - The Decline (that was this year, right?); The Dresden Dolls (somewhere toward the bottom of my Top 10)
Best Gig:
Pixies - Irvine Meadows (Verizon)- One of the best gigs eh-ver!!
Honorable Mention:
Echo & the Bunnymen - Henry Fonda in LA and House of Blues at Disneyland; Interpol/Special Machines the Wiltern in LA.
Best Festival:
All Tomorrow's Parties (only saw second day)
Best New Band:
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Best Re-Issue:
Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (and S&E, an unbelievable bargain!).
Honorable Mention:
Jeff Buckley's Grace (2 CDs and a short DVD)
Best DVD:
Blur's Star Shaped. Concert and documentary footage of their early years. Really good stuff!
Best Label:
Matador
Best Radio:
Indie 103.1 fm. Especially Steve Jones' eclectic noon to 2pm M-F.
Best Websites:
DiS; Pitchfork
Worst Magazine:
Rolling Stone. Have you seen their 500 best songs ever list? Fucking morons! Someone ought to revoke their license to print.
Places:
Minneapolis
Elliot Smith's From a Basement on the Hill.
Honorable Mentions: Interpol's Antics; the Libertines s/t; I think Trail of Dead had one too - which I've not purchased yet - but if it's anything near Source Tags & Codes then it'll be on this list; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Take Them On, On Your Own; British Sea Power - The Decline (that was this year, right?); The Dresden Dolls (somewhere toward the bottom of my Top 10)
Best Gig:
Pixies - Irvine Meadows (Verizon)- One of the best gigs eh-ver!!
Honorable Mention:
Echo & the Bunnymen - Henry Fonda in LA and House of Blues at Disneyland; Interpol/Special Machines the Wiltern in LA.
Best Festival:
All Tomorrow's Parties (only saw second day)
Best New Band:
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Best Re-Issue:
Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (and S&E, an unbelievable bargain!).
Honorable Mention:
Jeff Buckley's Grace (2 CDs and a short DVD)
Best DVD:
Blur's Star Shaped. Concert and documentary footage of their early years. Really good stuff!
Best Label:
Matador
Best Radio:
Indie 103.1 fm. Especially Steve Jones' eclectic noon to 2pm M-F.
Best Websites:
DiS; Pitchfork
Worst Magazine:
Rolling Stone. Have you seen their 500 best songs ever list? Fucking morons! Someone ought to revoke their license to print.
Places:
Minneapolis
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Album - Medulla Bjork
Single - Slow Hands Interpol
Gig - Noisettes and Mystery Jets, Oceansize
Magazine - Loose Lips sink ships
Radio - Late Junction
Website - Grouphug.us
That is all
Single - Slow Hands Interpol
Gig - Noisettes and Mystery Jets, Oceansize
Magazine - Loose Lips sink ships
Radio - Late Junction
Website - Grouphug.us
That is all
So, What's the ..... of the year?
albums:
Efterklang - Tripper (shame few will actually hear it)
Tortoise - Its All Aound You
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing inThe Hands
Oceansize - Music For Nurses EP
Jeniferever - Iris
Bjork - Medulla
Bent - Ariels
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
gigs:
Oceansize/People In Planes - Brum
EITS - Brum
Lyca Sleep - Leicester
band / new band: Lyca Sleep
label: The Leaf Label
festival: The Big Chill
mags: Vice
radio: Peely RIP
websites: posteverything.com
my ten-penneth...
Efterklang - Tripper (shame few will actually hear it)
Tortoise - Its All Aound You
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing inThe Hands
Oceansize - Music For Nurses EP
Jeniferever - Iris
Bjork - Medulla
Bent - Ariels
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
gigs:
Oceansize/People In Planes - Brum
EITS - Brum
Lyca Sleep - Leicester
band / new band: Lyca Sleep
label: The Leaf Label
festival: The Big Chill
mags: Vice
radio: Peely RIP
websites: posteverything.com
my ten-penneth...
So, What's the ..... of the year?
the best album released this year is 'Scissors in my pocket' by polly paulusma. It's something of a travesty that DiS basically has ignored the best new songwriter in the country.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Hmmm, well...
records of the year - damn it i can't remmber eveything I've bought this year! Most recent was random buyage of Help She can't Swim which I was rather pleased with...
band - I'll have to say R.I.P to Easyworld and hello to Bright Eyes!
new band - bloc party (surprise surprise)
label - Saddlecreek
Festival - only went to Leeds, which wasn't as good as last couple of years. :(
Mags - don't read them
Radio - John Peel of course, there will never be anyone as good as him
websites - present company, of course, and www.megatokyo.com, because I'm a big geek
There you go!
records of the year - damn it i can't remmber eveything I've bought this year! Most recent was random buyage of Help She can't Swim which I was rather pleased with...
band - I'll have to say R.I.P to Easyworld and hello to Bright Eyes!
new band - bloc party (surprise surprise)
label - Saddlecreek
Festival - only went to Leeds, which wasn't as good as last couple of years. :(
Mags - don't read them
Radio - John Peel of course, there will never be anyone as good as him
websites - present company, of course, and www.megatokyo.com, because I'm a big geek
There you go!
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
bloc party? seriously, why?
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Because they iz wicked.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Winnebago Deal - Dead Gone
Small Town America Series (essential in any music lovers collection)
Kasabian - kasabian
Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
- gig
Jetplane Landing at Glasgow Barfly
- band
Jetplane Landing
- new band
Dead Or American
Fickle Public
The Cribs
- label
Small Town America
- festival
T in The Park
- mags
The Fly
- radio
XFM
Beat 106 (Glasgow - jim gellatly)
- websites
Drowned In Sound
Jetplane Landing
- places
Fife
Newcastle
Dublin
Winnebago Deal - Dead Gone
Small Town America Series (essential in any music lovers collection)
Kasabian - kasabian
Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
- gig
Jetplane Landing at Glasgow Barfly
- band
Jetplane Landing
- new band
Dead Or American
Fickle Public
The Cribs
- label
Small Town America
- festival
T in The Park
- mags
The Fly
- radio
XFM
Beat 106 (Glasgow - jim gellatly)
- websites
Drowned In Sound
Jetplane Landing
- places
Fife
Newcastle
Dublin
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s) Biffy Clyro Infinity Land, Complex, beautiful, hard, soft, just a fucking wonderful album
- gig - The Stills, Glastonbury
- band / new band - Jetplane Landing, Brigade
- label - Fierce Panda, not very original, but still fantastic, they still got it! Smalltowm america, hello?, over 1 hundred new bands released in a matter of months, CMON!
- festival - Glastobury, Friday, The weather is important to me
- mags - Nuts! ....a joke!
- radio - good ol' Zane Lowe
- websites - www.thedopaminetheory.com , sorry, couldnt resist www.drownedinsound.com
- places, Brighton is great as always, bath is cool too, Paris, wow!
- misc. - Lucy Porter
- gig - The Stills, Glastonbury
- band / new band - Jetplane Landing, Brigade
- label - Fierce Panda, not very original, but still fantastic, they still got it! Smalltowm america, hello?, over 1 hundred new bands released in a matter of months, CMON!
- festival - Glastobury, Friday, The weather is important to me
- mags - Nuts! ....a joke!
- radio - good ol' Zane Lowe
- websites - www.thedopaminetheory.com , sorry, couldnt resist www.drownedinsound.com
- places, Brighton is great as always, bath is cool too, Paris, wow!
- misc. - Lucy Porter
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
1. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
2. Alter Ego – Rocker
3. Rachel Stevens – Some Girls (Richard X Extended mix)
4. Scissor Sisters – Laura (Riton remix)
5. Kelis – Milkshake (Basement Jaxx remix)
6. Freeform Five – No More Conversations
7. Annie – Chewing Gum (Headman remix)
8. Whitey – A Walk In The Dark
9. Justice Vs Simian – Never Be Alone
10. Bloc Party – Banquet
2. Alter Ego – Rocker
3. Rachel Stevens – Some Girls (Richard X Extended mix)
4. Scissor Sisters – Laura (Riton remix)
5. Kelis – Milkshake (Basement Jaxx remix)
6. Freeform Five – No More Conversations
7. Annie – Chewing Gum (Headman remix)
8. Whitey – A Walk In The Dark
9. Justice Vs Simian – Never Be Alone
10. Bloc Party – Banquet
So, What's the ..... of the year?
OK...MY TURN!!! My favourite...
*Record(s):
1. Killswitch Engage - "The End Of Heartache" - Just a fantastic metal album.
2. Hundred Reasons - "Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge" - This band, I believe, are fucking fantastic, and thought this was a excellent second album.
3. Biffy Clyro - "Infinity Land" - Third album out in 3 years and still full of great ideas and tunes.
*Gigs:
Killswitch Engage - Astoria and Camden Barfly/21&22/6/2004
Hundred Reasons - Electric Ballroom 17/11/2004
Hell Is For Heroes - Southend Chinnerys 7/11/2004
Thursday - Astoria 10/5/2004
Funeral For A Friend - Camden Underworld 12/6/2004
*Bands:
Killswitch Engage
Hundred Reasons
Biffy Clyro
*New Bands:
Hollywood Ending
Hondo Maclean
Twofold
The Holiday Plan
*Songs:
Killswitch Engage - "Rose Of Sharyn"
The Streets - "Blinded By The Lights"
Biffy Clyro - "Glitter and Truama"
Lostprophets - "Last Train Home"
Ash - "Orpheous"
The Darkness - "Love Is Only A Feeling"
*Label:
Sorepoint Records
*Festival:
Well, the Reading Festival comes first, closely followed by TMF and Download 2004.
*Magazine:
Kerrang. Yes, I like Kerrang.
*Radio:
Zane Lowe or the king himself, John Peel. R.I.P.
*Websites:
DiS obviously!
www.hundredreasons.com
www.killswitchengage.com
Venues:
Southend Chinnerys. It's about 200-300 people.
Camden Barfly. Just fucking fantastic venue.
Electric Ballroom. Just a great place.
But overall....The worst bands of 2004 are:
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
THE LIBERTINES
KINGS OF LEON
THE DISTILLERS
THE OFFSPRING
*Record(s):
1. Killswitch Engage - "The End Of Heartache" - Just a fantastic metal album.
2. Hundred Reasons - "Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge" - This band, I believe, are fucking fantastic, and thought this was a excellent second album.
3. Biffy Clyro - "Infinity Land" - Third album out in 3 years and still full of great ideas and tunes.
*Gigs:
Killswitch Engage - Astoria and Camden Barfly/21&22/6/2004
Hundred Reasons - Electric Ballroom 17/11/2004
Hell Is For Heroes - Southend Chinnerys 7/11/2004
Thursday - Astoria 10/5/2004
Funeral For A Friend - Camden Underworld 12/6/2004
*Bands:
Killswitch Engage
Hundred Reasons
Biffy Clyro
*New Bands:
Hollywood Ending
Hondo Maclean
Twofold
The Holiday Plan
*Songs:
Killswitch Engage - "Rose Of Sharyn"
The Streets - "Blinded By The Lights"
Biffy Clyro - "Glitter and Truama"
Lostprophets - "Last Train Home"
Ash - "Orpheous"
The Darkness - "Love Is Only A Feeling"
*Label:
Sorepoint Records
*Festival:
Well, the Reading Festival comes first, closely followed by TMF and Download 2004.
*Magazine:
Kerrang. Yes, I like Kerrang.
*Radio:
Zane Lowe or the king himself, John Peel. R.I.P.
*Websites:
DiS obviously!
www.hundredreasons.com
www.killswitchengage.com
Venues:
Southend Chinnerys. It's about 200-300 people.
Camden Barfly. Just fucking fantastic venue.
Electric Ballroom. Just a great place.
But overall....The worst bands of 2004 are:
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
THE LIBERTINES
KINGS OF LEON
THE DISTILLERS
THE OFFSPRING
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
"hint, hint Sean" - yes, because we actually get paid to write.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Records, in no order:
Isis 'Panopticon'; Call Me Lightning 'The Trouble We're In'; Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies 'Hurrah...'; Icarus Line 'Penance Soiree'; The Hunches 'Hobo Sunrise'; Comets On Fire 'Blue Cathedral'; Mono 'Walking Cloud...'; Delgados 'Universal Audio'; Paper Chase 'God Bless Your Black Heart'; Trail of Dead 'Worlds Apart' (okay so it's 2005, but I heard it this year and it's ACE); DEP 'Miss Machine'; Blood Brothers 'Crimes'; Ikara Colt 'Modern Apprentice'; Q And Not U 'Power'; AC Newman 'The Slow Wonder'; The Good Life 'Album of the Year'; Todd 'Purity Pledge'; TEAM 'The Penalyn LP'; 65daysofstatic 'The Fall Of Math'; Thee More Shallows 'More Deep Cuts'; Old Man Gloom 'Christmas'; Mastodon 'Leviathan'; !!! 'Louden Up Now'.
Gig:
Maybe Mono, maybe Isis, maybe Blood Brothers. Maybe even Lightning Bolt or Shellac. Maybe Converge. Maybe Enablers. I dunno... there's been so many GREAT gigs.
Band/new band:
My band of the year is probably the Icarus Line or Dillinger, just for being THE BEST.
New band... do YMSS count?
Label:
Ipeac or Relapse or maybe Sub Pop, actually.
Festival:
ATP. Fo'shizzle. Reading SUCKED this year.
Mags:
It'd be rude if I didn't say rock sound, Loose Lips Sink Ships, LOGO and Comes With A Smile. Oh, and Skyscraper.
Radio:
6Music
Websites:
This one, obviously. And Plan B's site. And Playlouder. That's good. And Pitchfork.
Places:
Not Lille, that's for sure. Horrible. Bristol has been my place of 2004.
Misc:
Read more books.
Isis 'Panopticon'; Call Me Lightning 'The Trouble We're In'; Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies 'Hurrah...'; Icarus Line 'Penance Soiree'; The Hunches 'Hobo Sunrise'; Comets On Fire 'Blue Cathedral'; Mono 'Walking Cloud...'; Delgados 'Universal Audio'; Paper Chase 'God Bless Your Black Heart'; Trail of Dead 'Worlds Apart' (okay so it's 2005, but I heard it this year and it's ACE); DEP 'Miss Machine'; Blood Brothers 'Crimes'; Ikara Colt 'Modern Apprentice'; Q And Not U 'Power'; AC Newman 'The Slow Wonder'; The Good Life 'Album of the Year'; Todd 'Purity Pledge'; TEAM 'The Penalyn LP'; 65daysofstatic 'The Fall Of Math'; Thee More Shallows 'More Deep Cuts'; Old Man Gloom 'Christmas'; Mastodon 'Leviathan'; !!! 'Louden Up Now'.
Gig:
Maybe Mono, maybe Isis, maybe Blood Brothers. Maybe even Lightning Bolt or Shellac. Maybe Converge. Maybe Enablers. I dunno... there's been so many GREAT gigs.
Band/new band:
My band of the year is probably the Icarus Line or Dillinger, just for being THE BEST.
New band... do YMSS count?
Label:
Ipeac or Relapse or maybe Sub Pop, actually.
Festival:
ATP. Fo'shizzle. Reading SUCKED this year.
Mags:
It'd be rude if I didn't say rock sound, Loose Lips Sink Ships, LOGO and Comes With A Smile. Oh, and Skyscraper.
Radio:
6Music
Websites:
This one, obviously. And Plan B's site. And Playlouder. That's good. And Pitchfork.
Places:
Not Lille, that's for sure. Horrible. Bristol has been my place of 2004.
Misc:
Read more books.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Records:
Brian Wilson's "Smile" takes home the gold this year, without a doubt. Honourable mentions for, in no particular order: Junior Boys - "Last Exit", cLOUDDEAD - "Ten", Madvillain - "Madvillainy", The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow", Fiery Furnaces - "Blueberry Boat".
Shall place my obligatory comment on the year-end list for further clarification...
Brian Wilson's "Smile" takes home the gold this year, without a doubt. Honourable mentions for, in no particular order: Junior Boys - "Last Exit", cLOUDDEAD - "Ten", Madvillain - "Madvillainy", The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow", Fiery Furnaces - "Blueberry Boat".
Shall place my obligatory comment on the year-end list for further clarification...
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record: Death From Above 1979 - You're a woman I'm a machine OR The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free. One of them was the perfect thing to blow cobwebs out of your face and the other gets better once you ignore the hype. Icarus Line - Penace Soiree too.
Gig: TODD at ATP in March.
Band: My band, Molten Unicorn, just for having 5 practices in a row. That's professionalism.
The only festival I went to was ATP Wknd One. I played mini golf in a gale drinking Special Brew.
I'm going to recommend the pitchforkmedia website, insangel13.co.uk for nearly sorting us out with a drummer and a practice room and letting petty band twats call each other names; the Electric Circus night in Newcastle; Colin Murray on Radio One, or me on www.weirdears.com; roadtrips to Liverpool.
Misc: Iron Bru. Helmet's reunion album was a waste of my time. I pulled a fat girl at a party and was alarmed to find out it was my friend's sister. The girl who hates me at indie nights in Newcastle (her name is supposed to be Vicki but Fat Arse Small Tits to her friends) getting punched for chatting up some old tarts boyfriend. Go girl! Got job, no money: No job, no money. Still living at home. Less talk more action.
Gig: TODD at ATP in March.
Band: My band, Molten Unicorn, just for having 5 practices in a row. That's professionalism.
The only festival I went to was ATP Wknd One. I played mini golf in a gale drinking Special Brew.
I'm going to recommend the pitchforkmedia website, insangel13.co.uk for nearly sorting us out with a drummer and a practice room and letting petty band twats call each other names; the Electric Circus night in Newcastle; Colin Murray on Radio One, or me on www.weirdears.com; roadtrips to Liverpool.
Misc: Iron Bru. Helmet's reunion album was a waste of my time. I pulled a fat girl at a party and was alarmed to find out it was my friend's sister. The girl who hates me at indie nights in Newcastle (her name is supposed to be Vicki but Fat Arse Small Tits to her friends) getting punched for chatting up some old tarts boyfriend. Go girl! Got job, no money: No job, no money. Still living at home. Less talk more action.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
morrissey royal festival hall- gig
maximo park- band / new band
wichita- label
truck- festival
snoozer- mags
peel (rip)- radio
pitchfork- websites
not here- places
morrissey royal festival hall- gig
maximo park- band / new band
wichita- label
truck- festival
snoozer- mags
peel (rip)- radio
pitchfork- websites
not here- places
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
get over yourself, ffs.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
speaking of Q, did anyone see their top 50 albums? absolutely disgraceful ...
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s): Arcade Fire (Funeral), The Futureheads (s/t), Isis (Panopticon)
gig: can only be the one, Jetplane Landing at the Metro Club in London in September. Proceeds to charity, 10 bands including Distophia, Fickle Public, JPL, Frank Turner acoustic, Seafood acoustic, Do Me Bad Things...
band: Explosions in the Sky
new band: Fickle Public, with an honourable mention for Do Me Bad Things
label: Smalltown America, for the superb PSB series and for organising my gig of the year.
festival: Bud Rising in Dublin.
gig: can only be the one, Jetplane Landing at the Metro Club in London in September. Proceeds to charity, 10 bands including Distophia, Fickle Public, JPL, Frank Turner acoustic, Seafood acoustic, Do Me Bad Things...
band: Explosions in the Sky
new band: Fickle Public, with an honourable mention for Do Me Bad Things
label: Smalltown America, for the superb PSB series and for organising my gig of the year.
festival: Bud Rising in Dublin.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
hmmm
albums: seafood - as the cry flows, joy zipper - american whip
single: bloc party - helicopter
gig: explosions in the sky in Manchester and Liverpool
label: bella union
radio station: bbc six music
that'll do for the moment
albums: seafood - as the cry flows, joy zipper - american whip
single: bloc party - helicopter
gig: explosions in the sky in Manchester and Liverpool
label: bella union
radio station: bbc six music
that'll do for the moment
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Polysics or die!!!
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom!!!!
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Alexandroid - False Starts
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Air (better than I thought it would be by far)
!!! - Louden Up Now
Nina Nastasia - Dogs
- gig
Robochrist (fuckin genius, i'm telling you) at a night we put on in Wolves
Polysics (jaw droppingly amazing) - Coldrice, Birmingham
!!! (just DANCE motherfuckers) - Reading
Dizzee Rascal (fuckin indie. it's dead) - ATP
The gig I enjoyed most was probably playing at Truck
Selfish Cunt were fuckin great at the Medicine Bar on monday
- band / new band
so much unsigned stuff that people don't know about...
how to get through to them, people only take music through accepted channels - there's only so much shouting you can do before disillusionment sets in -
the real underground is amazing. but invisible...
www.formulabone.com
www.theshit.org.uk (of course)
www.robochrist.co.uk
www.trash-fashion.com
- label
Truck / Surla / Wrath
- festival
Truck for friendliness and fun
ATP for location, coolness and atmosphere
Reading for the lineup
- mags
Plan B / Loose Lips
neither as good as careless talk but better than the rest
- radio
Peel. Bless 'im. Most radio is rubbish though.
- websites
DiS, planbmag.com, brainlove.cjb.net
- places
Paris was nice
291 Gallery in London
I like London
Birmingham has a better scene than you'd think
Polysics or die!!!
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom!!!!
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Alexandroid - False Starts
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Air (better than I thought it would be by far)
!!! - Louden Up Now
Nina Nastasia - Dogs
- gig
Robochrist (fuckin genius, i'm telling you) at a night we put on in Wolves
Polysics (jaw droppingly amazing) - Coldrice, Birmingham
!!! (just DANCE motherfuckers) - Reading
Dizzee Rascal (fuckin indie. it's dead) - ATP
The gig I enjoyed most was probably playing at Truck
Selfish Cunt were fuckin great at the Medicine Bar on monday
- band / new band
so much unsigned stuff that people don't know about...
how to get through to them, people only take music through accepted channels - there's only so much shouting you can do before disillusionment sets in -
the real underground is amazing. but invisible...
www.formulabone.com
www.theshit.org.uk (of course)
www.robochrist.co.uk
www.trash-fashion.com
- label
Truck / Surla / Wrath
- festival
Truck for friendliness and fun
ATP for location, coolness and atmosphere
Reading for the lineup
- mags
Plan B / Loose Lips
neither as good as careless talk but better than the rest
- radio
Peel. Bless 'im. Most radio is rubbish though.
- websites
DiS, planbmag.com, brainlove.cjb.net
- places
Paris was nice
291 Gallery in London
I like London
Birmingham has a better scene than you'd think
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
The Real New Fall Album, Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt, Milkshake - Kelis, Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
- gig
Lightning Bolt - Scala, Shellac - Scala, McLusky - Scala, Sonic Youth - Brixton, Clor - Brixton Windmill
- band / new band
Clor
- label
Helmut Lang
- festival
I hate festivals
- mags
The Wire, Observer Food Monthly, Vogue
- radio
John Peel RIP, Resonance FM, Danny Baker on BBC London
- websites
joyzine, this one, The Guardian, Head Heritage, Music Thing, Stompboxx. howies, turntablelab, derelict london, subbrit, duruto
- places
Rough Trade, St Annes Limehouse
- misc.
Wasn't there some rubbish telly this year? 257 channels and there's nothing on. Dire Straits were right! Blimey.
-Art
Jonathan Lasker still does it for me
-Bicycle Lights
Cateye - nothing else comes close
The Real New Fall Album, Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt, Milkshake - Kelis, Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
- gig
Lightning Bolt - Scala, Shellac - Scala, McLusky - Scala, Sonic Youth - Brixton, Clor - Brixton Windmill
- band / new band
Clor
- label
Helmut Lang
- festival
I hate festivals
- mags
The Wire, Observer Food Monthly, Vogue
- radio
John Peel RIP, Resonance FM, Danny Baker on BBC London
- websites
joyzine, this one, The Guardian, Head Heritage, Music Thing, Stompboxx. howies, turntablelab, derelict london, subbrit, duruto
- places
Rough Trade, St Annes Limehouse
- misc.
Wasn't there some rubbish telly this year? 257 channels and there's nothing on. Dire Straits were right! Blimey.
-Art
Jonathan Lasker still does it for me
-Bicycle Lights
Cateye - nothing else comes close
So, What's the ..... of the year?
That's to much, especially if you want people to explain why. I just do Album and Gig.
I'm picking, The Royal Society by The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. There are probably other albums but seeing as I am only finite in my knowldge. It's a great album. It's not just variations on a type of track but it has real diversity. It's got really dark stompy songs like, I rejection, and silly ones like Puppy Dogs Tails and happy and sad, and it's like finishinga narrative by the end of it. It's also way more mature than the first and you can see the band had to actually change as people to create that. And it's zeitgeist, and while comparisons to other bands can be made I don't know anyone else who are doing what TEMBLD are doing at the moment. So there.
Gig is Death From Above 1979 @ Barfly earlier this year. You don't often get to see what is going to be a great band at its peak and also at it's conception froma foot and a half away. True I actually collapsed unconscious halfway through but that simply makes it more rock, if a little inconvienent. Go, go, go see them.
I'm picking, The Royal Society by The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. There are probably other albums but seeing as I am only finite in my knowldge. It's a great album. It's not just variations on a type of track but it has real diversity. It's got really dark stompy songs like, I rejection, and silly ones like Puppy Dogs Tails and happy and sad, and it's like finishinga narrative by the end of it. It's also way more mature than the first and you can see the band had to actually change as people to create that. And it's zeitgeist, and while comparisons to other bands can be made I don't know anyone else who are doing what TEMBLD are doing at the moment. So there.
Gig is Death From Above 1979 @ Barfly earlier this year. You don't often get to see what is going to be a great band at its peak and also at it's conception froma foot and a half away. True I actually collapsed unconscious halfway through but that simply makes it more rock, if a little inconvienent. Go, go, go see them.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)...YMSS...blood brothers...the franz ferdinand album was very samey, but the singles have been a big part of the year...
- gig...mystery jets, kn0wn and noisettes on eel pie island
- band / new band...mystery jets...king creosote...the noissettes...bloc party...dr filth...future hero robot empire
- label...i wish i had the money to buy enough records to really appreciate labels...good on you domino, and i'll always love mah dischord.
- festival...truck
- mags...the only mags i read are nme (although it is SHIT SHIT SHIT and completely shameless, it does cover a lot of stuff) and vice, and vice has an evil fascist agenda. i only read them cos they are free (nme is when you have strange friends)
- radio...is a luxury seldom indulged out in bangor.
- websites...dis...pl...themanwhofellasleep.com...
- places...eel pie island
- misc....obvious RIPs.
- gig...mystery jets, kn0wn and noisettes on eel pie island
- band / new band...mystery jets...king creosote...the noissettes...bloc party...dr filth...future hero robot empire
- label...i wish i had the money to buy enough records to really appreciate labels...good on you domino, and i'll always love mah dischord.
- festival...truck
- mags...the only mags i read are nme (although it is SHIT SHIT SHIT and completely shameless, it does cover a lot of stuff) and vice, and vice has an evil fascist agenda. i only read them cos they are free (nme is when you have strange friends)
- radio...is a luxury seldom indulged out in bangor.
- websites...dis...pl...themanwhofellasleep.com...
- places...eel pie island
- misc....obvious RIPs.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
i think its the 491
So, What's the ..... of the year?
if you got this far down, congratulations.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
record(s)
seafood-as the cry flows
nick cave..-abbatoire blues/lyre of orpheus
sonic youth-nurse
circle takes the square-the roots undo (if it was this year?!)
converge-you fail me
- gig
mogwai-northumbria uni
sonic youth-brixton academy
trail of dead-ulu
- band / new band
seafood-they're flawless and mint. also most underrated band ever
sonic youth
mogwai
new band(s) i've discovered despite being around for a while:
circle takes the square
army of flying robots
- label
touch and go/southern/constellation...
- festival
leeds, didn't make glasto or ATP :( and that random festival in the middle of rural Slovenia
- mags
big cheese and kerrang. i'm on a mission to boycott that atrocious NME. I've probably read more fan/web zines this year. ie 'short fanzine about rocking' and 'play dead' are quality
- radio
Peel RIP
- websites
DIS, punktastic, collectivezine, hxcmp3.com
- places
The Temple of Convenience, Big Hands, dirty Spanish bar in London, Ljublyana (poor spelling, yes), squat bar/anarchist bar behind youth hostel in Ljublyana, The Tap and Spile -Morpeth! REPRESENT!
- misc.
me, i'd like to thank my dad for where i am today, without him i wouldn't have had such an effect on society. My mum also, for all her hardwork in helping me write this list. I'd also like to send my deepest thanks to John Leslie and Michael Barrymore for continuing to be the biggest legends ever. I love you both.
Phil Collins - I still love your music, shame you're a fucking cunt...
seafood-as the cry flows
nick cave..-abbatoire blues/lyre of orpheus
sonic youth-nurse
circle takes the square-the roots undo (if it was this year?!)
converge-you fail me
- gig
mogwai-northumbria uni
sonic youth-brixton academy
trail of dead-ulu
- band / new band
seafood-they're flawless and mint. also most underrated band ever
sonic youth
mogwai
new band(s) i've discovered despite being around for a while:
circle takes the square
army of flying robots
- label
touch and go/southern/constellation...
- festival
leeds, didn't make glasto or ATP :( and that random festival in the middle of rural Slovenia
- mags
big cheese and kerrang. i'm on a mission to boycott that atrocious NME. I've probably read more fan/web zines this year. ie 'short fanzine about rocking' and 'play dead' are quality
- radio
Peel RIP
- websites
DIS, punktastic, collectivezine, hxcmp3.com
- places
The Temple of Convenience, Big Hands, dirty Spanish bar in London, Ljublyana (poor spelling, yes), squat bar/anarchist bar behind youth hostel in Ljublyana, The Tap and Spile -Morpeth! REPRESENT!
- misc.
me, i'd like to thank my dad for where i am today, without him i wouldn't have had such an effect on society. My mum also, for all her hardwork in helping me write this list. I'd also like to send my deepest thanks to John Leslie and Michael Barrymore for continuing to be the biggest legends ever. I love you both.
Phil Collins - I still love your music, shame you're a fucking cunt...
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)- luxembourg- What the housewives dont tell you. The Faint -Wet from birth, Morrissey- You are the quarry
- gig
- band / new band- band - the killers new band -luxmebourg
- label- angular recordings
- festival- truck
- mags- UNCUT/Art rocker
- radio- John Kennedy
- websites- http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
- places-Manchester Night and day, Hope and Anchor.
- gig
- band / new band- band - the killers new band -luxmebourg
- label- angular recordings
- festival- truck
- mags- UNCUT/Art rocker
- radio- John Kennedy
- websites- http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
- places-Manchester Night and day, Hope and Anchor.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
best album/record/liveact/new act/singer/songwriter goes to; JOANNA NEWSOM!!!
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Record -
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
Band - Bloc Party
Label -
Bella Union
Polyvinyl
Mags -
Comes With A Smile
Uncut
Radio - John Peel
Websites - http://www.pitchforkmedia.com
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
Band - Bloc Party
Label -
Bella Union
Polyvinyl
Mags -
Comes With A Smile
Uncut
Radio - John Peel
Websites - http://www.pitchforkmedia.com
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
people sometimes just skip to the end.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
*Records (subject to change)
1. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. Biffy Clyro – The Vertigo Of Bliss (a year behind but just discovered)
3. The Secret Machines – Now Here Is Nowhere
4. Elbow – Cast Of Thousands (US 2004)
5. The Earlies – These Were The Earlies
6. Seafood – As The Cry Flows
7. Dios – s/t (now called Dios Malos)
8. Xela – Tangled Wool
9. Adem – Homesongs
10. The Delgados – Universal Audio
Still waiting to see how Junior Boys, Drive By Truckers, Futureheads, Radio Dept. and Fiery Furnaces will fit into all of this.
*EP
Oceansize – Music For Nurses
*Mags
CMJ New Music Monthly
*Websites for reading
DIS, Stylus, Pop Matters. Still look at Pitchfork but hate how they are so full of themselves as I want to hear about the album not their cleaver wordplay. NME and Billboard for news. All music is still a great resource and the bible for music geeks. Acclaimed Music for lists and of course SS.
*Websites for posting
Obner.org is a place I spend too much time at. This was part of CMJ bulletin board but was updated to this. US based but most know a thing or two about indie music. Also like the I Love Music board. By singing up just found out about this board and will have to check out.
Didn’t fill out most of it because I’m on the other side of the world. Love this site but have never posted until now.
1. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
2. Biffy Clyro – The Vertigo Of Bliss (a year behind but just discovered)
3. The Secret Machines – Now Here Is Nowhere
4. Elbow – Cast Of Thousands (US 2004)
5. The Earlies – These Were The Earlies
6. Seafood – As The Cry Flows
7. Dios – s/t (now called Dios Malos)
8. Xela – Tangled Wool
9. Adem – Homesongs
10. The Delgados – Universal Audio
Still waiting to see how Junior Boys, Drive By Truckers, Futureheads, Radio Dept. and Fiery Furnaces will fit into all of this.
*EP
Oceansize – Music For Nurses
*Mags
CMJ New Music Monthly
*Websites for reading
DIS, Stylus, Pop Matters. Still look at Pitchfork but hate how they are so full of themselves as I want to hear about the album not their cleaver wordplay. NME and Billboard for news. All music is still a great resource and the bible for music geeks. Acclaimed Music for lists and of course SS.
*Websites for posting
Obner.org is a place I spend too much time at. This was part of CMJ bulletin board but was updated to this. US based but most know a thing or two about indie music. Also like the I Love Music board. By singing up just found out about this board and will have to check out.
Didn’t fill out most of it because I’m on the other side of the world. Love this site but have never posted until now.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Amusement Parks On Fire - s/t
Air Formation - Stay Inside / Feel Everything
Lali Puna - Faking The Books
Epic45 - Against The Pull Of Autumn
Interpol - Antics
- gig
Interpol at the ICA
Amusement Parks On Fire at Infinity
Televise at Spitz
Sennen + Lyca Sleep at Sound
- band / new band
Amusement Parks on Fire
Sennen
Televise
- label
Clairecords
Fierce Panda
- festival
Coachella
Amusement Parks On Fire - s/t
Air Formation - Stay Inside / Feel Everything
Lali Puna - Faking The Books
Epic45 - Against The Pull Of Autumn
Interpol - Antics
- gig
Interpol at the ICA
Amusement Parks On Fire at Infinity
Televise at Spitz
Sennen + Lyca Sleep at Sound
- band / new band
Amusement Parks on Fire
Sennen
Televise
- label
Clairecords
Fierce Panda
- festival
Coachella
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
Misty's Big Adventure and their place in the Solar Hi-Fi System
- gig
Deus - Wedgewood Rooms
- band / new band
The Dears
- label
Tricky...but probably Matador
- festival
ATP
- mags
SPILL magazine. Started off in Guildford a year ago and is now all across the South east and London. The most honest mag out there and a real rival to the Fly and NME...www.spillonline.com
- radio
John Peel
- websites
www.spillonline.com
- places
Melbourne, Australia
- misc.
Little Britain is class
Misty's Big Adventure and their place in the Solar Hi-Fi System
- gig
Deus - Wedgewood Rooms
- band / new band
The Dears
- label
Tricky...but probably Matador
- festival
ATP
- mags
SPILL magazine. Started off in Guildford a year ago and is now all across the South east and London. The most honest mag out there and a real rival to the Fly and NME...www.spillonline.com
- radio
John Peel
- websites
www.spillonline.com
- places
Melbourne, Australia
- misc.
Little Britain is class
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Best Album - Sonic Youth-Sonic Nurse
Best Single - SFA - Slow life ep
Best Gig - Any of the Pixies shows
Best band - Pixies
Best new band - Tv on the radio
Festival - All tomorrows parties weekend 2(I didn't go but it had such a good line up)
Mags - Plan B / Loose lips
Best Single - SFA - Slow life ep
Best Gig - Any of the Pixies shows
Best band - Pixies
Best new band - Tv on the radio
Festival - All tomorrows parties weekend 2(I didn't go but it had such a good line up)
Mags - Plan B / Loose lips
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Albums - 'Sonic Youth' - Sonic Youth, 'As The Cry Flows' - Seafood, 'Three Fingers' - The Rogers Sisters, 'In A Safe Place' - The Album Leaf, 'Thunder Lightning Strike' - The Go! Team, 'Grey Will Fade' - Charlotte Hatherley, 'Infinity Land' - Biffy Clyro
Single - 'Helicopter' - Bloc Party
Gig - Pixies Brixton Academy 5th June (better each night but the 4th and final Brixton show was incredible; worth every cent of the $2 million they supposedly each got paid this year)
Band - Pixies
New Band - The Go! Team (technically not new but I think I'll get away with it)
Festival - Truck (once again putting all other festivals to shame; just lose the wasps next year please)
Mags - Artrocker, Shredding Paper
Radio - xfm largely for Christian O'Connell and Adam & Joe being so funny that you forget how lame and unadventurous the playlist choices are
Website - www.tohellwith.co.uk
Places - New York
Single - 'Helicopter' - Bloc Party
Gig - Pixies Brixton Academy 5th June (better each night but the 4th and final Brixton show was incredible; worth every cent of the $2 million they supposedly each got paid this year)
Band - Pixies
New Band - The Go! Team (technically not new but I think I'll get away with it)
Festival - Truck (once again putting all other festivals to shame; just lose the wasps next year please)
Mags - Artrocker, Shredding Paper
Radio - xfm largely for Christian O'Connell and Adam & Joe being so funny that you forget how lame and unadventurous the playlist choices are
Website - www.tohellwith.co.uk
Places - New York
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
Sorry, that's 'Sonic Nurse', obviously
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record
Trademark - Want More. bleep. angst. bleep. lust. bleep.
nervous_tesptilot - kill. bleep. argh. bleep. hello. [amen break]
- gig
Electric Eel Shock at Truck. nervous_testpilot anywhere.
- band / new band
Trademark.
- label
Truck
- festival
Truck
- mags
urgh
- radio
No.
- websites
yeah!
- places
Oxford/Brighton
- misc.
Have I won?
Trademark - Want More. bleep. angst. bleep. lust. bleep.
nervous_tesptilot - kill. bleep. argh. bleep. hello. [amen break]
- gig
Electric Eel Shock at Truck. nervous_testpilot anywhere.
- band / new band
Trademark.
- label
Truck
- festival
Truck
- mags
urgh
- radio
No.
- websites
yeah!
- places
Oxford/Brighton
- misc.
Have I won?
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record:
mylo-drop the pressure
- gig:
trail of dead@ulu or explosions@leadmill
- band / new band:
youth movie soundtrack strategies
- label:
sub pop
- festival:
dunno i didnt make one. next year damn it
- mags:
yer.....
- radio:
icradio-show:undefined.
- websites:
architecture in helsinki's site is pretty.
- places:
home
- misc.:
john bock exhibition@ica ruled
mylo-drop the pressure
- gig:
trail of dead@ulu or explosions@leadmill
- band / new band:
youth movie soundtrack strategies
- label:
sub pop
- festival:
dunno i didnt make one. next year damn it
- mags:
yer.....
- radio:
icradio-show:undefined.
- websites:
architecture in helsinki's site is pretty.
- places:
home
- misc.:
john bock exhibition@ica ruled
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
please ignore this....
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s): Joanna Newsom, Be Kind - devendra banhart,
Nick Cave - abattoir blues... JENS LEKMAN !!!
- gig i went to many this year - heres the pick of the bunch:
* Jens Lekman,
* devendra banhart,
* Nick Cave,
* Sufjen Stevens,
* Jonathan Richman,
* Le Tigre (@ the astoria),
* THE MAGNETIC FIELDS,
* the pixies,
James Yorkston,
Regina Spektor (@the spitz),
The Unicorns @the lse,
EITS, the workhouse....
The Pippetts, LIGHTNING BOLT
(will oldhams cameo with little wings at atp xmas nightmare)
Fonda 500 - @ RoTa
bird blobs.
- band / new band: Jens Lekman !!!!!!!! JENS LEKMAN i say!!!!
- label: Bearos / Bella Union / Secretly Canadian (in that order)
- festival: ATP
- mags: wire/plan b/loose lips i guess.
- radio: john kennedy, natch. / radio 3 / my radio show...
www.pulsefm.co.uk
- websites: www.thestereoeffect.com
- places: Camber Sands.
- misc. LSE alternative music society club night - GO NATIVE!
p.s John Slade is an awesome chap.
pps. im telling you now - next year is going to be all about JENS JENS JENS!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick Cave - abattoir blues... JENS LEKMAN !!!
- gig i went to many this year - heres the pick of the bunch:
* Jens Lekman,
* devendra banhart,
* Nick Cave,
* Sufjen Stevens,
* Jonathan Richman,
* Le Tigre (@ the astoria),
* THE MAGNETIC FIELDS,
* the pixies,
James Yorkston,
Regina Spektor (@the spitz),
The Unicorns @the lse,
EITS, the workhouse....
The Pippetts, LIGHTNING BOLT
(will oldhams cameo with little wings at atp xmas nightmare)
Fonda 500 - @ RoTa
bird blobs.
- band / new band: Jens Lekman !!!!!!!! JENS LEKMAN i say!!!!
- label: Bearos / Bella Union / Secretly Canadian (in that order)
- festival: ATP
- mags: wire/plan b/loose lips i guess.
- radio: john kennedy, natch. / radio 3 / my radio show...
www.pulsefm.co.uk
- websites: www.thestereoeffect.com
- places: Camber Sands.
- misc. LSE alternative music society club night - GO NATIVE!
p.s John Slade is an awesome chap.
pps. im telling you now - next year is going to be all about JENS JENS JENS!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
haha
i did lighting at the "gig of the year"
im alive with merriment.
i did lighting at the "gig of the year"
im alive with merriment.
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
This is tied between three Canadian bands for me - The Stills, The Dears and The Arcade Fire. I think I'll plump for 'Funeral' by The Arcade Fire though.
Quite possibly the most unique album I've heard this year: where poignant love songs turn into disco wig-outs; where boy/girl vocals woo each other in half-French, half-English; where Interpol-esque guitar lines are matched to accordions. It's a gorgeous album with some beautiful lyrical imagery...
"When daddy comes home, you'll start a fight so the neighbours can dance in the police disco lights."
www.arcadefire.com for more information.
- gig
Rufus Wainwright with Martha Wainwright, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Monday 8 November.
- band / new band
New band has to be Bloc Party for me, too. 'Little Thoughts' is fucking amazing, and it's not their only great song!
- label
Vice. Home of The Stills (and The Streets in the US), they're also behind THE funniest magazine in the world.
- festival
Glastonbury. Still the daddy, despite stupid ticket systems and patchy line-ups.
- mags
Don't read 'em.
- radio
Don't listen to it.
- websites
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp
- places
London! Cheap travel compared to the rest of the country, loads of great venues with a range of bands playing every night, great kebab shops... poifick!
- misc.
The Nintendo DS is the only other thing I've gotten excited about this year. www.nintendods.com
This is tied between three Canadian bands for me - The Stills, The Dears and The Arcade Fire. I think I'll plump for 'Funeral' by The Arcade Fire though.
Quite possibly the most unique album I've heard this year: where poignant love songs turn into disco wig-outs; where boy/girl vocals woo each other in half-French, half-English; where Interpol-esque guitar lines are matched to accordions. It's a gorgeous album with some beautiful lyrical imagery...
"When daddy comes home, you'll start a fight so the neighbours can dance in the police disco lights."
www.arcadefire.com for more information.
- gig
Rufus Wainwright with Martha Wainwright, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Monday 8 November.
- band / new band
New band has to be Bloc Party for me, too. 'Little Thoughts' is fucking amazing, and it's not their only great song!
- label
Vice. Home of The Stills (and The Streets in the US), they're also behind THE funniest magazine in the world.
- festival
Glastonbury. Still the daddy, despite stupid ticket systems and patchy line-ups.
- mags
Don't read 'em.
- radio
Don't listen to it.
- websites
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp
- places
London! Cheap travel compared to the rest of the country, loads of great venues with a range of bands playing every night, great kebab shops... poifick!
- misc.
The Nintendo DS is the only other thing I've gotten excited about this year. www.nintendods.com
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
the unicorns - who will cut our hair for us when we are gone?
Múm - Summer Make Good
Hope of the State - The Lost Riots
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Le Fly Pan Am - N'ecoutez Pas
- gig
A Silver Mt zion - Electric Ballroom
- band / new band
The Arcade Fire
- label
Constillation
- festival
ATP
- places
The Scala
- misc.
Me
the unicorns - who will cut our hair for us when we are gone?
Múm - Summer Make Good
Hope of the State - The Lost Riots
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Le Fly Pan Am - N'ecoutez Pas
- gig
A Silver Mt zion - Electric Ballroom
- band / new band
The Arcade Fire
- label
Constillation
- festival
ATP
- places
The Scala
- misc.
Me
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
REcord of the year:
Emma mcglynn's 'kamikaze birdie' by far, and pj harvey's album( cant remember what its called) yeah ah i think.
live show.
I haven't seen anything that inspiring execpt the beta band farewell show . Oh and Tom Waits
x
Emma mcglynn's 'kamikaze birdie' by far, and pj harvey's album( cant remember what its called) yeah ah i think.
live show.
I haven't seen anything that inspiring execpt the beta band farewell show . Oh and Tom Waits
x
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
i forgot about the tom waits album real gone
that was fansticical
that was fansticical
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
i forgot about the tom waits album real gone
that was fansticical
that was fansticical
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
I've got that Efterklang album. Good innit?
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
the dissociatives - the dissociatives
- gig
the appleseed cast @ the cavern
-band / new band
the dissociatives
- label
deep elm
- festival
christmas
- mags
guitar world and loot
- radio
aol alternative 90's
- websites
dis, mogwai.co.uk and planet football
- places
exeter arguably the best scene in the uk
- misc
dime going was awful but i got engaged this year!!!!
elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
the dissociatives - the dissociatives
- gig
the appleseed cast @ the cavern
-band / new band
the dissociatives
- label
deep elm
- festival
christmas
- mags
guitar world and loot
- radio
aol alternative 90's
- websites
dis, mogwai.co.uk and planet football
- places
exeter arguably the best scene in the uk
- misc
dime going was awful but i got engaged this year!!!!
So, What's the ..... of the year?
- record(s)
80s Matchbox - Royal Society
N*E*R*D - Fly or Die
Interpol - Antics
DFA mixes comp
Franz Ferdinand
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
Minus
Scissor Sisters
- gig
Tom Waits at Hammersmith
80s Matchbox at Astoria
- band / new band
the others, the rakes, black wire, bloc party
- festival
Truck, Glastonbury
- mags
Vice, don't mind the NME either, Time Out
- radio
zane, jon kennedy
- websites
playlouder, dis, popbitch, halfbakery, various geek sites
- places
Brighton, Cardiff, Copenhagen, NYC
- misc.
guerilla gigging with The Others - Abbey Road was carnage - amazing!
80s Matchbox - Royal Society
N*E*R*D - Fly or Die
Interpol - Antics
DFA mixes comp
Franz Ferdinand
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
Minus
Scissor Sisters
- gig
Tom Waits at Hammersmith
80s Matchbox at Astoria
- band / new band
the others, the rakes, black wire, bloc party
- festival
Truck, Glastonbury
- mags
Vice, don't mind the NME either, Time Out
- radio
zane, jon kennedy
- websites
playlouder, dis, popbitch, halfbakery, various geek sites
- places
Brighton, Cardiff, Copenhagen, NYC
- misc.
guerilla gigging with The Others - Abbey Road was carnage - amazing!
So, What's the ..... of the year?
in no order:
interviewing peel a month before he died; miss kittin; tv on the radio; dfa 1979; lightning bolt live; atp as ever; www.tohellwith.co.uk (peel articles here); mark lanegan band; lcd soundsystem; pixies returning triumphantly; www.latinoreview.com; southend united; cheap flights to europe; von bondies cmon cmon; pop music getting superb (kelis, toxic, girls aloud, kylie, scissor sisters); english music impacting on the USA; the faints new album; electrelane; mclusky; basement jaxx live; llsships; batman begins trailers; the demise of mcdonalds; the guardian; upgrading to a cd player from a tape player; bjork; delgados; liars etc etc
interviewing peel a month before he died; miss kittin; tv on the radio; dfa 1979; lightning bolt live; atp as ever; www.tohellwith.co.uk (peel articles here); mark lanegan band; lcd soundsystem; pixies returning triumphantly; www.latinoreview.com; southend united; cheap flights to europe; von bondies cmon cmon; pop music getting superb (kelis, toxic, girls aloud, kylie, scissor sisters); english music impacting on the USA; the faints new album; electrelane; mclusky; basement jaxx live; llsships; batman begins trailers; the demise of mcdonalds; the guardian; upgrading to a cd player from a tape player; bjork; delgados; liars etc etc
Re: So, What's the ..... of the year?
yeh, i did.
So, What's the ..... of the year?
-record(s):
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
The Cure - The Cure
Bright Eyes - Lua & Take It Easy (the two singles)
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Interpol - Antics
- gig:
Pretty Girls Make Graves at Reading
Dizzee Rascal
- band / new band:
band: Bright Eyes
New Band: Bloc Party
- label: Saddle Creek
- festival: Reading
- mags: NME
- radio: The Lock Up, Steve Lamaq
- websites: Buddyhead.com
- places: home
- Worst things of 2004: Razorlight, Little Britain
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
The Cure - The Cure
Bright Eyes - Lua & Take It Easy (the two singles)
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Interpol - Antics
- gig:
Pretty Girls Make Graves at Reading
Dizzee Rascal
- band / new band:
band: Bright Eyes
New Band: Bloc Party
- label: Saddle Creek
- festival: Reading
- mags: NME
- radio: The Lock Up, Steve Lamaq
- websites: Buddyhead.com
- places: home
- Worst things of 2004: Razorlight, Little Britain
So, What's the ..... of the year?
Records -
The Icarus Line - 'Penance Soiree'
Sonic Youth - 'Sonic Nurse'
Gigs -
The Fall @ Islington Academy
Sonic Youth @ Brixton Academy
The Icarus Line/MC5 @ Astoria
Primal Scream @ Shepherds Bush
The Shins @ Reading
Band -
The Fall, for their 24th Peel session.
Label -
Sub Pop - back to their best.
Festival -
Reading.
Radio -
Peel.
Websites -
Buddyhead.com, football365.co.uk, visi.com/fall
Gash -
Libertines/Razorlight/Franz Ferdinand.
The Icarus Line - 'Penance Soiree'
Sonic Youth - 'Sonic Nurse'
Gigs -
The Fall @ Islington Academy
Sonic Youth @ Brixton Academy
The Icarus Line/MC5 @ Astoria
Primal Scream @ Shepherds Bush
The Shins @ Reading
Band -
The Fall, for their 24th Peel session.
Label -
Sub Pop - back to their best.
Festival -
Reading.
Radio -
Peel.
Websites -
Buddyhead.com, football365.co.uk, visi.com/fall
Gash -
Libertines/Razorlight/Franz Ferdinand.
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