It's been quite a busy year for me so I haven't really had time to listen to much new music so I wondered what were your favourite music moments this year?
Favourite song -
Tokyo Police ClubFavourite Album -
Foals - Total Life ForeverFavourite gig - Pavement Brixton O2
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Album - Recovery, Eminem back to his best
Gig - Gaslight Anthem at Hammersmith
Album - The National: High Violet
Gig - They Might Be Giants - Royal Festival Hall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0fz02A2AA / Or The Dead Weather: Birm and London
One for next year: My mates Rogue States Free 3 track EP here: http://music.roguestates.net/album/rumours-secrets-free-3-track-ep-sampler
Album - Promise & Terror by Blaze Bayley
Gig - Motorhead at Brixton Academy / Michael Schenker Group at Shepherds Bush Empire - can't separate the two.
Album: Leave your sleep
Song: Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
Album: Becoming A Jackal - Villagers
Gig: XFM Winter Wonderland at Brixton, esp. The Drums and The Manics
mix cd for 2010:
That Day - Villagers
I And Love And You - The Avett Brothers
Move Too Fast - Dan Clews
Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
Not In Love (featuring Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles
On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz
(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love - Manic Street Preachers
Walking In the Winter - The Coral
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John - Belle & Sebastian
Devil's Spoke - Laura Marling
Where Dreams Go To Die - John Grant
Northern Skies - I Am Kloot
VCR - The xx
Lets Go Surfing - The Drums
King Of Rome - Goldheart Assembly
Spanish Sahara - Foals
We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire
Zebra - Beach House
What's In It For? - Avi Buffalo
She Said - Plan B
Album: Foals: Total Life Forever
Live: Arcade Fire at 02
Album: Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Live: Deftones - Brixton
Album-Hurts:Happiness
Live-Gary Numan-Concorde,Brighton
Song: The Cave - Mumford and Sons (is that a 2010 song, album is 2009 but think it was a single this year?), alternatively Kiss Your Lips - Allo Darlin', or anything off The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.
Album: The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Live: Only went to 2 gigs this year, but I'll go for The Eels at the Birmingham O2 which I enjoyed marginally more than Arcade Fire at the LG in Birmingham (NEC) but both were great.
Album: Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
Gig: Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip @ Koko. Probably done upwards of 30 gigs this year and that was probably the best.
Album: Fenech Soler
Gig: yes that was awesome. Support was good too esp B Dolan!
Although I'll have to go for Vampire Weekend @ Brixton
Album: Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Album: Man Alive by Everything Everything
Gig: Porcupine Tree @ Royal Albert Hall
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BBCodeGig- Depeche mode at the O2 tour of the universe gig not everyones taste but still 1 of the best live bands this country has produced.
Boogica... if not the best live band this country has ever produced. I have given up trying to sell this one but take much pleasure in the fact that I and others like you know this! Seen them so many times and they still make my life better!
Anyway, best gig for me for sure is James at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver...600 or so people turned up in this real cool and small venue. James are still bloody amazing...their new stuff well worth a listen. The gig was brilliant, people dancing on stage, Tim Booth walking around in the audiance.
I do like "the cave" by Mumford
Get back to you on the album front but "morning after the night before" by James is a really good cd.
Album: probably Arcade Fire
Gig: Supergrass farewell at Brixton, was probably more sentimental than anything else although the format they used was good for it.
Album - Vol.2 by She & Him
Gig - Dave Rawlings Machine at The Troxy
Album - Janelle Monae - The Archandriod
Gig - Grizzly Bear supported by Beach House at the Camden Roundhouse
Gig - Efterklang - Taylor Johns in Coventry
Album - Have one on Me - Joanna Newsom
Green Day at Wembley were very good although they are not the same Green Day I saw set fire to a drum kit about 12 years ago
Nice :-)
Album: Lets Get Sued - Black Daniel
Gig: Black Daniel with N.D.P. @ Brixton Windmill
Album: Recovery - Eminem
Gig: Reading Festival