please empty your brain below
(Damn, there goes all my indie cred. Thank god none of my Real Life friends read this!)
Have not been to a single gig in 2003, so also can't comment.
Top single - Mark Owen - yes, very, very surprised to see this gracing your pixels. Mine would have to be Crazy in Love - Beyonce
Best Five Albums - tricky - Nitin Sawhney's Human, Outkast's Speakerbox, Coldplay's Parachutes, Faithless' Sunday 8pm and anything that Cafe Del Mar have put out - yes I'm a chillout sorta gal.
Top magazine - totally with you after the 2nd issue, closely followed by Word.
Top arty things - ditto with the Weather Project.
Top West End Show - if this includes theatre - not musicals I'd say The Master Builder - if musicals I'd have to say Cyberjam as it's the only thing approximating a musical I've seen this year.
Top TV Programme - with you on Little Britain, although Six Feet Under would have to be up there too.
Top Film (why did you discontinue it) - In The Cut - I seem to be the only person I know who really really raved about it.
Hybrid fea. Peter Hook @ Fabric: Hooky playing bass inches from my face
Groove Armanda Live Set @ Homelands
Suede's last gig @ Astoria
Audio Bullys @ The Scala & Homelands
Gary Brown @ 544 Club in New Orleans for many reasons, but mostly coz I copped off with the drummer
1. buffseeds - the picture show. this is better than parachutes. it's a real shame that it didn't even chart - i think it would touch a lot of people.
2. mogwai - happy songs for happy people. this really is very good. a mix of slint, radiohead (minus the pretence) and scottish originality.
3. spiritualized - amazing grace. not jason at his best - there are too many formulaic 3 minute take-offs of electricity - but there's some magic in here as well - oh baby, rated x, lay it down slow et cetera.
4. mull historical society - us. inventive, cheeky, sad. lots of people don't reckon it's as good as 'loss' and they may be right. even so, at least 2 thirds of the record is fantastic.
single:
arab strap - the shy retirer. aidan and malcolm really are irresistable.
gig:
mogwai - astoria. the second encore was their 22 minute epic 'my father, my king', which was extended by a 6 minute distortion loop. 'camp attack' was left cold and damp on the pavement outside as the band disregarded the curfew.
buffseeds x2 - polly toynbee arts cafe! it's like seeing your fave band in your front room, though i do worry that her on the drums has issues.
arab strap - mean fiddler - they played my request in the encore
film
kill bill. trash maybe, but it was ****in' funny.
book
1. slow loris - alexis deacon: has made me see things clearly.
2. spix macaw - t.b.juniper: ecological docu-drama kept me up nights.
top arty thing
erm... titian perhaps?
top tv
little britain
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