The R.G.Morrison
I like the Fleet Foxes LP (and EP) a lot, it was Caruska who got me onto them back early in the year. Can’t wait to hear where they go next year. Self titled Felice Brothers album is a hell of a record also, ‘Frankie’s Gun’ is just brilliant and they were unbelievable live. Stephen Malkmus ‘Real Emotional Trash’ is amazing and is just about the most complex pop music I have ever heard. Me and SJ listened to the Vampire Weekend loads in the car (before it died) great party album. I have still not finished finishing my chips, Matt Eaton’s record is so so good. We’re proud to release all of the Drift albums but that one is something else. I’ve mostly been listening to albums containing either Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young to be honest. Vince Guaraldi Trio also, and quite a lot of Dixieland.

notable mentions to;
Metronomy - "Nights Out"
Zombie Zombie - "A Land For Renegades"
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - "Cardinology"
Madvillainy 2: "The Madlib Remix"
Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee
The Walkmen “You and Me”
Beck - "Modern Guilt"
Thomas White - "I Dream of Black"

Notable disappointments
Metalica - "Death Magnetic"
AC/DC - “Black Ice”
Guns ‘N’ Roses - “Chinese Democracy”
* It does bring up the notable mention that Johny and I can sing the whole of "Appetite for Destruction" acapella.

Singles: British Sea Power "No Lucifer" - EASY EASY EASY !!!! 
MGMT - Time To Pretend - I got very excited about this... hold on, still am!!

Best live:
Spiritualized, Green Man Festival 2008 The most amazing gospel duet I have ever seen. "Good Dope Good Fun".... it was absolutely shattering.
The Felice Brothers, 100 Club London It was part gospel, part Evangelical, part Woody Guthrie, part band and totally wild. Hanging off lights.
Future of the Left, Kings College London Unbelievable screaming, stage manager dressed as a road cone, sexy wedding reception dancing and just the best end to a set I might have ever seen.

Highlights of the year:
1. Greenman was a lot of fun, nice to be a collective. Also touring with Bones and Hampton, staying with Amps... Leaving Inverness alive. Also Tanned Tin festival in Spain, traveling there and back with SJ and Caruska.
2. I’m quite excited for indies that Woolworths, EUK and Pinnacle have all bitten the dust. I do like the Pinnacle sales team a great deal so best of luck to you all.
3. BSP’s Phil Andrews appearing on various national news services for his ill fated swan dive.
4. BSP’s Phil Andrews not dying as a result of his ill fated swan dive
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. The nice new stuff we got after crack addicts smashed up the Drift office and stole the laptops

Thirty Pounds of Bone
Best albums: not necessarily out this year but my favorites have been, Future of the Left "curses", Stuffy/ the Fuses "Angels Are Ace", Mary Hampton "My Mothers Children", Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs "Dirt Don't Hurt", Jimbob "A Humpty Dumpty Thing", Marnie Stern "this is it and i am it and you are it and so is that and he is it and she is it and it is it and so is that" and i liked the Felice Brothers.

favorite song: Okkerville River "On Tour With Zykos"

best gigs: RTX in Bristol, R G Morrison in Aberdeen, Carter USM in Brixton, the Archie Bronson Outfit at the Greenman, Mr Jack Cooper in Brighton, Mary Hampton in Lancaster.

Highlights: Playing Bass for Jimbob, the Cottonmouth Rocks single, Driving a 1951 Cadillac limozine, recording the second R G Morrison album, getting to be in a band with Jen Macro, Ben Murray and Chris T-T, possibly the world's greatest music people. touring. surviving my twenties.

seasons greetings, see you at mass. x

Darnmon Tenderfoot
ALBUM(S) OF THE YEAR:
Matt Eaton - Finish Your Chips
When friends make records -– and all of them, might I add, wonderful individuals with impeccable taste, humour, and integrity - it is somehow still something of a rarity to find in your hands one that you return to quite so regularly. And frequently. At least weekly. well, here's one. If it had been issued on vinyl - which one day, surely, it must - then needles would have been blunted many times over in the playing and replaying of it. Out of time? Certainly. Out of touch? Never. Not in a million years. Often these kind of year-end album picks end with a flourish of hyperbole and scatterings of superfluous exclamation marks: This may well be the album of the year; that's a fair safe wager! But... (here's said flourish) this might just be the most finely crafted collection of songs to come out of the UK this entire decade!!! ! !!! !! ! !!!! How's that for hyperbole. And exclamation marks. Ya fucks.

Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
A work borne of punishing method and painstaking attention to detail. With a gestation period of six years -– since 2002's similarly dizzying and equally wonderful Mastered By Guy At The Exchange - Ben Jacobs confirms once again that he is in a class alone when it comes to contemporary pop composition. With this Max Tundra should finally affirm himself as both national treasure and brave adventurer (in the Herzogian sense; not some twat climbing mountains so many times climbed). It's piss and vinegar, and a real treat. Just buy it.

Gonzales - Soft Power
Jason Beck / Chili G / Gonzo / The Worst MC / The Entertainist, returns following the deftest of professional shimmies: 2002's Presidential Suite, through 2004's Solo Piano and, finally, to this 2008's Soft Power. If you don't appreciate Gonzales then I feel for you, I really do; and simply because I don't think there is any other musician that has coaxed from within me such genuine laughs and smiles. Ok; maybe JoJo. And maybe Noel Coward. And maybe Jake Thackray. And maybe D.C. Berman. But apart from JoJo, Coward, Thackray and Berman; there's no-one. The liner notes list a selection of 1978's Grammy Award winners and make clear the influences that run through the record: Bee Gees, Paul Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Thelma Houston, Al Jarreau, Lou Rawls, and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin). It's a romp from start to finish and there simply are not a great many artists capable of making records like this: devoid of irony but with a keen eye for the power of humour in song.

Other notable mentions...
School of Language -– Sea From Shore
The Week That Was –- The Week That Was
Mary Hampton –- My Mother's Children
Plush - Fed (UK release)
Thomas White -– I Dream Of Black
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
V/A - Haruomi Hosono: Strange Song Book (A Tribute To...)

HIGHLIGHTS OF YEAR
The countless hours spent with Todd Rundgren, Randy Newman, and Smog's respective back catalogues, Dubya ousted, Obama elected, capitalist financial institutions the world over being propped up with state cash (oh, the irony...), The Watt From Pedro Show, Max Tundra's Rotogravure on Resonance, Blossom Dearie, Borges, Foucault, Roger Chartier, Hayden White, Edward Soja, Zygmunt Bauman, literary Utopias (any), Murakami (again), Sweet 'n' Spicy, Sam Smiths pubs, Curb (Season 6), Arrested Development (Seasons 1-3), Gilmore Girls (Seasons 1-7), 30 Rock (Seasons 1-2), Californication (Season 1), Summer Heights High (Season 1), LoveFilm, Zizek! documentary, Philip Seymour Hoffmann in Charlie Wilson's War (DVD), Birkbeck, almost involuntarily embarking upon a Paul Newman movie marathon on hearing of the great man's death, and playing from 1am to 3am on Saturday night/Sunday morning with The Modern Ovens to an absolutely packed Bimble Inn.

GIG OF YEAR

High Llamas @ Whitechapel Art Gallery, July 4th
Sean O'Hagan and troupe are one of those groups – very much like Electric Soft Parade, who count among their number the madly talented, Drift Collective member, Thomas White – that achieve excellence with befuddling consistency, and who, inexplicably, are far more popular abroad than they are here in Blighty. The Llamas play live rarely at best and even more rarely here in the UK. Tickets were bought well in advance, and the weeks preceding were spent nurturing our expectations. Such activities have, in the past, been precursor to substantial deflations come the event. On this occassion, however, we were graced with a two hour selection, gem after glorious gem selected from right across the Llamas back catalogue: Leaf and Lime, Harpers Romo, Glide Time, Doo-Wop Property, Nomads, Triads, Campers in Control, Bach Ze, The Old Spring Town, Rotary Hop, Three-Point Scrabble, The Passing Bell, The Sun Beats Down, and Janet Jangle and Checking In, Checking Out for an encore. It was absolutely sublime.

Other notable mentions...
Gonzales @ ICA, April 28th – a peerless showman on exceptionally good form.
The Chap @ End of the Road, September 13th – festival highlight bar none and shamefully the first time I've seen them live since falling in love with The Horse way back in 2003.
BSP @ The Roundhouse, October 17th – a triumph for BSP that brought a tear to the eye.
MBV @ The Roundhouse, June 21st & 23rd (yes, I went twice) - Saturday trumped Monday. Both were exhausting. In a good way.
School of Language and The Week That Was @ The Luminaire, May 16th - The brothers Brewis bring both existing "Field Music Presents..." projects to Lungdung for a blast of some of the most ambitious and well crafted guitar-pop being made at the moment.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO MENTION?
Nope.

Caruska
Album of the year: Again, Bonnie Prince Oldham has released another couple of corkers with his live release with Harem Scarem being a real delight, but praise indeed must go to Neil Young. His latest instalent of his archive series from 1968 is possibly the best thing I have ever heard from him. Way before the classic tracks from 69 - 72, his enchanting versions of both Springfield and soon to be released solo work shows Young in fine, sweet voice. It also gives us the rare opportunity to hear him in cheeky schoolboy mode with great between song banter, jokes and anecdotes.

Single of the year: Elbow have had a year I'm sure they didn't expect. Top ten album. Mercury Music Prize. 2008s best single. Grounds for Divorce.

Film of the year: This year has been the year of the live action comic book, Hulk, Iron Man, Hellboy2, but there is one film that has taken it to another level, The Dark Knight. This dark, downbeat delve into the complicated residents of Gotham City has taken the Batman series to where it should have been from the outset. Heath Ledgers performance will surely win him an oscar, if there is any justice.

Gig of the year: Having left the house twice this year my choice is limited, but The Green Man Festival held some lovely moments, Spititualised and King Cresote being real highlights.

Highlight of the year: Apart from discovering the wonder of the mighty DS, the promise of a half decent US President, turning carnivore, finding a t-shirt that fits, it must be this years Tanned Tin. Castellon has simply the most interesting and best run festival around.

Birdengine
his year was a good one for me.

End of the Road was brilliant and very moving to play back in Dorset (home). Also playing in Croatia was Fun.

Finishing my first full length LP was a bit of a mile stone i guess, getting better at the accordion, and i guess going for tea with miss p harvey was pretty inspiring too. i think that's about it.

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Stop past Birdengine's myspace page to hear a couple of new tracks from the forthcoming album "Le Goon".

Mary Hampton
I have been an audient at some very extraordinary live performances this year. In fact, I’ve been pretty spoiled I’d say.

Here is a short list of those whom I nod the most:

- Phil Elverum as Mount Eerie and Sam Amidon looping like a buzzard at Tanned Tin Festival in Spain.
- David Thomas Broughton holding a microphone up to a desk-lamp during his set at Cafe Oto...
- The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing Matthew Locke’s music for The Tempest.
- The Sons of Noel and Adrian and Birdengine at The End of The Road Festival.
- Sharon von Etten at the Red Roaster in Brighton, who slayed us all without even moving her face.
- An old boy playing gipsy tunes on a phono-fiddle in a doorway in Cardiff.
- Come in Tokyo at the Fence Homegame. (They make that rock music about which there is so much talk).
- Men Diamler being as mad as a house at the Slak bar in Cheltenham.
- Jo Burke playing her version of Lord Randalph at The Bleeding Hearts Club.
- The Pentangle at Greenman, who fully abide, as do Clinic who played in Stockton when I was there.

Recorded music of the year for me goes like this:

- Diane Cluck’s Ova Nil, which always sends the wild deer running round all over the place.
- Any recording I ever hear by Caroline Weeks.
- The surprising entry of a jazzless saxophone on track 9, the flamenco track, of Honest Jon’s Sprigs of Time collection (78’s from the EMI archive); it effects my eyes quite a lot.
- Michael Hurley ...what can I say? The man likes beans.

Jen S.B.L
I think I may have spent 2008 somewhat out of the loop. I also seemed to be making up for lost time in the early 90s, hence, top gigs this year include Sebadoh (Koko), My Bloody Valentine (Roundhouse) and The Breeders (Shepherds Bush Empire). I somehow got backstage at both MBV, (where I watched Patti Smith dance around the room all shoegazery) and The Breeders show, from which I came away with a prized signed Breeders CD.

My favourite album of the year was Sea From Shore by School Of Language. David from Field Music did this album, 'cos he was bored' and it's been in my ears more times than any album in recent years, I love it, I love the prog, the arrangements, and live you get to see just how awesome the guitar parts are. I saw him play acoustic early in the year, and he kinda plays all the instruments parts on one guitar - it's amazing.

Although I didn't get their albums yet, Micachu and Fight Like Apes both floated my boat this year too.

Next year watch out for the new Charlotte Hatherley album Cinnabar City, it's a stormer (and, yes, alright I play guitar on a couple of tracks, but that's not why I am plugging it). Also, you could do worse than checking out these ladies, Anneka Williams and Sandra And The Memory Machine... and of course our very own Something Beginning With L album should make it into the real world at some point too!!

Jennifer x

Lucy S.B.L
So…I can't really remember this year in its entirety; I have been mainly stage-managing and guitar teching on tour with Hadouken. I finished in September and have since been living the dream, playing harmonium, living alone in Suffolk and volunteering for Oxfam. Through that I guess drinking and this stuff was on the agenda, unfortunately I feel as if ive been under a rock..

Best bits would have to be:
• Finishing off a Something Beginning With L Record and meeting the Drift Collective
• Vida Jean Mills
• Going to Japan, buying a mini instamatic camera
• Playing Pixies riffs in line checks
• Hearing three questions by Bonnie Prince Billy unbelievably for the fist time
• Flatling with Jen SBL and trying to say Townes Van Zandt when I am drunk on my own
• Being Endorsed by Hagstrom and them letting me play some beautiful guitars.
• Being given a Harmonium for my Birthday
• Seeing Janet Weiss be beautiful and rock for Steven Malkmus in Ireland

Best Gigs
• Band Of Horses – Australia
• Dr Dog - Borderline London.
• Iron and Wine - Somewhere in Belgium
• Autolux – ICA (well Dec 07 but near enough and frikkkkin awesome it carries over you know..)

The Songs that kept me sane:
• Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
• Three Questions – Bonnie prince Billy
• Window Blues – Band of Horses
• Old Man – Neil Young
• Buddy, stay off the wine – Betty Hall Jones

Bits that were rubbish:
• Missing Grinderman and My Bloody Valentine due to loading out backline to a bus in the dark.
• Generally just loading out in the dark

New Years resolution:
• Learn to drive…
• Finish painting the flat.
• Be able to say Townes Van Zandt without hesitation or help of alcohol by february

much love and too many mini mince pies

Muddy Suzuki
Album Of The Year?
Well, it’s a tie between I Dream Of Black by Thomas White and CSI:Ambleside by Half Man Half Biscuit. There are many, many reasons why I love I Dream Of Black, but right now the biggest one is the inspired coupling of Wartime Love and Solar Collapse into one track. I’ll leave it at that or I’ll risk being overly sycophantic about it all… As for CSI:Ambleside, well maybe it’s not quite as strong as their previous outing Achtung Bono (close thing though), but with titles like Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show, Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess, and National Shite Day, Nigel Blackwell remains one of England’s funniest and most idiosyncratic lyricists.

Gig Of The Year?
Another tie, three way this time (have you ever worn a three-way tie?). The muso in me was absolutely obliterated by Mike Kenneally at the Riffs Bar in Swindon, where he played solo for two hours, excepting a handful of songs where he was joined by Dave Gregory of XTC, thus raising my being to a higher level of consciousness. Mike’s musical ability is superhuman, especially when playing piano with one hand and a Gibson SG with the other… The Residents at The Forum, where we witnessed a performance of The Bunny Boy, a nightmarish multi-media extravaganza dealing with obsession, insanity, amnesia, delusional paranoia, the internet, the apocalypse, and bunny rabbits… and Thomas Truax at the Swn Festival, Cardiff. The notion of performing solo with loop boxes is perhaps in danger of becoming old hat, but Thomas Truax circumnavigates this potential pitfall by inventing his own bizarre instruments like The Hornicator (seemingly a French horn with kazoo, microphone and rhythm pads welded on), The Stringaling (made out of what looked like a tumble drier’s flexible exhaust tube with tensionable string attached), and his unique drum machine Sister Spinster, adapted from a sewing machine. Extraordinary, as are his songs.

Highlight Of The Year?
Hmm… well again, there’s a few. Touring Europe with The Electric Soft Parade was one (I think Vienna and Lyon were my faves). Touring California with Abdoujaparov was another (particularly as there weren’t many gigs and it was more like a holiday). Playing a future-fancy-dress party in Tenby with Restlesslist was quite something, having only discovered that it was fancy dress on the day I had to improvise a space station repair man costume with mask, goggles and metal fruit bowl, whilst the rest of the guys became shape-shifting reptiloids! (I really should have bought a shell suit and gone as 80’s David Icke…). Also notable as I was suffering from a mild concussion at the time! Joining The Voluntary Butler Scheme has proved to be a lot of fun, with our first gig in Halifax being a particular stand-out. And of course, Drift Records saying ‘yes’.

That’ll do, pig.

Cottonmouth Rocks

L.R.A. - Wolf
Um, not had a very exciting year, highlights that spring to mind are new Nick Cave album, Dig Lazarus Dig plus live show at Glasgow Academy where i now work, ditto for Sigur Ros. Recording an awesome Le Reno Amps album and rediscovering Cherry Lambrini.

Lots of love from The Wolf x

L.R.A. - Scott

"Off the top of my dome...."

Best Album: Gonzales - Soft Power
Best Single: Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink
Best Gig: Heavy Trash - Stereo, Glasgow
Best Phrase: "oh ma heed!"
Best Meal: Kedgeree, 23rd November
Best Soul-Patch: Johny Lamb
Best Buy: DAV Electronics BG1
Best Spoonerism: Colina's "Dum and Mad"
Best T-Shirt: purple independent
Best Film: Lakai's Fully Flared - ok it was actually the end of 2007 but I only saw it this year!

L.R.A. - High Tower

2008- Even though it was a reet stress fest it’s been the most rewarding. Soon as we all got back to Glasgow in January with our big holiday tummies (I can’t git rid of mine!) it was straight in to Chem 19 studio’s to do the Amps album. Andy Miller produced us and is the MAN! It was a "we were all on the same page" type thing. No hissy fits, fighting their corners or any of that stuff. Loved working with him.

After that I went off to Record the Cuddly Shark album which is still getting tinkered with but will see the light of day soon.

Since recording the albums we’ve (Le Reno Amps) been and still are filming DIY music video’s for the new album. Over the festive I’ll be filming one for the Cuddly Shark single. I’m right into video editing but its loads of work.

I don’t really follow much music now so dinna go to many gigs, tend to follow more local act and if summin good comes along I learn from Scott and Al…. What a faker eh!

Little highlights:

Joining Lovefilm.com!! Changed my life!

Finding out that I’m known to the Drift bunch as High Tower, didn’t know that till I was asked to do this.

Conning the government to fund the Shark album, this was a coo.

My new sooper dooper PC to edit stuff on! Its right sooper!

Learning to make tandoori chicken!

Right, that should do you. Have a good Christmas and god bless each and everyone of us.

L.R.A. - Al Nero
What to make of 2008… well the highlight for me was recording the new Le Reno Amps' record at Chem 19 Studios in Blantyre, Scotland with Andy Miller. It was our first time getting to record a whole record in a proper studio and we really just went to town with it. All the stress and anxiety that we had before hand was gone in a flash as soon as we started with Andy – who it has to be said made the whole experience really enjoyable…so yeah getting to work with Andy is definitely my highlight (oh by the way he co-runs an indie label called Gargleblast which has released some brilliant stuff like Foxface and De Rosa…check ‘em oot). Other than that it goes without saying being welcomed into the Drift Collective was pretty cool too!

What else, well my favourite records of 2008, always a tough one this, TV On The Radio’s ‘Dear Science’ is brilliant, finally fulfilling their potential, School of Language from the first half of the year is a real good one. De Rosa, who I mentioned before, have been releasing a song a month through their website and myspace collectively called ‘Appendices’. I’ve been getting them all year and they’re just bloody brilliant, you can still download them all for free ‘til the end of the year so go and do it. Oh and Gonzales new record, ‘Soft Power’, that’s been on my stereo more than most, totally lush.

Gigs, Christ I can’t remember last week let alone right back to January but Shellac at ABC in Glasgow was pretty amazing, first time I’ve seen ‘em, funny old buggers! TV On The Radio, same venue different night was brilliant too. The Week That Was and School of Language at Mono in Glasgow in the summer, that was pretty special. I can’t think of any others, seen too many, still got Ben Kweller, RTX and Malcolm Middleton before the year is out which I’m sure will all be great too.

Other general habits and highlights, been eating a lot of halloumi cheese this year, and I’m no fan of cheese so it must be good. Grill it, get it in a toasted bun, cannae beat it. Watching Lost, yeah missed the boat by about 5 years but hey better late than never. I also loved listening to Russell Brand’s radio show ‘til he resigned – which I was gutted about. Think that’s about it, I’m off for a halloumi salad.

Tandy Hard
LP of my year: "Lie Down In The Light" by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. His best produced record yet, if not necessarily the best songs, though there are contenders. ‘So Everyone’ being a personal highlight. As Caruska said, “He knows his voice so well”. Wish I did...

Single of my year: "No Lucifer" by British Sea Power: Everything about this song is perfect, containing my favourite lyric of the year.

Gig of my year: Leonard Cohen, Manchester Opera House. Made a six-piece band sound like the keyboards in his recent material. Thank God, but why?

Surprise of my year: Stephen Malkmus at Komedia, Brighton: Bloody hell.

Meal of my year: A whole plaice in butter with capers at Mistley Thorn, Suffolk, where the original Witchfinder General used to drink.

Film of my year: Man on Wire. I braved my vertigo to see it in the cinema.

What I’ve listened to most: lots of ragtime, Louis Jordan, Jim Jones Revue, Restlesslist, Clowns, Monkey-Journey to the West, lots of different classical composers in a vain attempt to tell the difference between them, Angels of Light, my good friend Matt Eaton, over and over again I’ve listened to my favourite song “The Ballad of John & Yoko” and Billy Preston’s “That’s the Way God Planned It”

Gale Fingers
Album of the year - Randy Newman "Harps and Angels"

This is Mr. Newmans first studio offering for about a decade and it does not disappoint. A luscious mix of strings, honky-tonk piano and song-writing that could melt the coldest of hearts. One for the Xmas list if you don't already own it.

Highlight of the year - The end of the M.B.V set at the Roundhouse.

Gig of the year - Gonzales at the ICA
Probably in my top 5 gigs of all time, Gonzales live was as fresh as it gets. Swapping between classical piano, rap and 70's soul, it has all the necessary ingredients to spark a musical genre based-armageddon. Lovely.

Anything else you want to mention? - Merry Xmas, yawl.

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Portslades finest has a uploaded a phenomenal cover of Randy Newman's "Marie" on his myspace page

Thomas White
My personal highlight of this year (and probably every year to come for a long while) has to be touring Europe with The Electric Soft Parade. Having spent months piecing together a set of films to accompany our 'No Need To Be Downhearted' album, it was a joy to be able to take the show around the UK late last year. To then take it all around Europe, and to have it received as warmly as it was (especially in Germany) was touching, to say the least. It was a truly rewarding experience, having spent so many lonely nights meticulously recording click-tracks and synching edits etc.......we felt like we'd truly arrived as a band.

Other highlights were, of course, working with Drift on 'I Dream Of Black', ESP supporting Sparks at their 21 nights in London, and being part of the continuing gestation of Clowns, a project which is finally coming to fruition right about now! In addition, much fun was had playing with Restlesslist (new record coming soon) ....making the new Brakes record, oh and another couple of solo albums, all of which will hopefully see the light of day sometime next year.

Other notable mentions are:
- The imminent downfall of the worldwide economy...arf!!!...
- Discovering Richard Linklater - 'Waking Life' and 'A Scanner Darkly', in particular...
- Sparks - 'Exotic Creatures Of The Deep' ...
- Elbow winning the Mercury Music Prize (brought a wee tear to the eye!) ...
- Obama winning the election (hell, yeah)...
- RTX finally touring the UK properly...
- Wild Beasts - 'Limbo, Panto'...
- The Levellers 20th Anniversary show at The Royal Albert Hall, London (great gig - insane evening all round)...
- The first 'At Home By The Sea' Festival in Brighton (great line-up...bring on next year)...
- People finally waking up to the magnificent genius of Of Montreal, even though Skeletal Lamping kinda sucked...
- Playing Summercase Festival w/ Brakes and witnessing the full force of Grinderman on the main stage...
- Blondie at the same festival...
- Cornelius at the same festival...
- The Week That Was............. THE WEEK THAT WAS!!!!!!!!!!!...

......and that's about it!