top 5 gigs:
mysteryjets/nocturne/the identikit @ islington hope and anchor
beck/system of a down @ reading
the mars volta @ mean fiddler
ymss/gunnbunny @ truck
bukkake gramphone @ bangor - the old glan

top 5 albums:
**DELOUSED**
hail to the thief
--what the hell else has come out this year?--

top 5 singles (whether you care or not)
house of jealous lovers (whether its many years old or not)
darts of pleasure
mystery jets - eel pie ep
2+2=5
johnny cash - hurt

moment (for me at least)
-see favourite gig-

bands
mystery jets
nocturne
bukkake gramophone
ymss
gunnbunny

worst thing
london transport prices rising?
i dunno
ill probably amend these later

top 5 gigs(not in order):
darkness- barrowlands
big day out at green (foos, QOTSA, chillis et all)
radiohead -edin corn exchange
mars volta - t in the park
flaming lips last night at usher hall(amazing)

top 5 albums
Deloused in the comatorium - mars volta
stellastarr*
hail to the theif
white stripes - elephant
sigur ros

top5 Singles
house of jealous lovers - rapture
this is our emergency - pretty girls make graves
fall back down - rancid
i believe in a thing called love - the darkness
gay bar - electric 6

fave new bands
Mars volta
hot hot heat
stellastarr*
the basement (why did the album never apear?)

worst thing
white stripes having to pull out of T although the flips were fantastic in their place

Gigs
1. Sigur Ros @ Glasto
2. Cat Power @ Union Chapel
3. Cat on Form @ Freebutt
4. Seachange @ The Windmill
5. Elbow (supporting pj harvey) @ Eden Project

Albums
1. Cat Power - You Are Free (Matador)
2. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance (Matador)
3. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
4. Dandy Warhols - Welcome To.. (Capitol)
5. Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves (reviewing it this week, out nov 17th)

Sentiment
"...and Ozzy Osmond..." - George Bush

New Bands
1. Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies
2. Redjetson
3. ATS
4. Exploits of Elaine
5. Boxer Rebellion

Worst Thing...
The blind anti-anything sentiments against the war/government and a real numb inability to feel as if anything in the world can change. Especially when our world treaded on egg shells, rather than made a sensibile, powerful, understandable, long-losting response...

(In no particular order)

Gigs: (essentially just people I've seen that've been good, as I haven't been to enough to pick the 'best of the year' or anything)

The flaming lips in london last week
Patric wolf & adult at whatever the monarch is now called
Cat on form and youth movie sountrack strageies in oxford
Cex upstairs at the garage
bungle gushcore & Venetian snares at the cellar (oxford)

Records:
the new LFO (especially that 'this is going to make you freak' single)
the gravy train ep
the flaming lips album (that was this year wasnt it?)
free, cat power (ditto)

New bands (not sure if all are new this year):
Da Hawnay troof
Patric Wolf
Bungle gushcore (some random obscure silly laptop guy)
The russian futurists (not sure how new they are but new to me)
YMSS (post hardcore ish with a theremin type thing, very good, more of the theremin though please! haha)

Worst thing:
The whole ongoing iraq crisis, blatantly.

Gigs: (no particular order...)
Elbow - Liquid Room, Edinburgh
Delgados - Queen's Hall
Snow Patrol - Liquid Room
Sluts of Trust - Nice n Sleazies
Coldplay - T in the Park

Albums: (no order...)
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
the Darkness - Permission to Land (oh yes)
Motor Ace - Shoot This

Moment...
Silver catsuit at Glasto/T in the Park

New Bands...
The Darkness
Sluts of Trust
The National (though they've been around for a bit now...)

Worst thing...
I dunno. I guess the deaths of Elliot Smith and Matthew Jay, but I can't really say I was a big fan.

Top 5 gigs so far:

Ten Benson @ the Garage
The Fades @ the Buffalo Bar
Radio 4 @ Astoria
Queens of the Stoneage @ Brixton
Modey Lemon @ Buffalo Bar

Top 5 albums:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
White Stripes - Elephant
The Rapture - Echoes
Muse - Absolution
Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire........

"War - why isn't anyone listening to us anymore??"

New favorite bands of 2003:

The Fades
Mars Volta
One Unique Signal
Metro Riots
Futureheads

The War!

Here's my tuppence worth... x


Gigs...
Every band that played at Glastonbury this year.

Albums...
Ulrich Shnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Queens Of The Stone Age album
Dexys - Lets Make This Precious
Zongamin - Zongamin

2003 summed up by...
The Anti-war marcher. Power to the people!

New Favourite Bands...
!!!
Distophia
The Zutons
Zongamin
Bloc Party

The Worst Thing About 2003 was...
Too many undertalented, overhyped garage rock bands (you know who you are)

Gigs....

1. Mogwai & Bardo Pond- B'ham Sanctuary
2. The Flaming Lips & British Sea Power- B'ham Academy
3. Oceansize & Amplifier- Wolves Little Civic
4. QOTSA at V
5. PJ Harvey at V

I am off to see Dylan and Radiohead soon though, so this may change!!

Albums...

1. British Sea Power- The Decline Of British Sea Power
2. The Innocence Mission- Befriended
3. Mew- Frengers
4. Super Furry Animals- Phantom Power
5. The Postal Service- Give Up

Close: Mogwai, Secret Machines, Frankie Sparo, Music from The Clangers,

Maybe if I'd heard them: Silver Mt.Zion, Explosions In The Sky, Cat Power, Ocenasize, Evan Dando, They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), The Coral, The Sleepy Jackson...

Gene Clarke's 'No Other' is best reissue.

Moment/sentiment/quote:

hopefully, the sheer force of the demonstration against Bush next week.

Favourite new bands...

Much as I'd like to say The Exploits Of Elaine, that'd be cheating (as I'm in them). So I shall say...

1. British Sea Power (I got into em this year, so that's good enough for me!)
2. Mew (ditto)
3. The Postal Service
4. Amplifier
5. Redjetson

The worst thing about 2003 was...

the death of Johnny Cash, the continuing lurch to the right by New Labour and the situation in Iraq.

1. runs faster scared, a poor substitute, pirates of darkwater, one fifty one, son of man.
2. none
3.dancing with runs faster scared and parties at chachies
4 runs faster scared
5 no more shows at phils or jims. haveing to sneak around to go to chachies