2007/2008 Stuff

2008

Music

• Bon Iver - Forever Emma


• Bonnie Prince Billy - Wilding In The West


• Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles


• Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down in the Light/li>
  
• Pendulum - In Silico


• Various - Intersteller Fugitives 2 (Underground Resistance)


• Joan Armatrading - The Willow Collection


• Fasil Sarkilar - Turkish Old Songs Collection


• kocani orchestar - gypsy mambo


• Roni Size - New Forms II


• mahmoud ahmed - eremela mela (Ethiopiques 7)


• Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English


• Various - ATM (Breakage)


• The Jimmy Cake - Spectre and Crown


• Taraf de Haidouks - The Continuing Adventures (DVD)


• Duffy - Rockferry


• Al Jawala - Lost in Manele


• Urma - trend off


• Taraf de Haidouks - Maskarada


• Various - Rough Guide to the music of the Balkan Gypsies


• Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra


• Louisville is for Lovers 2008 - vol 8


• Wold Eyes - Human Animal


• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


• Rhianna - good girl gone bad


• Various - ATM with DJ Die and Mc Jakes


• Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation


• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver


• Sons and Daughters - The Gift


• Richmond Fontaine - 13 Cities


• Richmond Fontaine - 87$ and a guilty conscience that gets worse the longer I go


• Richmond Fontaine - Winnemucca


• Various - Hospital 6 (mixed by Cyantific)


• Various - Now Hear This (The Word presents)


• Various - Beloved (Mojo presents)


• Commix - Call to Mind


• rodrigo y gabriela - s/t


• Various - ATM with Alex Perez & MC System


• The Field - From Here We Go Sublime


• Various - Give Peace a Chance (Uncut cd)


• Various - The Very Best of Ethiopiques


• Editors - An End Has A Start


• Hank Williams - 20 of Hank WIlliams' Greatest Hits

Films

• I am Legend


• Hallam Foe


• Once


• Annie Hall


• Das Boot


• Twin Peaks (Season Two)


• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts


• In Bruges


• Love and Death


• Reniassance


• This is England


• Grow your own


• It's a free world


• Juno


• Cloverfield


• The Planets


• Flight of the Conchords (Season 1)


• Capote


• Sleeper


• 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days


• Control


• 24 Hour Party People


• 28 Weeks Later


• Sunshine


• Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask

Live

• Paul Curreri, Baby Dee and Bonnie Prince Billy @ Vicar St, Sun June 15th


• Whirling Dervishes - Sirkeci Train Station Istanbul, Sat June 1


• Kylie X2008 @ Stadionul Cotroceni, Bucharest, Sat May 17th


• Pantha Du Prince, Dat Politics, Interstellar Fugitives (Underground Resistance) @ Rokolectiv festival @The Session, Bucharest, Fri April 11th


• Helsinki Brass Quartet @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest Weds Apr 9th


• Inishowen (Michael Gallanagh, Tom Byrne, Melanie and Paula Houton) @ The Peasant's Museum/The Dubliner Mon Mar 17th (Paddy's Day)


• Puccini soprano recital @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest, Fri Mar 13


• Beethoven Piano & Violin sonnets Mariana Sîrbu - violin, Valentin Gheorghiu - piano @ Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest Weds Mar 13th


• Rasa Juzukonyte, Deividas Staponkus, Ausra Motuziene (Lithuanian Independance Day) @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest, Weds Mar 11


• Juile Feeney @ Eist Music Club, Portlaoise, Fri Feb 15


• Sons & Duaghters @ Whelans, DUblin Sun Feb 17

Books

• Ben Sisario - Doolittle


• Ernest Hemmingway - Fiesta The Sun Also Rises


• Mike McGonigal - Loveless


• Henning Mankell - Dogs of Riga


• Iain M. Banks - Matter


• Alexandre Dumas - The Black Tulip


• James Lovelock - Revenge of Gaia


• Brian Belle-Fortune - All Crews Muss Big Up


• Kitty Ferguson - Measuring the universe


• Garth Nix - Shade's Children


• Garth Nix - Across the Wall

Other stuff

• Theatre of Comedy festival awards @ Theatre of Comedy, Bucharest Sat May 24th


• First Love (Samual Beckett) - Bucharest National Theatre, Weds May 14th


• Irish-Romanian Ball @ Hotel Marriot, Bucharest, Sat Apr 19th


• The Bald Soprano (Blue Raincoat company) - @ Bucharest comedy theatre festival, Comedy Theatre, Sun Apr 7th


• Richard III - National Theatre Bucharest, Sat Jan 26th


• Kane and Lynch


• Aida - National Opera Bucharest, Sat Jan 12th

2007

Music

• High Contrast - If we ever


• Culture Shock - The Third Stage EP


• Various - ATM with DJ Storm (Metalheadz Mix)


• TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain


• Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Bill - Wai Notes


• High Contrast - Tough Guys Don't Dance


• TC - Evolution


• Scout Nibblet - This fool can die now


• Smokey Robinson - One Heartbeat


• The Stylistics - Heavy


• The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat


• Rufus Wainwright - Poses


• a hawk and a hacksaw - a hawk and a hacksaw


• The Fall - This Nations's Saving Grace


• Art Brut - It's a bit complicated


• Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills


• Thee More Shallows - Book of Bad Bears


• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


• The Velvet Underground & Nico


• MIA - Kila


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness


• Beruit - The Flying Club Cup


• The Hold Steady - boys and girls in America


• Magik Markers - Boss


• micah p hinson and the opera circuit - jade


• Sigur Ros - Heim


• Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance (The D'Oyly Caret Opera Company)


• Candi Staton - Sing A Song


• Orbital - The Altogether


• Broadcast - Pendulum


• Mudhoney - Piece of Cake


• Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer


• Chavez - Better Days Will Haunt You (promo copy)


• The Strawbs - The Best of Strawbs


• Various - Greenssleeves Sampler 5


• Various - Riddim Driven Fiesta


• John Fahey - The Best of John Fahey


• Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Angel : Tradition English Folk Songs with Peggy Seegar


• John Renbourn - The Black Balloon


• Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and The Ravens


• Pete Seeger - At the Village Gate with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon


• Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV


• Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper


• Various - ATM fierce and break feat sp:mc


• Andrea Bocelli, Fiorenza Cedolins, Orchestrea e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino- Puccini:Tosca


• Various - Uncut Global-a-go-go!


• The Coral - Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker


• Various - 15 X 15 Ram Records


• Various - Marcus Intalax live at Fabric


• Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold


• The National - Boxer


• Charlie Parr - jubilee


• Various - Andy C/Grooverider Drumandbass Arena


• The Chemical Brothers - We are the night


• TC - Deep (featuring Jakes)


• Ne-Yo - Back Like That


• Clipz - Download


• Benny Page - Turn Down the Lights


• TC - Jump/Flatline


• Clipz - Rubbish


• benny Page feat Spyda - Battlefield


• Calibre & Singing Fats - Drip it Down


• Amit - Suicide Bomber


• High Contrast - True Colours


• Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (bipolar vocal mix)


• Counterstrike - Drum 'n' Bass Singles 2003-2004


• Dillinja - The Dillinja EP


• Various - Sounds Good : Back Catalogue Sampler


• Ultra Vivid Scene - Rev


• various - mixmag live vol 6 Joey Beltram & E. Lustrious


• jasmine minks - popartglory


• Kanda Bongo Man - Swalati


• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Lihl' Ixhiba Likagogo


• Z.C.C Brass Band - s/t


• mahala rai banda - mahala rai banda


• Various - Andy C Drumandbass Arena


• Bjork - Volta


• Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars


• Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther


• Smog - Rock Bottom Riser


• Psapp - Hi


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lay & Love


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange From Of Life


• Bonny/Sweeny - I gave You


• Smog - Held


• The Triffids - Say What You Can


• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah


• Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees


• Francoise Hardy - The Vogue Years


• Carole King - Tapestry


• Various - Hampshire Dance Tunes


• Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits


• The Posies - Frosting on the Beater


• beruit biloma - blue


• Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart


• Low - Drums and Guns


• Fayrfax Vol 3 - The Cardinal's Musick


• Tinariwen - Water is Life


• Inner City - Good Life The Best of Inner City


• Simple Kid - SK2


• Madonna - Confessions on a dancefloor


• Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position


• Various - Foggy Fairytales Vol III


• James Yorkston - The Year of the Leopard (Acoustic versions)


• Skream - Skream


• Bob Marley - The best of the early years


• Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse


• Underworld - Second toughest in the infants


• Various - South African Legends


• Various - African Groove


• Various - Congo to Cuba


• Beruit - Gulag Orkestar


• Beruit - The Lon Gisland EP


• Optical & Ed Rush present Chameleon


• Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche Bamako


• The Fall - Reformation Post TLC


• Various - Louisville is for Lovers Vol 6


• Various - Louisville is for Lovers Vol 3


• Jofe, Labutis, Shinkarenko - To Be Continued....


• Marcus Intalax - Presents Dat Music


• Slient Strike - Slient Strike


• Warsaw Village Band - uprooting


• Various - Southern Records Presents: We Got Actions


• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas


• Niwel Tsumbu Duo - Uh! eza nzela molayi


• The Beatles - Love


• Dr Dog - Easybeat


• Mogwai - Zidane


• The Monks of Roscrea - Salve II


• Pulp - The Peel Sessions


• The Frank and Walters - a renewed interest in happiness


• Various - Oh No! Not the beast day


• Various - Comets, Ghosts and Sunburned Hands (The New Psychedelic Outlaws)

Films

• Bananas


• Battlestar Gallactica - Season 3 + Razor


• The Rocky Horror Picture Show


• The Queen


• Old Joy


• No Country For Old Men


• Ocean's 13


• Harry Potter and the Order of Magic


• Fame


• The Death of Mister Lazarescu


• 1408


• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


• Battlestar Gallectica Season 2


• Blades Of Glory


• The Panic Room


• Zoolander


• The Painted Veil


• Jindabyne


• La Terra


• Mifune's Last Song


• Shouf Shouf Habibi


• Festen


• Walk the line


• An Inconvenient Truth


• 6 Feet Under (sesaon 1)


• Little Miss Sunshine


• Sin City


• Crash


• Waco: Rules of Engagement


• Battlestar Gallectica Season 1


• Babel


• The Big Lebowski


• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow


• Next Door


• Shameless - Series II


• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (BBC)

Live

• Tinariwen @ The Highline, Tue Nov 28th


• Art Brut, The Hold Steady @ Terminal 5, Wed Nov 22nd


• Grooverider @ The Sullivan Room, Thurs Nov 15th


• Lauara Cantrell @ The Mercury Lounge Sat Nov 10th


• Jen Wood, Hungry Pines, Emma Pollock @ The Crocodile Cafe, Seattle Thurs Nov 8th


• Negru, Pagal, Nathan Detroit, The Chemical Brothers @ Sala Polivalenta Sat Oct 20th


• National Radio Orchestra with Geir Botnen - Enescu, Greig op 16, Sibelius (Vals Triest), O. Respighi (Pinii din Roma) @ Michail Jora, Bucharest Fri Oct 19th


• Evening of Lisbon Fado with Maria do Carmo Moniz Pereira, Pedro Madureira (vocals), Diogo Quadros (guitar), Manuel Gama Lourenco (mandolin) @ ?? Theatre, Bucharest, Weds Oct 3rd


• Barry McCormack, Charlie Parr @ Crawdaddy, Dublin Thurs Sep 6th


• Glasto 2007 Thurs: Damien Dempsey Fri: Look See Proof, Modest Mouse, Gorgol Bordello, Amy Winehouse, A Guy Called Gerald, Rufus Wainwright, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Spiritualized Sat: Jungle Drummer + DJ FU, Mr Nice and MC Beanie, Noisia, Adam F, !!!, Andy C Sun: DJ Fynn, Mahala Rai Banda, Pete Doherty, Tinariwen, Beruit, Pendulum, Radio Luxembourg, Gruff Rhys @ Pilton Weds June 21nd - Sun June 25th


• Rocket Surgery, Latex Spider Monkey, Thinguma*Jigsaw @ The Lower Deck Thurs June 15th


• Niwel Tsumbo @ Sugar Club, Thurs June 7th


• Gogogl Bordello @ Arenele Romane, Fri May 28th


• The Prosperos @ Cobblestone Dublin, Sat March 31st


• Jofe, Labutis, Shinkarenko @ Lithuanian National Day, National Theatre, Bucharest Mon Feb 20th


• Miss Kittin @ Studio Martin, Bucharest, Sat Feb 17

Books

• Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix


• fragile things - Neil Gaiman


• The Road - Cormac McCarthy


• Our Cosmic Habitat - Martin Rees


• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly


• Homo Brtiannicus: The Incredible Story Of Human Life in Britain - Chris Stringer


• Mister Monday - Garth Nix


• Cider with Roadies - Stuart Maconie


• The Cassinni Division - Ken MacLeod


• Abhoresan - Garth Nix


• Lirereal - Garth Nix


• Sabriel - Garth Nix


• In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick


• The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell


• Daydream Nation - Matthew Stearns


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling


• The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery


• The Secret Life of Trees - Colm Tudge


• Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell


• The Beatles "Let it Be" - Steve Matteo


• The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfield


• Out of Eden - Steven Oppenheimer


• Gone Tomorrow : The Hidden Life of Garbage - Heather Rogers


• The Best American Science And Nature Writing - Brian Greene (ed Tim Folger)


• Six Degrees - Mark Lynas


• In Our Time - Ernest Hemmingway


• Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson


• Claudius the God - Robert Graves


• I Claudius - Robert Graves


• Home Truths: the Peel years and beyond - John Murray


• There are small Kingdoms - Kevin Barry


• In the Aeroplane over the sea - Kim Cooper


• PD James - Children of Men

Other Things

• The Marriage of Figaro @ The Metropolitan Opera, Weds Nov 29th


• Vanessa (Barber) @ New York City Opera, Weds Nov 15th


• Darwinia


• James, son of James @ Edmund Burke Theatre Sat Sep 29th


• Tommy Tiernan @ An Grianan, Letterkenny Fri Sep 28th


• The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) - Anna Livia Opera @ The Gaiety Sun Sep 9th


• John Matther @ Ed Burke TCD, Tue June 12th


• Molloy (Gare St Lazare players) @ National Theatre, Bucharest, Sat May 26th


• Quartet ConTempo, Finghin Collins, John Feely @ Atheneum, Bucharest Weds May 23th


• Concert Mozart w Filarmonica George Enescu & Mariana Sirbu @ Atteneul Roman, Bucharest Sun May 20th


• La Traviata - National Opera Bucharest, Thurs Apr 19th


• Monged - Bucharest Thurs Feb 15th


• Burns night supper @ Hilton Fri Jan 26th


• Anna Karinina, Gate Theatre Tue Jan 2nd

List from 2006

Best of 2006

List from 2005

Best of 2005

List from 2004

Best of 2004

2008

Music

• Pendulum - In Silico


• Various - Intersteller Fugitives 2 (Underground Resistance)


• Joan Armatrading - The Willow Collection


• Fasil Sarkilar - Turkish Old Songs Collection


• kocani orchestar - gypsy mambo


• Roni Size - New Forms II


• mahmoud ahmed - eremela mela (Ethiopiques 7)


• Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English


• Various - ATM (Breakage)


• The Jimmy Cake - Spectre and Crown


• Taraf de Haidouks - The Continuing Adventures (DVD)


• Duffy - Rockferry


• Al Jawala - Lost in Manele


• Urma - trend off


• Taraf de Haidouks - Maskarada


• Various - Rough Guide to the music of the Balkan Gypsies


• Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra


• Louisville is for Lovers 2008 - vol 8


• Wold Eyes - Human Animal


• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


• Rhianna - good girl gone bad


• Various - ATM with DJ Die and Mc Jakes


• Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation


• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver


• Sons and Daughters - The Gift


• Richmond Fontaine - 13 Cities


• Richmond Fontaine - 87$ and a guilty conscience that gets worse the longer I go


• Richmond Fontaine - Winnemucca


• Various - Hospital 6 (mixed by Cyantific)


• Various - Now Hear This (The Word presents)


• Various - Beloved (Mojo presents)


• Commix - Call to Mind


• rodrigo y gabriela - s/t


• Various - ATM with Alex Perez & MC System


• The Field - From Here We Go Sublime


• Various - Give Peace a Chance (Uncut cd)


• Various - The Very Best of Ethiopiques


• Editors - An End Has A Start


• Hank Williams - 20 of Hank WIlliams' Greatest Hits

Films

• I am Legend


• Hallam Foe


• Once


• Annie Hall


• Das Boot


• Twin Peaks (Season Two)


• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts


• In Bruges


• Love and Death


• Reniassance


• This is England


• Grow your own


• It's a free world


• Juno


• Cloverfield


• The Planets


• Flight of the Conchords (Season 1)


• Capote


• Sleeper


• 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days


• Control


• 24 Hour Party People


• 28 Weeks Later


• Sunshine


• Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask

Live

• Whirling Dervishes - Sirkeci Train Station Istanbul, Sat June 1


• Kylie X2008 @ Stadionul Cotroceni, Bucharest, Sat May 17th


• Pantha Du Prince, Dat Politics, Interstellar Fugitives (Underground Resistance) @ Rokolectiv festival @The Session, Bucharest, Fri April 11th


• Helsinki Brass Quartet @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest Weds Apr 9th


• Inishowen (Michael Gallanagh, Tom Byrne, Melanie and Paula Houton) @ The Peasant's Museum/The Dubliner Mon Mar 17th (Paddy's Day)


• Puccini soprano recital @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest, Fri Mar 13


• Beethoven Piano & Violin sonnets Mariana Sîrbu - violin, Valentin Gheorghiu - piano @ Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest Weds Mar 13th


• Rasa Juzukonyte, Deividas Staponkus, Ausra Motuziene (Lithuanian Independance Day) @ George Eneuscu Museum, Bucharest, Weds Mar 11


• Juile Feeney @ Eist Music Club, Portlaoise, Fri Feb 15


• Sons & Duaghters @ Whelans, DUblin Sun Feb 17

Books

• Ben Sisario - Doolittle


• Ernest Hemmingway - Fiesta The Sun Also Rises


• Mike McGonigal - Loveless


• Henning Mankell - Dogs of Riga


• Iain M. Banks - Matter


• Alexandre Dumas - The Black Tulip


• James Lovelock - Revenge of Gaia


• Brian Belle-Fortune - All Crews Muss Big Up


• Kitty Ferguson - Measuring the universe


• Garth Nix - Shade's Children


• Garth Nix - Across the Wall

Other stuff

• Theatre of Comedy festival awards @ Theatre of Comedy, Bucharest Sat May 24th


• First Love (Samual Beckett) - Bucharest National Theatre, Weds May 14th


• Irish-Romanian Ball @ Hotel Marriot, Bucharest, Sat Apr 19th


• The Bald Soprano (Blue Raincoat company) - @ Bucharest comedy theatre festival, Comedy Theatre, Sun Apr 7th


• Richard III - National Theatre Bucharest, Sat Jan 26th


• Kane and Lynch


• Aida - National Opera Bucharest, Sat Jan 12th

2007

Music

• High Contrast - If we ever


• Culture Shock - The Third Stage EP


• Various - ATM with DJ Storm (Metalheadz Mix)


• TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain


• Dawn McCarthy & Bonny Bill - Wai Notes


• High Contrast - Tough Guys Don't Dance


• TC - Evolution


• Scout Nibblet - This fool can die now


• Smokey Robinson - One Heartbeat


• The Stylistics - Heavy


• The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat


• Rufus Wainwright - Poses


• a hawk and a hacksaw - a hawk and a hacksaw


• The Fall - This Nations's Saving Grace


• Art Brut - It's a bit complicated


• Wolf Eyes - Dead Hills


• Thee More Shallows - Book of Bad Bears


• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


• The Velvet Underground & Nico


• MIA - Kila


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness


• Beruit - The Flying Club Cup


• The Hold Steady - boys and girls in America


• Magik Markers - Boss


• micah p hinson and the opera circuit - jade


• Sigur Ros - Heim


• Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance (The D'Oyly Caret Opera Company)


• Candi Staton - Sing A Song


• Orbital - The Altogether


• Broadcast - Pendulum


• Mudhoney - Piece of Cake


• Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer


• Chavez - Better Days Will Haunt You (promo copy)


• The Strawbs - The Best of Strawbs


• Various - Greenssleeves Sampler 5


• Various - Riddim Driven Fiesta


• John Fahey - The Best of John Fahey


• Ewan MacColl - The Manchester Angel : Tradition English Folk Songs with Peggy Seegar


• John Renbourn - The Black Balloon


• Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and The Ravens


• Pete Seeger - At the Village Gate with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon


• Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV


• Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper


• Various - ATM fierce and break feat sp:mc


• Andrea Bocelli, Fiorenza Cedolins, Orchestrea e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino- Puccini:Tosca


• Various - Uncut Global-a-go-go!


• The Coral - Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker


• Various - 15 X 15 Ram Records


• Various - Marcus Intalax live at Fabric


• Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold


• The National - Boxer


• Charlie Parr - jubilee


• Various - Andy C/Grooverider Drumandbass Arena


• The Chemical Brothers - We are the night


• TC - Deep (featuring Jakes)


• Ne-Yo - Back Like That


• Clipz - Download


• Benny Page - Turn Down the Lights


• TC - Jump/Flatline


• Clipz - Rubbish


• benny Page feat Spyda - Battlefield


• Calibre & Singing Fats - Drip it Down


• Amit - Suicide Bomber


• High Contrast - True Colours


• Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (bipolar vocal mix)


• Counterstrike - Drum 'n' Bass Singles 2003-2004


• Dillinja - The Dillinja EP


• Various - Sounds Good : Back Catalogue Sampler


• Ultra Vivid Scene - Rev


• various - mixmag live vol 6 Joey Beltram & E. Lustrious


• jasmine minks - popartglory


• Kanda Bongo Man - Swalati


• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Lihl' Ixhiba Likagogo


• Z.C.C Brass Band - s/t


• mahala rai banda - mahala rai banda


• Various - Andy C Drumandbass Arena


• Bjork - Volta


• Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars


• Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther


• Smog - Rock Bottom Riser


• Psapp - Hi


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lay & Love


• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange From Of Life


• Bonny/Sweeny - I gave You


• Smog - Held


• The Triffids - Say What You Can


• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah


• Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle - Dancer With Bruised Knees


• Francoise Hardy - The Vogue Years


• Carole King - Tapestry


• Various - Hampshire Dance Tunes


• Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits


• The Posies - Frosting on the Beater


• beruit biloma - blue


• Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart


• Low - Drums and Guns


• Fayrfax Vol 3 - The Cardinal's Musick


• Tinariwen - Water is Life


• Inner City - Good Life The Best of Inner City


• Simple Kid - SK2


• Madonna - Confessions on a dancefloor


• Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position


• Various - Foggy Fairytales Vol III


• James Yorkston - The Year of the Leopard (Acoustic versions)


• Skream - Skream


• Bob Marley - The best of the early years


• Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse


• Underworld - Second toughest in the infants


• Various - South African Legends


• Various - African Groove


• Various - Congo to Cuba


• Beruit - Gulag Orkestar


• Beruit - The Lon Gisland EP


• Optical & Ed Rush present Chameleon


• Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche Bamako


• The Fall - Reformation Post TLC


• Various - Louisville is for Lovers Vol 6


• Various - Louisville is for Lovers Vol 3


• Jofe, Labutis, Shinkarenko - To Be Continued....


• Marcus Intalax - Presents Dat Music


• Slient Strike - Slient Strike


• Warsaw Village Band - uprooting


• Various - Southern Records Presents: We Got Actions


• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas


• Niwel Tsumbu Duo - Uh! eza nzela molayi


• The Beatles - Love


• Dr Dog - Easybeat


• Mogwai - Zidane


• The Monks of Roscrea - Salve II


• Pulp - The Peel Sessions


• The Frank and Walters - a renewed interest in happiness


• Various - Oh No! Not the beast day


• Various - Comets, Ghosts and Sunburned Hands (The New Psychedelic Outlaws)

Films

• Bananas


• Battlestar Gallactica - Season 3 + Razor


• The Rocky Horror Picture Show


• The Queen


• Old Joy


• No Country For Old Men


• Ocean's 13


• Harry Potter and the Order of Magic


• Fame


• The Death of Mister Lazarescu


• 1408


• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


• Battlestar Gallectica Season 2


• Blades Of Glory


• The Panic Room


• Zoolander


• The Painted Veil


• Jindabyne


• La Terra


• Mifune's Last Song


• Shouf Shouf Habibi


• Festen


• Walk the line


• An Inconvenient Truth


• 6 Feet Under (sesaon 1)


• Little Miss Sunshine


• Sin City


• Crash


• Waco: Rules of Engagement


• Battlestar Gallectica Season 1


• Babel


• The Big Lebowski


• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow


• Next Door


• Shameless - Series II


• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (BBC)

Live

• Tinariwen @ The Highline, Tue Nov 28th


• Art Brut, The Hold Steady @ Terminal 5, Wed Nov 22nd


• Grooverider @ The Sullivan Room, Thurs Nov 15th


• Lauara Cantrell @ The Mercury Lounge Sat Nov 10th


• Jen Wood, Hungry Pines, Emma Pollock @ The Crocodile Cafe, Seattle Thurs Nov 8th


• Negru, Pagal, Nathan Detroit, The Chemical Brothers @ Sala Polivalenta Sat Oct 20th


• National Radio Orchestra with Geir Botnen - Enescu, Greig op 16, Sibelius (Vals Triest), O. Respighi (Pinii din Roma) @ Michail Jora, Bucharest Fri Oct 19th


• Evening of Lisbon Fado with Maria do Carmo Moniz Pereira, Pedro Madureira (vocals), Diogo Quadros (guitar), Manuel Gama Lourenco (mandolin) @ ?? Theatre, Bucharest, Weds Oct 3rd


• Barry McCormack, Charlie Parr @ Crawdaddy, Dublin Thurs Sep 6th


• Glasto 2007 Thurs: Damien Dempsey Fri: Look See Proof, Modest Mouse, Gorgol Bordello, Amy Winehouse, A Guy Called Gerald, Rufus Wainwright, Arcade Fire, Bjork, Spiritualized Sat: Jungle Drummer + DJ FU, Mr Nice and MC Beanie, Noisia, Adam F, !!!, Andy C Sun: DJ Fynn, Mahala Rai Banda, Pete Doherty, Tinariwen, Beruit, Pendulum, Radio Luxembourg, Gruff Rhys @ Pilton Weds June 21nd - Sun June 25th


• Rocket Surgery, Latex Spider Monkey, Thinguma*Jigsaw @ The Lower Deck Thurs June 15th


• Niwel Tsumbo @ Sugar Club, Thurs June 7th


• Gogogl Bordello @ Arenele Romane, Fri May 28th


• The Prosperos @ Cobblestone Dublin, Sat March 31st


• Jofe, Labutis, Shinkarenko @ Lithuanian National Day, National Theatre, Bucharest Mon Feb 20th


• Miss Kittin @ Studio Martin, Bucharest, Sat Feb 17

Books

• Grim Tuesday - Garth Nix


• fragile things - Neil Gaiman


• The Road - Cormac McCarthy


• Our Cosmic Habitat - Martin Rees


• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly


• Homo Brtiannicus: The Incredible Story Of Human Life in Britain - Chris Stringer


• Mister Monday - Garth Nix


• Cider with Roadies - Stuart Maconie


• The Cassinni Division - Ken MacLeod


• Abhoresan - Garth Nix


• Lirereal - Garth Nix


• Sabriel - Garth Nix


• In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick


• The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell


• Daydream Nation - Matthew Stearns


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling


• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling


• The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery


• The Secret Life of Trees - Colm Tudge


• Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell


• The Beatles "Let it Be" - Steve Matteo


• The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfield


• Out of Eden - Steven Oppenheimer


• Gone Tomorrow : The Hidden Life of Garbage - Heather Rogers


• The Best American Science And Nature Writing - Brian Greene (ed Tim Folger)


• Six Degrees - Mark Lynas


• In Our Time - Ernest Hemmingway


• Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson


• Claudius the God - Robert Graves


• I Claudius - Robert Graves


• Home Truths: the Peel years and beyond - John Murray


• There are small Kingdoms - Kevin Barry


• In the Aeroplane over the sea - Kim Cooper


• PD James - Children of Men

Other Things

• The Marriage of Figaro @ The Metropolitan Opera, Weds Nov 29th


• Vanessa (Barber) @ New York City Opera, Weds Nov 15th


• Darwinia


• James, son of James @ Edmund Burke Theatre Sat Sep 29th


• Tommy Tiernan @ An Grianan, Letterkenny Fri Sep 28th


• The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) - Anna Livia Opera @ The Gaiety Sun Sep 9th


• John Matther @ Ed Burke TCD, Tue June 12th


• Molloy (Gare St Lazare players) @ National Theatre, Bucharest, Sat May 26th


• Quartet ConTempo, Finghin Collins, John Feely @ Atheneum, Bucharest Weds May 23th


• Concert Mozart w Filarmonica George Enescu & Mariana Sirbu @ Atteneul Roman, Bucharest Sun May 20th


• La Traviata - National Opera Bucharest, Thurs Apr 19th


• Monged - Bucharest Thurs Feb 15th


• Burns night supper @ Hilton Fri Jan 26th


• Anna Karinina, Gate Theatre Tue Jan 2nd

List from 2006

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List from 2005

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