Top 10 Albums

1. TC - Evolution


2. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America


3. Magik Markers - Boss


4. High Contrast - Tough Guys Don't Dance


5. MIA - Kila


6. Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart


7. The National - Boxer


8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness


9. Marcus Intalax - Presents Dat Music


10. Various - 15 X 15 Ram Records

Top 10 Tracks

1. Ne-Yo - Back Like That


2. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life


3. YT & Co. - Jungle Story (Benny Page Remix)


4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange From Of Life


5. Joanna Newsome - EP


6. Commix - Call to Mind


7. The Chemical Brothers - Do it again


8. Culture Shock - The Third Stage EP


9. Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes (Marky Remix)


10. Johnny L - Back to your roots

Not from this year

• Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche Bamako


• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


• Niwel Tsumbu Duo - Uh! eza nzela molayi


• Beruit - Gulag Orkestar


• Pulp - The Peel Sessions


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


• Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther


• The Strawbs - The Best of Strawbs


• Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse


• Various - Hampshire Dance Tunes

2007

Can not find 10 albums from this year that were all right

Top 10 Albums

1. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental


2. Various - Fabrica De Hit-Uri


3. Mary Ann Hobbs - Warior Dubz


4. The Eighteenth Day of May - Eighteenth Day of May


5. Bonny 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go with Little Lost Blues


6. Hot Chip - The Warning


7. Various - Hospitalised 10 Years of Hospital


8. Jony Illev & Band - Ma Maren Ma


9. The Russian Futurists - Me, Myself and Rye...An Introduction to the Russian Futurists

Top 10 Tracks

1. Sub Focus - Airplane


2. Jarvis - Running the World


3. Amit - Sucicide Bomber


4. Tall Pony - I'm Your Boyfriend Now


5. Tommy Boy - Love and Happiness


6. TC - Jump


7. Bat for Lashes - The Wizard


8. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes


9. Q-Project - Silicon Mistress


10. Entrance - Grim Reaper Blues


11. Clipz - Download


12. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

Not from this year

• Pendulum - Hold Your Colour


• Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle


• Congotronics 2 - Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle


• Tinariwen - Amassakoul


• Various - V Classic


• Mull Historical Society - This is hope


• Antony & The Johnsons - Antony & The Johnsons


• Calibre - presents Second Sun


• Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and The Bold


• Andy C - Nightlife 2

• 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

• 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

Best of 2006

List from 2005

Best of 2005

List from 2004

Best of 2004

One track on the new album has a glowing reference to the R&B singer Alicia Keys. “I remember seeing her on the Grammys. I think I was on the show with her, I didn't meet her or anything. But I said to myself, ‘There's nothing about that girl I don't like’.”

Guardian article #2, Alexis Petridis, 25th August:

“I was thinking about Alicia Keys,” he sings huskily, “I couldn't help from crying” — a sentiment with which anyone who has experienced the R&B singer's sanctimonious interviews and rotten poetry (“Hello morning/ Now I see you/ 'Cause I am awake”) can heartily concur.

Reminds me of that Times reviewer rhapsodising about Portishead's Beth Gibbons begging for a return to traditional values in Glory Box (“Give me a reason to be-ee a woman” etc.).

So here goes:

• Various - Manele Diskoteka


• Jonny Illiev & band - Ma Maren Ma


• Esma Redzepova - The Best Of Esma


• Khaled Habre - Madih Al Zol Al Ali


• Various - Les Haidouks d'autrefois


• Various - Romania:Gloria Tarzie A Lautarilor Din Naipu


• Mary Ann Hobbs - Warior Dubz


• The Beatles - Revolver


• The Russian Futurists - Me,. Myself and Rye....An Introduction to


• Kevin Coyne - Majory Switchblade


• Various - Contemporary Music from Ireland


• Various - Ethopiques Vol 1


• Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief


• Konono No 1 - Congotroincs


• Various - V Classic


• Various - Renegade Hardware presents Anthology Part II Originals & Remixes 1995 - 2005


• Q-Project - Renaissance Man


• Cyantific & Logistics - Flashback(12")


• Artificial Intelligence - Desperado(12")


• Tommy Boy - Love and Happiness(12")


• Sub Focus - Airplane (12")


• Low - A lifetime of Temporary Relief
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• Zaiko Langa Langa - Les Meilleurs Souveneirs de


• Various - Congo mp3s


• Koffi Olomide & Quartier latin - Droit De Veto


• Madilu System - Bonheur


• Various - Uncut Oct 2006 Playlist


• delorentos - The Rules


• Bonny 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go with Little Lost Blues


• Bonny 'Prince' Billy - Cursed Sleep


• Four Tet - Sun, Drums and Soil (single)


• Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - The Exchange Session Vol 1


• Billy Bragg - The Essential Billy Bragg


• Domino sampler


• Fionn Regan - The End of History


• Voice Of the Seven Woods - First Light ep


• Thanh Thao - Bup Be Happy


• Hot Chip - The Warning


• Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental


• Pet Shop Boys - The Hits


• Various - Hospitalised 10 Years of Hospital


• pendulum - hold your colour


• Andy C - Nightlife 2


• Various - Islamodubi


• Noam Chomsky - War Crimes & Imperial Fantasiesi


• Various - Clear the party 9cdr Stefan@WFMU


• Various - Fabrica De Hit-Uri


• Various - Foggy Fairytales - Volume 1


• Elliot Smith - Elliot Smith


• Antony & The Johnsons - I am a bird now


• Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle


• Mull Historical Society - Us


• Rollers/Sparkers - Second Level Crossing


• Youssou N'Dour - Egypt


• Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and The Bold


• Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors


• The Ectasy of St Therese - Slowthinking


• The Boredoms - Super AR


• Mogwai - The Beast


• Various - Peasant Brass Bands from Moldavia: Zece Prajini


• Various - The Holy Island of Monahincha


• Romanian Village Musicians - Sfarsit De Mileniu In Satul Romanesc


• R. Kelly - The R. In R&B Greatest Hits Collection Volume 1


• Patsy Cline - American Music Legends


• Black Beers - Drink the Night Away


• Curtis Mayfield - Give it up


• Mekons - I Heart Mekons


• My Life - Various (Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons)


• Soul II Life - Vol IV The Classic Singles 88-93


• Christian Fatu (violin), Yuko Fukuda (piano) -Enescu, Franck & Kreisler


• Stamatis Spanoudakis - Before The Exhibition


• Mull Historical Society - This is hope


• Neil Diamond - The Best Of


• Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit


• Box of Chocolates - Fearful Symmetry


• Nimoy/Shatner - Spaced Out The Very Best Of


• Sway - This is my demo


• Various - Northern Soul Connoisseurs


• Liam O'Flynn - Out to an other side


• Liam O'Flynn - The fine art of piping


• Woody Guthrie - Dustbowl Ballads


• June Tabor - anthology


• Antony & The Johnsons - Antony & The Johnsons


• Tinariwen - Amassakoul


• Calibre - presents Second Sun


• The Black Dyke Mills Band - Best of Brass


• The Eighteenth Day of May - Eighteenth Day of May


• Jimmy Cake - Superlady


• ABC - Hello! An intorduction to ABC


• The Chalets - Check In


• Foggy Notions - Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar


• the charolettes - things come apart


• Girls Aloud - Chemistry


• Micah P Hinson - The Baby and the Satellite


• Various - Eye of the Tiger Vol 1


• Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle


• Congotronics 2 - Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle

Films

• Stranger than Fiction


• The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night


• The Beatles - Anthology


• Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gypsy Brass Legends


• Spongebob Square Pants
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• The Children of Men


• Tallegeda Nights - The Ledgend of Ricky Booby


• Volover


• Syriana


• Apocalypse Now (redux)


• Requiem for a Dream


• Good night and good luck


• Inside I'm Dancing, Rory O'Shea was here


• Alice in Glamourland


• Excalibur


• Inside Man


• Grizzly Man


• Hidden (Cache)


• The New World


• The Constant Gardener


• Smiley's People


• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<.li>
  
• Spooks - Series One

Live

• Kaloome, Jony Iliev, Esma Redzepov, Fanfara Ciocarlia @ Sala Palatalui Thurs Dec 7th


• Donal Lunny, Roisín Elsafty, Band On an Island, Graham Henderson, Iarla O'Lionarid, Andy Irvine @ Irish Palestinian evening, Olympia, Dublin Mon Sept 25th


• Basokin @ (Port Noire?) Kinshasha Wed Sept 14th


• Mogwai, Massive Attack, Super Furry Animals, Gang of Four, Belle & Sebastian, Delorentos, , New Order, Pendulum, Hot Chip, Miriam & Amadou, Pet Shop Boys@Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Laoise, Fri-Sun Sep 1-3


• Circulus, Gruff Rhys, Simple Kid, Voice of the Seven Woods, Misty’s Big Adventure
  , bats for Lashes, Tunng, Micah P. Hinson, James Yorkston, Keiran Hebdon and Steve Reid, Juana Molina, 18th Day of May, Bert Jansch, Viking Moses, Wizz Jones, Sunburned Hand Of The Man @ Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Crickhowell Fri-Sun 25th-27th


• Franz Ferdinand, Nick Warren, E-Play, Dizzee Rascal, Morrissey, Andy C & MC GQ, Chicks on Speed, Pet Shop Boys @ Exit Festival - Novi Sad, Serbia, Thurs - Sun 6th - 9th July


• Depeche Mode - Lia manoliu, Bucharest, Fri 23rd June


• The Boredoms @ TBMC, Dublin Fri May 26th


• Estel, Giveamanakic, DJ Scotch Egg and Lightning Bolt @ Whelans, Dublin Weds May 24th


• Gala for Ann Hogan @ Oxmanton Theatre, Birr Sat 20th May


• Bert Jansch @ Whelans Thurs 11th May


• Christian Fatu @ National Art Gallery, Bucharest Weds, 22rd Mar


• Liam O'Flynn @ National Theatre, Bucharest Fri, 17th Mar (Paddy's Day)


• Steve Reich Duet, Arvo Pärt Fratres for String Orchestra and Percussion, Igor Stravinsky Concerto in E flat (‘Dumbarton Oaks’), John Adams Common Tones in Simple Time performed by RTE Concert Orchestra @ O'Reilly Theatre, Belveder College, Dublin Sat 18th Feb


• Belle and Sebastian @ Ambassador Mon Feb 6th


• Mozart (Simphony no. 29; Concert no. 5 for violin and orchestra; Simphony no. 40. - conductor Cristian Mandeal, soloist: Takashi Shimizu. @ Atheneum, Bucharest Fri 6th Jan

Books

• I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed the World - David Nolan


• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemmingway


• The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster


• The Comfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen


• Versuvius - Robert Harris


• Humours of Planxty - Leagues O'Toole


• A Continent for the Taking - Howard French


• Redemption Ark - Alaistair Reynolds


• Eternal Love - Ian Mcewan


• King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild


• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy


• The Long Emergancy - James Howards Kunstler


• Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft


• Lionboy- Zizou Corder


• Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien


• Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse - Philip O Ceallaigh


• Avian Flu - Jo Revill


• The Great Influenza - John M Barry


• Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden


• Our Cosmic Habitat - Martin Rees


• Crimelords - Paul Williams

Other Things

• Brasnov Castle, Bram Castle Romania, Sun Oct 29th


• Dancing at Lughnasa - Nationa Theatre, Bucharest, Thurs Oct 12th 2006


• Nessa & Conor's wedding, IriInishannon, Cork, Fri Aug 11th


• Caroline & Simon's wedding, Ard Tara House, Maghera, Sat Aug 5th


• Doir & Marius wedding, Brasov, Sun June 18th


• Manon Lescuat by Pucinni - National Opera, Bucharest, Fri June 16th


• Sibiu Internationsl aTheatre Festival @ Sibiu Fri June 2nd - Sun June 4th (Reading of Gary Duggan's Monged, Beckett Exhibition, The Courtiers, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A streetcar named Popescu, The Rhinoceros


• Rob & Angela's wedding @ City Hall, Bucharest, Sat, 8th Mar


• Flamenco @ Sala Paltuil, Bucharest Fri, 6th Mar


• Burns Supper @ Hilton, Bucharest Fri 28th Jan

List from 2005

Best of 2005

List from 2004

Best of 2004

Top 10 Albums

1. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love


2. Various - DJ Target Presents Aim High Vol 2


3. The National - Alligator


4. Kate Bush - Ariel


5. Various - Chills & Thrills Bucharest


6. Laura Cantrall - Humming By The Flowered Vine


7. James Yorkston and The Athletes - Just Beyond The River


8. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft


9. Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald


10. Broadcast - Tender Buttons


11. Just outside Art Brut, Lightning Bolt, The Books, Shy FX & T-Power, Fanfare Savale, The Fall, Sugababes, Carrie Yury & Will Oldham, The Editors, Malcolm Middleton,Arab Strap,RWD AAA Mix, The Fiery Furnaces, Shocking Mixtape, Ethipoiques 3, Never The Same (various)

Top 10 Tracks

1. Art Brut - Emily Kane


2. Sugababes - Push The Button


3. Artificial Intelligence - Desperado


4. Forward Riddim Lethal B


5. Superwolf - I Gave You


6. Delorentos - Leave it on


7. Acid Casuals - Bowl Me Over


8. The Futureheads - Hounds of Love


9. Malcolm Middleton - Break My Heart


10. Wax Audio – Imagine

Not from this year

• Gioachino Rossini - L'Italiana In Algeria


• Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - s/t


• Brian Wilson - Smile


• High Contrast - High Society


• Ethiopiques 17 - Tlahoun Gessesse


• Annie - Anniemal


• Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?


• The Libertines - The Libertines


• The Libertines - Up The Bracket


• Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera

This is where I spent the last few hours of my birthday.