... but you need a bit of time to reflect on a whole year right? Over the next 4 days, our individual top 5, er, things of 2010 will be put up on the blog. We're enabling the comments so you can totally spam / flame the shit out of us on this.
Here's Dan to kick things off:
Oh god 2010 – that was aaaages ago right? Lets think *strains, tries to get brain in to action and not get instantly distracted by obsessive twitter / facebook / email cycle* Ummmmm, how about....
1) John and Jehn at the Great Escape. The Great Escape was absolutely wickey-wild-west-willsmith-wah-wicked. Having never gone before I loved being in a city as amazing as Brighton surrounded for three days by brilliant live music from the moment you half-drunkenly force yourself out of bed in the morning to really jolly late indeeeeeed. Highlights included Coming Soon, The Cheek, The Bewitched Hands, Team Ghost, Beardyman (I was veryverydrunk) but most best John and Jehn pulling out a super sweaty corker at a bar, upstairs, somewhere in Brighton…
2) Berlin. I went twice in 2010. It was brilliant (history, würst, nightlife, würst, cultcha, würst, the all night U-Bahn, würst etc.) but also it was chest-crushingly cold. New years resolution No.523 = go to Berlin in the summer.
3) Cycling. Really did quite a lot of this for the first time this year, probably unconsciously egged on by Boris and his bwilliant bikes. I went to France and I went to Holland and I went to Beligium and I went to Greenwich (once or twice). It is much better than the shtinky tube etc. but really does bring an oily tear of frustration to the eye when my bike breaks. Which it tends to do quite often.
4) Sunny festivals. Hooooray no muddy misery tent slog-fests this year! Woooop! I got toasted at Eurockéenes watching Foals play a beach and Omar Souleyman N-Trance the laydeez in a glade. I got cidered-up and over excited in the sun at Lovebox watching Empire of the Sun and a totally unexpected display of toplessness all round at Hot Chip. And finally I got bitter and twisted watching Glasto on t’telly looking like the best, sunniest thing evah. Grrrrrrrr.
5) Niki and the Dove at the Lexington. They sound amazing. Niki is sultry, Kate Bushey, shekshy with ribbons pritt-sticked to her face and the Doves are reeeeeaaalllly coooool musos.
'And we Run - Live' by 'John and Jehn'
FIN.
