“Andrew”
Best Album:
Curve of the Earth - Mystery Jets
Boy King - Wild Beasts
Brilliant Sanity - Teleman
The Bride - Bat for Lashes
Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead.
Best Song:
Telomere - Mystery Jets
Whitest Boy on the Beach – Fat White Family
Safe and Sound - Justice
4 Degrees - Anohni
Under the Sun - Diiv
Best
Musical Re-discovery:
Cool 80s POP Volumes 1 and 2.
Best
Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff:
Quite enjoyed singles from Flaming Lips and Grandaddy.
Best
Film:
Birdman
Best
Book:
I think the only book I finished was the Harper Lee
TKAMB “sequel”. Vaguely interesting but as a stand-alone would have disappeared
without trace.
Best
Gig/Event:
Tame Impala – standing tickets at MEN Arena
Best
TV Programme:
Stranger Things, Camping, Lovesick, The Night
Manager, Friday Night Dinner, Happy Valley.
Best
Radio Programme:
RadMac as usual. Probably should just retire this one.
Best
Website:
Red Issue Sanctuary – hardcore United fans website.
Best
Sporting Moment:
United doing the double in May – winning the FA Cup
and sacking LvG 2 days later.
Revelation:
Haven’t got one.
Worst
Purchase / Disappointment:
Despite them sneaking in to
best album, Radiohead not being able to repeat the In Rainbows trick. Also a
year after release I got a copy of World Peace Is None of Your Business and
that is ok in places and very very bad in others.
Best
Child-Related Thing:
Sounds harsh but them both being in school....more time for us to live,
and better time with them at weekends/holidays.
Best
Lifestyle Change:
In a very similar vein to Steve, taking a hard look at my (refined sugar)
intake, walking everywhere possible and half killing myself in the gym for the
last few months....net result I’ve come down about 3 holes on my belt buckle
and may need to invest in some smaller waist size jeans.
Sort:
Eva Green
Person,
People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves:
Jacob Rees Mogg and Boris Johnson.
The
Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do:
Stranger Things
“Steve”
Best
Album:
'Chopin, Favourite Piano Works' - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Best
Song:
'Crystallise' - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Best
Musical Re-discovery
Longpigs
Best
Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff:
Me,
building a Wendy House
Best
Film:
Star Wars -
Rogue One
Best Film
I've actually seen:
Captain
America - Civil War
Best
Book:
haven't read anything new this year
Best
Gig/Event:
haven't been out this year
Best
TV Programme:
Humans
Best
non-Sci-Fi TV Programme:
The
Night Manager
Best
Radio Programme:
Alex James'
Date Night
Best
Website:
Best
Sporting Moment:
Leicester winning the Premier League
Revelation:
'Love Yourself' - Justin Bieber
Worst
Purchase / Disappointment:
Lemmy/Bowie/Prince/Rickman/Wogan/Corbett/Wood/Wilder/Cohen/Sachs
Lemmy/Bowie/Prince/Rickman/Wogan/Corbett/Wood/Wilder/Cohen/Sachs
Best
Child-Related Thing:
The Wendy
House I Built
Best
Lifestyle Change:
Giving up the
London Underground, walking 12km per day, improving diet and losing two stones.
Sort:
Felicity Jones
Person,
People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves:
'Frump'
(Farage/Trump)
The
Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do:
Give
up the London Underground, walk 12km per day, improve diet and lose two
stones.
“Sam”
Best Album
Bon Iver
Michael Kiwanuka
Best Song
Fat White Family – Whitest Boy on
the Beach
Flaming Lips – The Castle
Justice – Randy
Sleaford Mods - TCR
Best Musical Re-discovery
Cool 80s Pop Volume Two
Best Middle-Aged Wo/Man/Men
Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff
Iggy Pop
PJ Harvey
Radiohead
Best Film
Not one sticks in my mind.
Best Book
54 – Wu Ming
Best Gig/Event
Bearded Theory
Best TV Programme
Night Manager
Best Radio Programme
The
only show that can stop me listening to Radconie – TMS.
Best Website
I’m giving a hat-tip to three
underrated but essential-for-my-work programs: Paint, Snipping Tool, Notepad.
Best Sporting Moment
Taking the boys to watch City win
the league. (The ladies).
Revelation
I thought I knew why people
didn’t vote for good stuff. I had no idea.
Worst Purchase /
Disappointment
Waited a long time for a new JAMC
single… and it’s not all that.
Best Child-Related Thing
Football.
Resisted it for a long time, but both boys are getting a lot from it
Best Lifestyle Change
Going weekday veggie. Healthier,
cheaper, environmentally-sound.
Sort
Age-appropriate this year: Amy
Adams
Person, People or Thing
You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
Go on then, I’ll say it: Farage.
A malicious fraud, an inciter of hatred and division and worst of all, a bad
winner. Truly, the cunt’s cunt.
The Winning Thing You’d
Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
Family-Friendly Festivals
“Raymond”
Best Album
Bowie: Blackstar
Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool
Tindersticks: The Waiting Room
Nick Cave: Skeleton Tree
Teenage Fanclub: Here
Best Song
Laura Marling – Soothing
Christine and the Queens – Tilted
Bob Mould – Voices in my Head
ABC – Viva Love
Best Musical Re-discovery
Nina
Simone – Little Girl Blue
Best Middle-Aged Wo/Man/Men
Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking - Stuff
Pretty much all of my album
choices
Best Film
Bridge of Spies (one like they
used to make)
Best Book
Jon Ronson – So You’ve Been
Publicly Shamed
Best Gig/Event
Abba Classics @ Bridgewater Hall
with the kids
Best TV Programme
Planet Earth II
Best Radio Programme
Pete
Paphides on Soho Radio (on the basis that I listened to it once and got into a
nice Twitter chat with the host)
Best Website
Spotify
Best Sporting Moment
Celtic 5 Rangers 1
Revelation
The
undeniable truth that most people are predominantly motivated by self-interest
and prejudice. And that ‘people like us’ are in fact not.
Worst Purchase /
Disappointment
Democracy
Best Child-Related Thing
Football
on Saturday and Sunday mornings
Best Lifestyle Change
Bah!
Sort
My wife
Person, People or Thing
You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
Trump, on the basis that he is
far more dangerous than Farage.
The Winning Thing You’d
Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
Watch out for a major event we
should all go to. I’m thinking along the lines of a Tears for Fears gig. Or The
Cure. Something we’d normally just dismiss as being too much hassle or too
expensive.
