Kelly: Barts 2017

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Best album

The National: Sleep Well Beast

Michael Head &The Red Elastic Band: Adios Senor Pussycat

Laura Marling: Semper Femina

Ryan Adams: Prisoner

Mark Eitzel: Hey Mr Ferryman

Best Song

Arcade Fire: Everything Now

Charlotte Gainsbourg: Deadly Valentine

This is the Kit: Hotter Colder

Afghan Whigs: Demons in Profile

Best Musical Re-discovery

Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach: Painted from Memory

Best Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking – Stuff

Once again, that pretty much sums up my top two categories.

Best Film

Manchester By The Sea

Best Book

Sebastian Barry: Days Without End

Best Gig/Event

Everything Everything @ HBTC

Best TV Programme

Peaky Blinders

Best Radio Programme

Soho Radio (it’s really Radconie)

Best Website

Taking a wider ‘technology’ slant on this and going for Sonos.

Best Sporting Moment

Sergio Garcia winning The Masters

Revelation

The Charlotte Gainsbourg single

Worst Purchase / Disappointment

The demise of Lovefilm by post.

Best Child-Related Thing

Hughie breaking his tablet

Best Lifestyle Change

I’m doing too much travelling: but I am making a concerted effort to do more by train instead of driving, and it’s giving me a lot more time back.

Sort

They all have lovely bottoms…

Person, People or Thing You’d Most Like to See Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves

Trump – I genuinely worry that he is resetting the moral benchmark

The Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do

The Laura Marling album is very good, and notably absent from others’ lists.