Barts 2019: Kelly

Best Album
Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars 
The National: I Am Easy To Find 
Tindersticks: No Treasure But Hope 
Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow 
The Delines: The Imperial 
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen

Best Song 
Michael Kiwanuka: You Ain’t The Problem 
Lizzo: Juice 

Best Musical Re-discovery 
Otis Redding: Otis Blue 

Middle-Aged Man/Men Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking – Stuff 
As usual, this pretty much defines my album shortlist: but Springsteen is probably the best match 

Best Film 
Capernaum 

Best Book 
George Orwell: 1984 

Best Gig/Event 
Lankum @ The Trades Club 

Best TV Programme
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing  

Best Radio Programme 
Huey Morgan 

Best website 
National Rail 

Best Sporting Moment 
Those Champion’s League comebacks 

Revelation 
Good to see Elbow back with a couple of songs with a bit of bite. 

Worst Purchase / Disappointment 
The results of the election later this week 

Best Child-Related Thing 
Same as last year. Amateur dramatics getting both of them out of the house for 6 – 8 hours a week. 

Sort 
Bargain Hunt’s Natasha Raskin Sharp 

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

The Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
Read 1984 if you haven’t done so. Assuming you probably have: watch Capernaum.