BARTS 2020 (Kelly)

I've given it a stab...

Best Album

Laura Marling: Song for our Daughter

Matt Berninger: Serpentine Prison

Doves: The Universal Want

Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka (yes, I know it was released in 2019)

Best Song

Raye: Natalie No

Best Musical Rediscovery

Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring

Middle-Aged Man/Men doing excellent - if hardly groundbreaking - stuff

The return of Doves

Best Film

The King of Staten Island

Best Gig / Event

Turin Brakes @ The Trades Club

Best TV Programme

Succession

Best Radio Programme

Weekend Radconie

Best Sporting Moment

Attending an actual match (Burnley v Spurs) in the last weekend of spectator sport

Worst purchase / disappointment

Economic and social collapse

Best Child-related Thing

Schools reopening

Sort

Matilda De Angelis

Person, People or Thing You'd Most Like to See Set on by a Pack of Wolves

Politicians still trying to spin their way through a global health emergency because it's the only thing they know how to do.

The Winning Thing You'd Most Recommend Your Fellow Judges to Own / have / Consume / Do

Make sure you give the Laura Marling album some time

Andrew's nemesis

This is rather lovely...

Weezer - Hero

Not really keen on this - which I know is completely contrary to the point of the blog - but I leave it here as a curio/discussion point. Heard it on the radio yesterday and the DJ said it was a band he'd listened to a lot in his youth and they were back but sounding very different... without saying who it was before playing it. Whilst it was on I was guessing bands like Feeder or Blink 182.

Weird Fishes

Obviously helped by being a great tune; but I'm liking this cover version a lot...

Colin Robinson

Who's been watching the second series of "What We Do in the Shadows"? I think it's much stronger than the first. The above episode, where Colin Robinson gets a promotion, being the highlight.

Doves

Discuss...

Teevee

...what I have watched in the last couple of months and would recommend. All Netflix apart from Normal People.

Normal People
The end of the f**cking world
The haunting of Hill House
After Life (ok)
Funny Cow
Unorthdox

Knives Out Trailer

Rented this from Blockbusters Google Play last night.
Agatha Christie homage - well worth a look. The leading lady is easy on the eye
too.

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Synth banger

Everything Everything - In Birdsong

Didn't get a notification last time...trying again.

"funking", definitely "funking"

Keeley Forsyth - Start Again

The latest track from the production line that is "stuff I've heard on RadMac playback on a weekday morning and like".

Spiteri

This has been getting plenty of airplay on 6 Music: but I'm always glad to hear it.

Tame Impala - Lost In Yesterday

New album came out last Friday, worth a few of yer Spotify listens. I think this is my favourite track.

EOB - Brasil

This is rather nice. I like to imagine Thom dropped into the studio towards the end and forced him to put some drum machine on it.

Gengahr - Heavenly Maybe

They don't deviate too far from a template....but I really like the template.

What We Do in the Shadows

Have started watching this, I think it's on BBC iplayer. Matt Berry doing his thing, yer man from Fonejacker doing a very funny voice.