Top Ten Records of 2012
1 Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown & Treaty
2 Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
3 The Staves – Dead & Born & Grown
4 The Unthanks – Diversions Vol 2
5 Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
6 Lucy Rose – Like I Used To
7 First Aid Kit – The Lions Roar
8 Karine Polwart - Traces
9 Django Django – Django Django
10 Ben Gibbard – Former Lives
Top Ten Gigs
1 Elbow – Wembley Arena (Wembles)
2 Blur/The Specials/New Order/Bombay Bicycle Club – Hyde Park
3 Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Bush Hall
4 Bellowhead – Camden Roundhouse
5 Madness - O2
6 Simon Felice – Bush Hall
7 The Pogues – O2
8 Trembling Bells + Bonnie Prince Billy – Union Chapel
9 The Walkmen – Kentish Town Forum
10 Django Django – Shepherds Bush Empire
Top Ten Festival Performances
1 The Unthanks (with Brass Band) – Cambridge Folk Festival
2 Stornoway – Apple Cart
3 Kan - Cambridge Folk Festival
4 Billy Bragg – Apple Cart
5 Karine Polwart - Cambridge Folk festival
6 The Proclaimers - Cambridge
7 Lau - Cambridge
9 Noah and the Whale – Apple Cart
10 Abandaman – Apple Cart (they did an imrpov song about me)
Film of the Year
Avengers Assemble
Song of The Year
Simple Song - The Shins
Most Disappointing Musical Experience
The idiot behind me at the Pogues gig. Damn him.
Best Musical Experience
Sweet Billy Pilgrim finishing their set with Blue Sky Falls. Great closing song.
Graham