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

8   James Vincent McMorrow - 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