Our Writer Ali shares his Top Tens for 2017
Albums
1 Flotation Toy Warning – The Machine That Made Us
2 Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
3 Idles – Brutalism
4 St. Vincent – Masseduction
5 LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
6 Bella Hardy – Hey Sammy
7 The Big Moon – Love in the 4th Dimension
8 Rose Elinor Dougall – Stellular
9 Nadine Shah – Holiday Destination
10 The Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics
Gigs
1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham.
2 The Pretenders - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
3 The Transports - The Guildhall, Derby.
4 Metallica - O2 Arena, London.
5 Mark Eitzel – Glee Club, Nottingham.
6 Grandaddy – Rock City, Nottingham.
7 The Laurence Jones Band – The Flowerpot, Derby.
8 American Football - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
9 Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker - The Musician, Leicester.
10 Ben Holder - Dog & Partridge, Marchington
Musical Highlight – Ron Mael of Sparks dancing a soft shoe shuffle with jazz hands during 'The Number One Song In Heaven' at Rock City.
Festival Appearances
1 Kate Tempest - Deershed
2 Starcrawler – End of the Road
3 False Lights – Derby Folk Festival
4 Black Honey – 2Q
5 The Big Moon – 2Q
6 Joe Broughton's Folk Ensemble (all 46 of them) - Imagined Isle
7 Blonde Redhead – BBK
8 The Moonlandingz – End of the Road
9 The Lemon Twigs – End of the Road
10 Lucinda Williams - End of the Road
