Simon shares his Top Tens for the year
Top Ten Albums
1. Maps - Colours - Reflect. Time. Loss
2. Penelope Isles - Until The Tide Creeps In
3. Luke Sital Singh - A Golden State
4. William Doyle - Your Wilderness Revisited
5. Idlewild - Interview Music
6, Fontaines DC - Dogrel
7. Hot Chip - A Bathfull Of Ecstasy
8. Cigarettes After Sex - Cry
9. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
10. The Leisure Society - Arrivals & Departures
Top Ten Gigs (date order)
Fontaines DC - The Joiners 14/1
Black Midi - The Joiners, 3/2
Nils Frahm - Southampton Guildhall, 21/2
PFM - Southampton, 1865 Club 1/3
Art Brut - The Joiners 2/3
The Good The Bad & The Queen - Cardiff Uni 13/3
WH Lung - Heartbreakers, Southampton 17/5
Fyfe Dangerfield -The Others venue, London 23/9
Vampire Weekend - Zenith Paris 16/11
Beak - The Loft, Southampton 28/11
Top Ten Festival sets (date order)
Black Country, New Road - Portsmouth Psychfest
Egyptian Blue - Portsmouth Psychfest
Working Men’s Club - Great Escape
Yak - All Points East
Magic Numbers - Winchestival
The Strokes - BBK, Bilbao
Hot Chip - BBK, Bilbao
Murder Capital - End Of The Road
Talk Show - Dials Festival
Cass McCombs - Mirrors Festival
Best Song of the Year: Lady Solinas, Pottery
Best Album of the Decade: Given To The Wild, The Maccabees
Best Lyric of the Year - Matt The Electrician: “I saw you crying in the rear view mirror; some things are closer than they appear"
