Ali shares his Top Tens for 2022

Top Ten Albums 2022    

 1 Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl

2 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

3 Grace Cummings - Snow Queen

4 Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul

5 Lera Lynn - Something More Than Love

6 Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful  

7 Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All The Days That Tear The Heart

8 The Beths - Expert In a Dying Field

9 Bjork - Fossora

10 The Mysterines- Reeling 

 

 

Joint Best Re-issues of 2022

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Deluxe/ Manic Street Preachers, Know Your Enemy (Remastered)

 

Top Ten gigs 2022 

 

1 Wolf Alice, Hammersmith Apollo

2 Mitski - L'Olympia, Paris

3  Rina Sawayama - Rock City, Nottingham

4 The Surfing Magazines - The Old Cold Store, Nottingham

5 Ka Safar - Derby Museum of Making 

6 Spiritualized - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

7 Low, Alhambra - Paris

8 Blue Funk in the Park - Chester Green, Derby

9 Bill Kirchen Trio - The Chapel, Nottingham

10 Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening - Moira Miner's Welfare Centre 

 

Top Ten Festival appearances 2022 

 1 Fairport Convention - 50th anniversary of the 'Full House' album set, Cropredy 

2 Beck - Nos Primavera Sound 

3 The Unthanks - Folk by the Oak

4 Anais Mitchell - End of the Road 

5 Rosalie Cunningham - Cropredy  

6 Home Service, -Cropredy

7 Gorillaz - Nos Primavera Sound 

8 Richard Thompson - Folk by the Oak

9 Starcrawler - End of the Road

10 Bright Eyes - End of the Road