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