Top Ten Albums
1 The Elizabethan Session – various
2 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
3 Manic Street Preachers - 'Futurology
4 Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
5 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
6 St.Vincent - St Vincent
7 Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets the Bone
8 Conor Oberst -Upside Down Mountain
9 Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
10 Jack White - Lazaretto
Song of the Year
Nancy Kerr 'Never Ever Lay Them Down'
Favourite Gigs
The Flaming Lips – Rock City, Nottingham
(they squeezed the stadium size production into Rock City, the audience became part of the light show)
Riding The Low – The Vic Inn, Derby
Laurence Jones- The Flowerpot, Derby
Courtney Love - Rock City, Nottingham
The New Pornographers- Gorilla, Manchester
Favourite Festival Performances
St Vincent @ End of the Road. (somebody who realises that a live show should be more just recreating the record)
Kasabian @ Victoria Park, Leicester
White Denim @ End of the Road
Lucy Ward @ Derby Folk Festival
Alisdair Whyte