Gordon Legge

LP's

1. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
2. D'Angelo - Voodoo
3. Mouse on Mars - Instrumentals
4. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
5. Steely Dan Two - Against Nature
6. The Fall - The Unutterable
7. Romanthony - R Hide in Plain Suite
8. Belle + Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
9. Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott? Words + Music Vol. 1
10. Kid 606 - Down With The Scene

LIVE LP's (in keeping with the general theme of oldness)

Elvis, Brian Wilson and the good Captain

COMPILATIONS

Cocteaus, 400%, and those that came with Mixmag, Muzik and The Wire

SINGLES

1. Daft Punk - One More Time
2. Romanthony - Bring U Up
3. All Saints - Pure Shores
4. St Germain - Rose Rouge
5. Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
6. Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face
7. Madonna - Music
8. The Aztec - Mystic Jaguar
9. Arab Strap - To All A Good Night
10. Kelis - Caught Out There

GIGS

1. Aphex Twin at Camber (+ Camber in general)
2. Morley at Waterstones (particularly the aftershow)
3. Jill Scott at the Liquid Rooms
4. Nectarines at Cafe Royale
5. Kid 606 at the Bongo
6. The Fall at the Liquid Rooms (November)
7. Lee Perry at Barrowlands
8. Vic Godard at the Liquid Rooms
9. Elvis 2000 at SECC
10. Two Lone Swordsmen at the Attic

Special mention to Big Beat (monthly club at La Belle Angelle).

WORST GIGS

Uncle Lou at the Playhouse, Handsome Family at the Attic and Primal Scream at the Corn Exchange.

TELLY 1. Euro 2000
2. Big Brother
4. Olympics
5. Bands of the 80's - Dexy's Midnight Runners
5. Champions League
6. TV's Naffest Moments
7. Keith Chegwin's Naked Jungle
8. Budweiser Adverts
9. Sunday Morning Match Of The Day
10. Never Mind The Buzzcocks

FILMS

1. The Chris and Bob one
2. The Filth and the Fury
3. Billy Elliot

Didn't really like any others: there's more wit and imagination in my average fart than in Being John Malkovich, Three Kings et al. (Oooh, controversy)

BOOKS

1. Craig Werner - A Change Is Gonna Come
2. Bill Drummond - 45
3. Paul Morley - Nothing

The others I liked were by people I know - and it's a bit wanky mentioning your pals

SUSTENANCE

Safeways Organic Oatcakes

FAVOURITE BIG BROTHER CONTESTANT

Mel

Keith Cameron

SINGLES

1. Mint Royale featuring Lauren Laverne - Donąt Falter
2. Kid 606 - The Soccergirl EP
3. Low - Dinosaur Act
4. The Nectarine No.9 - Constellations Of A Vanity
5. All Saints - Black Coffee
6. Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth - Kill Or Be Killed
7. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
8. Brassy - Work It Out
9. Cypress Hill - (Rock) Superstar
10. Kelis - Caught Out There

ALBUMS

1. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
2. Shellac - 1000 Hurts
3. Primal Scream - Exterminator
4. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
5. Kid 606 - Down With The Scene
6. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
7. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
8. Dead Prez - Lets Get Free
9. Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic
10. AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip

FAVOURITE MEMBER OF ASH

Charlotte

Roddy Lumsden

LAGERS OF 2000

1 Steinlager (NZ)
2 Tusker (Kenya) - only the small bottles
3 Tennants (Scotland) - bottled only
4 Tsing Tao (China)
5 Budweiser (USofA) - cans only

FOOD OF 2000

1 Green Olives stuffed with anchovy
2 Char sui
3 Large Mixed Doner, chilli sauce and garlic sauce, no cucumber

MUSIC 2000

NEW LPs

1 Gordon Grahame - Gordon Grahame
2 Tom McRae - Tom McRae
3 It's Jo and Danny - Lank Haired Girl to Bearded Boy

OTHER SONGS / TUNES FROM 2000

1 Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen
2 Ben & Jason - Romeo and Juliet Are Drowning
3 Cathal Coughlan - Dark Parlour
4 The Clientele - Bicycles
5 Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
6 Cousteau - Last Good Day of the Year
7 Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
8 Montgolfier Brothers - Even If My Mind Can't Tell You
9 Grosvenor - Private Domain
10 No-Man - Carolina Reprise
11 Superstar - Someone's Watching Over Me
12 Alice Deejay - If I Ever Fall in Love

NOT 2000 BUT DISCOVERED 2000

1 Shelleyan Orphan - Humroot LP
2 John Cale - Ship of Fools
3 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin LP
4 Klaus Nomi - After the Fall
5 Robin Holcomb - When I Stop Crying
6 Ben & Jason - I'll Always Want You
7 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
8 Ron Sexsmith - In a Flash
9 Divine Comedy - The Certainty of Chance
10 Butter Boy - Old Aunt Dinah

NOT 2000 BUT REDISCOVERED 2000

1 Durutti Column - Spent Time
2 Girls At Our Best - Pleasure
3 The Associates - Kitchen Person
4 The Passage - Time Will Tell
5 Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go
6 Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine LP (side 1)
7 Police - Walking on the Moon
8 Nico - Little Sister
9 Grandmaster Flash - The Message
10 T-Rex - Monolith
11 Dif Juz - Re
12 Skids - Goodbye Civilian

BEST BIOGRAPHIES READ

1 Louis MacNeice (Stallworthy)
2 Nick Drake (Humphries)
3 Hart Crane (Mariani)

EVENTS 2000

1 Poetry Book Society Choice for new book
2 not meeting Paul Morley
3 reading at Poetry International
4 taking a frame of pool off Don Paterson
5 my super-posh book launch near the Ritz, complete with pop stars, glamour chicks etc
6 drifting towards sleep at Llanystumdwy
7 pool generally
8 up to 100 Large Mixed Doner, chilli sauce and garlic sauce, no cucumber

Gerry

ALBUMS

1. Lambchop - Nixon
2. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
3. Kingsbury Manx - Kingsbury Manx
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
6. The Fall - The Unutterable
7. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
8. Steely Dan Two - Against Nature
9. Shellac - 1000 Hurts
10. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr

Kevin

ALBUMS

1. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
2. Lambchop - Nixon
3. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
4. The Fall - The Unutterable
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Kingsbury Manx - Kingsbury Manx
7. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
8. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
9. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
10. Lou Reed - Ecstasy

Neil Cooper

HERE'S MY TOP MOMENTS OF 2000 (no particular order)

April 8
Aug 12
July 6
September 29
June 19
May 7
1981

Stevie Cruickshanks

LPs

Xtrmntr - Primal Scream
Hot Rail - Calexico
Maroon - The Webb Bros
Daisies of the Galaxy - Eels
BBC Sessions - The Who
Return to Splendor - The King (Ah still think the joke's funny)
Kaleidoscope - Kelis
Things to Make & Do - Moloko

COMPILATION LP'S

400% Dynamite
Trojan Soulful Reggae Box Set
Pulp Fusion Evolution
New Orleans Funk

SINGLES

Dinnae consider maself a serious purchaser ay singles these days, but here goes anyway.

Virgin Suicides - Air (I think he means 'Playground Love' - ed.)
Barcelona - Shaun Ryder & Russell Watson
Ballad of Cable Hogue - Calexico
Who Let the Dogs Out? - Baha Men
Country Grammar - Nelly
That yin aboot doing it like they do oan the Discovery Channel by the Bloodhound Gang.

GIG

Lee Perry at the Forum

MUSICAL TWATS

"H" from Steps
Badly Drawn Boy

BOOKS

Rope Burns - FX Toole
The Bottoms - Joe R Lansdale
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
(Some of) Nothing - Paul Morley

BIOGRAPHIES

King of the World - David Remnick (aboot Muhammed Ali, but then ye probably knew that)
All the Rage - Ian "Mac" McLagan

SOCIOLOGY BOOK

Scotland's Shame - TM Devine (editor)

FILMS

Ghost Dog
Gladiator (apart from the end)
American Beauty
The Filth & the Fury (especially the bit where the Pistols gave the party for the strikers' weans)
In the Mood For Love

SHITE FILMS

Snatch
High Fidelity

TELLY

The Sopranos
The League of Gentlemen
Vids
Pulp
Oz
The Simpsons
That cunt Ian Beale going bankrupt in Eastenders
Kiss FM advert with the ventriloquist's dummy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (just to keep the missus happy)

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Demolition Derby

FAVOURITE FROM BIG BROTHER

Marjorie

FITBA' MOMENTS

Larsson's 1st (and Celtic's 4th) in the 6-2 game. (Nutmeg & Chips)
The end of Spain v Yugoslavia at Euro 2000
Eng-ger-lund gaun two up v Portugal at Euro 2000 then getting gubbed
Italy's defending v Holland at Euro 2000
Taking the missus to Parkheid for our Wedding Anniversary (she DID want to go by the way - she'd been asking me for ages). Celtic 3 Hibs 0

TIMES OF THE YEAR

Martin O'Neill
The Ghod Larsson
Joos Valgaeren

YOUNG TIM OF THE YEAR

Stilian Petrov

SPORTING TWATS

Bazza Fergushin
Fernando Ricksen
Big Lorenzo
Kevin Keegan
Paul Ince
Tim Henman

OTHER SPORTS MOMENT

Gaun to see Joe Calzaghe at Wembley

FOOD

All day breakfast at the New Market Pub, Smithfield
Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey Ice Cream
Noodles from the Malaysian place in Muswell Hill
Mince n' Tatties cooked by the wife

DRINK

Whisky Mac
Bloody Mary
Marguerita
Irn Bru
Frozen Mocha

Honourable mention to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the first film I've seen of 2001. It's like a big budget episode of The Water Margin withoot the dubbed voices (so ye dinnae feel like sniggering every coupla minutes). The fight scenes are excellent, but I widnae bother if ye dinnae like kung fu films tae begin wi'.

Anyway, that's ma list. Sorry if it gies ye the boak (ah'm no really).

Cheerie-bye
Stevie

Mark Reed

DVDs OF THE YEAR

Gimme Shelter
The Sopranos - Season One
Beastie Boys Anthology
Gladiator
Kwaidan
Ghost Dog
Lost Horizon
Man on the Moon
Monty Python's Life of Brian
For All Mankind
This is Spinal Tap
Princess Mononoke
The Filth and the Fury (esp., like everyone else, for the kids Christmas party - but why did they put studio versions of the songs onto video footage of live gigs?)

All Region 1 - cheaper and better.

ALBUMS

'Lemon Jelly ky' - Lemon Jelly
'Blue Jam' - Chris Morris
'Tiny Reminders' - Two Lone Swordsmen
'Xtrmntr' - Primal Scream

Not a great year for albums, alas.

SINGLES

'In a beautiful place out in the country' - BOC (esp. Track 2)
'Don't Falter' - Mint Royale with Malcolm Straps bird
'Enter Space Capsule' - Gerling
'One More Time' - Daft Punk
'Once Around the Block' - Badly Drawn Boy
That Bomfunk MC's one. The first one, I think. Old skoooooolllll.
'Groovejet' - Spiller featuring the widest faced woman in pop
'Ordinary World' - Aurora featuring the lovely Naimee Coleman
'Pure Shores' - All Saints
'Knights of the Jaguar' - Aztec Mystic

REISSUES / COMPILATIONS OF THE YEAR

'Kilimanjaro' and 'Wilder' - the Teardrop Explodes (although why 'Christ versus Warhol' isn't on them is a mystery)
'The Keyboard King at Studio One' - Jackie Mittoo

DAMP SQUIB OF THE YEAR

The Magazine revival - one box set and a couple of newspaper articles does not a revival equate

BOOKS

'45' - Bill Drummond
'Nothing' - Paul Morley
'King of the World' - David Remnick
'Some Rain Must Fall' - Michel Faber

WORST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Timeline' - Michael Crichton - wherein our Mickey demonstrates such faith in his writing skills that whenever he describes something, he feels the need to include a f*cking sketch of it too! And the story was crap too. Pish.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENTS OF THE YEAR

1 - Aphex at Camber
2 - Morley at the Cafe Royal
3 - Lee Perry at the Barrowlands (and the bus there and back)
4 - Elvis 2000 at SECC
5 - St. Etienne at Glasgow Art School
6 - Vic Goddard at the Liquid Rooms
7 - Nectarines at Cafe Royal
8 - Papa M at Camber
9 - Mark E Smith at St. Andrews Poetry Festival

FAVOURITE BUFFY CHARACTER

Anya

Club of the Year

Big Beat

Hon. mentions to the Warp night at Camber, Posh in Leith, and what I can remember of the Northern Soul night at the Leith Social Club.

Paul Hutton

Due to the birth of my son, Patrick, I haven't been out much in the last year. So here's the choices in the areas I was able to pay any attention to...

ALBUMS

1. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
If anyone doesn't like this they simply haven't got a soul.

2. Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
Amazing the difference cheering up can make.

3. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea
Amazing the difference cheering up and a couple of pretzels can make.

4. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy
Not, by any stretch, a Grand Prix. Still lovely though, and there weren't many better tracks than Accidental Life in the last year.

5. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

BUBBLING UNDER

Wu Tang Clan - The W
Normally that gangster shit combined with cod-Eastern mythology would drive me witless. Not this time.

Broadcast - The Noise made By People
Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life

By rights I should have hated both of these...

MOST LISTENED TO ALBUM

Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen

TV

The Sopranos
Not as good as the first series, and still miles better than everything else. A series that totally inverts your ideas of good and evil, and contained, in Steve van Zandt's "cheese fuck", the finest insult seen on television in years.

Big Brother
So the last week was crap, it was won by an arse and by the middle of the next series nobody will be watching (unless folk are shagging). If you didn't see the vanquishing of Thatcherism when Nick was ejected, you didn't have anything to talk about for a month.

England - Romania
Sorry...

Cold Feet
I'm clearly getting older. Seriously, I must be. Adventurous TV it ain't, but in a futile attempt to defend this choice I'm going to say that it's well-written, and that John Thompson and Faye Ripley are a great comic partnership.

Hearts and Bones
BBC's "Cold Feet without the jokes" is an even harder choice to defend. Still the break up of the central relationship was like watching a slow-motion car crash.

Consistently enjoyed: Frasier, that series about Environmental health officers in Sheffield, SMTV Live.

Regret: BBC's treatment of Seinfeld. If you're going to stick it on in the middle of the night and cancel every time the sodding darts is on, why did you buy it?

MOVIES

Being John Malkovich
Never mind what Legge says

Magnolia
Sprawling, with an obvious debt to Short Cuts. Superb cast, and considering just about nothing happens...
American Beauty
In hindsight, not as good as you'd been led to believe, and not as good as it thought it was. In particular, the last reel faltered. I guess it all depends if you like Kevin Spacey's smirk.

The Insider
Al Pacino plays Al Pacino in an Al Pacino movie. If you like Al Pacino

Toy Story 2
Some day, all cartoons will look like this.

Biggest irritant - Toss up between Bringing Out the Dead and The End of the Affair. Normally Julianne Moore movies work for me, but Stephen Rea's "Mr. Cholmondley Warner does cuckold" acting just pissed me off. And as for that Scorsese-Cage piece of crap.

BOOK

King of the World - David Remnick

EVENTS

I'd be pissing about, lying, pretending and generally pulling everyone's leg if I was to pretend that the most significant happening in my life in the last year (by some distance) wasn't the birth of Patrick. Call me a soppy old get if you want, but everything else pales in comparison.

Margarita Vazquez Ponte

POPulist LP'S IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER AND MAYBE A BIT OF 1999ish AS WELL

MADONNA- MUSIC
LOOPER- GEOMETRID
EMINEM- SLIM SHADY LP
BLUR- THE BEST OF
DR DRE- 2001
GO-KART MOZART- INSTANT WIGWAM AND IGLOO MIXTURE
ALL SAINTS- SAINTS AND SINNERS
PRIMAL SCREAM-XTRMINTR
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN-FOLD YOUR HANDS.
RUSSELL SIMINS- PUBLIC PLACES
JOHNNY CASH- AMERICAN 111 SOLITARY MAN

TOP 5 LUNATICS FROM THE FILMHOUSE FOYER

1.The man with no teeth and some kind of palsy who smells and sometimes leaves his porn mags in the toilets.
2.The man who circumnavigates the foyer many many times always looking but never ever buying.
3. The woman who is always late, always flustered and I know for a fact had sex with a *** *****.
4. The big ginger man who spent a whole hour in the showers of warrender baths with a loofah but never actually got in the pool, he also prowls the foyer.
5.The really old man who I actually feel a bit sorry for but has really bad wind, so you just cant stick around.
TV Daria
Buffy (esp the one where the "gentlemen" stole everyones voices and then their heads exploded)
Angel
Dawsons creek
Longitude
Seinfeld
Miami and L A Seven
Black Books
Stella Street
Spaced

BEST LOOKALIKE

meg mathews and judy finnegan (have you ever seen them together?)

Also, that bird out of roxal truxxxx and judith "wish you were here" chalmers

Stuart Reid

SINGLES

1. Primal Scream "Kill All Hippies"
2. Moby "Natural Blues"
3. Idlewild "Little Discourage"
4. Hefner "Greedy, Ugly People"
5. Teenage Fanclub "I Need Direction"
6. All Saints "Pure Shoes"
7. Placebo "Taste In Men"
8. Coldplay "Trouble" (sorry Gordon!)
9. REM "The Great Beyond"
10. Eels "Flyswater"

ALBUMS

1. Grandaddy "The Sophtware Slump"
2. Hefner "We Love The City"
3. Coldplay "Parachutes" (Sorry again!)
4. Mojave 3 "Excuses For Travellers"
5. Badly Drawn Boy "The Hour of The Bewilderbeast"
6. Primal Scream "Xtrmntr"
7. The Delgados "The Great Eastern"
8. Belle & Seb "Fold Your Hands Child..."
9. Unbelievable Truth "Sorry Thank you"
10. Radiohead "Kid A"

GIGS

1. David Helfgott
2. Hefner
3. Radiohead
4. Mojavi 3 (with Monica Queen supporting)
5. Coldplay

BEST FOOTBALLING MOMENT

Phil Neville v. Romania (Euro2000)
While Airdrie winning the Challenge Cup would normally win (particularly in view of all we've been through), the best footballing moment of the year was in Rotterdam while watching Portugal trounce Germany 3-0 in Euro2000 - at the same time fearing our 1/4 final tickets would see us watching England against Italy. Listening to 5Live on the radio, hearing Alan Green describe England's demise as the penalty went in and the celebrations afterwards with the 3 of us, kilted and very drunk, dancing and singing 'Romanee, Romanee' to a Portuguese film crew - unforgettable!
All of the football and carnival of 10 days at Euro2000 was great.

FILMS

1. The Green Mile
2. American Beauty
3. Toy Story 2
4. Billy Elliott
5. Sixth Sense

WORST FILMS

The Bone Collector
The Talentless Mr Ripley
MI2

BOOKS

1. Mr Committment - Mike Gayle (read just before my girlfriend moved in !)
2. Boiling a Frog - Christopher Brookmyre
3. Turbulent Priests - Colin Bateman
4. Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

WORST BOOK READ DURING THE YEAR

The Wasp Factory - pointless and shite!

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS (thought I'd add this to sound cultured)

1. Medea
2. McHomer (how very culture!)
3. Irvine Welsh (thinking about 'Christmas at the Begbies' still brings tears to my eyes)
4. Tony Hawkes

FOOD DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR

Coleslaw