Stevie Cruickshanks

SINGLES

(Not that I really buy them these days)

1. Outkast - Hey Ya
2. Streets - Dry Your Ys Mate
3. Kelis - Milkshake
4. Dead 60s - You're Not the Law
5. Dead 60s - Riot on my Radio

ALBUMS

1. Soul Function - Various
2. Let there be rockgrass - Hayseed Dixie
3. Real Gone - Tom Waits
4. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
5. Who killed the Zutons - The Zutons
6. Tonight Alright - Spiderbait

MUSOS MET

1. Lynval Golding (Legend! So chuffed I've shook hands with a Special)
2. Dead 60s - good lads
3. Chris Bailey - bit of a sad tosser really

FILMS

(Didnae see that many on account of the fact that the cinema at Enfield is always full of wee neds in shellsuits using their phones while the film is on & I'm gonnae get the jail some time for smacking one of them)

1. Mystic River
2. The Football Factory
3. Lord of the Wing
4. Bubba Ho-tep
5. The Station Agent
6. Japanese Story
7. Out of this World
8. Intolerable Cruelty
9. Along Came Polly (saw it on the plane, thought it would be shite but pissed masel at the basketball scene)

Anticlimax - Kill Bill 2

Please Kill Me Before this film runs any longer - Cold Mountain (apart from the battle at the start)

DVDs

1. Richard Pryor - Live in Concert
2. The Who - The Kids are Alright
3. Calexico - World Drifts In: Live at the Barbican

TELLY

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (utter, utter genius)
2. Deadwood (not only is it a Western, but it has Brad Dourif in the cast! Surprisingly Ian McShane is godlike in this)
3. The Simpsons
4. The Sopranos
5. Malcolm in the Middle
6. Kath & Kim
7. The Shield
8. Soccer AM

GIGS

1. Lee Hazlewood
2. Dead 60s
3. Detroit Cobras
4. Skatalites
5. Hoodoo Gurus / Spiderbait
6. Ordinary Boys / Kaiser Chiefs

Worst performance by a has-been Japanese busker - Damo Suzuki

BOOKS

1. Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
2. True Crime - Jake Arnott
3. Collected Letters - Charles Bukowski
4. Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
5. Wheels out of Gear: 2 Tone, The Specials and a World in Flame - Dave Thompson
6. Jock Stein Biog - Archie MacPherson
7. Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful - Paolo Hewitt & John Hellier

MOST SCENIC VIEW FROM THE STAND AT A FITBA STADIUM

Falkirk FC (Nice view, shame aboot the orange songs)

IRISHMAN OF THE YEAR

Aiden McGeady

SHORTEST REIGN AS A LOYALIST ICON

Jean-Alain Boumsong (Boum Boum Boum, let me hear you say away-oh.....away-oh!)

JOHN PEEL SOUNDBITE

"Aargh! Me chest!" (there - that oughta win me some friends....)

CJ Jeruzal

ALBUMS

1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning Strike
3. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
4. Sons & Daughters - Love The Cup
5. Kanye West - The College Dropout
6. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
7. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
8. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
9. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
10. Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
11. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
12. Tom Waits - Real Gone
13. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
14. Bjork - Medulla
15. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
16. Joy Zipper - American Whip
17. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
18. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
19. Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks
20. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

TRACKS (singles are so 2003):

1. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
2. The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love
3. Sons And Daughters - Johnny Cash
4. Britney Spears - Toxic
5. Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown
6. The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
7. Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
8. Kelis - Trick Me
9. The Walkmen - The Rat
10. Loretta Lynn - Portland, Oregon
11. Bloc Party - Helicopter
12. Annie - Chewing Gum
13. Dykehouse - Chain Smoking
14. AC Newman - Miracle Drug
15. Phoenix - Everything Is Everything
16. Junior Boys - Last Exit
17. Destinys Child - Lose My Breath
18. The 5,6,7,8's - Woo Hoo
19. Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC
20. Soulwax - NY Excuse

TV:

1. The Power of Nightmares
2. Shameless
3. The OC
4. Match Of The Day 2
5. Nighty Night

FILM:

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2. Lost In Translation (you're wrong Legge)
3. Hero
4. Dodgeball
5. Shaun Of The Dead (I'm such a student)

HEROES:

1. Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr
2. Spiderman/Peter Parker
3. Tbe Wee Magician/Russell Latapy

VILLAINS: 1. Robert Kilroy-Silk
2. Coca-Cola (for Dasani)
3. Sarah O

HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR:

Getting the club nights at Abart in Zurich confused and wandering into the S&M-fest that is 'Industrial' Night. Actually ended up being a very pleasant evening (there was a pool table), apart from the one guy in full German military regalia who kept staring at me. His name wasn't Harry sadly.

I hardly ever listened to John Peel's Radio Show. Therefore I have no fond memories or witty anecdotes. Apparently, i'm just about the only one.

Gordon Legge

SINGLES

1. Kelis - Milkshake
2. Pete Rock ft. Dead Prez - Warzone
3. N*E*R*D - She Wants To Move (Native Tongues remix)
4. Kelis - Trick Me
5. Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme
6. Eamon- I Love Them...
7. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
8. Timbaland & Magoo ft. Missy Cop - That Sh*t
9. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
10. Fire Engines - Jacqueline
11. Deep Dish - Flashdance
12. Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik (+ remixes)
13. The Streets- Dry Your Eyes
14. Cornershop - Topknot
15. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
16. Kelis ft. Andre 3000 - Millionaire
17. Estelle - 1980
18. Beastie Boys - An Open Letter To NYC
19. Michael Gray - Weekend
20. Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot

LONG PLAYERS

1. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
2. Kanye West - The College Dropout
3. Kid 606 - Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
4. N*E*R*D - Fly Or Die
5. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
6. Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
7. Nectarine No. 9 - I Love Total Destruction
8. Kid 606 - Who Still Kill Sound?
9. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
10. Jill Scott - Beautifully Human Words And Music Vol. 2
11. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
12. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
13. Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
14. Bobby Conn - The Homeland
15. Todd Rundgren- Liars
16. Plant Life - The Return Of Jack Splash
17. Kelis - Tasty
18. Morrissey - Morrissey, You Are The Quarry
19. Yesterday's New Quintet - Stevie
20. Pitman - Pit Closure

FILMS

1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2. Infernal Affairs
3. Dogville
4. Hero
5. House Of Flying Daggers
6. Old Boy
7. Arahan
8. Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
9. Zatoichi(for the finale)
10. Spider-Man 2

TELLY

1. Big Brother 5
2. Newsnight ft. Mark E. Smith
3. Ian Hislop's Question Time response to the Hutton Report
4. The Apprentice USA
5. Paula Radcliffe's failure
6. Marian Keyes on BBLB
7. I'm A Celebrity2 & 3
8. Sue Barker's Rice Crispie microphone
9. Duncan Ferguson's ordering off against Leicester
10. Urs Meier at Euro 2004

GIGS

1. Acid Mothers Temple at Ochre 10
2. Kid 606 at The Venue
3. Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies at The Venue
4. Fire Engines at the Liquid Rooms
5. Glide at Ochre 10
6. Jandek at Instal

BOOKS

1=. Bill Duncan - The Wee Book of Calvin
1=. Roddy Lumsden - Vitamin Q

PRINCE MOMENTS

1. On The Couch
2. If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life
3. The Marrying Kind
4. What Do U Want Me 2 Do
5. Cinnamon Girl
6. Hot Chip - Down With Prince
7. Plant Life - The Return of Jack Splash
8. Har Mar Superstar - Body Request
9. The Freestylers - Push It
10. Bobby Conn - Relax

"SIT DOWN, MAN, YOU'RE A BLOODY TRAGEDY!"

1. Lost In Translation
2. Fahrenheit 9/11
3. Andre Williams
4. Mekons
5. Incident At Loch Ness
6. Dr Alimantado
7. Big Brother Panto
8. Ramones: End Of The Century
9. Instal's line up of worthies
10. John Cooper Clarke

5 THINGS I NEVER GOT ROUND TO ASKING JOHN PEEL

1. "John, I attribute my longstanding discomfort around women to being brought up, for the most part, by a television set. During the sixties/ early seventies, did you, with any sense of regularity, refer to yourself as either a) a 'leg man' or b) a 'tit man'?"
2. "I get the feeling that you disliked David Bowie, or perhaps, more reasonably, resented him; more than anything, I get the distinct impression that this was ABSOLUTELY PERSONAL. Explain yourself. There's more to it than him owing you £50."
3. "I often wonder, what do you think when you hear Gilles Peterson play some fantastic weird jazz freakout, knowing that when it was originally released you were giving 47 sessions to Bridget St John?"
4. "John, are blokes always this confrontational when they meet you?"
5. "Do you think maybe it's a way of showing I/they/we care?"

Roddy Lumsden

SONGS OF THE YEAR

One of the very best years for music - interesting neo-folk, the ill-named but super 'indietronica', broody and enraptured singer-songwriters, glitchy dub-pop, US indie bands without sock-puppet singers, Canada, Canada and more Canada, the icecapades sampling of The Go! Team and the wonderful new nine-piece wonder Ella Guru from Liverpool. Here are my highlights, in sort of order (*means from one of my favourite albums of the year):

Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear (*The Milk Eyed Mender)
Ella Guru– Blues Is the Root (*The First Album)
Wolf Parade – Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
The Go! Team – Bottle Rocket (*Thunder Lightning Strike)
Johnny Boy – You Are the Generation Who Bought More Shoes...
The Killers – Mr Brightside (*Hot Fuss)
Rachel Goswell – Plucked (*Waves Are Universal)
Lucky Jim – Lesbia (*Our Troubles End Tonight)
The Arcade Fire – Une Annιe Sans Lumiere (*Funeral)
Khonnor – The Stoned Night
Marquis de Suave – Postcards (*LP still unreleased)
Laura Veirs – Riptide (*Carbon Glacier)
Iron & Wine– Each Coming Night (*The Creek Drank the Cradle)
A Girl Called Eddy – People Used To Dream About the Future (*self-titled)
Ed Harcourt– Born in the 70s
Junior Boys – Teach Me How To Fight
Rufus Wainwright – I Don't Know What It Is
Maritime – King of Doves
Mϊm – The Island of the Children's Children
The Blue Nile – Everybody Else
Thirteen Senses – Into the Fire
Stina Nordenstam – I'm Staring Out at the World
The Futureheads – Hounds of Love
Tortuous Tracks - Efterklang
Dogs Die in Hot Cars – Apples and Oranges
Lali Puna – Faking the Books

This was also the year I discovered (generally belatedly) Parker & Lily, The Innocence Mission, Fennesz, The Shins, The Aislers Set, The Album Leaf, Tristeza, Bridget St John (sorry Gordon), Neutral Milk Hotel, Ulrich Schnauss, Life Without Buildings, Jon Brion, Lone Pigeon, State River Widening, The New Pornographers, Robert Deeble and Tilly and the Wall.

MY PEEL SOUNDBITES

1 (distracted at end of record) 'And the Kop sang like Gods – they did – I heard it on the radio'
2 (first play of Blue Monday) 'Sounds like Pink Floyd gone disco'
3 'I think 1983 is going to be the year when jangly guitar music makes a comeback'
4 'I could listen to Cathal Coughlan singing the telephone directory'

BOOKS

1 Roddy Lumsden - Vitamin Q
2 Roddy Lumsden – Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems

Lest this seem arrogant, the 4 books I got for Xmas should sum up the geekiness of my real reading: Dust by Joseph Amato (yes, it's about dust); Animal Tracks and Signs (great close-up dropping photos); Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads (a history of natural history museums); American Road Atlas (even though I can't drive).

BEST JIGSAWS DONE THIS YEAR

1 Vintage Cadbury's adverts (this was the one Nina and I were so engrossed in, we missed the bells at Hogmanay; we also had baked fruit in the oven)
2 Playing Cards (very stimulating)
3 Victorian Skaters (both of us: 'it's cut SO well')

GIGS

1 Ella Guru (Bush Hall)
2 The Killers (Kentish Town)
3 A Girl Called Eddy (Barfly Enterprise)

DISAPPOINTMENTS

1 Nanci Griffith at the Albert Hall (overdue a KLF / Jack Black makeover)
2 Mull Historical Society LP (too much too soon)
3 Bark Psychosis LP (good, but not Hex)

FILMS

1 Slade in Flame
(NB this was the first film I have seen all the way through since, too drunk to reach the remote, I watched Mask – with Cher – on late night TV in 2000)

10 RAVES FROM THE GRAVE DISCOVERED WITH THE HELP OF SOULSEEK

1 The Valves – Don't Mean Nothin' At All
2 Johnny Cougar - Miami
3 Basczax – Madison Fallout
4 White Plains – When You Are a King
5 The Roches- Hammond Song
6 Genesis – Counting Out Time
7 No Room – Athletico Spizz 80
8 Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened
9 Bram Tchaikovsky – Girl of My Dreams
10 Clock DVA – Sensorium

Roddy: www.vitaminq.blogspot.com