Another year done. The year started the first week of January with Rockaway Beach. The year concluded with Robert Plant
Category: Annual Review
This has been my busiest year for gigging and probably my quietest for London gigging in quite some time (excluding
My 2024 list reflects my most listened to albums released in 2024. With streaming services making consuming music so easy.
And so ends another gigging year. I’m still not back to pre-pandemic levels. This year, I bettered the 156 gigs
Like last year, my listening habits have been constrained by a reduced amount of listening at work and an increased
After only managing 23 gigs in 2021. This year was closer to being a normal year. Despite missing about a
It has been a weird year for listening to albums. I seem to have been listening to music less during
Well 2021 didn’t pan out the way we hoped it would. At the beginning of 2021, it looked like by
A departure from previous years. The fews gigs I got to this year had different meanings to previous years such
Continuing the trend of listening to more new music, but without a daily commute, more thinly. There’s been a lot
There is not much I can say about 2020, that hasn’t been said many times before. Just like everyone, it’s
Most years, I see too many bands to come up with a ‘top list’. While there’s usually a standout performance
For obvious reasons. This year’s photo highlights are limited. January Despite the sudden end to 2020’s gigging. I did manage
My listening habits have changed massively this year. I decided at the beginning of the year to make best use
Well what a year that was. Lots of great guitar bands coming through on the back of the Idles ‘post-punk’
Who do I think might break into larger venues in 2020?
200 gigs this year. This is a run down of who I saw
2017 was the year I stopped blogging! I got behind in January and never caught back up. As I had
As with previous years, lots of gigs and lots of photographs. Collected below is a selection from across the year.
2017 was the first year I started to use a streaming service. I listened to a lot of new music
Sadly, Storify is closing it’s service. So I won’t be able to use it for 2018. I’ve grabbed this year’s
This year wasn’t my busiest, but I still managed to get to over 150 gigs. Part of the reason for