Best of 2013
[work in progress]
Film:
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Way Way Back
Gravity
Male Lead:
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Female Lead:
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Judy Dench – Philomena
Male Support:
Matthew McConaughy – The Wolf of Wall Street
Female Support:
(Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine)
(Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle)
Director:
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
Writer:
Nat Faxon & Jim Rash – The Way Way Back
Single:
Love Me Again – John Newman
Down the Road – C2C
Children Go Where I Send Thee – Nick Lowe
Where Are We Now – David Bowie
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Nothing’s Changed – Tricky (with Francesca Belmonte)
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me – Oscar Isaac
Album:
Quality Street – Nick Lowe
Cecile McLorin Salvant – WomanChild
Big Inner – Matthew E White
False Idols – Tricky
(Lee Perry presents – Candy McKenzie (1977 reissue))
Gig:
Van Morrison at Ronnie Scott’s
Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Stadium (Darkness on the Edge of Town)
The Rolling Stones at Hyde Park
Dexys – One Day I’m Going To Soar – Duke Of York’s Theatre
Play:
Othello at Olivier Theatre
Art Exhibition:
All that is Solid Melts into Air (Jeremy Deller), Manchester
Sport:
Andy Murray winning Wimbledon
Event:
My birthday party – incorporating The Box
test
Aarkangel – do re-releases count?
My best albums (with more to be added):
Matthew E White – Big Inner;
Scot Mou/Queens – End Times;
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest;
Fuzz – Fuzz;
Polica – Sulamaith; Amatorski – TBC;
Agnes Obel – Aventine;
Holy Other – Held
Re-releases don’t really count but I can’t think of what I have bought that was new 😦
I bought myself Big Inner for Christmas but I’m not fully convinced yet, needs more listening
Will work my way through your candidates
PS I’ve now made more of a fist of the singles and albums
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