Recorded music highlights of 2008
1) Wild Beasts – Limbo, Panto
2) Cool Kids – Bake Sale
3) Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
4) The Airborne Toxic Event – The Airborne Toxic Event
5) Abe Vigoda – Skeleton
6) Why – Alopecia
7) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
8) Rolo Tomassi – Hysterics
9) Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
10) Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping

Also, ‘big love’ for Chairlift, Portishead, No Age, Times New Viking, Ladyhawke, TV on the Radio, MGMT, Cut Copy, Late of the Pier, Fuck Buttons and Vampire Weekend. And some more I can’t think of right now.

Live music highlights of 2008
Live Music = Dananananaykroyd supporting Johnny Foreigner at the Cardiff Barfly. RATM and Monotonix come in second, and third.

What else did you enjoy this year?
This year I enjoyed SXSW, Peanut Butter, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

2008 was…
…segmented.

2009 will be…
…post-subcultural (plus more flannel shirts)