Spillers continues to continue and Grace will probably always be associated with it, no matter all her other extra-curricular activities. Here we go:

Recorded music highlights of 2008:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
Gentle Good – While You Slept I Went Out Walking
Truckers of Husk – Get Physical EP
Bonnie Prince Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain Look Out Sea
Grace Jones – Hurricane
Kitty Daisy and Lewis – S/T
Lyrics Born – Everywhere at Once
Alias – Resurgam
Tv on the Radio – Dear Science
Giant Sand – Provisions
Black Mountain – In the Future

Live music highlights of 2008:
Shellac at ATP’s ‘Release the Bats’
Truckers, Zail, RHLH and Legowelt at SWN
All of End of the Road (esp LOW swooooooooooooooooooon)
Grinderman and Grace Jones at the Electric Picnic Festival
Silver Jews at ATP
The Spirit Level (they leave me speechless each time they play)
Bjork (Plymouth Pavillion)
Low (Thekla)
Effterklang (The Point)
Malcolm Middleton (The Glee Club)

What else did you enjoy this year?
General wreckings and wrongings, often in the company of Lou and Ash. My 30th birthday party the other week was immense. Also the Spillers instores this year have made me warm inside

2008 was…
A mixture of peaks and troughs but the peaks won out in the end

2009 will be…
12 months long