My name’s Will and I occasionally write some silly stuff for this fine website. Here are my choices:<\/p>\n
Recorded music highlights of 2008:<\/strong> Live music highlights of 2008:<\/strong> What else did you enjoy this year?<\/strong> 2008 was\u2026<\/strong> 2009 will be\u2026 <\/strong> My name’s Will and I occasionally write some silly stuff for this fine website. Here are my choices: Recorded music highlights of 2008: The two records that stayed with me the most were \u2018Afton\u2019 by Anni Rossi, and Remember Remember\u2019s self-titled album. \u2018Afton\u2019 is all whoops and viola, \u2018Remember Remember\u2019 intricate and serene, and both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe two records that stayed with me the most were \u2018Afton\u2019 by Anni Rossi, and Remember Remember\u2019s self-titled album. \u2018Afton\u2019 is all whoops and viola, \u2018Remember Remember\u2019 intricate and serene, and both are things of real beauty. Other good albums: Leila, Cassetteboy, El Perro Del Mar, Mae Shi, Dimension X. Singles by Camille and Theo. Many Trojan box sets, many old ska and reggae songs, in particular \u2018Bongo Man\u2019 by Bongo Man Byfield and \u2018El Pussycat\u2019 by Roland Alphonso, which sounds like the theme from \u2018Bottom\u2019 but with people going \u2018meow\u2019 over it.<\/p>\n
\nWay too many. My one day at Venn was probably my favourite of this year \u2013 from Hauschka to Snorkel to Corey Orbison, it was smiles all the way. Other stuff: Betty & The Werewolves were ridiculously fun twice, Golden Disko Ship the same amount and Errors about a million times. Noisy and great stuff from Jay Reatard in Bristol, and Times New Viking, Fringes, John And Jehn, Magik Markers, Vivian Girls, Lovvers, and A Place To Bury Strangers in Cardiff. Quiet, lovely stuff from the Rosie Taylor Project and Efterklang. More ridiculously fun stuff from Partyline, Kania Tieffer, Mae Shi and Glam Chops. Wildbirds And Peacedrums at Greenman. Camera Obscura in that London. Impressive cover versions from the local bands too: Meanz Heinz slipping into \u2018Da Funk\u2019, Spencer McGarry Season and Gindrinker mauling \u2018Once In A Lifetime\u2019 and Space In The 50s, Lt Meat and DC Gates destroying \u2018Material Girl\u2019. This is the edited version by the way. The quality of local promoters continues to bowl me over.<\/p>\n
\nSeeing Mark E Smith getting thrown out of a film at the Hay Festival. The guitarist from Hreda coming over and shouting \u201cBrothers in hair!\u201d at me. The film\u00a0My Winnipeg. Being allowed to DJ at some places. All of S\u0175n, pretty much. The news that David Quantick is going out with someone from the Loves. Scrabble Sunday. The gay, existential zombie film Otto. Casey Raymond\u2019s weird films. Seeing the famous bear of Madrid. The Junket Club. Getting into Vonnegut. The totally great food places Hungry Planet and Pablo’s Kitchen in Splott. Occasionally finding a pair of trousers I like.<\/p>\n
\nConstantly accelerating.<\/p>\n
\nSpent trying to reconcile Googling \u2018post oil\u2019 with buying lots of CDs probably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"