{"id":337,"date":"2008-12-21T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2009-06-11T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:51:06","slug":"2008-review-owain-paciuszko-the-joy-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/2008-review-owain-paciuszko-the-joy-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Review : Owain Paciuszko (The Joy Collective)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recorded music highlights of 2008<\/span>
My recorded music highlight of 2008 was the casio rap demo EP of a chap who calls himself ‘Hedluv’ and hails from the same Cornish town I grew up in. His debut EP ‘Cosmic Sounds’ is a wonderful collection of surprisingly memorable tunes about such important world events as how amazing the game Goldeneye was on the N64 and driving to places five minutes down the road.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also getting a copy of ‘The Weather In Sweden’s debut album, formerly ‘The Salty Pirates’ this amazing indie-pop band have changed name and are currently label-searching with an absolutely near-perfect pop record in tow. Songs such as ‘My Academic Beard’ are anthems in-waiting, whilst ‘Twenty Something’ should be adorning many a bittersweet mixtape and ‘Forever All Taken Together’ seems destined to see festival crowds wrapping arms round one another, swaying and singing along. A brilliant and beautiful record.<\/p>\n

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Live music highlights of 2008<\/span>
My live music highlight was the End of the Road festival in its entireity. This year I was generally looking forward to The Green Man Festival, and it was indeed a fantastic festival and I am looking forward to going again in ’09 (as I’m tentatively calling it), but once Green Man was over I had a craving, I was suffering at home, going festival cold turkey and I longed for another tent bound music experience. So, I got into the End of the Road at the last possible minute as a steward and got to see an amazing, joyous set by Bon Iver, a weird (totally) unplugged and oddly funny performance by Thingumajig*saw, the mighty Jeffrey Lewis and – my favourite band – The Mountain Goats, who played a set comprised of pretty much every song I hoped they’d play. The entire audience bellowing bitterly – but happily – along to ‘No Children’ was my festival highpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n

What else did you enjoy this year?<\/span>
Otherwise this year I have enjoyed using the Megabus, a lot. I have enjoyed the absolutely jaw-droppingly beautiful film ‘The Fall’ that should, and will, be a cult DVD smash. I have also enjoyed the cafe down the road from me called Cafe Amour, or Cafe Aroma, I can never remember… it’s on Crwys Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008 was…<\/span>
…brief and hapharzardly assembled with sticky tape and glue.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009 will be…
<\/span>…Twangst.<\/span>
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