As well as keeping Spillers Records ticking over and promoting the odd band, Ashli has also been a Joy Collective contributor this year, as well as an excellent baker of cakes.<\/p>\n
Recorded Music Highlights…<\/span><\/p>\n Albums Tracks Most listened to while running Best gigs that left me elated: <\/span><\/p>\n Bruce Springsteen – Cardiff Stadium. 3 hrs \/ 2 pints. He must have been good to keep me off the ale! What else did I enjoy?<\/span><\/p>\n McNulty (and other moments from The Wire) 2008 was<\/span><\/p>\n … another non stop and relentless year.<\/p>\n 2009 will be … <\/span><\/p>\n … I’m sure it will have its moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As well as keeping Spillers Records ticking over and promoting the odd band, Ashli has also been a Joy Collective contributor this year, as well as an excellent baker of cakes. Recorded Music Highlights… AlbumsBlack Mountain – In The FutureFlying Lotus – Los AngelesSilver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout SeaFuck Buttons – Street HorrrsingEarth – […]<\/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-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Black Mountain – In The Future
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
Steve Reid + Kieran Hebden – NY
Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
Gentle Good – While You Slept I Went Out Walking
Errors – It’s Not Something, But It Is Like Whatever
Benga – Diary Of An Afro Warrior
Retribution Gospel Choir – s\/t<\/p>\n
TV on the Radio – DLZ
Witch – Sweet Sue
Atmosphere – You
Black Ghost – Anyway You Choose To Give It
The Whip – Trash
The Accidental – Illuminated Red
Cate Le Bon – O Bont I Bont
Jonathan Richman – When We Refuse to Suffer (2nd version \/ side 2)
Aloha Hawaii – I’ve Been Bad For Years and Years
Mary Hampton – Because You’re Young<\/p>\n
Moby – Last Night
Foals – Antidotes
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Lyrics Born – Everywhere at Once<\/p>\n
Bjork – Plymouth Pavilion – LFO dropping Freak during the set. A moment of beaming joy.
Low – Bristol Thekla. I still get goosebumps when I think of this gig.
Witch – Camden Underworld. Seeing J Mascis on drums, swoon.
Flying Lotus – Big Chill. A k.r.u.n.k.ing + dirty set that was much heavier than the LP.
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Clwb Ifor Bach. Lovely, lovely people – Lots of dancing. Good show! (great instore too!)
Clinic – Clwb \/ Swn – The best I’ve seen them.
Fuck Buttons \/ Caribou \/ Black Mountain \/ Greenman – wig out haziness from what I can recall : )
Peth – Spillers Records \/ In store. Winners of most people playing in the shop at one time + very funny.
All the times I saw Alex Dingley \/ Zail \/ RHLH \/ Zonderhoof \/ Zumbar.<\/p>\n
Learning the drums (and pretending to be in a band called the Miss-cuits)
Running (and managing to go out even when I’d rather have not)
‘Adopting’ a cat.<\/p>\n