Lisa works tirelessly around Cardiff to make fun things happen and people smile. She’s part of wordy goodness team Scrabble Sunday, and comedy goodness lot the Junket Club. Join in.<\/p>\n
Recorded music highlights of 2008<\/strong> Bonnie Prince Billy Times New Viking Live music highlights of 2008<\/strong> Other festival highlights What else did you enjoy this year?<\/strong> Ben Moor \u2013 Not Everything is Significant at the Edinburgh Festival. We spent a week in Edinburgh for the festival and my friend Paul came too \u2013 the self confessed hater of comedy. He\u2019d seen a racist, an audience hater and a goat – he wasn\u2019t having a good time. I forced him to come with me to see Ben Moor because I knew he was a genius. Curious, mind-bending and very funny. And Paul liked it too. Hooray. <\/p>\n Maeve Higgins – End Of The Road. One of the funniest people I’ve ever seen. <\/p>\n Starting Scrabble Sunday with my buddy Paul Barnett (the comedy hater) and getting to go to all the festivals for free with a boot full of Scrabble boards. It\u2019s been exactly what we wanted it to be – a lovely thing with nice people playing the best game ever (bar boggle, which is on a par) whether that\u2019s in a caf\u00e9 in Cardiff, in a field in Suffolk or under an umbrella in London. <\/p>\n Meeting my friend Benjamin at the very first Scrabble Sunday. He\u2019s become one of my favourite people in the world and we\u2019ve started The Junket Club together. The Junket Club makes me happier than I can even start to explain. The idea is to bring brilliant comedy to interesting places. It\u2019s about the whole experience from getting your ticket through the door to the performance itself. We want it to feel like a wee bit of magic. Can\u2019t wait for the next one \u2013 Josie Long and Mike Wozniak in the Planetarium. Bloody brilliant. <\/p>\n 2008 was…<\/strong> 2009 will be…<\/strong> Lisa works tirelessly around Cardiff to make fun things happen and people smile. She’s part of wordy goodness team Scrabble Sunday, and comedy goodness lot the Junket Club. Join in. Recorded music highlights of 2008Beach House DevotionIt\u2019s just a delightful record. My friend Carl seems to find gems before they\u2019ve even been signed. A few […]<\/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-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Beach House
Devotion
It\u2019s just a delightful record. My friend Carl seems to find gems before they\u2019ve even been signed. A few months later, you hear them all about the place (by which time, he\u2019s bored with them). That\u2019s what happened with Devendra Banhart. And Joanna Newsam. And Fleet Foxes. And now Beach House. I reckon he\u2019s the gem. <\/p>\n
Lie Down In The Light
I love his upside down face. Oh, and his music. I didn\u2019t hear many people say much about this album, but I think it\u2019s incredible. Maybe he\u2019s just too prolific to keep up. You listen to the twiddly tunes you think they\u2019re probably songs about barn dances and his mum and dad, but then his rudeness (blowjobs for example) brilliantly sneak in… hehe. <\/p>\n
Rip It Off
I probably wouldn\u2019t have liked this record had I not seen them live first. As soon as something is a bit too shouty I tend to run away. But I saw these three in Clwb this year and their amp blew up and they knocked things over and they just carried on regardless in their fantastically ramshackle way. And I loved it. <\/p>\n
S\u0175n was my music highlight of 2008. It seems to bring all the best bits of Cardiff together in a weekend.
Best bits:
Euros Childs in the Museum. He was incredible. And mocked my friend Anna-Marie for snoozing during his set.
Agaskodo Teliverek – Clwb Ifor Bach. Pregnant japanese lady going mental. Awesome.
Right Hand Left Hand – Clwb Ifor Bach. <\/p>\n
Amadou and Mariam – Latitude festival.
Bon Iver – End Of The Road.
Richard Hawley – End Of The Road. <\/p>\n
Daniel Kitson – The Impotent Fury Of The Privileged at the Sherman in May. This was another installment of Daniel\u2019s step by step, show by show plan to make us better people and blow our little minds. What a good egg. <\/p>\n
A bit happy. A bit sad. A bit joyous. A bit loved up. A bit lonely. A lot lovely.<\/p>\n
Played out on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"