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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13)

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:37:10 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31)

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:18:05 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24)

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:55:44 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:10:19 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10):

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Current listening

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:41:00 +0100

After something of a lull, I’m currently working my way through a lot. Weeding out the disappointments, this is what I’ve been enjoying over the past week or so.

Com Truise - Fairlight EP
Chad Valley - “Now That I’m Real (How Does It Feel)” / Chad Valley EP
Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk / Wuppdeckmischmampflow
League Unlimited Orchestra - Love & Dancing
Ronika - “Forget Yourself” / “Wiyoo”
Planningtorock - W
White Denim - D
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Hannah Peel - The Broken Wave
Bella Hardy - Songs Lost & Stolen
Le Trio Joubran - As Far
Trichotomy - The Gentle War
17 Hippies - Phantom Songs
Tamikrest - Toumastin
Owiny Sigoma Band - Owiny Sigoma Band
Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double O Groove Of
Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
Wild Beasts - Smother
The Pierces - You & I
The Decembrists - The King Is Dead
Cocknbullkid - Adulthood

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5)

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:13:33 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29)

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:06:15 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15)

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:28:40 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1)

Fri, 06 May 2011 21:51:28 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24)

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:48:36 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10)

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:25:55 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23)

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:24:28 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23):

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megpickard: Should I work for Free?

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:23:39 +0000

megpickard:

Should I work for Free?

Photo

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:32:58 +0000

Troubled Diva Spoticast 002

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:47:23 +0000

Troubled Diva Spoticast 002:

Decemberists, British Sea Power, Jamie Woon, Teenage Fanclub, Drive-By Truckers, Derroll Adams, Gerry Rafferty, Japan, Mark Ronson, Mice Parade, Raghu Dixit, Cee-Lo Green, Fantasia, Jazmine Sullivan, Katy B/Ms Dynamite, Boney M, Cosmetics, School Of Seven Bells, Anna Calvi, James Blake.

Here’s my commentary, and here’s the Spotify playlist.

Troubled Diva Spoticast 001

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:15:55 +0000

Troubled Diva Spoticast 001:

Here’s a new series for 2011, on my long-neglected Troubled Diva blog: weekly Spotify playlists, with full track-by-track blurbs. I’m calling them “Spoticasts”. Here’s the first one.

My most played tracks of 2010, according to last.fm

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:15:01 +0000

1 Scissor Sisters – Fire With Fire
2 Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
2 Erykah Badu – Window Seat
4 She & Him – In The Sun
4 John Grant – TC and Honeybear
6 Kelis – Acapella
6 David Guetta – Gettin’ Over You (Featuring Fergie & LMFAO)
8 Lady Gaga – Alejandro
8 Field Music – Them That Do Nothing
8 Field Music – Measure
8 Kylie Minogue – All The Lovers
8 Kelis – 4th of July (Fireworks)
13 Tensnake – Coma Cat
13 Plan B – She Said
13 John Grant – Where Dreams Go to Die
13 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round
13 Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
13 Crystal Castles – Celestica
13 Janelle Monae – Tightrope - Feat. Big Boi
20 Christopher Cross – Sailing
20 John Grant – I Wanna Go To Marz
20 Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
20 John Grant – Sigourney Weaver
20 Jackie Leven – John Paul Getty’s Silver Cadillac
20 Ali Farka Touré – Ruby
26 Rupert Holmes – Him
26 Rumer – Slow
26 Stornoway – I Saw You Blink
26 Rumer – Blackbird
26 John Grant – Chicken Bones
26 Spoon – Written in Reverse
26 Anaïs Mitchell – Our lady of the underground
26 Owl City – Umbrella Beach
26 Ron Basejam – Into My Life
26 BOB – Nothin’ On You [feat. Bruno Mars]
26 Katy Perry – California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)
26 Flo Rida – Club Can’t Handle Me - Feat. David Guetta
26 Magnetic Man – Perfect Stranger
39 Toto – Georgy Porgy
39 Force MD’s – Tender Love
39 Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ [Every Time You’re Near]
39 Rumer – Healer
39 Ali Farka Touré – 56
39 Spoon – Who Makes Your Money
39 Stromae – Alors on danse
39 Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Looking for What
39 Caribou – Odessa
39 Ripperton – At Peace
39 Jackie Leven – Song For Bass Guitar and Death
39 John Grant – It’s Easier

My most played artists of 2010, according to last.fm

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:06:00 +0000

(My scrobbler never lies, etc. Although it still doesn’t track CD plays.)

1 John Grant
2 Ali Farka Touré
3 Field Music
4 David Byrne and Fatboy Slim
5 Jackie Leven
6 Scissor Sisters
6 Ron Basejam
8 Kevin Ayers
9 Janelle Monae
10 Ripperton
11 Rumer
12 Owl City
13 The Chieftains
13 The Avett Brothers
15 Carolina Chocolate Drops
15 She & Him
17 Quadron
18 Mulatu Astatke
19 Robert Plant
20 I Am Kloot
20 Gayngs
22 David Guetta
22 diskJokke
24 Gavin Friday
25 Rufus Wainwright
25 Luke Abbott
25 Lady Antebellum
28 Spoon
29 Erykah Badu
29 Paul Weller

http://www.last.fm/user/troubleddiva

My favourite 60 albums and 70 tracks of 2010

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:02:09 +0000

My favourite 60 albums and 70 tracks of 2010

Mike's gigs of 2010.

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:45:00 +0000

A list of every gig that I attended in 2010, in fastidiously descending order of preference.

1. Oumou Sangare, T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
2. Candi Staton
3. Crystal Castles, HEALTH
4. These New Puritans
5. Noisettes
6. Scissor Sisters, Hurts
7. The Stranglers
8. Hot Chip, Casiokids
9. Whitney Houston
10. Rod Stewart
11. I Am Kloot
12. The Gentle Isolation, The Camerawalls, Your Imaginary Friends, Kate Torralba (two gigs, same line-up)
13. Tom Robinson (60th birthday), Chew Lips, Toumani Diabate, TV Smith, Nitin Sawhney, Eugene McGuinness etc
14. Avi Buffalo
15. Hadouken!, Unicorn Kid
16. Jackie Leven
17. The Invisible
18. Plan B
19. Rihanna, Pixie Lott, Tinie Tempah
20. Bella Hardy Trio
21. Sugarhill Gang
22. Chris Wood
23. Belleruche
24. Squeeze, Lightning Seeds
25. Miike Snow
26. Owl City, Lights
27. Beverley Knight
28. The Low Anthem
29. Ellie Goulding
30. Bridget St. John, Michael Chapman
31. JLS
32. Rufus Wainwright
33. Kele
34. Joy Formidable, Chapel Club

Note (1) - Any one of the top four deserves to be my gig of the year.
Note (2) - There were no out and out stinkers this year, just a few comparatively lacklustre evenings.