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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1872 Registered: 05-2005 |
Moment of the year: Hearing the Australian election exit polls five minutes before the polls closed in NSW. I jumped in the air and whooped for joy. Gigs of the year: Robert Forster's four night stand in Brisbane in August. Catching up with / meeting for the first time like-minded souls Randy, Catherine, the Davids, the Kiwis, Pete and more was more wonderful than I could have even hoped for. Films of the year: Joint winners - The Bourne Ultimatum for the sheer visceral thrill. This Is England because it was a master class in filmmaking. Radio station of the year: ABC's NewsRadio TV drama of the year: The Sopranos (I didn't watch much else) TV comedy of the year: The Chaser's War On Everything (ABC) TV news program of the year: Lateline (ABC) I'll add more favourite bits from 2007 when I think of them. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1993 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good idea Pad. Moment of the year: Watching my 2.5 yr old twin daughters running outside with their new found friends first day at Nursery School Gigs of the year: Massive Attack and Madness. Plus my own gig The Winnebago;s first gig in Northampton last week, at the Jazz Butcher's Masters of Budvar night. It was wonderful, playing with such nice and talented people, REAL musicians too, unlike myself, who plays with a thousand scraps of paper around me with half arsed chord shapes on a scribbled out fretboard with only five strings on the page! Films of the year: I haven't got one though I think it will be This is England which I plan to buy in time for Xmas. Radio station of the year: Radio 4. Radio 6 was my fave until they started employing these crass TV presenters like George Effin Lamb, JEEEEZUZ! Miss early morningis on radio 6 with mr Phill Jupitas who was much funnier than on TV, and he used to answer my emails and read em out on air, at 6am, when no one was listening, mostly about The Nightingales and The Stranglers!! TV drama of the year: Gordan Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (effin hilarious) though he is the seargent major! TV comedy of the year: See above TV news program of the year: Detestedthe amount of news from every medium, there's way way too much, an not enough about the poor people of the world, I mean over here the main story all week is about a lost canoeist who turns up after playing dead for five years, look, do i sound effin interested in this effin shite?... NO! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 135 Registered: 10-2006 |
A very Germanic year culturally, for some reason… Concert of the year/my life: Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater in Dresden’s KreuzKirche. My most loved classical piece in a setting freighted with tragic density. Awesome, in the original sense. Book of the year: I shall bear witness, Victor Klemperer. A virtually day-by-day account of a Jewish professor’s life in the 1930s as the Nazi grip tightens. Wine of the year: Schloss Proschwitz: a huge, fruity Saxon white. Brought home six in my rucksack, all gone now. Sob. Film: Four minutes. Spectacular performance by Hannah Herzsprung as an unhinged virtuoso pianist in prison for murder, in one scene playing the piano behind her back, and in handcuffs. Stupendous musical finale. TV: Roberto Benigni one man-show, one-hour of scatter-fire satire followed by one hour of Dante’s Inferno, minutely explained and passionately read (from memory). Amazing man. Next year: Ricky Gervais explicates Paradise Lost…? DVD: The Wire, 1, 2 & 3. Just brilliant. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 214 Registered: 01-2007 |
Radio Programme-Radcliffe and Maconie on Radio 2 TV Programme-Waking the Dead/GAvin and Stacey Moment of the Year a poor England Beating Australia then France beating NZ in the Rugby world cup on the same night, with some old friends in Shropshire Book of the Year-Exit Music-Ian Rankin the last Rebus. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 137 Registered: 10-2006 |
And I forgot to mention stumbling upon this message board, with its cornucopia of vivid and various individual voices... not to mention the account-draining horde of musical suggestions... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 223 Registered: 01-2007 |
Yeah this mesage board is more eclectic nad informative than all the Uncuts/mojos/worrd etc Cheers to everyone and Happy Christmas all round | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 124 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks to this message board I have listened to more interesting music in 1 year than the previous decade. Merry Christmas everyone. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1887 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy Christmas everyone from me too. Thanks for all the tips. Kevin's tip on Feist really paid off for me as her song 1,2,3,4 is being used on an iPod ad and my daughter loves it and was thrilled to find out I have the album! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 395 Registered: 05-2005 |
Favourite stuff? Where do I start! Go-Betweens related: Turning the fan off, and going for a walk by the lights down on Shield Street - and everything else about my wonderful trip. Fulfilling my promise to Grant (and myself), by raising a Long Island Iced Tea in his memory in Ric's bar, on his first anniversary. Four wonderful nights in Brisbane, Robert back on stage. Having the opportunity to shake Robert's hand, and thank him for the last 25 years - in spite of the fact that I almost burst into tears - I've got to toughen up! Meeting for the first and second times with fellow GoBes Pádraig, Randy, David, David, Pete, Jonathan, and everybody else. Having the opportunity to tell Glenn just how fabulous his hair is! There's so much more, but I really should get out of this Internet cafe! I've still got a pile of Christmas related stuff to do. Instead, I've sent tons of emails, and watched countless Robert/Grant/GoBetweens Utube bits. Just watched the Cryin'Love video. Must ask Santa Claus for one of those We Heart U Robert T-shirts! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1486 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've been avoiding this thread because I'm so poor at looking back and summing things up. But hands down, 2007 was all about going to Brisbane and wandering around it on foot (with some help from the City Cat) and seeing Robert's shows and having a number of the folks on here transformed into flesh and blood experiences. Late July 2007 was without doubt the peak of the year for me. But 2007 is also when I met LK and Matthias in Long Beach. And like David, this board has enriched me musically to an incredible degree during 2007. In fact I constantly find myself exclaiming "no! not another one! not yet! I'm still soaking up last week's revelation!" Another great development for me for 2007 was getting a new clutch and installing a new set of shocks on my '61 Lancia Flaminia convertible. Now this lovely but ancient bolide is a nearly carefree drive. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 948 Registered: 01-2005 |
For me it was a year of terrible loss. My dear friend Peggy Maxbauer of Traverse City, MI died from falling off her roof while putting up her storm windows October 20th. My best friends Jim and Sue and I went over to her house to pick her up for dinner and a night on the town, only to find her dead on her patio. I went back up to TC the following weekend for the funeral, and there wasn't a dry eye in the church, as Peg's daughter gave a heart breaking eulogy. Sweet memories of Peg and Kate Rusby's "Blooming Heather" have been floating in my mind ever since. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 889 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, that must have been devastating. All the best to you. Moment of the year: while doing a walking meditation in the woods late at night I stopped, closed my eyes, and turned to face the trees lining the path. I slowly opened my eyes and found myself surrounded by what I can only describe in simile: millions of tiny fish made of light, swimming in all directions, around and through me. I don't know what it was (my guess would be flows of energy) and don't know if it's important that I do know...it just confirmed my thought that there is far more to the world than what we shoehorn into our society- and self-imposed view of "reality." Gig of the year: Only one I saw, actually, though it was a goodie: Iris DeMent. TV Show of the Year: head-to-head tie between The Wire and Battlestar Galactica. That's new TV shows, anyway. My favorite TV show experience period was my umpteenth trip through Twin Peaks, via the new Gold Box edition. Films of the year: INLAND EMPIRE (utterly predictable choice, but the true one), The Darjeeling Limited, Juno (Kimya Dawson!!), No Country For Old Cows, Harry Potter 5. Padraig, haven't seen Bourne Ultimatum yet, but am eagerly awaiting it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2022 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael That was one of the most touching experiences I had heard all year. Hope you have a better 2008. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 226 Registered: 01-2007 |
Michael you like your Kate Rusby! I saw her with my wife (another big fan) at The Lowry, it was lovely (i.e nice people, very polite and earnest) we rough ones turned up late and could have heard a pin drop. I think I even saw a few people cupping there ears. I kind of wished she had stapped on a Fender Telecaster and gone electric-but she is a traditional musician and that was not to be or 3/4 of the theatre would have left. I like her but she does attract the folkie crowd, which is not me or my missus | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 951 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thanks everyone for your thoughts. Peg was a special person whose spirit and love of life touched everyone she knew. |