Last day of the year...

Time for sharing what I liked (and didn't) in 2011:
(in no peculiar order)

Top 30 best songs of the year:
. Ecoute - by Medhi Zannad
. Superball - by Magic Kids
. It's Real - by Real Estate
. Mystery Cloud - by Starfucker
. One Day We'll Get Married - by Shirley Lee
. Kaputt - by Destroyer
. Shining Bright - by The Proper Ornaments
. I Am Never Going To Die - by Tim Cohen
. An Arcade From The Warm Rain... - by Comet Gain
. Light In Your Eyes - by Vivian Girls
. Will You Marry Me - by Kim Novak
. The Black Dog - by Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers
. Sleep Composite - by TV Ghost
. Watermelons - by The Lovely Eggs
. Sycamore Tree - by Crystal Stilts
. She Didn't Know - by Twerps
. The Words That Maketh Murder - by PJ Harvey
. Be With You - by Hal
. Like It Was Again - by Dignan Porch
. Amplifiers - by Atlas Sound
. Charlie Sheen - by Cheveu
. Means That Much To Me - by Shellshag
. Most Days - by Mazes
. If I Keep On Loving You - by Let's Wrestle
. Want Some? - by Tahiti 80
. Desire Be, Desire Go - by Tame Impala
. Please Turn Me Into The Snat - by Conan Mockasin
. You Today - by Martial Canterel
. Late Bloomer - by Ron Sexsmith
. Café - by Sonic Youth

Top 10 best LPs of the year:
Album of Death - by Moustache Of Insanity / Yoko Eats Whales - by No Cars / Cob Dominos - by The Lovely Eggs / The Past, The Present and The Possible - by Tahiti 80 / Nursing Home - by Let's Wrestle / Fugue - by Mehdi Zannad / Days - by Real Estate / Rumors In Disguise - by Shellshag / Ce Très Cher Serge - by Aquaserge / Veronica Falls - by Veronica Falls

Top 5 biggest 'flops' of the year:
Angles - by The Strokes / Out of Sight, Out of Town - by Standard Fare / Happy Soup - by Baxter Dury / Smoke Ring For My Halo - by Kurt Vile / Forever Today - by I'm From Barcelona

Best concert and concert venue of the year:
Moustache Of Insanity's album launch party at Dogstar, in Brixton was cool, promoted by Librarian Wanted (these kids are very kind, they'll always greet you with a huge smile and offer you a cupcake and if you do have a library card, they'll give you a reduce-priced ticket).
Best venue... hmm, I still like the Lexington the best... though come on guys, I'm not ready to spend over ten quid for a gig in a fucking pub!!! WTF!!

Best festival of the year:
Indietracks was having a great line up this year again.
A special blink to french indie festival 'La Route du Rock' as they now make it easy for people from UK to buy ticket including the coach and ferry. Everything is organised for you, from London to the Fort St Père, so you don't have to worry about how to go there ;-) (and as french festivals tickets are usualy way cheaper than for festivals in UK, it doesn't make any difference of price for you at the end. And you'll have a lovely escapade in France ;-) and you can take advantage to see the beautiful medieval town St Malo so closed to the festival site! Win! Win! Win!)

Best music blog of the year:
What about mine? ;-)

That's how I feel!

It started yesterday... and now i'm feeling very bad!
I've been feeling worse and worse!

Because first, I've noticed yesterday on the diary that I'll have to work most of the evnings of this week and next week, despite they are sending me to Nice all the week-end! Which isn't very fair I think! But that's part of the job, so I didn't complain!

After, I saw that Jarvis would play an in-store gig at Rough Trade next Saturday (16th) but I will not be in London, as I've to go to bloody annoying Nice! So I was a bit nervous but not really feeling that angry... (I've already seen Jarvis on stage a couple of times, and even found myself close to him in the audience at the Of Montreal show in Paris. So let's just say: Nevermind! No matter! Cause that's what I'm used to say!) Then I've seen there's another band I quite like who is also playing in London, on that same Saturday, in the evening, in Leytonstone. And missing 2 good gigs on the same day made me feel a bit grumpy! But hey, that's just gigs after all! So I just went to bed to have a nice rest.

But, this morning, I woke up thinking about a discussion I had with my brother few days ago about our father. I felt a bit bitter about that but I thought that there's nothing much I can do! The demons of the past are always coming back from time to time, this isn't the first time and would certainly not be the last one! I just have to pass over one more time until the next one...

I just thought that I'd feel better after buying a great film and a grat one I've found indeed (Gandahar - René Laloux), but this fucking dvd was 17quids and as I'm actually broke, I decided to be reasonable and not buying it! :-( Such a big frustration!!!

Then I've found myself smoking a fag with my ex-boyfriend, and as a fag time isn't long enough to tell him everything I want to say, I've just been talking rubish! So that was more and more frustration!

After that, the icing on top of the cake: when I arrived at home I had an eMail saying that this Hatcham Social's gig I was supposed to go to, tomorrow evening, has been resheduled on October 28th! Fucking shit! The only fun time in the horizon this week and this is cancelled! Fuck them! So just because they ruine my only evening off, I will not post anything about them on this blog! ever! na!

But to be honest, in all this succession of anoying little shits, there's only one which made me feel that bad... not really difficult to guess... so here is the song on my mind tonight: The Smack Of The Pavement In Your Face, by Shirley Lee, cause "that's how I feel, that's how I feel now..."

If you like it, Shirley Lee are playing for a "What's Cookin'" evening at the Sheepwalk in High Road Leytonstone (it's at the junction with Aylmer Road) - Leytonstone tube station, and it's on Saturday 16th.