BAND 2022 FAVOURITES

Yes, its that time of year when the band share what listening/watching/reading they have been enjoying this year. Loads of amazing stuff to enjoy this year, read on->

MICHAEL McKEEGAN

Watching

Stranglers-Limelight, Belfast
Ash-Shiiine On Festival
At The Gates-Wacken Festival
The Dropout
Slow Horses
1899
The Chestnut Man
Traitors
Start Up
Only Murders In The Building
Stewart Lee-Tornado
Bad Sisters

Listening

Editors-EBM
Girls In Synthesis-The Rest Is Distraction
Darkthrone-Astral Fortress
Killing Pace-Killing Pace
Devil Master-Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
Pertubator-Final Light
Def Leppard-Diamond Star Halos
His Lordship-All Cranked Up ep
Viagra Boys-Cave World
Chat Pile-God’s Country
Funeral Chic-Roman Candle
Drug Church-Hygiene
Blind Illusion-Wrath Of The Gods
Wormrot-Hiss
Ozzy Ozbourne-Patient Number 9
Suede-Autofiction
Black Halos-How The Darkness Doubled
Voivod-Synchro Anarchy
Sonja-Loud Arriver
KEN Mode-Null
Echo Machine-The Cage
Petbrick-Liminal
High Vis-Blending
Sweet Teeth-High Anxiety
U-Ziq-Magic Pony Ride
Regulate-Regulate

Reading

Klaus Bartos-The Sound Of The Machine:My Life In Kraftwerk & Beyond
Michael Hann-Denim And Leather
Jess Kidd-Things In Jars
Emma Haughton-The Dark
Merlin Sheldrake-Entangled Life
Sarah Pearse-The Retreat
Stuart Neville-The House Of Ashes
Albert Camus-The Plague
Barney Hoskyns-Major Dudes:A Steely Dan Companion
Hari Kunzru-Red Pill

ANDY CAIRNS

Watching

Everything Everywhere All At Once
Pleasure
Blonde
Nil by Mouth
Crimes of the Future
The Worst Person in the World
The Innocents (2021 Eskil Vogt)
Nope
Licorice Pizza
Boiling Point
FIFA Uncovered
Mateo Kovačić scoring screamer at Stamford Bridge for Chelsea against Liverpool in January
Ash at Shiiiine On Festival
Enola Gay live
La Muerte live in Belgium
Lightning Bolt/Sly and the Family Drone/Big Lad at the Scala in London

Listening

Dømes – Opal
Cassels – A Gut Feeling
Helms Alee – Keep this be the Way
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
Iceboy Violet – The Vanity Project
Blackhaine – Armour II
Petbrick – Liminal
Peng Weng – Six of the Best of the Worst of Peng Weng
Blind Eye – Decomposed
Thee Alcoholics – Seven Inch
Burial – Streetlands
Off! – Free LSD
Girls in Synthesis – The Rest is Distraction
James Johnson & Steve Gullick – Everybody’s Sunset
No Spill Blood – Anvil Crawler
Rews – The World that you Left Behind
Enola Gay – Gransha
La Muerte – Sortilegia
Lucrecia Dalt – Ay
Benefits – Meat Teeth

Reading

Sidney Gottlieb & Donal Martin – Haunted by Vertigo
Rachel Aviv – Strangers to Ourselves
Paul Ride – Ride to Hell
Eddie McCreadie’s Blue & White Army – Eddie Mac Eddie Mac
Kier-La Janisse – House of Psychotic Women
Martin Knight – Broken Wafers
CFCUK fanzine
Sight & Sound Magazine

NEIL COOPER

Watching
Surge
The Bear
StartUp
Archive 81
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
Inside Man
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Sisters of Mercy – Suikerrock Festival
Ash – Shiine On Festival
At The Gates – Wacken Festival
PIL – Rock City, Nottingham
Benefits – Bodega, Nottingham

Reading
Dr Richard Shepherd – Unnatural Causes
The Secret Barrister – Stories of The Law & How It’s Broken
Frederick Douglass – Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass
Fintan O’Toole – Heroic Failure
Ken Follett – Pillars of The Earth
Grayson Perry – The Descent of Man

Listening
Art Blakey & Clifford Brown – A Night at Birdland Vol 1
Benefits – Thump
Kae Tempest – More Pressure
Enola Gay – Scrappers
Lewsburg – In This House
Pet brick – Primer
Anthrax – Spreading the Disease