Band Favourites Of 2024
Here’s what listening, reading and watching the band have been enjoying this past year…
ANDY CAIRNS
Listening…
Die Verlierer – Notausgang
Träume – Wrzask
Jesus Lizard – Rack
Nocturnal Reaper – Nocturnal Reaper
Objections – Optimistic Sizing
Other Half – Dark Ageism
Light of Eternity – Edge of Fate/Aftershock
Gimic – We Are Making a New World
Sex Swing – Golden Triangle
Charli xcx – brat
Burial/Kode 9 – Phoneglow/Eyes go Blank
Street Grease – BLOODBATH1
Jabu – A Soft and Gatherable Star
The None – Matter
Irked – Irked ep
One Leg One Eye – …And Take the Black Worm With Me
charli xcx – sympathy is a knife (hands down tune of the year for me)
Enola Gay – Cortana
Manic Street Preachers – Hiding in Plain Sight
Scowl – Special
Xeeland – Zones
The Cobain 50 podcast
Chelsea Fancast podcast
Straight Outta Cobham podcast
London is Blue podcast
Reading…
Wire Magazine
Sight & Sound Magazine
CFCUK Fanzine
Mick Heron – Slow Horses series (thanks Michael!)
Mark Fisher – Ghosts of My Life
Derek Air – Land of the Giants
Kathleen Hanna – Rebel Girl
Mark Worrall – Double Double Double
Joe England – Lone Moor Road
John King – White Trash
JR Moores – Off the Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990’s
Virginie Despentes – Dear Dickhead
Han Kang – The White Book
The Witches of Vardø – Anya Bergman (thanks again Michael)
John Boyne – Water
John Boyne-Earth
Watching…
Chelsea FC home and (when possible) away
The Holdovers
Civil War
Furiosa:A Mad Max Saga
Emilia Pérez
The Zone of Interest
I Saw the TV Glow
Love Lies Bleeding
The Substance
All You Need Is Death
Oddity
Day of the Jackal
Silo
MICHAEL MCKEEGAN
Listening…
Oranssi Pazuzu-Muuntautuja
Thin Lizzy-1976
Concrete Winds-Concrete Winds
The Jesus Lizard-Rack
Deathfiend-Dark Rising
Zeal & Ardor-GREIF
Chat Pile-Cool World
Street Grease-Bloodbath1
Voivod-Killing Technology (High Roller ‘Diehard Edition’)
Drug Church-Prude
Wasted Death-Season Of Evil
Blue Oyster Cult-Ghost Stories
Stress Angel-Punished By Nemesis
Cavalera Conspiracy-Schizophrenia (re-recorded)
u-Ziq-Grush
USA Nails-Feel Worse
UDAD-Udad
S.H.I.T.-For A Better World
The Cure-Songs Of A Lost World
Acid Mass-Worship
Adorior-Bleed On My Teeth
DJ Counselling-Alt Mobeat
Darkthrone-It Beckons Us All
Judas Priest-Invincible Shield
Deep Purple-=1
Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere
New Model Army-Unbroken
King Crimson-Sheltering Skies
Reading…
Paul Lynch-Prophet Song
Paul Murray-Bee Sting
John Boyne-Water
Geddy Lee-My Effin Life
Mick Herron-The Secret Hours
Justin Cronin-The Ferryman
Alan Byrne-Are You Ready? (Thin Lizzy album by album)
Jane Harper-The Dry
David Kerekes & David Slater-Cannibal Error
Watching…
The Holdovers
Mr Mercedes
Paradise
The Substance
NEIL COOPER
Listening…
Jon Spencer – Sick of Being Sick!
Chat Pile – Cool World
Quicksand – Distant Populations
The Jesus Lizard – Rack
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Reading…
George Orwell – Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Mark Lanegan – Sing Backwards and Weep
Watching…
Griselda
Kleo
The Bear
Slow Horses
Don’t F**K With Cats
The Man in The High Castle
Zef – The Story of Die Antwoord
Meet Me in The Bathroom
The Holdovers
Searching For Sugarman
Lewsburg (live)
Jon Spencer (live)
DJ Shadow (live)
Benefits (live)
Ash (live)
Mr Bungle (live)
