2009 Top 5s 

Top 5 debut albums:

1. 'The Duckworth Lewis Method' - The Duckworth Lewis Method
2. 'Tale To Tell' - The Mummers
3. 'Sigh No More' - Mumford & Sons
4. 'To Lose My Life…' - White Lies
5. 'Hands' - Little Boots

 

Top 5 non-debut albums:

1. 'Tonight' - Franz Ferdinand
2. 'Journal For Plague Lovers' - Manic Street Preachers
3. 'Quicken The Heart' - Maxïmo Park
4. 'Man Of Aran' - British Sea Power
5. 'Wild Young Hearts' - Noisettes

 

Top 5 singles:

1. 'Don't Upset The Rhythm' - Noisettes
2. 'Winter Winds' - Mumford & Sons
3. 'Fire' - Kasabian
4. 'It's Not Fair' - Lily Allen
5. 'Bad Things' - Jace Everett

 

Top 5 films:

1. Star Trek
2. District 9
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Rebirth Of A Nation (Birth Of A Nation re-mixed by DJ Spooky)

 

Top 5 cricket moments:

1. Andrew Strauss's century at Lord's versus Australia
2. Alastair Cook catching that Graeme Swann delivery off Mike Hussey's bat-pad to win the Ashes back
3. Chris Gayle versus Australia, The Oval, World Twenty20 Championships
4. Freddie Flintoff running Ricky Ponting out in the final Ashes Test
5. Marcus Trescothick versus Kent, Edgbaston, Twenty20 finals day

 

Top 5 gigs:

1. The Lightning Seeds @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
2. The Flaming Lips @ Manchester Academy 1
3. Franz Ferdinand @ Manchester Academy 1
4. The Cat Empire @ Manchester Academy 2
5. Maxïmo Park @ The Mountford Hall, University of Liverpool

 

Top 5 Latitude sets:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Thom Yorke
3. The Duckworth Lewis Method
4. Lisa Hannigan
5. Editors

 

Top 5 miscellaneous:

1. Having awesome housemates
2. Passing finals
3. Guitar Hero
4. Discovering Firefly
5. The emergence of Michael Vaughan as a star summariser on Test Match Special