2006 Top Fives
Steph
TOP 5 ALBUMS [and where they came in the Q "100 Greatest Albums Of 2006" - just to prove that a) I'm not a slave and b) the list's bollocks]
1. "Cities" - The Cat Empire Project [-]
2. "Twelve Stops And Home" - The Feeling [14]
3. "Razorlight" - Razorlight [3]
4. "Through The Windowpane" - Guillemots [20]
5. "The Beautiful Lie" - Ed Harcourt [-]
TOP 5 SINGLES [and where they came in the Q Top 100 tracks as voted by its readers]
1. "America" - Razorlight [1]
2. "Fill My Little World" - The Feeling [- but "Sewn" and "Never Be Lonely" were there - WRONG]
3. "Starlight" - Muse [6]
4. "L. Wells" - Franz Ferdinand [48]
5. "From Paris To Berlin" - Infernal [-]
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Casino Royale
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. A Cock And Bull Story
4. Walk The Line
5. The Proposition
TOP 5 CITIES
1. Prague
2. Liverpool
3. London (look! I've stopped hating it)
4. Birmingham
5. Bath (it's lower than it would've been because everything I know and love has changed)
TOP 5 NORWAY REUNIONS
1. Londinium
2. Pirates of Penzance (even though I had to go to Nottingham)
3. Christmas film
4. New wine glasses and filth in Brum
5. The Swan after Mahler - and those were the only 5 I was at. Rubbish.
TOP 5 CRICKET MOMENTS will be omitted this year, because I'm just too bloody heartbroken right now.
TOP 5 GIGS INSIDE LIVERPOOL
1. The Cat Empire @ Liverpool Carling Academy
2. Echo and the Bunnymen @ Liverpool Carling Academy
3. The Zutons @ The Mountford Hall, University of Liverpool
4. Seu Jorge @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
5. Cerys Matthews @ The Stanley Theatre, University of Liverpool
TOP 5 GIGS OUTSIDE LIVERPOOL
1. The Cat Empire @ Bristol Carling Academy
2. The Feeling @ Manchester Academy
3. Muse @ The Eden Project
4. Radiohead @ Wolves Civic
5. The Mighty Boosh (cheating slightly) @ Wolves Civic
TOP 5 MISCELLANEOUS
1. Olives
2. Vodka tonics
3. Crocheting whilst drunk
4. Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Pop songs with a bloody good tune
and Toby
Top Five Novels
1. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
2. Larry's Party - Carol Shields
3. The Accidental - Ali Smith
4. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
5. La Nausee - Jean Paul Sartre
Not all written in 2006, by any means, but I find I never read five new releases, with literature there's so much to catch up on, somehow.
Top 5 Films
1. Good Night and Good Luck
2. Romance and Cigarettes
3. The Prestige
4. Children of Men
5. The History Boys
Top 5 Films Not In Toby's Top 5 Films
1. A Prairie Home Companion
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Perfume
4. The Queen
5. Marie Antoinette
Top 5 Cities
1. San Francisco
2. Birmingham
3. Bath
4. New York
5. London
Top 5 Norway Reunions...and so forth
1. London weekend, (a triumph by the Londoners)
2. Martini's and Eragon
3. Katy's party
4. Pirates of Penzance
5. Shula XX
Top 5 Cricket moments (seen)
1. Hoggard's 200th (Lords)
2. Monty's first two at Lords
3. A moment of Flintoff magic at Trent Bridge- bowling Sri Lanka out on a flat pitch
4. Mohammad Yousuf kissing the turf on scoring a double century (Lords)
5.Strauss' century (Lords)
Top 5 Cricket moments (unseen)
1. England's defeat at Adelaide, (maybe the most painful cricketing moment ever?)
2. Collingwood's double century
3. Panesar's middle-finger-up 5-92 at Perth.
4. The Pie Man's moment of madness.
5. Winning the last test in India.
Top 5 Concerts (seen)
1. Shostakovich's 1st Violin Concerto (Symphony Hall)
2. String Quartet in Chapel (Wrabness, Suffolk)
3. Elgar I and others, (Adrian Boult Hall)
4. Mahler I and others (Wiltshire Music Centre)
5. Liverpool Philharmonic and the unguessable programme.
Top 5 Performances (participated)
1. Centenary of 'The Kingdom'
2. Mozart's Solemn Vespers and Haydn Nelson Mass (both Symphony Hall)
3. Wedding Performances: It was a lover and his lass/ My true love hath my heart
4. 'Premiere' of Bell's of St Paul's (St Paul's Square, Birmingham)
5. Shiremonator (various reunions)
Top 5 miscellaneous
1. Wine and olives
2. Matchmaking
3. Cecil
4. America in midsummer
5. Younger sister figures
TCH
And I quote: "...there's lots of gooey Dan-stuff in here, beware!" Shula speaks!