Another year another set of Top Tens. My Top Tens for this year are as follows:
Albums
1 Cherry Ghost – Herd Runners
2 Bellowhead – Revival
3 The Rails – Fair Warning
4 First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
5 Jimi Goodwin - Odludek
6 Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
7 Slow Club – Complete Surrender
8 Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics
9 Esther Swift – The Mairches
10 Seth Lakeman – Word of Mouth
Gigs
1 Bellowhead – Shepherds Bush Empire
2 Cherry Ghost – Islington Assembly Hall
3 The Staves – Crypt on the Green
4 Madness – O2, Stratford
5 Kan – St Pancras Church
6 Beth Orton – Barbican Centre
7 Dead Rat Orchestra - London Canal Museum
8 Jimi Goodwin – Islington Assembly Hall
9 Matt Berry – The Garage
10 Jack Cheshire – Kings Place
Festival Appearances (all from Cambridge Folk Festival 2014)
1 Fisherman's Friends
2 Loudon Wainwright III
3 Richard Thompson
4 Aly Bain, Phil Cunningham, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle
5 Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit
6 The Rails
7 Seth Lakeman
8 Martin & Eliza Carthy
9 Skinny Lister
10 Jason Isbell
Best Song
Cherry Ghost – Drinking for Two
Musical Moment
Loudon Wainwright reading his father's poem. It really tugged on the old heartstrings.
Graham