Albums

  1. Mogwai                         Rave Tapes
  2. The War on Drugs        Lost in the Dream
  3. The Barr Brothers         Sleeping Operator
  4. The Twilight Sad           Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
  5. The Felice Brothers      Favorite Waitress
  6. The Rails                       Fair Warning
  7. King Creosote               From Scotland With Love
  8. The Phantom Band       Strange Friend
  9. Wild Beasts                   Present Tense
  10. East India Youth           Total Strife Forever

 Gigs

  1. Mogwai                            Royal Festival Hall  24.1.14
  2. Suede                              Royal Albert Hall  30.3.14
  3. Kan                                  St Pancras Old Church 22.5.14
  4. Matt Berry                        Garage  9.4.14
  5. Handsome Family            100 Club 13.5.14
  6. RM Hubbert                      Lexington 30.11.14
  7. Shearwater                       XOYO 30.4.14
  8. Marijuana Deathsquads   Black Heart 11.2.14
  9. Dead Rat Orchestra         London Canal Museum 28.7.14
  10. Chris Wood                      Kings Place 7.2.14

 

Festival Performances

  1. Loudon Wainwright III                 Cambridge Folk Festival
  2. Jason Isbell                                Cambridge Folk Festival
  3. Lau                                             End of the Road Festival
  4. Richard Thompson                     End of the Road Festival
  5. McGoldrick, McCusker, Doyle    Cambridge Folk Festival
  6. The Rails                                   Cambridge Folk Festival
  7. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham   Cambridge Folk Festival
  8. Barr Brothers                             End of the Road Festival
  9. Fisherman's Friends                  Cambridge Folk Festival
  10. Danny & the Champs                 Leigh Folk Festival

 

Track of the Year

The War on Drugs    An Ocean in Between the Waves

 Book of the Year

Joshua Ferris              To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

 Film of the Year

The Imitation Game

 TV Show of the Year

The Detectorists

Best Musical Experience of the Year

Taking my dad to his first ever Cambridge Folk Festival

Most Disappointing Musical Experience of the Year

Herman Dune deciding to play a tedious covers set in belated tribute to Lou Reed at their gig at the Lexington back in January

 

Matt @mjcartledge