Just two festivals for me this year, the wife did three!
Top Ten Albums
1. The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
2. Peter Gabriel - I/o
3. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein
4. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
5. Metallica - 72 Seasons
6. Sigur ros - Átta
7. Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage
8. Wilco - Cousin
9. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
10. The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes
Best Compilation
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present - Incident At A Free Festival
Best Concerts
1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - BST Hyde Park
2. Ryan Adams - London Palladium
3. Goose - Electric Ballroom
4. Wilco - O2 Forum Kentish Town
5. Ezra Furman - Cambridge Junction 2
6. Billy Strings - Roundhouse
7. Mogwai - Cambridge Corn Exch
8. Lanterns On The Lake - Storeys Field Cambridge
9. The Comet is Coming - Cambridge Junction 1
10. Black Country New Road - Cambridge Junction 1
Best Festival Sets
1. Steve Earle - Black Deer Festival
2. Christone Kingfish Ingram - Red Rooster Festival
3. Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real - Black Deer Festival
4. Kurt Vile & The Violators- Black Deer Festival
5. Allison Russell - Black Deer Festival
6. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Black Deer Festival
7. Bonnie Raitt - Black Deer Festival
8. Take Me To the River All Stars - Red Rooster Festival
9. Far From Saints - Black Deer Festival
10. Bears Den - Black Deer Festival
Grateful Dead 'Meet up At The Movies' 2023