Best albums and gigs of 2019

Top 10 albums of 2019

It’s been really difficult whittling it down to just 10 albums but after much deliberation here’s my favourite albums of 2019. All highly recommended!

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1. Miranda Arieh – Ferine

My review

2. Hilary and the Hate Crimes – Things Can Only GetWorse

My Review

3. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains

4. Billy Nomates – No

5. Leggy – Let Me Know Your Moon

6. The Membranes – What Nature Gives…Nature TakesAway

My Review

7. Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love

My Review

8. Comet Gain - Fireraisers Forever!

9. Stella Donnelly – Beware of the Dogs

10. Regional Creeps - Never Gonna Happen

My Review

Fantastic albums also released by Labirinto (my review), Bilge Pump, Grey Hairs, Swans, Du Blonde (my review), Nick Cave, Lucy Rose, Sharon Van Etten, The Cosmic Dead, Primitive Knot, Clara Engel, Kontiki, Dream Nails (my review), Half Japanese (my review), Babybird, Hands Off Gretel, Johnny Dowd, London Afrobeat Collective, Sleaford Mods, Jesca Hoop, Robert Forster and more... 

Now for the impossible task!

Top 10 gigs of 2019

This year I’ve gone to 33 gigs and a festival. Compiling this list hasn’t been easy! So many incredible gigs that I haven’t mentioned, so please go and have a look here. 

Putting a festival at number 1 feels like a bit of a cheat but Kendal Calling was a special and magnificently muddy weekend. It's also the first festival I've covered (guestlist and everything). Highlights included Hands Off Gretel (pictured), The Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra and The Manic Street Preachers.

You can read my review by clicking the links. Thanks!

1. Kendal Calling 2019

2. Miranda Arieh - Hyde Park Book Club

3. The Lemonheads - Stylus, Leeds Uni

4. Knotiki - The Triangle*

5. Lucy Rose - City Varieties

6. Flipper - The Brudenell Social Club

7. Eva Eik - Hyde Park Book Club

8. Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts - The Brudenell Social Club

9. Spiral Stairs - Hyde Park Book Club

10. The Membranes & Friends - The Ritz, Manchester

*The Kontiki review is of a different night as I didn't do a full write up for The Triangle gig.

So much fantastic live music this year! Here's some other highlights from 2019 - Acid Mothers Temple , Du Blonde , London Afrobeat Collective, The Wave Pictures, The Bug and Miss Red, Charly Bliss , Babybird, Bilge Pump and The Mountain Goats . Lots more over on my Soundblab page. 

PLAYLIST 2019

And if all that wasn't enough here's a massive playlist. Enjoy!

Andy Brown's Spectacular 2019 Playlist Extravaganza 

See you in 2020!!!!