Albums of 2010

Favourite albums of 2010. In no particular order...

Joanna Newsom 'Have One On Me'

Baths 'Cerulean'

Beach House 'Teen Dream'

Deerhunter 'Halcyon Digest'

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 'Before Today'

Wavves 'King of the Beach'

Caribou 'Swim'

Winter Wonderland

Demonstrate

A collection of photographs gathered from across the internet of the recent student protests in London ...

7"

Clearing out the loft space and I came across a beautiful sight...

Christmas came early! I'm now in the process of cleaning and listening to each one. There's loads of Motown classics in there. Love the Motown sleeves...

I might be able to break into the competitive Wedding DJ circuit with this lot. I've already dug out some real gems. Among my favourites...

Linda Lewis - It's In His Kiss...

Petula Clark - The Other Man's Grass (Is Always Greener)...

Visionaries

Whispered secrets of a shattered age, I summon you: renew this sage

Draw upon the breath of stars, And scorch the skies with fiery scars

Three suns aligned pour forth their light, And fill the archer's bow with might

Sheathe these feet in the driving gale, Make swift these legs o'er land I sail

A whim, a thought, and more is sought, Awake my mind; thy will be wrought

By warmth of heart, your pain I feel, Grant me the power, your wounds to heal

Snow

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J. B. Priestley

Ice Scene (1610) by Hendrick Avercamp

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin