Least comprehensive review of 2006 ever

Thought I’d better post something here in case Microsoft has any laptops left to give away as bribes review machines.

I had such good intentions for the Christmas holiday, including finishing the new design for this site. In the end I had a thoroughly lazy, unproductive time, and only managed to catch up on a few of the things on my to-do list. Definitely felt like a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ week - to be honest I think I really needed a break from worky stuff. Still, now I see that Celebrity Big Brother has started on Channel 4, I’d say there’s a good chance I’ll get that new design in place shortly.

I suppose I should write a belated-but-still obligatory World of Badger review of 2006. <scratches head /> I guess the highlight of my year would have to be the Sultan’s Elephant in London back in May. What else? Album of the year? Um, I have to admit that, as a result of converting a lot of my CD collection to MP3s, I spent a large part of 2006 getting back into a lot of albums from the late 80s to mid-90s. That said, there were some really good albums released in the last 12 months, and my favourites would include:

• Yo La Tengo - ‘I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass’ (surely album title of the year if nothing else)
• Peeping Tom - ‘Peeping Tom’
• Thome Yorke - ‘The Eraser’
• Joanna Newsom - ‘Ys’
• Sonic Youth - ‘Rather Ripped’

(I would have linked to Spillers Records in Cardiff, the oldest record shop in the world, which is threated with closure by developer scumbags, but I can’t link directly to the albums on their site, so I’ve used Boomkat - another independent music shop - rather than Amazon. Spillers is a great little shop, and I used to get all my albums and gig tickets there when I lived in Wales; please sign the petition to save it.)

OK, admittedly not the most comprehensive review of 2006, but it’s the best I could come up with at this late hour.

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