2005
Favourite gigs
Art of Fighting/redsunband/Holly Throsby @ the Hi-Fi Bar [March]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Melbourne Town Hall [May]
Henry Rollins 'Shock and Awe' spoken word tour @ the National Theatre [May]
Ash Naylor last gig of residency at the Rainbow Hotel [June]
New Buffalo/Holly Throsby/Mountains in the Sky @ Manchester Lane [August]
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set 'On This Side' single launch/Sodastream/Derbyfield @ the Corner [September]
Magic Dirt @ Ding Dong [September]
Smog/Joanna Newsom/Grand Salvo @ the Athaneum [October]
Heligoland 'Nearly Everything is New' single launch/The Red Tree @ the Rob Roy [December]
Favourite albums [not all from '05]
Art of Fighting - Second Storey
Feist - Let it Die
Feist - Monarch [Lay Down your Jeweled Head]
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - What Was Left
Grand Salvo - The Temporal Wheel
Lior - Autumn Flow
Holly Throsby - On Night
Dirty Three - Cinder
Decoder Ring - Somersault OST
Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition OST
Various Artists - She Will Have Her Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn
Smog - A River Ain't too Much to Love
Favourite songs [not all from '05]
Smog - To Be of Use
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - Lips Like Oranges
Clare Bowditch - Fall at your Feet
Missy Higgins - Stuff and Nonsense
Psapp - Curuncula
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries
Art of Fighting - Heart Translation
Cat Power - The Greatest
Spook - Faster
Decoder Ring - Somersault
Gillian Welch - Revelator/I Dream a Highway
Kings of Convenience featuring Feist - The Build Up
New Buffalo - The Beginning of the End
Holly Throsby - We're Good People But Why Don't We Show It?
Favourite films [at cinema]
You and Me and Everyone We Know
The Proposition
Favourite films [DVD]
City of God
Kandahar
Beneath Clouds
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favourite books [not all from '05]
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
And you?
Art of Fighting/redsunband/Holly Throsby @ the Hi-Fi Bar [March]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Melbourne Town Hall [May]
Henry Rollins 'Shock and Awe' spoken word tour @ the National Theatre [May]
Ash Naylor last gig of residency at the Rainbow Hotel [June]
New Buffalo/Holly Throsby/Mountains in the Sky @ Manchester Lane [August]
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set 'On This Side' single launch/Sodastream/Derbyfield @ the Corner [September]
Magic Dirt @ Ding Dong [September]
Smog/Joanna Newsom/Grand Salvo @ the Athaneum [October]
Heligoland 'Nearly Everything is New' single launch/The Red Tree @ the Rob Roy [December]
Favourite albums [not all from '05]
Art of Fighting - Second Storey
Feist - Let it Die
Feist - Monarch [Lay Down your Jeweled Head]
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - What Was Left
Grand Salvo - The Temporal Wheel
Lior - Autumn Flow
Holly Throsby - On Night
Dirty Three - Cinder
Decoder Ring - Somersault OST
Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition OST
Various Artists - She Will Have Her Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn
Smog - A River Ain't too Much to Love
Favourite songs [not all from '05]
Smog - To Be of Use
Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set - Lips Like Oranges
Clare Bowditch - Fall at your Feet
Missy Higgins - Stuff and Nonsense
Psapp - Curuncula
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries
Art of Fighting - Heart Translation
Cat Power - The Greatest
Spook - Faster
Decoder Ring - Somersault
Gillian Welch - Revelator/I Dream a Highway
Kings of Convenience featuring Feist - The Build Up
New Buffalo - The Beginning of the End
Holly Throsby - We're Good People But Why Don't We Show It?
Favourite films [at cinema]
You and Me and Everyone We Know
The Proposition
Favourite films [DVD]
City of God
Kandahar
Beneath Clouds
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favourite books [not all from '05]
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy
The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
And you?