My Top 10 LP’s of 2007:
Throbbing Gristle – Part Two The Endless Not
Psychic TV/PTV3 – Hell Is Invisible, Heaven Is Her/e
Bexar Bexar – Tropism
Erdem Helvacioglu – Altered Realities
Jeffrey Roden – Seeds of Happiness
The Soft Machine – Volume Two [re-issue]
John Cage – Imaginary Landscapes [as played by the Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, conducted by Jan Williams]
Amon Duul II – Carnival in Babylon [re-issue]
The Green Kingdom – s/t
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Most played album which wasn’t a new release: The Dead – Live at Oakland Arena 31/12/03
Favourite TV Show: The Mighty Boosh and The Chaser
Favourite film: The Number 23
Favourite book: Jon Ronson – The Men Who Stare at Goats
Best live performance: Merce Cunningham Dance Co with Sigur Ros, Melbourne, Oct 2007
Favourite Australian Public Moment: David Hicks is returned to Australia after 5 years incarcerated at Camp X-Ray on the flimsiest of pretexts
Quotation which sums up my year: “That of which one cannot speak, one must remain silent” – Wittgenstein
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