Difficult to remember everyone, here are some:

(x) = multiple viewings

Alcatrash
Askil Holm
Band of Horses
Belle & Sebastian
Bigbang
Bitch Cassidy
Black Debbath
Bon Iver
Brokedown Palace
Calexico (x)
Captain Credible
Casiokids
Cornershop
Datarock
David Bowie
Dipsomaniacs
Dog & Sky (x)
Douglas Firs
Euroboys
Farmers Market (x)
Föfftemand (x)
Gebhardt
Hellacopters
Hello Goodbye
hgh (x)
Hopalong Knut
Hurra Torpedo
The International Tussler Society (x)
Jaga Jazzist (x)
johndoe
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
KaRL BaRX
Knutsen & Ludvigsen
The Kulta Beats (x)
Kåre & The Cavemen
Kåre João
The Ladybug Transistor (x)
The Lionheart Brothers (x)
The Loch Ness Mouse
Love
The Love Revolt
Magnet
Mando Diao
Marit Larsen
The Megaphonic Thrift
Mew
Millencollin
The Mormones
Motorpsycho (x)
The Moving Oos
múm
Muse
NERVØS!
Norma Sass
of Montreal
Ola Kvernberg
Pekka Volt
Pony the Pirate
The Proompings
Psalm
Quintrophenia
Rammstein
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Fr., 10. Jul. – Adventure Playground # 5

Im März bekam ich ein mail mit dem Betreff "Wir fahren nach Hamburg". Als ich las, wer der Grund für den Ausflug sein sollte, fiel mir als Antwort nicht mehr als "Natürlich!!!" ein. Obwohl da wirklich noch nicht absehbar war, daß die bevorstehende Trennung der australischen Band, das Konzert noch besonderer machen sollte, wollte ich unbedingt hin, denn zu gerne wollte ich die Indiepop-Band endlich einmal sehen. Im Mai folgte dann auf ihrer Website die Meldung, daß sich die Lucksmiths nach ihrer Europatour (die Samstag in Berlin endete) und einigen australischen Abschiedsgigs auflösen würden ("There's no easy way to put this, so please accept our apologies for the seemingly abrupt nature of this post. We are saddened to announce that after sixteen years as The Lucksmiths, the band has decided to break up"). Schnief.

Die Lucksmiths wären wahrlich Grund genug gewesen, nach Hamburg zu fahren. …

Tue 7 Jul – The Lucksmiths, Still Corners, The Chemistry Experiment, Gary Olson

...well, almost leave. They played the Luminaire last night, before their "main" gig at Scala tonight. But this is their farewell Europe tour, so either way they're not coming back.

I'll keep it short: they were even more awesome than normal - probably spurred on by it being their last outing here.

Before their own set, all 4 of them were out playing with Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor), who sounded a treat (I only caught half his set unfortunately).

For their own set - it was a mix of everything. A lot of stuff from First Frost but also some of their best older tracks - including Untidy Towns and The Golden Age Of Aviation. I saw them twice over the weekend they played the Northcote Social Club back in Melbourne in March so I should have been Luckies'd out, but this gig was so much broader in the tracks, and punchier in the delivery... 'twas great.

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fun! well. meh. christmas. i don't celebrate it. but i played christmas pop, etc. it was kind of boring. all my friends were out of town / busy. but it's coo.

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Silent Night - Aden
Christmas Doll - Dame Darcy & Dennis Driscoll
Christmas Wish - The Autumn Teen Sound
Christmas is Only Good if You Are A Girl (Boy) - My First Keyboard
Santa, Please Bring Me A Surfboard - Kung Fu Monkeys
Being Dumb in the Wintertime is Dumb - Tinyfolk
Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) - The Catskills
Candy, Toys, and Snow - Glacier Park
Always After Christmas, Boring - The Sixth Great Lake
White Christmas - Kincaid.
Christmas - Acid House Kings
California Christmas - Shumai
Christmas Lights - Paul Baribeau
Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto - Belle & Sebastian
Taking the "is' Out of Christmas - Son of Heatwave
Christmas Extravaganza - The Ladybug Transistor
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Munk / Round Table Knights / Cryptonites, kaserne, basel
The Robocop Kraus, sommercasino, basel
Trio from hell, solheure, solothurn
Team Plastique, hirscheneck basel
Selfish Cunt, hirscheneck, basel
Jersey, hirscheneck, basel
and me / Volta Vital, cargo bar basel
Sissikontest / Larytta, treibhaus, luzern
Oasis / Glasvegas, hallenstadion, zürich
Peter Kernel, das schiff, basel
and me / Volta Vital, mein wohnzimmer, basel
a band called valero / Marcel Cranc / Extraperlo / Joe Crepúsculo, maremagnum, barcelona
Sara Lov, Audrey, John & Jehn, Le Corps Mince de Françoise, Micachu & The Shapes, sala apolo, barcelona
Cuchillo / Klaus & Kinski / Piano Magic, maremagnum, barcelona
Cof Cof / The Sound of Arrows, la [2], barcelona
Ultraplayback / Mendetz / DJ Sany Pitbull, sala apolo, barcelona
The Wooden Birds / Grand Archives, la [2], barcelona
Ghostcat / Ultraplayback, sidecar, barcelona
Retribution Gospel Choir, la [2], barcelona
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Istigato da Disco Club a fare la lista di fine anno, sapendo già che il mio disco dell'anno è quello degli Holy Fuck, del 2007 ma scoperto, ovviamente, il giorno dopo aver scritto la lista dello scorso anno, ho buttato giù, grazie a last.fm e anobii questi elenchi di cavoli miei.
Per quel che possono valere, li posto anche qui.


Dischi
1) Mahjongg - Kontbap
2) Icy Demons - Miami Ice
3) The War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
4) The Dodos - Visiter
5) The Chap – Mega Breakfast
6) High Places - 03.07 - 09.07
7) The Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse
8) El Guincho - Alegranza
9) Dosh - Wolves and Wishes
10) Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane
11) Why? - Alopecia
12) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
13) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
14) Elf Power - In A Cave
15) Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
16) School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
17) Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
18) David Byrne / Brian Eno - Everything that happens...
19) Herman Düne - Next Year In Zion
20) The Mae Shi - Hlllyh
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- some were mistagged along the way... but who cares? :P

1. Cut Copy, 913 plays
2. Club 8, 651 plays
3. The Cure, 575 plays
4. Stars, 574 plays
5. Air France, 529 plays
6. Shout Out Louds, 518 plays
7. Shiny Toy Guns, 491 plays
8. Keane, 486 plays
9. The Beatles, 479 plays
10. Peter Bjorn and John, 454 plays
11. New Order, 442 plays
12. The Helio Sequence, 440 plays
13. O Teatro Mágico, 403 plays
14. Guillemots, 384 plays
15. Dragonette, 358 plays
16. Coldplay, 356 plays
17. Madonna, 353 plays
18. R.E.M., 338 plays
19. The Teenagers, 310 plays
20. The Killers, 308 plays
21. The Tough Alliance, 304 plays
22. Black Kids, 301 plays
23. Ladyhawke, 294 plays
24. A Fine Frenzy, 290 plays
25. MGMT, 274 plays
26. Moby, 265 plays
27. The Smashing Pumpkins, 262 plays
28. Neon Neon, 249 plays
29. Boat Club, 245 plays
30. The Envy Corps, 214 plays
31. The Ting Tings, 208 plays
32. Télépopmusik, 207 plays
33. Travis, 201 plays
33. Boy Kill Boy, 201 plays
35. Acid House Kings, 197 plays
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One of the best things about Last.fm is its radio facility. I like to travel around the channels. shoegaze, dream pop, winter songs, and endangered languages radio are my favourite tags.

This evening while I was listening to my neighbourhood radio, I came across with an old folk song: Rhistone Cowboy. A silly song which is not my style. But I remember it from my late professor's car stereo... And the only Karaoke cafe of Thimphu, The Zone used to play that song so often... I remember karaokeing there with my friends, eating pizza and drinking Tiger beer.

Sometimes some memories are killing me.

My old teacher, the linguist who made me who I'm died in 2007 in Thimphu because of a heart attack. His body was found by the river. He had probably been fishing before he died. Fishing without government permit is illegal in Bhutan. And my professor loved fish.

I would give a lot of years of my lifetime to get my teacher back to life. Wish I were with him that cold morning. Wish I had never left Thimphu. …