Holy Sh*t - I was there!!

This year probably wasn’t the most memorable of the post-2010 age but there were some great debuts from UK acts such as Lonely The Brave, Marmozets and Cheatahs proving there is some great potential out there so keeping an eye out on these should be worth a punt.  Anyway, here are my favourite records and live shows for 2014 (click on the ‘Lists Lists Lists’ title to show the full page version of this post).

 

Records

  1. Pixies – Indie Cindy (PIAS)

  2. Royal Blood – S/T (Warner Bros.)

  3. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)

  4. Circa Survive – Descencus (Sumerian)

  5. Greys – If Anything (Carpark)

  6. Somos – Temple Of Plenty (Tiny Engines)

  7. Dope Body – Lifer (Drag City)

  8. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lose (Tough Love)

  9. Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End (Republic)

  10. Amplifier – Mystoria (Superball Music)

  11. Floor – Oblation (Seasons Of Mist)

  12. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)

  13. Dikembe – Mediumship (Tiny Engines)

  14. Weatherbox – Flies In All Directions (Favorite Gentleman)

  15. Adebisi Shank – This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargeant House)

  16. Talons – New Topographics (Big Scary Monsters)

  17. Thumpers – Galore (Sony/RED)

  18. Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)

  19. Happyness – Weird Little Birthday (Weird Smiling)

  20. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again (Epitaph)

  21. Nothing – Guilty Of Everything (Relapse)

  22. La Dispute – Rooms Of The House (Big Scary Monsters)

  23. Eagulls – S/T (Partisan)

  24. Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien (Warner Bros.)

  25. Cheap Girls – Famous Graves (Xtra Mile)

  26. Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown (Epitaph)

  27. Archie Bronson Outfit – Wild Crush (Domino)

  28. Big Ups – Eighteen Hours Of Static (Tough Love)

  29. Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All (Run For Cover)

  30. Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else (Wichita)

  31. Freeze The Atlantic – S/T (Alcopop!)

  32. Pulled Apart By Horses – Blood (Sony/RED)

  33. Blood Red Shoes – S/T (Jazz Life)

  34. Flood Of Red – Throw (Superball Music)

  35. Mongol Horde – S/T (Xtra Mile)

  36. Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is (Hopeless)

  37. Axes – Glory (Big Scary Monsters)

  38. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Warner Bros.)

  39. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace Is There (Tiny Engines)

  40. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)

  41. Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt (Kanine)

  42. Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (Roadrunner)

  43. Samoans – Rescue (Apres Vous)

  44. Lonely The Brave – The Day’s War (Hassle)

  45. ’68 – In Humor And Sadness (eOne)

  46. Crosses – S/T (Sumerian)

  47. The Xcerts – There Is Only You (Raygun Music)

  48. The Menzingers – Rented World (Epitaph)

  49. Manchester Orchestra – Cope (Republic)

  50. Cheatahs – S/T (Wichita)

 

Live Shows

  1. Soundgarden at Hyde Park (Supporting Black Sabbath) – 04/07

  2. Adebisi Shank/Fang Island at Birthdays – 18/09

  3. The Hold Steady at Koko – 21/10

  4. Lonely The Brave at The Fighting Cocks – 07/09

  5. Blood Red Shoes at The Fighting Cocks – 02/03

  6. Clutch at The Forum – 01/05

  7. Manic Street Preachers at The Roundhouse (Holy Bible Set) – 16/12

  8. Pup at Banquet Records – 01/05

  9. Cloud Nothings at The Scala – 27/05

  10. Sikth at Koko – 12/11

  11. Marmozets at The Roundhouse (Supporting Taking Back Sunday) – 09/12

  12. Cheatahs at The Lexington – 20/11

  13. War On Drugs at The Roundhouse – 05/11

  14. Manchester Orchestra/Kevin Devine at Shepherd’s Bush Empire – 07/10

  15. ’68 at The Cricketers – 01/08

  16. Brand New at The Troxy – 12/04

  17. Axes at The Islington – 07/11

  18. Chvrches at The Forum – 15/03

  19. Nine Inch Nails at 02 Arena – 23/05

  20. Foo Fighters at Islington Assembly Hall – 12/09