I commented on this from Banksyboyhttp://banksyboy.blogspot.com/2011/12/top-10-album-listening-during-2011.html and on this penultimate day of the year, it is time to take up this meme and for a long post.

This is in no particular order as it took me long enough …

I am still in post gig ‘wow’ mood from seeing Gruff Rhys just over a week ago. It wasn’t so much a gig as being invited to step into someone’s bizarre world….and he did it so well; tightly drilled band, projections, …

It must be serendipity: I was happily tracking down Gruff Rhys’s back catalogue and thinking ‘I would love to see him live’, when the Middlesbrough Town Hall gig list popped through the door with Gruff Rhys featured.

This is itself …

Monday. A full desk of bits to sort. A full list that I gleefully completed when I left that I am now faced with sorting out.

It is time for some levity. This song  is light and fluffy and knowingly …

‘How does it feel rushing around: minimum care, maximum sound.’

And that is why I need Lent: you don’t make the world holy by your incessant activity. In fact when you are so busy you miss/hurt/ignore/sometimes destroy the very people you are …