Old Gold

I found o2 down south just as bad really. As soon as you get away from a city, 3G is spotty as fuck.

That sounds well like the first Billy Talent album.

I'm going to practice towards playing faster, although I suppose there's not a lot more to it than battering away until I develop a right wrist like a 16 year old shut-in. Really improved on playing along to a click track in 2013 though, so I'll keep at that too.

The royal mail website has a branch finder that tells you what each post office can do. Although I imagine all but the most shit post office will deal with sending parcels.

I'm considering a move to 3. O2 seem to be utter garbage right now.

And cheers for insinuating that we're all sweaty palmed l4ds who go nuts like the wolf from a Droopy cartoon with approval at that sort of shit. Fuck off.

I'm confused. Are you taking a stand against sexism, or do you really like the video in which women sell themselves by simulating blowjobs with woodwind instruments?

If owning over 100 cds counts as being some virginity-clutching collector nowadays, fucking hell. "Check out my cd single with a Woolies sticker on it lol #retro."

Ruined it.

It looks like flavoured watery tapioca pudding as far as I can tell. There's nothing wrong with a regular cuppie. If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

Neo nazis, allegedly.

You do. At election time. Anyway, they should build a Monorail. Like we've said all along.

Pretty tempted by the P90 Warpig for my SG Jr. Shred.

I got a massive bill from the taxman. Joy to the world.

Can't ask for more than that. The rest of the Teepee Schwimmers tracks are more slightly slimy alt-country, but hopefully I'll finish off some more noisier stuff this coming year (also found someone who's significantly better at drums to lean on). http://notateepee.bandcamp.com/track/gramps-is-high-again http://notateepee.bandcamp.com/track/girl

That's a lot of good stuff that totally passed by me. Got loads of METH BEAST demoes on my laptop, but so far only finished the one track: http://methbeast.bandcamp.com/ Will get back on that in 2014 hopefully. Got out of the usual comfort zone on some Not A Teepee tracks with Les Pelicans: http://notateepee.bandcamp.com/track/one-million-silver-space-ships ...and upped some punx under the guise of The Schwimmers: http://notateepee.bandcamp.com/track/good-job-im-good-lookin Also did a handful of EPs with Les Pel, including one full of Elvis covers, one of songs inspired by 80s action movies and some other stuff. This song about Meg Ryan was probably my personal musical highlight of the year: http://lesplicans.bandcamp.com/track/1989-meg-ryan Also had a lot of fun with the ol' album artwork. Good year to be a bedroom rockstar.

Damn that's tidy.

Really hope the film is just all shots of Jake's grandad in full Nazi regalia.

Paid for Spotify is like owning a record store for 10 quid a month. Sounds like last.fm could be more up your street as far as radio/recommendations go though.

It eats it for breakfast. I wouldn't recommend streaming from it unless you have unlimited data.

Seems to me that a lot of users on here had a pretty productive year for making music this year, so I thought it'd be neat to have a bit of a retrospective. So what did you make/release this year?

I had a glass Chemex (essentially a conical flask) that you could fire in the microwave and heat up when required with no shitty taste. Alternatively, get a V60 and pour 'em as required. Or as mentioned, get it down you in a oner.

Yeah, as much as the album has fallen off my radar, Get Lucky is probably all things considered my favourite single of the year. I can't be fussed ordering them, but some of the albums I liked this year: Speedy Ortiz - Major ArcanaLow - The Invisible WayDeafheaven - SunbatherNick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky AwayDanny Brown - OldDaft Punk - Random Access MemoriesQuelle Chris - Niggas is MenMarnie Stern - The Chronicles of MarniaWaxahatchee - Cerulean SaltCalifornia X - California XSwearin' - Surfing Strange (bit of a letdown compared to the previous one, but still pretty solid)Jesu - Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came Twisting my arm, I'll give Speedy Ortiz the crown. Good year. Lots more to check out by the looks of things.

I've never been asked to do anything like that, but my clothes buying involves less nosying and more grabbing what will probably fit me and getting straight out.