MY YEAR OF BEiNG A BOOKWORM!

-Brief interviews with hideous men -DAViD FOSTER WALLACE
-Catch 22-JOSEPH HELLER
-Let's go play at the adam's-MENDAL JOHNSON
-The sandman-E.T.A HOFFMANN
-He cuts hog-MOLLY HARVEY
-Secret history of twin peaks -MARK FROST
-Exquisite corpse-POPPY Z BRiTE
-Antic hay -ALDOUS HUXLEY 
-The plague -ALBERT CAMUS 
-Recording unhinged-SYLViA MASSY
-The immoralist -ANDRE GiDE
-The fall- ALBERT CAMUS
-When Kids kill - JONATHON PAUL 
-A sense of freedom - JiMMY BOYLE 
-H -CHRISTiANE F 
-The trial - FRANZ KAFKA 
-Evil harvest - ROD COLViN
-Brave new world -ALDOUS HUXLEY
-Last exit to brooklyn - HUBERT SELBY JR
-Exile and the kingdom - ALBERT CAMUS
-Show of violence - FREDRiC WERTHAM
-Venus in furs - LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
-The Double - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Fear and loathing in las vegas- HUNTER S THOMPSON
-Crazy cock - HENRY MiLLER
-Men into beasts - GEORGE SYLVESTER
-Seize the day - SAUL BELLOW
-Dubliners- JAMES JOYCE
-Fahrenheit 451 -RAY BRADBURY
-Dead babies - MARTiN AMiS
-One day in the life of Ivan denisovich- ALEKSANDR SOLZHENNiTSYN
-Adventures of Tom Sawyer -MARK TWAiN
-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MARK TWAiN
-The crying of lot 49- THOMAS PYNCHON
-The diary of a nobody- GEORGE AND WEEDON GROSSMiTH
-Notes from underground- FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
-Closing time - JOSPEH HELLER
-Dr jekyll and mr hyde/Mark heim/Merry men -ROBERT LOUiS STEVENSON
-Franny and zooey -J.D SALiNGER
-Cock and bull - WiLL SELF
-Mountainhead -NEW JUCHE
-A season in hell - ARTHUR RiMBAUD
-The victim - SAIL BELLOW
-Virgin suicides - JEFFREY EUGENiDES
-Tropic of capricorn -HENRY MiLLER
-Girlvert -ASHLEY BLUE
-Fucking Martin- DALE PECK
-Of mice and men - JOHN STEiNBECK
-Great expectations -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Requiem for a dream- HUBERT SELBY JR
-The collector - JOHN FOWLES
-The girl next door - JACK KETCHUM
-The art of loving - ERiCH FROMM
-The rum diary - HUNTER S THOMPSON
-American psycho - BRET EASTON ELLiS
-To kill a mockingbird - HARPER LEE
-Confessions of a mask - YUKiO MiSHiMA
-Oliver twist -CHARLES DiCKENS
-Down and out in paris and london- GEORGE ORWELL
-Fight club - CHUCK PALAHNiUK
-East of eden- JOHN STEiNBECK

If it wasn't for my wife I would have gone to ZERO gigs this year

5/1/18 -Oxford bully- Brickwork lizards-flights of helios I remember hating this support band, I cant remember why but I'm sure if I saw them again, I would hate them again.

20/4/18-Oxford tap social- brickwork Lizards This year I have seen more bw lizards than the dwarves, this doesn't reflect my taste

27/4/18- Oxford Wheatsheaf- Pink Diamond revue perhaps I was playing in other acts tonight as it seems odd to have only seen one band, but of course I cannot see myself.

24/6/2018- Oxford bully- pieranormal fest-Brickwork lizards-undersmile-von braun-lee riley and macarena- rabbit spazz band. I don't think I was the only one confused trying to figure out when the spazz bands set started, or ended for that matter!!!!

10/7/2018- Camden underworld- Dwarves,hip priests, nick oliveri death electric All support bands have to be worse than the main band, that is why I have seen hip priests multiple times this year alone,I will never watch them headline as I hate them, although it is comedy gold to watch panda boy.

10/9/2018- aylesbury theatre- camel Bands should have a limit for how long they are allowed to perform for, anything over 45 minutes and you deserve to be shot on stage.

11/11/2018- Camden black heart- hewhocannotbenamed - hip priests Hewho is a legend, my favourite bit was finding the bassists signature plectrum on the floor and upon reading his name I threw it back on the floor. 


18/11/2018- Camden black heart- blag dahlia acoustic, nick oliveri acoustic if only blag and hewho were on this stage at the same time instead of a week apart, both of them together must be great, and annoyingly I've yet to see it happen!!!!

and so next year I'm staying in!!!!

2018-The year I sold more records than I bought!

Gewalt- limiter 7" (3 nail cover)
Gewalt- wir sind sicher 7" (clear black smoke)
Gewalt- tier 7"
Gewalt- so soll es sein 7"
Big Biz- solid gold metal boxset
Deerhoof- 2017 joyful noise boxset (on this years list due to it not being completed till 2018)
Hey Colossus- RRR (2lp remaster)
Henry Blacker - the making of....
Residents- ghost of hope
Nudist-bury my innocence
Pink Diamond Revue- miss lonely hearts 12"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- skeleton tree
Xordox- neospection
The Ex-27 passports
Die Nerven- Fake (yellow vinyl)
Dwarves- take back the night (white vinyl)
Candy Now- s/t
Firewater- international orange
Liars- 1/1 (clear vinyl)
Teenage Larvae- pelt of the sun 7" (4/21 black)
Hepa/titus- champagne of incest (13/23 silver edition clear vinyl)
Creston spiers-MMXVII
Daughters- you wont get what you want (london fog)
Gewalt- kein mensch 7" (clear)
Lead into gold - the sun behind the sun (clear)
Residents- intruders
Gewalt- manipulation
Dead can dance- within the realm of a dying sun
Lydia lunch- marchesa (gold)
Liars- titles with the word fountain(green)

I don't even consider myself a record collector anymore!!!!
Buying so few records this year did afford me a few new guitars too :)