2023 Lists…..

Books 2023

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Sequoia Nagamatsu – How High We Go In The Dark

Eckhart Tolle – The Power Of Now

Becky Chambers – The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet / A Closed And Common Orbit / Record Of A Spaceborn Few / The Galaxy And The Ground Within

Alastair Reynolds – Revenger / Shadow Captain / Bone Silence

Martin MacInnes – Infinite Ground

Christopher Wylie – Mindf*ck

N. K. Jemisin – The City We Became / The Fifth Season / The Obelisk Gate / The Stone Sky

Frankie Boyle – Meanwhile

Erin Kelly – Watch Her Fall

Mick Herron – Down Cemetery Road / The Last Voice You Hear / Why We Die / Smoke And Mirrors

Alastair Reynolds – Revelation Space / Redemption Ark / Absolution Gap / Inhibitor Phase

William Gibson – Agency

Phill Brown – Are We Still Rolling?

Aiden Turner – The Price You Pay

Simon Clarke and Will Louch – The Key Man

Caroline Kepnes – You Love Me

Alastair Reynolds – Eversion

Katy Brent – How To Kill Men And Get Away with It

Erin Kelly – The Burning Air

Stephen Donaldson – The Last Dark

Stephen Donaldson – The Great God’s War: Seventh Decimate / The War Within / The Killing God

Dan Millman – Way Of The Peaceful Warrior

Dan Abnett- Horus Rising

Graham McNeill – False Gods 

Ben Counter – Galaxy In Flames

Aidan Truhen – Seven Demons

Chris Brookmyre – The Cliff House

Ian McDonald – Hopeland

Mark Greaney – The Grey Man / On Target

M. R. Carey – Infinity Gate

Emily Tesh – Some Desperate Glory

Scott Hawkins – The Library At Mount Char

Christopher Paolini – To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars

Douglas Adams and Terry Jones – Starship Titanic

Kim Stanley Robinson – The Ministry For The Future 

M.R. Carey – The Girl With All The Gifts / The Boy On The Bridge

Marlon James – Black Leopard Red Wolf

Michael Mann – Heat 2

Ned Beauman – Venomous Lumpsucker

Mick Herron – Nobody Walks / The List / The Drop / The Catch / Reconstruction / Standing By The Wall

Jo Nesbø – Nemesis

Raymond E. Feist – Magician / Silverthorn / Darkness At Sethanon

Adam Grant – Think Again

Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children Of Memory / The Tyrant Philosophers (City Of Last Chances / House Of Open Wounds)

M.R. Carey – The Book Of Koli / The Trials Of Koli

Albums 2023

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The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention 

Beck, Bogert & Appice – Beck, Bogert & Appice

Crosby, Stills And Nash – CSN

David Crosby – Live At Capitol Theatre

CPR – CPR / Just Like Gravity

Rushil & Abi Sampa – Orchestral Qawwali

Riverside – I.D. Entity 

Joni Mitchell – Court and Spark

Donald Fagen – The Nightfly / Kamakiriad

Roots Manuva – Bleeds (Deluxe Version) / Run Come Save Me / Awfully Deep / Slime And Reason / 4everevolution

Paul McCartney – I / II / III

The Beatles – 1

dEUS – How To Replace It

Haken – Fauna

Pigsx7 – Kings Of Cowards / Viscerals / Feed The Rats / Land Of Sleeper / Hot Stuff

Tedeschi Trucks Band – I Am The Moon

The Cinematic Orchestra – Every Day

Sun Ra – The Heliocentric World Of Sun Ra / Liquidity / The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra / Space Is The Place

Extreme – Saudades De Rock / 3 Sides To Every Story

The Cinematic Orchestra – Live At The Albert Hall 

U2 – Songs Of Surrender 

Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets / Everyday / Crash

Johannes Schmoelling – 21 / The Zoo Of Tranquility / Wuivend Reit / Iter Meum 

PM Dawn – Of The Heart …. / The Bliss Album

Simon And Garfunkel – The Definitive 

Donald Fagen – Morph The Cat / Sunken Condos

Susanne Sundfor – Blómi

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – The Best Of

Robert Palmer – Some People Can Do What They Like

The Black Crowes – By Your Side / Shake Your Money Maker / Three Snakes and One Charm / Before The Frost …Until The Freeze

Murray Head – Nigel Lives

Sparks – No. 1 In Heaven / The Girls Is Crying Into Her Latte / A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Arc Angels – Arc Angels

Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same / How The West Was Won

Dr. John – In The Right Place

Taylor Swift – Midnights

Tears For Fears – Elemental / Raoul And The Kings Of Spain 

Neil Young – Harvest / Zuma / Rust Never Sleeps

Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

The Who – Who’s Next

Gary Moore – Corridors of Power / After The War / After Hours / Still Got The Blues / Blues For Greeny / Run For Cover 

Cardinal Black – January Came Close

Stereo MC’s – Connected 

Scott McKeon – Superjam / Live At Masterlink

Aynsley Lister – Along For The Ride

Rush – A Farewell To Kings (40th Anniversary)

Neal Morse – The Dreamer (Joseph pt.1)

The Beloved – Happiness / X

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F # A # / Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven / Luciferian Towers /Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada / Yanqui U.X.O_/ G_d’s Pee At State’s End

The Orb and David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres In Colour

Steven Wilson – The Harmony Codex

Trevor Rabin – Rio

The Who – Tommy / Quadraphenia 

Herbie Hancock – Man-Child / Secrets / Possibilities 

The Chemical Brothers – Surrender / Further / Born In The Echoes / No Geography / Come With Us / We Are The Night / For That Beautiful Feeling 

XTC – Apple Venus vol 1 / Wasp Star (Apple Venus vol 2) / Mummer / The Big Express

Big Big Train – Ingenious Devices

Wardruna – Kvitravn / Skald

David Longdon – Door One

Peter Gabriel – i/o

John Scofield – Überjam 

Blur – The Ballad Of Darren

Hifi Sean and David McAlmont – Happy Ending 

Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene 7-13

Films 2023

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Tenet 

The Bad Guys

Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage

Spider Man – No Way Home

Sing 2

Alan Partridge – Stratagem

Zappa – Live At The Roxy

20feet From Stardom

The Little Things

Page Eight

Extraction

Siberia (didn’t finish)

Operation Fortune : Ruse De Guerre

Training Day

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness 

Crimson Tide

Inside Man

Mission Impossible 1 to 6

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

Made You Look – A Story About Fake Art

Awareness

If These Walls Could Sing

Status Quo – Hello Quo

Extraction 2

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis)

TV 2023

#TV

Welcome to Wexham

Andor 

Succession S3

The White Lotus

Drive To Survive S5

You S3/4

Jack Ryan S3

Lord Of The Rings – The Rings Of Power S1

Swamp Thing

Battlebots

The Muppets Mayhem

Avenue 5

Our Planet 2

Waco – American Apocalypse 

The Diplomat

Cunk On Earth 

Tour De France – Unchained

The Lincoln Lawyer 

The Sixth Commandment

The Recruit

Kaleidoscope 

Earth

Succession S4

Deadloch 

Poker Face

Good Omens 2

Picard S2/3

Fisk

Top Boy S3/4/5

The Boys S3

Welcome To Wrexham S2

Big Vape

The Inventor (Theranos Documentary)

D.B. Cooper – Where Are You? 

Citadel

Planet Earth 3

Brawn : The Impossible Formula 1 Story