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Shameless podcast plug (well, it is the end of year episode)

I don’t normally do the ‘big linkage thing’ in this way, but the end of year retrospective is more than a little bit special – so please consider this a huge one-off!

This Reality Podcast: No 97

Episode 97: 62 minutes running time

This week it’s time for This Reality Podcast’s -look back in anger’ as the two presenters, Soph and Bren, review many facets of 2009, and make a prediction or two for 2010.

Talkie bits:
* The Cheese Game celebrates New Year’s Day with the Victorian Variant (and brings a quick-death victory for Soph because Bren gets brain-dead)

List Of The Year (2009):
The segments between the music comprise our retrospective of 2009. Some of these categories and their contents are very hotly discussed whilst others have a universal agreement. Let us know your views on this lot:

  • Best Films Of The Decade: Monsters Inc, Taken, Hot Fuzz, The Bourne franchise
  • Best Film Of The Year: Up!, District 9, The Boat That Rocked
  • Worst Film Of The Decade: Anchorman, The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
  • Worst Film Of The Year: New Moon
  • Best New Band: inLight (even though, technically speaking, we discovered them last year)
  • Best Book: Small Wars by Sadie Jones, The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
  • Best Album: Reservoir by Fanfarlo (Bren), A World Next Door To Yours, The Parlotones (Soph)
  • Best EP: Old Maps/New Roads, The Good China
  • Best Live Set: The Damned (Bren), Warning! Heat Ray! (Soph)
  • Worst Live Set: Scouting For Girls/Sugababes
  • Best Discovery: The showers at Cornbury Festival, The Family Machine, Axis of Awesome, It’s Not Me, It’s You Lily Allen
  • Worst Discovery: It’s Not Me, It’s You, Lily Allen
  • Biggest Disappointment: the film New Moon (Soph)
  • Best Trip Abroad: Tuscany, Munich, Eire (Soph & Bren)
  • Best Gig: Muse, Munich

Keep Your Eyes On These Names for 2010:

  • The Boxer Rebellion (Bren says will be huge)
  • As Tall As Lions (Bren says will, from the media perspective, be the Red Hot Chilli Peppers of 2010 (whatever happened to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers anyway?)

We also discussed the musical brilliance of:

  • Miriam Clancy and her freshly-discovered, outstanding album -Magnetic’
  • Missy Higgins and her heartbreakingly-excellent artistry on -On A Clear Night’

You want more?

Really?

How about the musical goodness that we offer you that this week includes:

As ever, this show was recorded *live* in Studio L in rural Oxfordshire and recorded in one take with no after-show editing or post-production mucking about.

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