Time is a funny old thing. If you ever get the chance, I thoroughly recommend Pip Pip: A Sideways Look At Time by Jay Griffiths. Very good book. Anyway, I mention this because before I get ready for NYE fun I feel compelled to jot down the things that made this decade the one in which I truly fell head over heels for music. I mean, really, tomorrow is just another day. But then on the other hand, today is the end of the era annoyingly dubbed the ‘noughties’. Which is as good as reason as any to get in a reflective kind of mood. And yeah, I just wanted to drop on the list bandwagon too.
These are the music-related moments/events that made my decade:
Back to Basics, Technique & Bugged Out, various nights: 1998-2004
Jockey Slut
Leeds Student Radio: Summer 2002
Earth Wind & Fire at Hammersmith Apollo: March 2004
Joe Zawinul at Ronnie Scott’s: May 2004
Depeche Mode at Manchester MEN Arena: March 2006
All Tomorrow’s Parties: 2006 & 2009
The end of The End: a sad day in January 2009
Dummy: relaunched February 2009…4eva
Ruth Saxelby 