Great in '08

Please find attached the obligatory end of year 'things I liked' review:

Bangin' Choons of '08:

Annie - Songs Remind Me Of You
Bloc Party - Talons (Phones R.I.P. Remix)
Britney Spears - Womanizer (Teenagers Remix)
FrankMusik - When You're Around (Boys Noize Remix)
La Roux - Quicksand
Lady Gaga - Pokerface
Ladyhawke - Magic
Pin Me Down - Cryptic (left)
Sam Sparro - Sick
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes



Best Albums:

Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets (right)
Heathers - Here, Not There
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Santogold - Santogold

Most Disappointing Album:

The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

Best Live Performances:

Alphabeat @ Whelans
Camille O' Sullivan @ Queen's Hall
Chromeo @ Electric Picnic (left)
Foals @ The Academy
Lykke Li @ The Button Factory

Best Live Non-Performance:

Santogold @ Tripod

Best Non-Live Performance:

Zeigeist @ Twisted Pepper


Best Movies:

Caramel
In Bruges
No Country For Old Men
Sweeney Todd
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (right)

Worst Movie:

Sex and the City


Best Theatrical Shows:

Circus @ Dublin International Theatre Festival (left)
Clockheart Boy @ Edinburgh Fringe
Eejit of Love @ Dublin Fringe
Scaramouche Jones @ Edinburgh Fringe
The New Electric Ballroom @ Edinburgh Fringe

Worst Theatrical Show:

Those Powerful Machines @ Dublin Fringe