top 20 albums:

dave matthews band - big whiskey and the groo grux king

joshua radin - simple times

muse - the resistance

motion picture soundtrack - the shapes we fear the most are of our own

scott matthews - elsewhere

yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz

manic street preachers - journal for plague lovers

florence and the machine - lungs

u2 - no line on the horizon

the big pink - a brief history of love

white lies - to lose my life

idlewild - post electric blues

metric - fantasies

passion pit - manners

jesca hoop - hunting my dress

mumford and sons - sigh no more

empire of the sun - walking on a dream

bat for lashes - two suns

kings of convenience - declaration of dependence

the dead weather - whorehound

top 10 gigs:

dave matthews band, brixton academy

u2, wembley stadium

counting crows, wembley arena

muse, o2 arena

scott matthews. london bloomsbury theatre

motion picture soundtrack, canterbury gulbenkian theatre

idlewild, london dingwalls

elbow, brighton centre

the cure, o2 arena

coldplay, wembley stadium

recently enjoyed books:

 

helen walsh - brass
david guterson - snow falling on cedars
barbara kingsolver - the poisonwood bible
susan fletcher - oystercatchers
erica jong - fear of fifty
mary lawson - crow lake
barbara delinsky - the family tree
alice sebold - the lovely bones
jane elmor - my vintage summer
tim pears - in the place of fallen leaves
jill dawson - watch me disappear
susanna kaysen - far afield
peter carey - bliss

recently appreciated films:

gran torino
them
eden lake
taken
knowing
district 9
united 93
munich
twilight