Band Favourites Of 2023

Yes, another year, another set of ‘end of year’ lists! Tons of great stuff out this year, have a look and see what the band have been enjoying in 2023

Michael McKeegan

Listening:
Sepulchral Curse-Abhorrent Dimensions
Helmet-Left
Enola Gay-Casement
Portrayal Of Guilt-Devil Music
Sextile-Push
Ironsides-Changing Light
Model/Actriz-Dogsbody
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats-Slaughter On First Avenue
Radiant Knife-Pressure
Aesop Rock-Integrated Tech Solutions
Final Gasp-Mourning Moon
C.O.F.F.I.N.-Australia Stops
Problem Patterns-Blouse Club
Green Lung-This Heathen Land
JAAW-Supercluster
Ash-Race The Night
Margarita Witch Cult-Margarita Witch Cult
Luger-Revelations Of The Cosmic Skull
Triumph Of Death-Resurrection Of The Flesh
Hawkwind-The Future Never Waits
Zorn-Zorn
Chalk-The Gate
Korgull The Exterminator-Built To Kill
High Priest-Invocation
Benefits-Nails
Blue Oyster Cult-50th Anniversary Live-First night
Thantifaxath-Hive Monday Narcosis
Motörhead-Another Perfect Day (40th Anniversary Edition)
Graveripper-Seasons Dreaming Death
Ken Mode-VOID
Moonlight Sorcery-Horned God Of The Thorned Castle
Godflesh-Purge
Naut-Hunt
TDK-Nemesta
At The Mermaid podcast

Watching:
Station Eleven
Fall Of The House Of Usher
Tenet
Talk to Me
Slasher
Leave The World Behind
Castlerock
Horror Of Dolores Roach

Reading:
Kim Gordon-Girl In A Band
Record Collector magazine
Dayal Patterson-Black Metal:Evolution Of The Cult-Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition

Andy Cairns

Listening:
Kevin Richard Martin – Black
Election House – Feels of Correction
Ash-race the night
Problem Patterns- blouse club
Cherym- Taking up Sports
Kneecap – it’s been ages
Geld-currency//castration
Clowns-endless
Benefits Nails
David Holmes-blind on a galloping horse
Modern Technology-conditions of worth
Home Front-Games of power
Enzyme-golden dystopian age
Bloody Head- There is no Authority but yourself..and everyone else
Schkeuditzer Kreuz – No Life Left
Enola Gay – Casement
Peng Weng Atomic Drag – The Obsidian Bat of Weng
Nihiloxica – Source of Denial
Knock Off – Chelsea Beer and Punk Rock
Thee Alcoholics – live at the piper
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
James and the Cold Gun-ST
SexSwing- Grade A Peanut Sauce
Colossal Squid – a haunted tongue
Repo Man – me pop now
Petbrick – singularity
Black Star Riders – wrong side of paradise
Girls in Synthesis – Die Leere
Iceboy Violet – Not a Dream but a Controlled Explosion
Helm – Chemical Flowers (not new but listened to it a lot this year)
Helmet – Left
Richie Culver – Scream if you don’t Exist
Kode 9 / Burial – Infirmary/ Unknown Summer
The Chisel – Fuck ‘Em
The Shits – you’re a mess
 Chelsea Fancast podcast

Watching:
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Dance First
Talk to Me
Beau is Afraid
Afire
Saint Omer
Asteroid City
Muscle
Evil
Dead Man’s Shoes
Dead Loch
Succession
The Lovers
The Last of Us
Poker Face
Gen V
Carnival Row
Shelter
Kin
Fisk
Chelsea FC
Sp*rs 1 Chelsea 4
Chelsea Legends Match
Come Along and Sing This Song live event

Reading:
Paul Marko – Menace – Prog, Punk, Skinheads & Serendipity
King/Warner/Welsh – Seal Club 2
Johnny Neal’s Blue & White Army – Come Along and Sing this Song
CFCUK Fanzine
Wire Magazine
Sight & Sound Magazine
The Quietus
John King – London Country
Pat Nevin – Football and How to Survive It
Anna Bogutskaya – Unlikeabke Female Characters
Eduardo Galeano – Football in Sun and Shadow
Stephen Morris – Record Play Paul
Neil Fitzsimon – Rhapsody in Blue
Susan Sontag – Regarding the Pain of Others
J R Moores – Electric Wizards
Dirk Van Hulle/Pim Verhulst – The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies

Neil Cooper

Listening:
John (Times Two) – A Life Diagrammatic
Lindstrom – Everyone Else Is A Stranger
Benefits – Nails
JAAW – Supercluster
Helmet – Left
Lewsburg- Out & About
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination
Green lung – This Heathen Land
Ezra Collective – Where I’m Meant To Be

Watching:
Beef
Luther, The Fallen Sun
Don’t Look Up
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
White Noise
The Bear
Hijack
All Quiet on The Western Front
Metallica – Download festival
Benefits – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
 
Reading:
Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona
John Lanchester – The Wall
Hari  Kunzru – Red Pill
Lucy Foley – The Paris Apartment
Otto English – Fake History
Robert Galbraith – The Cuckoo’s Calling