So many good things have happened last months that it has taken a bit to make choices. But here they are. Remember, lists are meant to be shared, discussed, accepted, rejected, to make fun, cry, discover, laugh, yell.
Lists are like recipes, and 2011 was crazy flavored and yummy. Let’s get started with 2012!
AMANDE TIPPEX
Top 5 shows 2011
Action Beat – Fusion Festival, July 2011
Civil Civic – Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats, June 2011
Electrelane – Festsaal Kreuzberg, Aug 2011
Fenster – Point Ephemere, Oct 2011
Suuns – Camp Basement, Feb 2011
Top 5 songs
The Lovely Eggs – Allergies
The Babies – Wild 2
Widowspeak – Fir Coat
Tyler The Creator – Yonkers
Hunx and His Punx – Too young to be in love
Top 3 bands touring in 2012
The Soft Moon
Hunx and His Punx
Prince Rama
In 2012, i can’t wait for …
Touring in the USA
Eating more french cheese
Going to Primavera festival (maybe?)
In 2012, unfortunately i won’t be at…
Bruise Cruise festival, Miami Feb 2012
The end of the world, Dec 2012
AMBRE TIPPEX
Albums 2011
Death Grips – Exmilitary
Cheveu -1000
Chelsea Wolfe – “Ἀποκάλυψις”
K-Holes – K-Holes
Sic Alps – Napa Asylum
(I had only 5 names to give so no Wooden Shjips/ Moon Duo/Kurt Vile issues there but you already know them, right?)
2011 Tour highlights
Neil Hamburger stand up and The Spits live show in Montreal §
Golden Age exhibition in Bucarest with Ion Barladeanu.
2011 Hero: The Honeybadger
Top 1 WTF? Spotting Philippe De Villiers at a Flunch restaurant between Poitiers and Lyon while on tour with Antilles. Dood, you should book us at Puy du Fou?
ETIENNE TIPPEX
Albums 2011
Metronomy – The English Riviera (si c’est vrai.. c’est un bien chouette album)
David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (si c’est vrai aussi..)
Cave – Neverendless
Câlin – Black Chinese II (si c’est vrai..)
Best Live of 2011
Extra life – point FMR Paris, April 2011.
Nisennenmondai – Festsaal Berlin Nov. 2011
Jean Louis – Bei Roy Berlin
Best guitar player: Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss.
Best drum player: Nick Podgurski of Extra Life
Best bassplayer: Yuri Zaikawa of Nisennenmondai
Best singer: Charlie Looker of Extra Life
Best Kicker freaks: Syndicat I, II, III.
HÉLÈNE TIPPEX
Top 5 Albums
Nisennenmondai – Live
Eraas
Date Palms – Honey Devash
Emptyset
Robert Lippok – Redsuperstructure
Top 5 Concerts
Black Fog – Festsaal Berlin Transmediales 2011
Vulcano the Bear – Fusion Festival 2011
Datashock – Bei Roy Sept. 2011
Nisennenmondai – Festsaal Berlin Nov. 2011
Orchestra of Spheres – Kater Berlin Dec. 2011
LÉONIE TIPPEX
Albums 2011
Extra Life – Ripped Heart
Katerine, Francis et ses Peintres – 52 reprises dans l’espace
Trunks – On The Roof
Zone Libre ft Casey/B.James – Les contes du Chaos
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol.2: judges
Lives
Colin Stetson – Transmusicales (Rennes)
Dustin Wong – La Terra Trema (Cherbourg)
This Quiet Army – Bei Roy (Berlin)
Soirée Jusqu’à l’Os – L’Epicentre (Cherbourg)
Mathieu Donarier / Poline Renou – Les Nuits d’été (Corbel)
Top worst: End of L’Epicentre and La Terra Trema
Top venue: Metelkova Mesto – Ljubljana
Top Gun: Didn’t see it.
Top internet joke: “I didn’t even know that Kim Jong was Il”
MARIE TIPPEX
Top 5 albums
The Psychic Paramount – II
Nisennenmondai – live
Orchestra of Spheres – Nonagonic Now
Kellies – Las Kellies
The Chap – We are the best
Top 5 dance
Polyrock – Bucket rider
Loose Joints – This is all over my face
Palais Schaumburg – Wir bauen eine Neue Stadt
Material – Over and over
Chic – Everybody dance
Top 5 shows
Club Julie – Le lieu unique – http://vimeo.com/30783619
Glenn Branca – Villette Sonique
ESG – Jazz à la Villette
Dustin Wong – Kill your Pop
Colin Stentson – Les Transmusicales
Top 5 places
Jested tower, Liberec, Czech republic
Gardens festival, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Les jardins de l’évêché, Blois, France
Nymphée, Coussay, France
Cité Jandelle, Paris, France
MARION TIPPEX
Top live shows
Movie star junkies – Le Volume, Nice
Rocky Outcrops pyramid of love – Prince of wales, Brisbane
Quintron & Miss Pussicat – le Dojo, Nice
Jad Fair & Gilles Rieder – Le Volume, Nice
Action Beat – Villette Sonique, Paris
Top albums
Collection Amplifiée – Les Disques En Rotin Réunis
Quintron – Sucre du sauvage
Gentle Ben and His Sensitive Side – Magnetic Island
Hanni El Khatib – The Guns Come Out
Connan Mockasin – Foreever Dolphin Love
Top singles
Dan Melchior – Red Nylon Valance b/w Dogbite Meltdown #1
R.Stevie Moore & The Wicked Witches Of The South – Fizznuckin’
The Bowers – Lay the marigolds
Top singer
The lyre bird which mimics the calls of other birds, and chainsaws and camera shutters…
PASCAL TIPPEX
Top 7 Albums
Haight Ashbury – Here in the Golden Rays
Skeletons – People
James Blake – James Blake
Lovely Eggs – Cob Dominos
Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Cube
Civil Civic – Rules
La Batterie – Firemen’s Parade On Main Street
Top 1 Single
Zombie Zombie – Nothing To Say / Dream Baby Dream
Top 7 Concerts
Serafina Steer with special guest Emmanuelle Parrenin – Festival Les Femmes s’en mèlent, Paris – 27 March.
Emmanuelle Parrenin, Flop, Etienne Jaumet, Vincent Segal – Le Lieu Unique, Nantes – 15 April.
The Monochrome Set – Primavera Sounds Festival – 27 May.
Glenn Branca Ensemble – Villette Sonique Festival – 28 May.
Etienne Jaumet – Carte Blanche, Festival Elektricity, Reims – 4-8 October.
Silver Apples Europe Tour, October-November.
Haight Ashbury – Les Transmusicales, 2 December.
Top 2 Books
René Passet – Les grandes représentations du monde et de l’économie à travers l’histoire: de l’univers magique au tourbillon créateur.
Richard J. Evans – Le troisième Reich.
Top 1 WTF?: drinking beer in an outdoor jacuzzi in front of Snæfellsjökull volcano in Iceland
TOM TIPPEX
Albums 2011
Hiss Golden Messenger – Bad Debt
John Maus – We Must become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Pontiak – Comecrudos
Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma (The Signal Man’s Mix)
Peaking Lights – 936
Live 2011
FIRE!
Portishead
Orchestra Of Spheres
Pharaoh Overlord
Bardo Pond
Thurston Moore
Random 2011
Gerhard Richter – Tate Modern
Le Quattro Volte (Dir: M. Frammartino)
Templehof by bicycle in the sunshine
My new cat + my old cello
London Burning
