Folk Awards Winners 2010

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS WENT TO:
Nanci Griffith and Dick Gaughan

i like nanci so not going to critisise her, just not totally sure why the bbc folk awards would honour her .
Dick - his contiibution to the uk folk scene isn't desputable, a great folk artist deserving of the award

GOOD TRADITION AWARD:
Transatlantic Sessions

no arguement from me on ths one

FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR:
And the winner was:Jon Boden
Other nominees were:
Cara Dillon
Jackie Oates
Martin Simpson

as a short list of nominees i really can't argue with this list…

1 Duke Special 193

top of my chart and likely to stay pretty high for a while , though with three new albums on 09 its likley to go quiet from the duke for a while.

2 Miriam Jones 112

what a great artist. she was releasing a free song every month! hopefully we will see more from her in 2010

3 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds110
number 3 despite no new album this year

4 Boo Hewerdine103
i so need to buy boo's new cd

5 Cornershop95
they are back. forget the idea of one…

just saving my latest "last twelve months " charts which mark my second full year on last.fm, i'll tidy them up and play around when i get the chance, then i can compare to first year etc so just ignore the journal entry for now

total artists in my libary at end of year two 1560, total at end of year one was 920 meaning i've listened to 640 new artists in the last year.

10722 tracks played in the first two years of which 4742 were played in year one. quick maths time… thats 5980 tracks in year two…

Fri 22 Aug – Greenbelt Festival 2008

having listened to many of the bands playing this years greenbelt fest the plan is to post my last three month chart here (given when i was away this actually covers the full 11 weeks from me returning from the greenbelt iona retreat to my arrival at the festival) then slowly edit it with comments about the bands that did play the fest. prob a big job so count this journal entry as a work in progress.

1 Levellers 119(no link to greenbelt, well Seth lakeman's brother Sean produced their new album and…

having now been on last.fm for exactly one year thought it might be time to have a look at what i've been listening to.
total tracks listened to 4742. not bad . (and checking on the beta version of this site that is 4742 tracks by a total of 920 artists , i'll be interested in how much that figure alters over the next year
)

first thing that hits me is how little i've listened to any one artist this year. artists that have come out with new cds this year i loved are still getting only a few…