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What albums, books, films, gigs are you looking forward to in 2016, good folk of The Afterword?

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  2. Top Fife folkie James Yorkston has got together with top Mancunian double-bassman Jon Thorne and top Indian sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan to make a crossover album that sounds pretty tasty.
    The title: “Everything Sacred” by Yorkston Thorne Khan

    Out on 15 January!

  3. 2016 has the makings of being of good year. In January I am looking forward to Blackstar but more importantly the reissue of John Cale’s Music for a New Society. Long unavailable on CD it comes with an additional cd of a re-recorded version of the album.
    In February comes a new Lucinda Williams album.
    March I go to SXSW with Baron Harkonen and his mate Stebbers who doesn’t frequent this site.

    Later in 2016 it is my 60th so I am hoping for an overall good year.

    • I`m looking forward to Ryley Walker & Danny Thompson at Jimmy Clithero`s place in Feb, I think.

      Blackstar, but it will no doubt disappoint.

      Beatles 5:1 surround box set of albums from Revolver to Let It Be, oh and the Let It Be film in full.

      An expedition to the Western Territories with @stevet and some twatch named Baron H.

  5. Declaring an interest, the 2CD set of vintage Quintessence recordings newly mixed from multis on Hux, early 2016.

    And the first Roxy Music album in deluxe remixed/added-to form, if it ever appears…

    And the continuing series of British Library Crime Classics…

    And Wookalily at The Limelight, Belfast, January 15th, being filmed (again) for a TV show that, contractually, nobody can talk about or the apocalypse will be brought to bear upon them…

    • ‘And the continuing series of British Library Crime Classics…’

      I so nearly bought two of them today. Since coming home I’ve seen them mentioned (positively) three times in various places. Guess I’m going back to the shop tomorrow…

  6. Coming up (as it were): Suede – Night Thoughts.

    I am troubled by this title, which puts me in mind of some becardiganed twerp burbling on about Jesus at one in the morning on BBC2 in 1981.

    A friend said that this is the second in a sequence of albums whose titles rhyme with each other (the last one was called Bloodsports) and that in years to come we can expect Suede albums called:

    Short Shorts

    Swiss Quartz

    Cinque Ports

    Removing Warts

    Dahling, It Takes All Sorts

    Why, Me Nob Horts (named after something Brett overheard in a public toilet in Hexham)

  8. In January we have front row tickets to see Edwyn Collins at the Roundhouse, and we’ll also be seeing Dominic West in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Ralph Fiennes in The Master Builder.

    In between I’m having my tonsils out, which I’m not expecting to be a highlight.

    Later in the year we’re booked in to see Jesus and Mary Chain, Wilko Johnson, and Peter Hook who’ll be doing both versions of Substance.

  9. INPO,

    David Bowie’s Blackstar

    Creed

    Seeing Sarah Millican on her 2016 UK tour

    Series 3 of The Fall & the new series of Happy valley.

    That is all I can think of right now, no doubt I will remember more as soon as I press the submit button.

  10. I have little idea what came out this year, and what I do know is largely thanks to this place, let alone 2016.

    Just two gigs lined up – the ever wonderful Thea Gilmore at Islington Assembly Hall in March and Ross Noble doing a cosy warm up show at Colchester Arts Centre in February. We’ve seen Ross a couple of times at the much bigger Cliffs Pavilion and I’m really looking forward to seeing him in a venue where he’ll interact more with the audience.

  11. Music:
    there’s a new Eleanor Friedberger album out soon
    didn’t know abut the Lucinda Williams one but I’m looking forward to that as well
    Comedy:
    Pappys have promised us a new Bangers & Mash podcast and a new Flatshare Slamdown podcast every month which is clearly something to smile about.

  13. The new Savages album is out in January. I’m looking forward to that a lot. Suede should be good as well.

    The new Robert Jackson Bennett book is due early January, which I expect to be excellent, and Chris Brookmyre’s latest Jack Parlabane is out at the end of the month, which should be another good un.

      • I’ll be interested in hearing the new Duke Spirit album too and will probably succumb and go and see them but I really wasn’t impressed by either their recent single or the Marc Riley session last month.

        • I know what you mean. They’re one of those bands where I loved the first album so much that subsequent releases have generally been given a bit more leeway than they strictly deserved.

          Fingers crossed anyway.

    • On most of that album its some real cool chick more or less singing to herself in an out-of-hours piano bar, then you’ve got this ^ what’s almost a show tune in the middle of it. Glorious.

  17. Only tix so far purchased for 2016 are Massive Attack, Nigel Kennedy, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Natalie Merchant. Can’t complain about that roster.
    Then it will be which 2 festivals make the cut. I get the feel Shrewsbury will lure me back

  18. God you’re all so organised. I just want to get through the next few days. Channeling Homer Simpson, looking forward to something is just the first step towards being disappointed. ?

  19. On TV looking forward to the new season of Better Call Saul.

    On the big screen, some interesting sounding releases for 2016 –

    Tarantino’s “Hateful Eight”
    Bryan Cranston in blacklisting drama “Trumbo”
    Caine and Keitel in “Youth”
    and promising sounding Marvel outing “Deadpool”

  20. When you find your groove, stick to it. Four festivals booked already, taking me way in to August. More will follow. I have been assured that my destiny lies in the songhouse at Warwick Folk Festival so I’m giving that a try for the first time, for which I am being rewarded with a line-up laden with Unthanks, Le Vent Du Nord and Mike McGoldrick.
    Closer in time, I am looking forward to Ryley Walker in a couple of months, plus pre-ordered releases from Fay Hield and the Songs of Separation project.
    The big excitement of the New Year is that I have by far my most ambitious singing project to date. In March I will be putting on an hour of songs, accompanied by various folk club compatriots, giving me the chance to try out material that wouldn’t work a capella. Thus, bring on the Joni, Nic, Nick and Thommo. I will also get the chance to breathe between verses.

  21. Gigwise, I’ve currently got tickets for Lush in May and The Cure in December, both down in that London and both seeming an awfully long way off at this point…

    Other than that, Jan/Feb will feature some combination of Victories At Sea, Dilly Dally, Girl Band and Hinds at the Hare and Hounds in Brum. Shonen Knife in Leicester in May looks good too.

    Having thoroughly enjoyed both last year, I’ll be going back to at least one of the Handmade and Indietracks festivals.

  22. Also going to The Cure but in October in Stockholm. We have tickets for Neil Young in July in Dalhalla, which is also in Sweden but further north, nearer home – could be rather special, a 4000 seater outdoor venue in an old quarry in the forest, the stage sits in a small lake. He’s touring with Willie Nelson’s son’s band. Then there’s the local festival mainly featuring mainly Swedish acts, including the very fine Anna Ternheim. A lot to look forward to.

    Book-wise there’s Jon Savage’s 1966 among others. Films? I’d like to see Carol. As for TV we’re waiting for the latest Good Wife on DVD. Should be good.

    • Looking forward to reading the concluding volume in the Mr Mercedes trilogy by King.

      Also hoping for something new from Martin Amis.

      Album wise – the new Steven Wilson is very good, and hoping for something new from Roger Waters after 20 odd years!

      Reissues wise – hoping for Steven Wilson’s remix of Tales From Topographic Oceans and the first Roxy Music album, plus a couple more of the Tull reissues too.

  24. February is going to be good for a change – Reeves and Mortimer and They might be giants, both in London, Beautiful days and IOW festivals, ( mainly because Queen are headlining and the Buzzcocks are there too!) might actually get to the Cambridge Folk Festival as well

    Going down to a couple of days a week at work and hopefully finish work in a year, really getting stuck in to some sort of history project on London.

    Wasps winning the premiership

    Happy Christmas all afterworders

  25. Cinema: cannot wait for Creed, also looking forward to Hateful 8, the Revenant, Suicide Squad and Fantastic Beasts.

    Music: seeing Explosions in the Sky at the Albert Hall.

    More than anything though, I’m looking forward to the launch of the first proper consumer virtual reality headsets. I think this tech is a total game changer, it’s been a massive hobby horse of mine, both privately and professionally, for some time and I firmly believe we are right at the start of something very special indeed.

    Oh, and I’m also hoping we might see the final part of Robert Caro’s LBJ biog.

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