2022: Music, Books, Films and Television

Music: Albums

• Beach House: Once Twice Melody (****)
  
• Brian Eno: FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (***)
• David Bowie: Moonage Daydream - A Film By Brett Morgen (****)
• Debit: The Long Count (***)
• Katia Krow: The Observer Of The Idle Spectacle (***)
• Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island (***)
• Oliver Coates: The Stranger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (****)
• Porcupine Tree: Closure/ Continuation (*****)
• Russian Circles: Gnosis (****)
• Zguba: Znój (****)

 

Music: Concerts

• Jeff Beck: The Sage, Gateshead, 02/06/2022 (****)
• Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: O2 City Hall, Newcastle, 03/05/2022 (****)
• Nine Inch Nails: O2 Apollo, Manchester, 20/06/2022 (*****)
  
• Porcupine Tree: OVO Arena Wembley, London, 11/11/2022 (****)
  
• Sigur Rós: O2 Academy Brixton, London, 10/11/2022 (*****)
  

 

Books

• Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (****)
• David Byrne: How Music Works (*****)
  
• Maureen Callahan: American Predator (****)
• Helen Cresswell: Moondial (***)
• John Grisham: A Time to Kill (***)
• John Grisham: The Chamber (****)
• Guesdon & Margotin: Pink Floyd: All the Songs (****)
• Dara Horn: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (***)
• Anne Kavan: Ice (**)
• Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner: Heat 2 (***)
• Daphne du Maurier: The Doll: Short Stories (****)
• Daphne du Maurier: Echoes from the Macabre (****)
• Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman’s Creek (***)
• Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn (***)
• Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (****)
• Haruki Murakami: After Dark (***)
  
• Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart (****)
  
• Nicholas Pileggi: Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (***)
• Michael Pollan: How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (*****)
• Chil Rajchman: The Last Jew Of Treblinka (second reading) (*****)
• Richard Rashke: Escape From Sobibor (***)
• Elie Wiesel: Night (second reading) (****)
• Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales (****)
• Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates (***)
• Rosalind Wiseman: Queen Bees & Wannabes (***)
• Stefan Zweig: Beware of Pity (second reading) (*****)
• Stefan Zweig: Memoirs of a European (****)

 

Films

• The Banshees of Inisherin (***)
• Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (****)
• Drive My Car (***)
  
• In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (****)
• Licorice Pizza (***)
• Moonage Daydream (*****)
• Operation Mincemeat (***)
• The Stranger (****) 
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (***)
  
• White Noise (***)

 

Television

• Better Call Saul, Season 6 (****)
• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (***)
  
• How to Change Your Mind (***)
• Louis Theroux: Forbidden America (****)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (***)
• Meltdown: Three Mile Island (****)
• The Midwich Cuckoos (***)
• Once Upon a Time in Londongrad (****)
  
• Star Wars: Andor (****)
• Stranger Things, Season 4 (***)