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Brentwood’s Only Alternative in 2014 – 487 bands and 1,326 songs later

It’s that time again when I go through my stats for the year!

In 2014 I played 487 bands and 1,326 songs (up from last year’s 432 bands and 1,175 songs)

This year the most popular artist played was SUPERFOOD (25 plays), followed by MAXIMO PARK (24 plays) and HONEYBLOOD and KAISER CHIEFS (22 plays each).

Last year my three most popular artists were British Sea Power (this year: 27th), Bleech (10th) and Taffy (34th).

The most popular tracks plyed were as follows:

1. Maximo Park – Give, Get, Take (13 plays)
2. Pop Will Eat Itself – Reclaim The Game (12 plays)
=3. Honeyblood – Choker (8 plays)
=3. History Of Apple Pie – Jamais Vu (8 plays)
=3. Kaiser Chiefs – Bows and Arrows (8 plays)
=3. Killatrix – Supersonic (8 plays)
=7. Curxes – Avant-Guarded (7 plays)
=7. Menswear – Crash (2014) (7 plays)
=7. St Vincent – Digital Witness (7 plays)
=7. Temples – Mesmerise (7 plays)
=7. Wind-Up Birds – The Gristle (7 plays)

These are the bands I played:

25 plays: Superfood

24 plays: Maximo Park

22 plays: Honeyblood, Kaiser Chiefs

17 plays: Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Service Broadcasting

16 plays: Franz Ferdinand

14 plays: High/Low, History Of Apple Pie, Menswear

13 plays: Wind-Up Birds

12 plays: Bleech, Blessa, Temples

11 plays: Killatrix

10 plays: Bis, Carter USM, Cud, Metronomy, Primitives, St Vincent

9 plays: Desperate Journalist, Heart Throbs, Inspiral Carpets, Nina Persson, Republica

8 plays: British Sea Power, Curxes, Darling Buds, Interpol, Jail and the Big Guns, Martha, Sultans Of Ping FC

7 plays: Chris T-T and the Hoodrats, Lush, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Space, Stone By Window, Taffy

6 plays: Asylums, B-52’s, Blur, Carsick Cars, Death From Above 1979, Dumb, Electric Six, Flares, Looking For Liam, Low Frequency In Stereo, School, Sleater-Kinney, Sulk, Superions, Young Knives

5 plays: A House, Abdoujaparov, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Charlatans, Damon Albarn, Dark Horses, Divine Comedy, DZ Deathrays, Everglows, Fashoda Crisis, Frank and Walters, Heavy Petting Zoo, John Mouse, Lykke Li, Mega City Four, Metric, Neon Waltz, Thousand Yard Stare, Tom Vek, Wolf Alice

4 plays: Calico, Cat Bear Tree, Chatham Rise, Earl Brutus, Echobelly, El Deyma, Elbow, Foals, Horse Party, Hot Chip, Howling Bells, JacksonsWarehouse, James, Jim Noir, Johnny Marr, Kenickie, Last Lynx, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Mighty Roars, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Nine Black Alps, Pink Mountaintops, Pulp, Scarletts, Sisteray, Sleeper, States Of Emotion, Tenek, Thomas James, Velvet Tree, Voluntary Butler Scheme, We Are The Ocean, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Young Galaxy

3 plays: Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Band Of Holy Joy, Black Casino and the Ghost, Bloc Party, Bob Mould, Catatonia, Dingus Khan, Dum Dum Girls, Eight Rounds Rapid, Filthy Tongues, Grísalappalísa, Hafdis Huld, Happyness, Hot Puppies, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Joy Formidable, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Kelly Oliver, Kudos, Mannequins, Meryl And A Bit Of Yellow, Midway Still, Muse, My Life Story, Noire, Ordinary Noise, Pond, Pre New, Royal Blood, Salad, Scarlet Echo, Sinead O’Connor, Slow Club, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Suede, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Tahiti 80, They Might Be Giants, Todd Terje, Tom Williams and the Boat, Vad Fruttik, Veronica Falls, Viet Cong, We Are Scientists, XTC

2 plays: 2:54, Accrington Stanley, Alpine, Animal Noise, Ariel Pink, Bellatrix, Big Deal, Black Honey, Blonde Redhead, Botnleðja, Brian Batz, Cheap Girls, Data Panik, Deniers, Desert Hearts, Dodgy, Eagulls, Elastica, Erica Nockalls, Erland and the Carnival, Everything By Electricity, Everything Everything, Fickle Friends, Five Thirty, Garbage, Giorgio Moroder, God Damn, Gulf, Handsome Dead, Hoosiers, Inkhearts, J Xaverre, James Atkin, Johnny Foreigner, Juke, Julian Cope, Little Matador, Lola Colt, Lovely Eggs, Madder Rose, Mansun, Marion, Mogwai, Nada Surf, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Northside, Omelettes, ParanoiKa, Powder, Pretty Reckless, Ride, Rob Jones, Rouge Girls, Sallasmith, San Cisco, Sebastien Tellier, Slug, Some Kind Of Leader, Splashh, Spring Offensive, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Tame Impala, Thomas Tantrum, Train To Spain, Trampolene, Tricks, Vardo and the Boss, Weirdgear, Wolf Party

1 play: ¡Forward, Russia!, Across The Waves, Aeromancy, Ages and Ages, Alien Ant Farm, alt-J, Alvvays, Amanda Palmer, And The Kid, Andrew Grumbridge feat Lockton, Animals That Swim, Antlers, Apples, As Elephants Are, Ash, Au Revoir Simone, Audioweb, Automatic, Avi Buffalo, Aztec Camera, Bastille, Beck, Bell X1, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Bikini Beach Band, Billy The Kid, Bjork, Black Keys, Blue Aeroplanes, Blueberries, Bluetones, BMX Bandits, Bo Ningen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy and Bear, Bravery, Brody Dalle, Butter The Children, Cable, Caddywhompus, Canvas Canvas, Catch, Cauldronated, Charli XCX, Chumped, Chvrches, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cockney Rebel, Codeine Velvet Club, Cold War Kids, Colour Me Wednesday, Credit to the Nation, Crocodiles, CSS, Cure, Cursor Miner, Curve, Deee-Lite, Demob Happy, Deodato, Detektivbyrån, dEUS, Dinosaur Pile Up, Divine Paiste, Dubstar, Duckworth Lewis Method, Dutch Uncles, East Village, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Editors, El Presidente, Elastic Sleep, EMA, Ends, Esben and the Witch, Evarane, Fagan, Faint Medal, Fall, Family Gotown, Fanfarlo, Fanny, Feeder, Finding Miranda, Fischerspooner, Fred, Frett, Fur Cough, Futureheads, Gemma Hayes, Gene, Genesis, Gengahr, Glass Animals, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Greys, Guerreros de Cartón, Haiku Salut, Haley Bonar, Hall Effect, Honey, Honeymilk, Horrors, Hydrogen Child, I Am Waiting For You Last Summer, Iceage, J Mascis, Jagwar Ma, Jake Bugg, Jaws, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Jezabels, Jocasta, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Julie Ruin, Kate Pierson, Katie Cruel, Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, Kent, Kid Wave, Kill Van Kulls, King Adora, Kingmaker, Klang, KLOQ, Knifeworld, Komakino, Krachmacher, Kula Shaker, Ladyhawke, Las Robertas, Late Of The Pier, Leanne Louise, Leave The Planet, Leika, Light Light, LJ Lium, Long Blondes, Longpigs, Los Blueberries, Lovestarrs, Lunatics On Pogosticks, Luxembourg Signal, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, Madness, Makthaverskan, Marbles Jackson, Marillion, Marsheaux, MBG, Mclusky, Menace Beach, Merchandise, Mike Flowers Pops, Mikro, Milagres, Moonshake, Moontrip, Moscow Youth Cult, Mourn, My Glass World, Nancy, Nancy Sinatra, New Mendicants, New Young Pony Club, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Notwist, Nudozurdo, Orchestre des Hymnes Nationaux du Monde, Owl Service, Oxygen Thief, P J Harvey, Paris Angels, Paul Smith and Peter Brewis, Pavement, Peace Collective, Peter Gabriel, Pisces, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Plastic Bertrand, Pollapönk, Polysics, Power Of Dreams, Psylhouette, Public School Battalion, Rachid Taha, Radkey, Rage Against The Machine, Rakes, Red Ink, Remember Remember, Resque, Rialto, Robocop Kraus, Rubberbear, Ruby, Rulers Of The Planet, S*M*A*S*H, Saint Etienne, Samurai Seven, Scumbag Philosopher, Senseless Things, Senser, Shampoo, Sheabou, Shed Seven, Shy Lips, Slowdive, Sounds of Sputnik, Springh, Stella Diana, Stephen Malkmus, Stereopol, Stone Roses, Strand Of Oaks, Sunshine Underground, Suzie B, Tacocat, Talking Heads, Teleman, Ten Tigers, Terrorvision, That Hidden Promise, Threadstone, Tiger, Trashcan Sinatras, Trashmen, Tussilago, Twin Atlantic, Two Koreas, Ungdomskulen, Unicycle Loves You, Vanilla Unity, Venera 4, Vic Reeves, Vicious Five, Vile Electrodes, WatchOut!, We Are Rockstars, Wildfowl, Wonder Villains, Working, Wye Oak, Yello, Yes, Younger Younger 28s, Ytterbium, Zella Day, Zoé
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Brentwood’s Only Alternative in 2014 – 487 bands and 1,326 songs later

It’s that time again when I go through my stats for the year!

In 2014 I played 487 bands and 1,326 songs (up from last year’s 432 bands and 1,175 songs)

This year the most popular artist played was SUPERFOOD (25 plays), followed by MAXIMO PARK (24 plays) and HONEYBLOOD and KAISER CHIEFS (22 plays each).

Last year my three most popular artists were British Sea Power (this year: 27th), Bleech (10th) and Taffy (34th).

The most popular tracks plyed were as follows:

1. Maximo Park – Give, Get, Take (13 plays)
2. Pop Will Eat Itself – Reclaim The Game (12 plays)
=3. Honeyblood – Choker (8 plays)
=3. History Of Apple Pie – Jamais Vu (8 plays)
=3. Kaiser Chiefs – Bows and Arrows (8 plays)
=3. Killatrix – Supersonic (8 plays)
=7. Curxes – Avant-Guarded (7 plays)
=7. Menswear – Crash (2014) (7 plays)
=7. St Vincent – Digital Witness (7 plays)
=7. Temples – Mesmerise (7 plays)
=7. Wind-Up Birds – The Gristle (7 plays)

These are the bands I played:

25 plays: Superfood

24 plays: Maximo Park

22 plays: Honeyblood, Kaiser Chiefs

17 plays: Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Service Broadcasting

16 plays: Franz Ferdinand

14 plays: High/Low, History Of Apple Pie, Menswear

13 plays: Wind-Up Birds

12 plays: Bleech, Blessa, Temples

11 plays: Killatrix

10 plays: Bis, Carter USM, Cud, Metronomy, Primitives, St Vincent

9 plays: Desperate Journalist, Heart Throbs, Inspiral Carpets, Nina Persson, Republica

8 plays: British Sea Power, Curxes, Darling Buds, Interpol, Jail and the Big Guns, Martha, Sultans Of Ping FC

7 plays: Chris T-T and the Hoodrats, Lush, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Space, Stone By Window, Taffy

6 plays: Asylums, B-52’s, Blur, Carsick Cars, Death From Above 1979, Dumb, Electric Six, Flares, Looking For Liam, Low Frequency In Stereo, School, Sleater-Kinney, Sulk, Superions, Young Knives

5 plays: A House, Abdoujaparov, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Charlatans, Damon Albarn, Dark Horses, Divine Comedy, DZ Deathrays, Everglows, Fashoda Crisis, Frank and Walters, Heavy Petting Zoo, John Mouse, Lykke Li, Mega City Four, Metric, Neon Waltz, Thousand Yard Stare, Tom Vek, Wolf Alice

4 plays: Calico, Cat Bear Tree, Chatham Rise, Earl Brutus, Echobelly, El Deyma, Elbow, Foals, Horse Party, Hot Chip, Howling Bells, JacksonsWarehouse, James, Jim Noir, Johnny Marr, Kenickie, Last Lynx, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Mighty Roars, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Nine Black Alps, Pink Mountaintops, Pulp, Scarletts, Sisteray, Sleeper, States Of Emotion, Tenek, Thomas James, Velvet Tree, Voluntary Butler Scheme, We Are The Ocean, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Young Galaxy

3 plays: Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Band Of Holy Joy, Black Casino and the Ghost, Bloc Party, Bob Mould, Catatonia, Dingus Khan, Dum Dum Girls, Eight Rounds Rapid, Filthy Tongues, Grísalappalísa, Hafdis Huld, Happyness, Hot Puppies, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Joy Formidable, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Kelly Oliver, Kudos, Mannequins, Meryl And A Bit Of Yellow, Midway Still, Muse, My Life Story, Noire, Ordinary Noise, Pond, Pre New, Royal Blood, Salad, Scarlet Echo, Sinead O’Connor, Slow Club, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Suede, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Tahiti 80, They Might Be Giants, Todd Terje, Tom Williams and the Boat, Vad Fruttik, Veronica Falls, Viet Cong, We Are Scientists, XTC

2 plays: 2:54, Accrington Stanley, Alpine, Animal Noise, Ariel Pink, Bellatrix, Big Deal, Black Honey, Blonde Redhead, Botnleðja, Brian Batz, Cheap Girls, Data Panik, Deniers, Desert Hearts, Dodgy, Eagulls, Elastica, Erica Nockalls, Erland and the Carnival, Everything By Electricity, Everything Everything, Fickle Friends, Five Thirty, Garbage, Giorgio Moroder, God Damn, Gulf, Handsome Dead, Hoosiers, Inkhearts, J Xaverre, James Atkin, Johnny Foreigner, Juke, Julian Cope, Little Matador, Lola Colt, Lovely Eggs, Madder Rose, Mansun, Marion, Mogwai, Nada Surf, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Northside, Omelettes, ParanoiKa, Powder, Pretty Reckless, Ride, Rob Jones, Rouge Girls, Sallasmith, San Cisco, Sebastien Tellier, Slug, Some Kind Of Leader, Splashh, Spring Offensive, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Tame Impala, Thomas Tantrum, Train To Spain, Trampolene, Tricks, Vardo and the Boss, Weirdgear, Wolf Party

1 play: ¡Forward, Russia!, Across The Waves, Aeromancy, Ages and Ages, Alien Ant Farm, alt-J, Alvvays, Amanda Palmer, And The Kid, Andrew Grumbridge feat Lockton, Animals That Swim, Antlers, Apples, As Elephants Are, Ash, Au Revoir Simone, Audioweb, Automatic, Avi Buffalo, Aztec Camera, Bastille, Beck, Bell X1, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Bikini Beach Band, Billy The Kid, Bjork, Black Keys, Blue Aeroplanes, Blueberries, Bluetones, BMX Bandits, Bo Ningen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy and Bear, Bravery, Brody Dalle, Butter The Children, Cable, Caddywhompus, Canvas Canvas, Catch, Cauldronated, Charli XCX, Chumped, Chvrches, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cockney Rebel, Codeine Velvet Club, Cold War Kids, Colour Me Wednesday, Credit to the Nation, Crocodiles, CSS, Cure, Cursor Miner, Curve, Deee-Lite, Demob Happy, Deodato, Detektivbyrån, dEUS, Dinosaur Pile Up, Divine Paiste, Dubstar, Duckworth Lewis Method, Dutch Uncles, East Village, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Editors, El Presidente, Elastic Sleep, EMA, Ends, Esben and the Witch, Evarane, Fagan, Faint Medal, Fall, Family Gotown, Fanfarlo, Fanny, Feeder, Finding Miranda, Fischerspooner, Fred, Frett, Fur Cough, Futureheads, Gemma Hayes, Gene, Genesis, Gengahr, Glass Animals, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Greys, Guerreros de Cartón, Haiku Salut, Haley Bonar, Hall Effect, Honey, Honeymilk, Horrors, Hydrogen Child, I Am Waiting For You Last Summer, Iceage, J Mascis, Jagwar Ma, Jake Bugg, Jaws, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Jezabels, Jocasta, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Julie Ruin, Kate Pierson, Katie Cruel, Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, Kent, Kid Wave, Kill Van Kulls, King Adora, Kingmaker, Klang, KLOQ, Knifeworld, Komakino, Krachmacher, Kula Shaker, Ladyhawke, Las Robertas, Late Of The Pier, Leanne Louise, Leave The Planet, Leika, Light Light, LJ Lium, Long Blondes, Longpigs, Los Blueberries, Lovestarrs, Lunatics On Pogosticks, Luxembourg Signal, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, Madness, Makthaverskan, Marbles Jackson, Marillion, Marsheaux, MBG, Mclusky, Menace Beach, Merchandise, Mike Flowers Pops, Mikro, Milagres, Moonshake, Moontrip, Moscow Youth Cult, Mourn, My Glass World, Nancy, Nancy Sinatra, New Mendicants, New Young Pony Club, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Notwist, Nudozurdo, Orchestre des Hymnes Nationaux du Monde, Owl Service, Oxygen Thief, P J Harvey, Paris Angels, Paul Smith and Peter Brewis, Pavement, Peace Collective, Peter Gabriel, Pisces, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Plastic Bertrand, Pollapönk, Polysics, Power Of Dreams, Psylhouette, Public School Battalion, Rachid Taha, Radkey, Rage Against The Machine, Rakes, Red Ink, Remember Remember, Resque, Rialto, Robocop Kraus, Rubberbear, Ruby, Rulers Of The Planet, S*M*A*S*H, Saint Etienne, Samurai Seven, Scumbag Philosopher, Senseless Things, Senser, Shampoo, Sheabou, Shed Seven, Shy Lips, Slowdive, Sounds of Sputnik, Springh, Stella Diana, Stephen Malkmus, Stereopol, Stone Roses, Strand Of Oaks, Sunshine Underground, Suzie B, Tacocat, Talking Heads, Teleman, Ten Tigers, Terrorvision, That Hidden Promise, Threadstone, Tiger, Trashcan Sinatras, Trashmen, Tussilago, Twin Atlantic, Two Koreas, Ungdomskulen, Unicycle Loves You, Vanilla Unity, Venera 4, Vic Reeves, Vicious Five, Vile Electrodes, WatchOut!, We Are Rockstars, Wildfowl, Wonder Villains, Working, Wye Oak, Yello, Yes, Younger Younger 28s, Ytterbium, Zella Day, Zoé
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Brentwood’s Only Alternative in 2014 – 487 bands and 1,326 songs later

It’s that time again when I go through my stats for the year!

In 2014 I played 487 bands and 1,326 songs (up from last year’s 432 bands and 1,175 songs)

This year the most popular artist played was SUPERFOOD (25 plays), followed by MAXIMO PARK (24 plays) and HONEYBLOOD and KAISER CHIEFS (22 plays each).

Last year my three most popular artists were British Sea Power (this year: 27th), Bleech (10th) and Taffy (34th).

The most popular tracks plyed were as follows:

1. Maximo Park – Give, Get, Take (13 plays)
2. Pop Will Eat Itself – Reclaim The Game (12 plays)
=3. Honeyblood – Choker (8 plays)
=3. History Of Apple Pie – Jamais Vu (8 plays)
=3. Kaiser Chiefs – Bows and Arrows (8 plays)
=3. Killatrix – Supersonic (8 plays)
=7. Curxes – Avant-Guarded (7 plays)
=7. Menswear – Crash (2014) (7 plays)
=7. St Vincent – Digital Witness (7 plays)
=7. Temples – Mesmerise (7 plays)
=7. Wind-Up Birds – The Gristle (7 plays)

These are the bands I played:

25 plays: Superfood

24 plays: Maximo Park

22 plays: Honeyblood, Kaiser Chiefs

17 plays: Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Service Broadcasting

16 plays: Franz Ferdinand

14 plays: High/Low, History Of Apple Pie, Menswear

13 plays: Wind-Up Birds

12 plays: Bleech, Blessa, Temples

11 plays: Killatrix

10 plays: Bis, Carter USM, Cud, Metronomy, Primitives, St Vincent

9 plays: Desperate Journalist, Heart Throbs, Inspiral Carpets, Nina Persson, Republica

8 plays: British Sea Power, Curxes, Darling Buds, Interpol, Jail and the Big Guns, Martha, Sultans Of Ping FC

7 plays: Chris T-T and the Hoodrats, Lush, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Space, Stone By Window, Taffy

6 plays: Asylums, B-52’s, Blur, Carsick Cars, Death From Above 1979, Dumb, Electric Six, Flares, Looking For Liam, Low Frequency In Stereo, School, Sleater-Kinney, Sulk, Superions, Young Knives

5 plays: A House, Abdoujaparov, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Charlatans, Damon Albarn, Dark Horses, Divine Comedy, DZ Deathrays, Everglows, Fashoda Crisis, Frank and Walters, Heavy Petting Zoo, John Mouse, Lykke Li, Mega City Four, Metric, Neon Waltz, Thousand Yard Stare, Tom Vek, Wolf Alice

4 plays: Calico, Cat Bear Tree, Chatham Rise, Earl Brutus, Echobelly, El Deyma, Elbow, Foals, Horse Party, Hot Chip, Howling Bells, JacksonsWarehouse, James, Jim Noir, Johnny Marr, Kenickie, Last Lynx, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Mighty Roars, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Nine Black Alps, Pink Mountaintops, Pulp, Scarletts, Sisteray, Sleeper, States Of Emotion, Tenek, Thomas James, Velvet Tree, Voluntary Butler Scheme, We Are The Ocean, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Young Galaxy

3 plays: Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Band Of Holy Joy, Black Casino and the Ghost, Bloc Party, Bob Mould, Catatonia, Dingus Khan, Dum Dum Girls, Eight Rounds Rapid, Filthy Tongues, Grísalappalísa, Hafdis Huld, Happyness, Hot Puppies, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Joy Formidable, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Kelly Oliver, Kudos, Mannequins, Meryl And A Bit Of Yellow, Midway Still, Muse, My Life Story, Noire, Ordinary Noise, Pond, Pre New, Royal Blood, Salad, Scarlet Echo, Sinead O’Connor, Slow Club, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Suede, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Tahiti 80, They Might Be Giants, Todd Terje, Tom Williams and the Boat, Vad Fruttik, Veronica Falls, Viet Cong, We Are Scientists, XTC

2 plays: 2:54, Accrington Stanley, Alpine, Animal Noise, Ariel Pink, Bellatrix, Big Deal, Black Honey, Blonde Redhead, Botnleðja, Brian Batz, Cheap Girls, Data Panik, Deniers, Desert Hearts, Dodgy, Eagulls, Elastica, Erica Nockalls, Erland and the Carnival, Everything By Electricity, Everything Everything, Fickle Friends, Five Thirty, Garbage, Giorgio Moroder, God Damn, Gulf, Handsome Dead, Hoosiers, Inkhearts, J Xaverre, James Atkin, Johnny Foreigner, Juke, Julian Cope, Little Matador, Lola Colt, Lovely Eggs, Madder Rose, Mansun, Marion, Mogwai, Nada Surf, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Northside, Omelettes, ParanoiKa, Powder, Pretty Reckless, Ride, Rob Jones, Rouge Girls, Sallasmith, San Cisco, Sebastien Tellier, Slug, Some Kind Of Leader, Splashh, Spring Offensive, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Tame Impala, Thomas Tantrum, Train To Spain, Trampolene, Tricks, Vardo and the Boss, Weirdgear, Wolf Party

1 play: ¡Forward, Russia!, Across The Waves, Aeromancy, Ages and Ages, Alien Ant Farm, alt-J, Alvvays, Amanda Palmer, And The Kid, Andrew Grumbridge feat Lockton, Animals That Swim, Antlers, Apples, As Elephants Are, Ash, Au Revoir Simone, Audioweb, Automatic, Avi Buffalo, Aztec Camera, Bastille, Beck, Bell X1, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Bikini Beach Band, Billy The Kid, Bjork, Black Keys, Blue Aeroplanes, Blueberries, Bluetones, BMX Bandits, Bo Ningen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy and Bear, Bravery, Brody Dalle, Butter The Children, Cable, Caddywhompus, Canvas Canvas, Catch, Cauldronated, Charli XCX, Chumped, Chvrches, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cockney Rebel, Codeine Velvet Club, Cold War Kids, Colour Me Wednesday, Credit to the Nation, Crocodiles, CSS, Cure, Cursor Miner, Curve, Deee-Lite, Demob Happy, Deodato, Detektivbyrån, dEUS, Dinosaur Pile Up, Divine Paiste, Dubstar, Duckworth Lewis Method, Dutch Uncles, East Village, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Editors, El Presidente, Elastic Sleep, EMA, Ends, Esben and the Witch, Evarane, Fagan, Faint Medal, Fall, Family Gotown, Fanfarlo, Fanny, Feeder, Finding Miranda, Fischerspooner, Fred, Frett, Fur Cough, Futureheads, Gemma Hayes, Gene, Genesis, Gengahr, Glass Animals, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Greys, Guerreros de Cartón, Haiku Salut, Haley Bonar, Hall Effect, Honey, Honeymilk, Horrors, Hydrogen Child, I Am Waiting For You Last Summer, Iceage, J Mascis, Jagwar Ma, Jake Bugg, Jaws, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Jezabels, Jocasta, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Julie Ruin, Kate Pierson, Katie Cruel, Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, Kent, Kid Wave, Kill Van Kulls, King Adora, Kingmaker, Klang, KLOQ, Knifeworld, Komakino, Krachmacher, Kula Shaker, Ladyhawke, Las Robertas, Late Of The Pier, Leanne Louise, Leave The Planet, Leika, Light Light, LJ Lium, Long Blondes, Longpigs, Los Blueberries, Lovestarrs, Lunatics On Pogosticks, Luxembourg Signal, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, Madness, Makthaverskan, Marbles Jackson, Marillion, Marsheaux, MBG, Mclusky, Menace Beach, Merchandise, Mike Flowers Pops, Mikro, Milagres, Moonshake, Moontrip, Moscow Youth Cult, Mourn, My Glass World, Nancy, Nancy Sinatra, New Mendicants, New Young Pony Club, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Notwist, Nudozurdo, Orchestre des Hymnes Nationaux du Monde, Owl Service, Oxygen Thief, P J Harvey, Paris Angels, Paul Smith and Peter Brewis, Pavement, Peace Collective, Peter Gabriel, Pisces, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Plastic Bertrand, Pollapönk, Polysics, Power Of Dreams, Psylhouette, Public School Battalion, Rachid Taha, Radkey, Rage Against The Machine, Rakes, Red Ink, Remember Remember, Resque, Rialto, Robocop Kraus, Rubberbear, Ruby, Rulers Of The Planet, S*M*A*S*H, Saint Etienne, Samurai Seven, Scumbag Philosopher, Senseless Things, Senser, Shampoo, Sheabou, Shed Seven, Shy Lips, Slowdive, Sounds of Sputnik, Springh, Stella Diana, Stephen Malkmus, Stereopol, Stone Roses, Strand Of Oaks, Sunshine Underground, Suzie B, Tacocat, Talking Heads, Teleman, Ten Tigers, Terrorvision, That Hidden Promise, Threadstone, Tiger, Trashcan Sinatras, Trashmen, Tussilago, Twin Atlantic, Two Koreas, Ungdomskulen, Unicycle Loves You, Vanilla Unity, Venera 4, Vic Reeves, Vicious Five, Vile Electrodes, WatchOut!, We Are Rockstars, Wildfowl, Wonder Villains, Working, Wye Oak, Yello, Yes, Younger Younger 28s, Ytterbium, Zella Day, Zoé
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Brentwood’s Only Alternative in 2014 – 487 bands and 1,326 songs later

It’s that time again when I go through my stats for the year!

In 2014 I played 487 bands and 1,326 songs (up from last year’s 432 bands and 1,175 songs)

This year the most popular artist played was SUPERFOOD (25 plays), followed by MAXIMO PARK (24 plays) and HONEYBLOOD and KAISER CHIEFS (22 plays each).

Last year my three most popular artists were British Sea Power (this year: 27th), Bleech (10th) and Taffy (34th).

The most popular tracks plyed were as follows:

1. Maximo Park – Give, Get, Take (13 plays)
2. Pop Will Eat Itself – Reclaim The Game (12 plays)
=3. Honeyblood – Choker (8 plays)
=3. History Of Apple Pie – Jamais Vu (8 plays)
=3. Kaiser Chiefs – Bows and Arrows (8 plays)
=3. Killatrix – Supersonic (8 plays)
=7. Curxes – Avant-Guarded (7 plays)
=7. Menswear – Crash (2014) (7 plays)
=7. St Vincent – Digital Witness (7 plays)
=7. Temples – Mesmerise (7 plays)
=7. Wind-Up Birds – The Gristle (7 plays)

These are the bands I played:

25 plays: Superfood

24 plays: Maximo Park

22 plays: Honeyblood, Kaiser Chiefs

17 plays: Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Service Broadcasting

16 plays: Franz Ferdinand

14 plays: High/Low, History Of Apple Pie, Menswear

13 plays: Wind-Up Birds

12 plays: Bleech, Blessa, Temples

11 plays: Killatrix

10 plays: Bis, Carter USM, Cud, Metronomy, Primitives, St Vincent

9 plays: Desperate Journalist, Heart Throbs, Inspiral Carpets, Nina Persson, Republica

8 plays: British Sea Power, Curxes, Darling Buds, Interpol, Jail and the Big Guns, Martha, Sultans Of Ping FC

7 plays: Chris T-T and the Hoodrats, Lush, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Space, Stone By Window, Taffy

6 plays: Asylums, B-52’s, Blur, Carsick Cars, Death From Above 1979, Dumb, Electric Six, Flares, Looking For Liam, Low Frequency In Stereo, School, Sleater-Kinney, Sulk, Superions, Young Knives

5 plays: A House, Abdoujaparov, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Charlatans, Damon Albarn, Dark Horses, Divine Comedy, DZ Deathrays, Everglows, Fashoda Crisis, Frank and Walters, Heavy Petting Zoo, John Mouse, Lykke Li, Mega City Four, Metric, Neon Waltz, Thousand Yard Stare, Tom Vek, Wolf Alice

4 plays: Calico, Cat Bear Tree, Chatham Rise, Earl Brutus, Echobelly, El Deyma, Elbow, Foals, Horse Party, Hot Chip, Howling Bells, JacksonsWarehouse, James, Jim Noir, Johnny Marr, Kenickie, Last Lynx, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Mighty Roars, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Nine Black Alps, Pink Mountaintops, Pulp, Scarletts, Sisteray, Sleeper, States Of Emotion, Tenek, Thomas James, Velvet Tree, Voluntary Butler Scheme, We Are The Ocean, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Young Galaxy

3 plays: Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Band Of Holy Joy, Black Casino and the Ghost, Bloc Party, Bob Mould, Catatonia, Dingus Khan, Dum Dum Girls, Eight Rounds Rapid, Filthy Tongues, Grísalappalísa, Hafdis Huld, Happyness, Hot Puppies, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, Joy Formidable, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Kelly Oliver, Kudos, Mannequins, Meryl And A Bit Of Yellow, Midway Still, Muse, My Life Story, Noire, Ordinary Noise, Pond, Pre New, Royal Blood, Salad, Scarlet Echo, Sinead O’Connor, Slow Club, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Suede, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Tahiti 80, They Might Be Giants, Todd Terje, Tom Williams and the Boat, Vad Fruttik, Veronica Falls, Viet Cong, We Are Scientists, XTC

2 plays: 2:54, Accrington Stanley, Alpine, Animal Noise, Ariel Pink, Bellatrix, Big Deal, Black Honey, Blonde Redhead, Botnleðja, Brian Batz, Cheap Girls, Data Panik, Deniers, Desert Hearts, Dodgy, Eagulls, Elastica, Erica Nockalls, Erland and the Carnival, Everything By Electricity, Everything Everything, Fickle Friends, Five Thirty, Garbage, Giorgio Moroder, God Damn, Gulf, Handsome Dead, Hoosiers, Inkhearts, J Xaverre, James Atkin, Johnny Foreigner, Juke, Julian Cope, Little Matador, Lola Colt, Lovely Eggs, Madder Rose, Mansun, Marion, Mogwai, Nada Surf, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Northside, Omelettes, ParanoiKa, Powder, Pretty Reckless, Ride, Rob Jones, Rouge Girls, Sallasmith, San Cisco, Sebastien Tellier, Slug, Some Kind Of Leader, Splashh, Spring Offensive, Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Tame Impala, Thomas Tantrum, Train To Spain, Trampolene, Tricks, Vardo and the Boss, Weirdgear, Wolf Party

1 play: ¡Forward, Russia!, Across The Waves, Aeromancy, Ages and Ages, Alien Ant Farm, alt-J, Alvvays, Amanda Palmer, And The Kid, Andrew Grumbridge feat Lockton, Animals That Swim, Antlers, Apples, As Elephants Are, Ash, Au Revoir Simone, Audioweb, Automatic, Avi Buffalo, Aztec Camera, Bastille, Beck, Bell X1, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Bikini Beach Band, Billy The Kid, Bjork, Black Keys, Blue Aeroplanes, Blueberries, Bluetones, BMX Bandits, Bo Ningen, Bombay Bicycle Club, Boy and Bear, Bravery, Brody Dalle, Butter The Children, Cable, Caddywhompus, Canvas Canvas, Catch, Cauldronated, Charli XCX, Chumped, Chvrches, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cockney Rebel, Codeine Velvet Club, Cold War Kids, Colour Me Wednesday, Credit to the Nation, Crocodiles, CSS, Cure, Cursor Miner, Curve, Deee-Lite, Demob Happy, Deodato, Detektivbyrån, dEUS, Dinosaur Pile Up, Divine Paiste, Dubstar, Duckworth Lewis Method, Dutch Uncles, East Village, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Editors, El Presidente, Elastic Sleep, EMA, Ends, Esben and the Witch, Evarane, Fagan, Faint Medal, Fall, Family Gotown, Fanfarlo, Fanny, Feeder, Finding Miranda, Fischerspooner, Fred, Frett, Fur Cough, Futureheads, Gemma Hayes, Gene, Genesis, Gengahr, Glass Animals, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Greys, Guerreros de Cartón, Haiku Salut, Haley Bonar, Hall Effect, Honey, Honeymilk, Horrors, Hydrogen Child, I Am Waiting For You Last Summer, Iceage, J Mascis, Jagwar Ma, Jake Bugg, Jaws, Jenny Owen Youngs, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, Jezabels, Jocasta, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Julie Ruin, Kate Pierson, Katie Cruel, Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, Kent, Kid Wave, Kill Van Kulls, King Adora, Kingmaker, Klang, KLOQ, Knifeworld, Komakino, Krachmacher, Kula Shaker, Ladyhawke, Las Robertas, Late Of The Pier, Leanne Louise, Leave The Planet, Leika, Light Light, LJ Lium, Long Blondes, Longpigs, Los Blueberries, Lovestarrs, Lunatics On Pogosticks, Luxembourg Signal, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, Madness, Makthaverskan, Marbles Jackson, Marillion, Marsheaux, MBG, Mclusky, Menace Beach, Merchandise, Mike Flowers Pops, Mikro, Milagres, Moonshake, Moontrip, Moscow Youth Cult, Mourn, My Glass World, Nancy, Nancy Sinatra, New Mendicants, New Young Pony Club, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Notwist, Nudozurdo, Orchestre des Hymnes Nationaux du Monde, Owl Service, Oxygen Thief, P J Harvey, Paris Angels, Paul Smith and Peter Brewis, Pavement, Peace Collective, Peter Gabriel, Pisces, Pixies, Pizzicato Five, Plastic Bertrand, Pollapönk, Polysics, Power Of Dreams, Psylhouette, Public School Battalion, Rachid Taha, Radkey, Rage Against The Machine, Rakes, Red Ink, Remember Remember, Resque, Rialto, Robocop Kraus, Rubberbear, Ruby, Rulers Of The Planet, S*M*A*S*H, Saint Etienne, Samurai Seven, Scumbag Philosopher, Senseless Things, Senser, Shampoo, Sheabou, Shed Seven, Shy Lips, Slowdive, Sounds of Sputnik, Springh, Stella Diana, Stephen Malkmus, Stereopol, Stone Roses, Strand Of Oaks, Sunshine Underground, Suzie B, Tacocat, Talking Heads, Teleman, Ten Tigers, Terrorvision, That Hidden Promise, Threadstone, Tiger, Trashcan Sinatras, Trashmen, Tussilago, Twin Atlantic, Two Koreas, Ungdomskulen, Unicycle Loves You, Vanilla Unity, Venera 4, Vic Reeves, Vicious Five, Vile Electrodes, WatchOut!, We Are Rockstars, Wildfowl, Wonder Villains, Working, Wye Oak, Yello, Yes, Younger Younger 28s, Ytterbium, Zella Day, Zoé
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