What a year it’s been. Katie Price and Peter Andre part company (the final blow to the institution of marriage), Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize despite being in the midst of two wars, the Pre Budget Report made more depressing reading than one of Jan Muir’s columns and the world wakes up to the urgency of climate change at the Copenhagen Conference.
We panicked about H1N1, we voted for Joe McElderry, we were told we probably wouldn’t be voting on the Lisbon Treaty, we wore leather leggings, cropped tops and green nail varnish. We watched apocolyptic films, listened to GaGa and Tweeted.
Going in became the new going out, and going out got so much cheaper. Good thing too, because 2009 was the year of ‘fierce’ - the fine line between trash and bling - and boy, is being fierce expensive.
Need some help remembering what you loved and what you didn’t? Neil Innes counts down his top 10 albums - and seems to entirely disagree with Chris Mugan and his countdown of the top ten musical highlights of the year. If you don’t agree with either of them, maybe Mark Davison will win your vote?
Having seemingly spent most of the year in the cinema, shifting through what should have been straight to DVD releases, as well as era defining epics, Nick Clarke counts down this year’s top 10 films - and is entirely contradicted by Stephen Bains, our most provocative Upriser to date.
Our film experts, Neil and Joe attended the world premiere of Avatar last week, while fashionista authority Carli Humphries translates what the British Fashion Awards are, and explains to us why we should care.
Katy Morton reviews Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s Hoerengracht tableaux at the National Gallery, while Julia Kollewe counts down the best art shows of the year.
If that’s not enough - we even managed to add our thoughts to the X Factor / Sports Personality of the Year / Susan Boyle / Strictly Come Dancing debate.
beccahutson
3 months ago
HILARIOUS.