2015 In Books, Films + Music

I can't believe the last one of these was a year ago.

Anyhoo let's get straight into it...

What I Read:

• Stiff by Mary Roach
• Cause of Death - Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist by Geoffrey Garrett

Wow only two, that's pretty terrible. Moving on...

What I Watched:

I'm doing well with films this year, watched four already this month. Better than the eight I watched all year in 2015!

It's because we've subscribed to Mubi. It's £40 for a year and there are 30 films available to watch, each on for 30 days so once one goes off, a new one comes on. 

• The Revenant Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 5/5
• Insidious James Wan 2/5
• The Queen Steven Frears 4/5
• The Mule Angus Sampson 4/5
• Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller 3/5
• The Theory of Everything 4/5
• Ocean's Eleven Steven Soderbergh 4/5
• Black Mass Scott Cooper 4/5
• The Homesman Tommy Lee Jones 4/5
• Wild Jean-Marc Vallee 4/5
• The Program Steven Frears 4/5
• The Babadook Jennifer Kent 3/5
• Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone 4/5
• Every F---in Day of My Life Tommy Davis 3/5
• Brother's Keeper Joe Berlinger 3/5
• Raw Robert Townsend 3/5
• Seven Psychopaths Martin Macdonagh 4/5
• Get Hard Ethan Cohen 4/5
• Promised Land Gus Van Sant 3/5
• Magic Mike Steven Soderbergh 3/5
• Precious Lee Daniels 3/5
• Kill Your Darlings John Krokidas 3/5
• Frank Lenny Abrahamson 3/5
• Nowhere Boy Sam Taylor-Johnson 4/5
• Blue Jasmine Woody Allen 4/5
• The Sound of Insects Peter Leichti 4/5
• Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Sophie Huber 4/5
• The Act of Seeing with Ones Own Eyes Stan Brakhage 4/5
• Cropsey Joshua Zeman 3/5
• A Certain Kind Of Death Grover Babcock 4/5
• Capturing The Friedmans Andrew Jarecki 3/5
• The Bridge Eric Steel 4/5
• West of Memphis Amy Berg 4/5
• Mama Andres Muschietti 2/5
• Filth Jon S. Baid 4/5
• Old Boy Spike Lee 3/5
• Ain't Them Bodies Saints David Lowery 3/5
• Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson 4/5
• The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese 3/5
• Shutter Island Martin Scorsese 3/5

Bloody hell 40 films! That definitely makes up for last year. Follow me on Mubi 

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Tramlines 2015

Every year in Sheffield we have our own music festival called Tramlines seeing as the city is covered with actual tramlines. Anyway, it's really good how it's set up because there are performances at different venues all over the city as well as a mainstage which is at a different location every year. We've had everyone from Public Enemy to our own not yet famous musicians play this festival. 

I had such a good time this year because of these guys! My good life long pals from high school Lee, Danny and Aron came to stay over and it just so happened to be the same weekend as Tramlines so I thought I'd show them the musical delights of Sheffield. These guys are seriously dear to me, I've known them since we were all thirteen and to be honest they haven't changed! They're still as goofy as ever, just with added beards!

The first night they stayed we just went to The Broadfield pub for a few drinks. We thought we'd better save ourselves for Saturday night which we planned to be the big one. 

On the Saturday we went to The University Arms which is a pub where my friend Al was playing that afternoon. We planned to stay there for a bit and then later that night go to The Shakespeare which throws an awesome mod/60's night. However, we were having such a good, chilled out time sat in the beer garden that we ended up drinking far too much, peaked too early and were all completely conked out by 7pm!!

This is Al and his drummer Corin, they're in a band called Lunar Maria. You should check them out!

We even randomly bumped into my cousins who had also come to Sheffield for the festival!

To end this post, I'd like to share with you a cracking photo which I absolutely love. Us lot in 2008 and us lot today. What a bunch of handsome lads they've become! haha

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