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Think you mean 4am UK time. I would do this but every year I forget or am too busy to send an entry one week and it's pointless trying to catch up afterward. Good luck all though

Post testing, pre-season predictions (that are usually way off) Best cars to worst - Mercedes Ferrari McLaren Red Bull Haas Alpine Racing Bulls Williams Audi Aston Martin Cadillac WDC - George Russell 2nd - Leclerc

One can only hope Red Bull's season goes better than their promo events!

American Obituary really wants to be The Clash but comes off like a Green Day B-Side.

Just the one I'm familiar with this time and I bought that when it came out, way back then.

Thanks Pavi. Sent mine in

Remind me tomorrow if I forget but I do want in

A brilliant cover of one of Abba's best and yes it should be a single . This take gives it a much more positive feeling but it does take the ambiguity out of the song and I've always liked the bleaker, dark connotations in the lyrics.

January Pos/Artist/plays 01 The Cramps 79 02 Garbage 63 03 Simple Minds 60 04 The Clash 60 05 Gaffa Tape Sandy 59 06 Siouxsie & the Banshees 57 07 L7 50 08 The Damned 49 09 Heartworms 47 10 Killing Joke 47 11 The Lords of the New Church 46 12 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 45 13 Marilyn Manson 44 14 Ministry 44 15 Manic Street Preachers 42 16 HotWax 41 17 Bambie Thug 40 18 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 36 19 LOA LOA 35 20 The Beatles 31 21 Motorhead 30 22 Fields of the Nephilim 29 23 Bruce Springsteen 27 24 Kate Bush 27 25 Sleeper 24 26 The Jesus & Mary Chain 24 27 Eat Your Make-Up 23 28 Gaye Bykers on Acid 23 29 Midnight Oil 23 30 Beastie Boys 22 31 Faith No More 22 32 Goodbye Mr Mackenzie 20 33 Shadow Project 20 34 Sick Joy 20 35 Beastmilk 19 36 Kid Kapichi 19 37 LN 19 38 Rob Zombie 19 39 Chappell Roan 18 40 Depeche Mode 18 41 Korn 18 42 The Sisters of Mercy 18 43 Eurythmics 17 44 Birdeatsbaby 15 45 Die So Fluid 15 46 Eville 15 47 Iggy Pop 15 48 System of a Down 15 49 The Libertines 15 50 Joan Jett 14

Billy Bragg felt similarly inspired

2026 begins... January Jan 13 2025 - BABYTEETH, is this ok?, Carva - Green Door Store, Brighton, England Jan 24 2025 - Gaffa Tape Sandy, H_ngm_n, All Better, Ahsoka, Really Big Really Clever, Self Torque - Hope & Ruin, Brighton, England Jan 30 2025 - HotWax, SLAG, Half Happy - Kola, Portsmouth, England Total sets so far - 12

Full list for 2025 January Jan 15 2025 - Lambrini Girls - Resident Music, Brighton, England Jan 18 2025 - Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Flip Top Head, goodbye, SLAG - Green Door Store, Brighton, England* Jan 30 2025 - THE HARA, Eville - Green Door Store, Brighton, England February Feb 21 2025 - Eville, Hell Hotel - Green Door Store, Brighton, England Feb 22 2025 - Motionless in White, Fit for a King - Brixton Academy, London, England Feb 25 2025 - Heartworms, She's in Parties - Concorde 2, Brighton, England March Mar 03 2025 - HotWax - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England Mar 07 2025 - HotWax - Resident Records, Brighton, England Mar 18 2025 - Cleopatrick, Projector - Chalk, Brighton, England Mar 30 2025 - HotWax, The Pill - The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, England April Apr 01 2025 - Jar of Blind Flies, CARNE, Spill - Green Door Store, Brighton, England Apr 09 2025 - Look What Happened, Down in Motion, Halloween Club - The Pipeline, Brighton, England Apr 12 2025 - HotWax. Projector, GENN, Gaffa Tape Sandy - Homegrown Festival, Green Door Store, Brighton, England Apr 15 2025 - Heilung, Eivor - Brixton Academy, London, England Apr 29 2025 - LEMONSUCKR, Triple Drain, CARNE, Wrench - Hope & Ruin, Brighton, England May May 03 2025 - Slung, El Moono, CARNE - Green Door Store, Brighton, England May 15 2025 - HotWax, Currls - Alternative Escape, The Black Lion, Brighton, England June Jun 11 2025 - Heartworms, Dogviolet - The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, England JUn 18 2025 - House of Protection, Bobby Wolfgang - DUST, Brighton, England 22 Jun 2025 - Kraftwerk, Death Cult, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The The, Billy Idol, Johnny Marr, Public Image Ltd, Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge, The Chameleons, Berlin, Theatre of Hate, UK Decay - Forever Now Festival, Milton Keynes Bowl, Milton Keynes, England Jun 28 2025 - Iron Maiden, Halestorm - London Stadium, London, England July Jul 06 2025 - Slayer, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, Hatebreed, Neckbreakker - Finsbury Park, London Jul 09 2025 - Hot Milk, Kid Kapichi, Blood Command, Panic Shack, unpeople,Grove Street, Meryl Streak, Buds - 2000 Trees Festival, Upcote Farm, Cheltenham Jul 10 2025 - Kneecap, Bambie Thug, PVRIS, The Hunna, Lake Malice, Big Special, SNAYX, DZ Deathrays, Meryl Streak, San Demas, unpeople, Himalayas, Superbloom, Terminals, Grief Ritual - 2000 Trees Festival, Upcote Farm, Cheltenham Jul 11 2025 - Taking Back Sunday, Heriot, Witch Fever, Coheed & Cambria, Benefits, Fidlar, Die Spitz, Press Club, Venus Grrrls, The Dangerous Summer, BLACKGOLD, Split Dogs, Kaonashi, Eville, Mallavora - 2000 Trees Festival, Upcote Farm, Cheltenham Jul 12 2025 - Calva Louise, The Hara, Vukovi, Vower, Employed to Serve, Sparta, Catbite, Girlband!, The Molotovs, Gen and the Degenerates - 2000 Trees Festival, Upcote Farm, Cheltenham Jul 17 2025 - Velvetine - The Rossi Bar, Brighton, England Jul 30 2025 - Wednesday 13, Fearless Vampire Killers, The Nocturnal Affair - CHALK, Brighton, England August Aug 14 2025 - Horror Vacui, Bones Ate Arfa, Loose Endz - Hope & Ruin, Brighton, England Aug 16 2025 - Gaffa Tape Sandy, Nature TV, KEG, AtticOmatic, PROJECTOR, The Roebucks, congratulations, The Stanford Family Band, Comforts, Telecom, Trip Westerns, Moon Idle, Mulimba, Lucy Darke, Ideal Living, Lean With the Breeze, Winter Gardens, Fukushima Dolphin, Room Service, The Rapports, ChitChat - Dedfest 2025 Festival, Crockstead Fields, Hallam, England Aug 20 2025 - Burner, Always Expire, Devilhusk - Daltons, Brighton, England September Sep 04 2025 - CARNE, I'vebeeneatingfruit - Hope & Ruin, Brighton, England Sep 11 2025 - Genitorturers, Black Lakes - CHALK, Brighton, England Sep 28 2025 - Yur Mum, Dumfun, Phat Problem - Prince Albert, Brighton, England Sep 28 2025 - CLT DRP, Gaffa Tape Sandy, WIMP, How Long You Been Driving?, prom, Leibniz, Bones Ate Arfa, Aku - 234 Festival, Green Door Store, Brighton, England October Oct 17 2025 - Echobelly, Babybird - CHALK, Brighton, England Oct 24 2025 - Doctor & the Medics, Guitar Gangsters, Daddy Those Men Scare Me - Daltons, Brighton, England November Nov 01 2025 - KNIFE BRIDE - Waterbear Venue, Brighton, England Nov 19 2025 - The Primitives, Keeley - Komedia, Bbrighton, England Nov 29 2025 - Lacuna Coil, Nonpoint - CHALK, Brighton, England December Dec 02 2025 - Harpy, Eville, Tribe of Ghosts - DUST, Brighton, England Dec 06 2025 - WREX, Every Hell, Kila Kosa - Green Door Store, Brighton, England *Left before they came on Artists in bold denotes they were given priority to see. Sets this year so far - 173

A return to form

Congrats to Chez too

Just catching up with this now and oh boy did I not expect Talking Heads to do so badly. Misjudged that one. Thanks to those who did give it points though

Have now sent my votes

You didn't need to wait that long. The Jade covered it about 20 years ago I like it but I prefer the the versions by JJ72, Gamma Ray and this version -

First song i thought of

Tsunoda's gap to Max was way better than Lawson's gap and Yuki's was much narrower when he actually made Q3. We'll never know if that delta of Lawson's would have improved however.

This should be fun, there are two tracks on there that were on my shortlist too. I'm curious tofind out who sent them in.

The Audi A26 broke cover this week.

Imagine is the best of the bunch there, although I can never separate it from his death. It was the first time I can recall in clarity just how much celebrity death can be a big moment for society. I was a bit too young to care too much about Presley although I remember that too. Whatever is another reminder of how could Oasis were back then too. Jona Lewie I have a weird relationship with as it is less of a Christmas song than some others that never get mentioned and actually are about Christmas (The Farm's All Together Now for example). That said, I do like it but it got 9 points from me more because there weren't other options rather than actual fondness for the track.

I'm definitely going to submit something but am really struggling to find something I'm happy with. All the songs I really like with nouns are preceded by the word The (as in The Passenger etc)

A bit late to the comments but Surfin' Bird first came to my attention back in the '80s due to it's absolutely stand out, tension breaking use in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Thus began my love of '60s Garage Rock.

The most obvious touchstone for these guys is The Jam. Early Jam anyway. I've liked their singles so far and very much enjoyed them live. Nothing groundbreaking but very entertaining.