Someone put out an APB for any more best of lists, so here - finally - is mine. Eyes down for a full house... Best of 2002 CDs 1. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego) 2. MIMEO/John Tilbury - The Hands Of Caravaggio (Erstwhile) 3. Tim Berne - Science Friction (Screwgun) 4. Various Artists - Improvised Music From Japan (IMJ) 5. Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush (Smalltown Supersound) 6. Yoshihide Otomo - Ensemble Cathode (IMJ) 7. John Zorn - Filmworks XIII: Invitation To A Suicide (Tzadik) 8. Ruins - Tzomvorgha (Magaibutsu) 9. Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy And I'm Singing And A 1, 2, 3, 4 (Mego) 10. David Grubbs - Rickets And Scurvy (Fat Cat) 11. Burkhard Stangl/Dieb 13 - Eh (Erstwhile) 12. Philip Samartzis/Sachiko M - Artefact (Dorobo) 13. Yoshihide Otomo New Jazz Quintet - Live (DIW) 14. Polwechsel/Fennesz - Wrapped Islands (Erstwhile) 14a. Phongraphics 1-5 - Stangl/Dafeldecker/Fennesz/Siewert (Durian) Reissues/Archival Recordings 1. Ground Zero - Plays Standards (ReR) 2. Peter Hammill And The K Group - The Margin Live + (Fie!) 3. Janek Schaefer - HMV (audiOh! Recordings) 4. Camper Van Beethoven - Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years (Cooking Vinyl) 5. Derek Bailey - New Sights, New Sounds (Incus) 6. Fennesz - Field Recordings 1995-2002 (Touch) Best gigs of 2002 It was another epic year for live music, as I managed to average just over a gig a fortnight (ATP counts as one, not that it matters to anyone apart from myself). And there are so many more I could have gone to! These are my favourites, in purely chronological order Toshi Nakamura/Cosmos/Astro Twin (Spitz 27/3) All Tomorrows' Parties (Camber Sands 19-21/4) (3 days of music, beer and chalets. We missed out on the crazy golf and the go-karts this time, but saw 17 bands in three days, 19 if you include seeing Shellac three times. I'm a plane! Others we liked: Diagonah, David Lovering's magic show, Smog, God Speed You Black Emperor! (before they moved the exclamation mark from after Emperor to after You...oh, do keep up), Mark Robinson, Mission of Burma, and the godlike Upper Crust.) Tim Berne's Hard Cell Trio (Spitz 3/5) Alastair's very long weekend in New York (Various venues 29/5-3/6) (7 gigs in 7 days - lunchtime and evening on the Sunday, but I had Monday off - it was a good job I was on my own. Saw Zorn's Chimeras at the hilariously named Merkin Hall, loads of my Downtown heroes in various combinations, Derek Bailey, Paul Dunmall and Paul Rogers over from Blighty, David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness on a Sunday afternoon with loads of middle-aged Jewish people eating borscht and blinis, and a radio play with live music from Erik Friedlander and Topaz.) David Grubbs/Noel Akotche (Spitz 5/10) Jaga Jazzist (93 Feet East 10/10) Satoko Fujii Quartet (Spitz 8/11) Alastair -- Personalised email by http://another.com