POLL RESULTS - complete with surprises
If nothing else it proves there is variety here, with new and old represented in very healthy ways. Despite only getting just over 50 votes there were very clear results in the albums choice, with a couple of Bands placed equal in the band voting (but in each case with at least four votes each), so although it may not be representative of tastes overall it does throw up some interesting loyalties and show who has been noticed among the new bands.

BANDS OF 2004

1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2 Screaming Banshee Aircrew
3 The Brides
4 Swarf
5 Frank The Baptist
= Rome Burns
7 Manuskript
8 Hungry Lucy
9 Siouxsie
10 The Cure
11 HIM
= The Empire Hideous
13 The Awakening
14 All About Eve
15 The Azoic

ALBUMS OF 2004

1. Screaming Banshee Aircrew - ‘Fishnet Messiah’
2. Swarf - ‘Art, Science, Exploitation’
3. The Brides - ‘The Brides’
4. History of Guns - ‘Whitby Promo’
5. Frank the Baptist - ‘Beggars Would Ride’
6. HIM - ‘Razorblade Romance’
7. Rasputina - ‘Frustration Plantation’
8. Rome Burns - ‘Non-Specific Ghost stories’
9. The Cold - ‘After All’
10. Johnny Hollow – ‘Johnny Hollow’
11. Hungry Lucy - ‘To Kill A King’
12. Qntal –‘III’
13. Ego Likeness - ‘Water To The Dead’
14. Killing Miranda - ‘Consumate’
15. Butterfly Messiah - ‘Eternal’

........and a Happy New Year to all Fogeys.