That time already? Where the hell did that year go? Anyway: for you newerbees, the Festive ‘Spill is our version of the year-end tradition established by the late, great John Peel, when we sort out our fave tunes of the year to listen to over the festive season.
Quick(ish) reminder of how to take part:
- Each ‘Spiller can nominate 3 songs (New releases from 2011 (or late 2010).
- Please rank your choices 1,2 & 3. 1 being bestest.
- If you really don’t have any faves from this year, you obviously have been distracted & may pick 3 tunes that you think are fitting for the occasion.
- Send your nominations to shoemail@cfl.rr.com (note: different address than last time). Your e-mail should contain URL links to actual mp3′s (You can use your private folder in Dropbox (helpfully, called public. Just right click on the file, select “copy public link” & paste in your e-mail). If you are a DB expert, you can set up a new shared folder. Don’t use the RR folder as this actually is public for most of you & will spoil the surprise.
- If hotlinking, please leave the files alone until you get a confirmation from me that I’ve got them (& even then, in true Peelie style, I’ve been known to mislay them, but we usually muddle through, somehow).
-Confused? Then just e-mail me a list of picks and I’ll have my elves investigate.
- Nominations are on a first come, first served basis. So vote early. If one of your picks is taken, I will e-mail you back so you can make another one.
- Please take part if you can.
- That’s it for now.
Yay! Festive ‘Spill is one of the highlights of my year. I don’t mean one of the highlights of my RR/’Spill year. I really mean one of the highlights of my year.
Thanks for facilitating again.
Mine too. Are we very sad?
thanks from me too, I’ve probably done it incorrectly, but I’m excited about sending my choices!
Yes! I’ve been thinking about them for weeks now, email coming as soon as I settle on the order.
Me too! It’s beginning to torture me….but in a good way!
And me. Hope you got my message Shoey. There’s no confirmation of sending it in Dropbox.
Thanks for doing this shoey. One of the highlights of the year, as barbryn says. Contributions from Mrs Maki and me will arrive shortly. (The links will be player friendly as I’ll put them in my blog’s wordpress media library).
Ooh, this is my favourite thing! I have been saving up tunes all year…
This looks good, but I’m going to be waaaaay behind the curve. So not fair! Couldn’t someone have dropped a tiny hint for us newbies?
Aw, it’s easy SR! You just have to come up with three songs released this year wot you liked. Not a competition or nuffink.
don’t worry SR I knew about this and started a best of list for every month – but only carried on my good intentions until Jan 16th – so now I have to narrow down the 2135 tracks I’ve picked up this year, to 3… I’ll be late with my homework again.
I’m not very active on the ‘Spill, but I do try to contribute to this every year.
Basically what I do is, from about March onwards I start to think: that would be a possible for the Festive ‘Spill. So I file it away mentally and when the time comes…
Erm, this is a pile of festering testicles. At the last minute I panic and send Shoey the first 3 things I can think of which I’ve played more than once during the year… seems to work. See, you can do it too.
I’ve got about a dozen three favourite songs so am happy to supply you with a few lol
Of couse, things change. Lack of funds last year meant I didn’t pick up my two favourite albums of the year until December and if I’d heard them earlier, Sufjan Stevens and Steve Mason would have made the joint top choice.
It has been a good year, lots of ideas. I will have a think today and create a final three.
Choices sent.
Should get to sorting the 1st batch tomorrow – in case any of you wondering why you haven’t heard from me yet. Keep ‘em coming ‘Spillers.