2011 WAN Awards

The other thread reminded me. As is traditional:

Band of the Year:
Event of the Year:
Venue of the Year:
Disappointment of the Year:
WANner of the Year:
Twat of the Year:
Film of the Year:
Tv Show of the Year:
Word of the Year:
Hero of the Year:
Game of the Year:
Book of the Year:

Past Winners are saved here:
2010: http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=42896&page=...
2009: http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=38665&page=...
2008: http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/idlechat/message.php?id=31665&page=...

I will collate the results around 20th December.

Band of the Year: The Vichy Government
Event of the Year: Bad Timings 10th anniversary gig
Venue of the Year: Aid & Abet
Disappointment of the Year: This years series of Dr Who. I don't care about River Song. Torchwood was bloody awful too.
WANner of the Year: Troll and JT.
Twat of the Year: Eric Pickles
Film of the Year:
Tv Show of the Year: Time Team
Word of the Year: Ostrich
Hero of the Year: Everyone who came to my wedding. Love you all.
Game of the Year: Risk
Book of the Year: The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis.

Hang on, you got married, but bt's gig was the highlight of the year? Good man.

I did that deliberately. I'm glad someone noticed. ;) My wedding was lovely and I had a great day but no one wants to hear me go on about it. It's like when someone has a baby, assumes that everyone wants to see the photos and then brings the screaming thing into work.

Band of the Year: Grinderman
Event of the Year: Rock Road street party
Venue of the Year: Portie
Disappointment of the Year: Haymakers
WANner of the Year: Boudicea Bambaataa
Twat of the Year: George Osborne
Film of the Year: Kung Fu Panda 2 (only new film I've seen)
TV Show of the Year: Frozen Planet
Word of the Year: Jackson
Hero of the Year: Nicholas Shaxson

YAY!

*does jig - ego inflates - ego explodes - body explodes in violent mess of blood and puss*

^ Painting a picture with words. Nice.

^^ Should sort the PMT out, anyway.

*seeps into drains and disappears forever*

I vote Troll in all categories.

Can I venture the suggestion that we include a game or book of the year category?

Added.

"I vote Troll in all categories."

So do I. The rest of you are crap.

I smote troll in all cavities

Band of the Year: I am Kloot
Event of the Year: Getting pregnant
Venue of the Year: St Pancras church
Disappointment of the Year: Not being pregnant
WANner of the Year: Troll because he makes me laugh or Silent Rob for interesting threads and pretty much keeping WAN going when the tumbleweed threatened to take over. Congrats on your marriage!
Twat of the Year: Please can I nominate The Collation as a collective. I'd chose Jeremy Clarkson but he's friends with Cameron which is painful enough in itself.
Film of the Year: The Muppets - I haven't seen it but I predict great things.
Tv Show of the Year: Spooks
Word of the Year: Discombobulate
Hero of the Year: My husband
Game of the Year: The rise of the Mighty Toon to second in the Premiership...briefly.
Book of the Year: So many to choose from. Caitlin's Morgan's How to be a Woman; Pidgeon English by Stephen Kelman and Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens. Not published this year but something I've enjoyed lately William Trevor's Collected Stories.

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Band of the Year: Islet or Holy Fuck
Event of the Year: Ill Murray's debut EP release
Venue of the Year: Portland/Glanusk Park
Disappointment of the Year: Josh T Pearson at Green Man
WANner of the Year: JT for his encylopaedic cycling knowledge and Troll
Twat of the Year: Otis Ferry is the default answer but as he's disappeared then the tit from the Salisbury
Film of the Year: Midnight in Paris or the re-release of Taxi Driver
Tv Show of the Year: Century of Film. Not seen all of them but what I have has been magnificent
Word of the Year: Several that Mark Cousins very...slowly...enunciates
Hero of the Year: Cavendish
Game of the Year: TdeF
Book of the Year: The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester or Waterlog - Roger Deakin
Apologies for not being decisive

Band of the Year: Er...haven't been to see any for ages. I'll vote for Phantom/Ghost because I liked a song I heard by them on Radio 6.
Event of the Year: The announcement of the Rabobank Women's Team.
Venue of the Year: Portlund (I've decided it should be spelled like that. What do people reckon to the addition of an umlaut?)
Disappointment of the Year: The announcement of the probable death of the Garmin-Cervelo Women's Team/Tour of Beijing/Jens Voigt's index finger.
WANner of the Year: SR for being interesting, BB/Troll/Hooded Claw for being funny, Wrongfellow because he bought me a pint last time I was at the pub, JP because the ferrets like him, Marks for voting for me in this category, Bigmal for somehow still having half the world convinced he's an arsehole, Lucysferrets because my life wouldn't be worth living if I didn't include her here..and, well, it wouldn't be WAN without all the rest of you. Which isn't necessarily a compliment.
Twat of the Year: The entire executive boards of Italian shoe manufacturer Geox and Belgian/Italian/Spanish/French builders' merchants BigMat, Jonathan Vaughters and whoever it is that lives round here and revs up their car at 2am, but isn't greenboombox.
Film of the Year: Jean de Florette (no good ones released this year, so I'll pick one of the best ones ever).
Tv Show of the Year: Frozen Planet/How It's Made.
Word of the Year: Pantechnicon.
Hero of the Year: Marianne Vos/giant New Zealand grasshopper thingy/neutrinos.
Game of the Year: Hopscotch.
Book of the Year: Nothing outstanding published this year.

Band of the Year:If we are talking local, then Beverley Kills
Event of the Year: return trip to Lerwick
Venue of the Year: Portie
Disappointment of the Year: the NHS (not political but personal reasons)
WANner of the Year: ed__ one he is hott and two he is funny as fuck.
Twat of the Year: Paul McMullan - twat does not encompass a description of him but, it is a start.
Film of the Year: one of the best was Submarine
Tv Show of the Year: pass
Word of the Year: mellifluous
Hero of the Year: my heroine would be Amber: http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/mom-beats-husband-in-marathon-and-...
Game of the Year: Giant Jenga - still love it after all these years
Book of the Year: How To Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

Band of the Year: Jacqui and Geoff
Event of the Year: Nintendo 3DS midnight launch (had a pleasant evening getting drunk in The Elm Tree beforehand and then won a free one in a raffle for those who were waiting in GAME store)
Venue of the Year: a posthumous nod to the Haymakers
Disappointment of the Year: lack of mainstream coverage on the passing of Dennis Ritchie
WANner of the Year: troll
Twat of the Year: George Osbourne
Film of the Year: Source Code
Tv Show of the Year: Frozen Planet
Word of the Year: Arabidopsis
Hero of the Year: Basil D'Olivera -well all he actually did this year was die, but had never heard of him and his epic and important journey until reading the obituaries he gets my nomination
Game of the Year: Legend of Zelda
Book of the Year: Alastair Reynolds- House of Suns

updated some items

Band of the Year: Beverly Kills
Event of the Year: Blags wedding
Venue of the Year: Portland
Disappointment of the Year: Myself
WANner of the Year: All of you!
Twat of the Year: Justin hawkins
Film of the Year: nothing stands out.
Tv Show of the Year: The walking dead
Word of the Year: really?
Hero of the Year: Attenbourgh
Game of the Year: Fallout 3
Book of the Year: First light.

First light is Em's favourite book ever.

I got it past onto me with a note that said "read this" so i did...........who past it onto me i do not know.

I'm happy to take the credit for that.

OOops - I need to change Band of the Year to Jacqui and Geoff - of which Expendable Friend is one half/quarter!

Am contemplating changing favourite film of the year to Troll Hunter.

"WANner of the Year: ed__ one he is hott and two he is funny as fuck."

YUSSSSS!

Actually ed, that dude in the photo would suit your band. I hear he's good at playing baselines.

So far results are:

Band of the Year: Beverly Kills 2 votes
Event of the Year:
Venue of the Year: Portland 5 votes
Disappointment of the Year:
WANner of the Year: Troll 6 votes. Me, BB and JT tied on 2 votes each.
Twat of the Year: George Osbourne 2 votes (if you include people from the Government then it rises to 4)
Film of the Year:
Tv Show of the Year: Frozen Planet 3 votes
Word of the Year:
Hero of the Year:
Game of the Year:
Book of the Year:

You have until Monday to place yr vote. Or correct me if I've missed a vote for you.

i'll bare knuckle fight anyone for the title that is rightfully mine!

Can't answer too many of the music ones as I've not seen much live music this year, so there are gaps.

Event of the Year: Getting my missing cat back after a few weeks of agony.
Disappointment of the Year: The riots in London and elsewhere, and the tangible sense that objectionable politicians were rubbing their hands in delight. The glee surrounding exemplary sentencing afterwards. The inevitable and continuing erosion of right to protest that follows.
WANner of the Year: troll and ed___ in a homoerotic tangle, being cheered on from the sidelines by BB. HOTTTTT.
Twat of the Year: George Osborne
Film of the Year: Not seen many new films that I'd recommend, but Source Code was a good romp. Film I liked best (but was out in 2010) was L'Illusioniste.
Tv Show of the Year: Forbrydelsen I and II.
Word of the Year: Skinnydip.
Hero of the Year: I've enjoyed Tom Watson MP's efforts in the select committees.
Game of the Year: Have to split my vote here between Edler Scrolls 5: Skyrim and the new Zelda game, as they're both incredibly perfect in very different ways.
Book of the Year: If it's one you've read this year, probably Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds. Else if it has to be published in 2011, I guess Caitlin Moran's book, which was lovely. I don't read very many just-published books.

mon dieu. splatts would be sent completely over the edge if he saw how many votes i had (if he hasn't already gone over, which i suspect he has).

oh and i wouldn't be cheering, i would be videoing and uploading to make lots of homo-erotic cash :)

Glad the Revelation Space recommendation worked out for you Arthur!

RIGHT!!!

Band of the Year: Beverly Kills 2 votes
Venue of the Year: Portland 5 votes
WANner of the Year: Troll 7 votes.
Twat of the Year: George Osbourne 3 votes
Tv Show of the Year: Frozen Planet 3 votes
Game of the Year: Zelda 2 votes
Boudicea Bambaataa award for vulgarity and my own safety: Boudicea Bambaataa.

Plus I think BT deserves a special mention for quietly taking over the site and making it continue.

I demand a recount, this is a terrible blow to my credibility.

Troll has got more than twice as many votes as anyone else.

If I'd voted, it would have been for troll. He is charming and has brought real harmony to this forum. I never feel less angry than when reading his delightful posts.

If you had voted Ed, and someone else did too then Troll will win by THREE times as many as anyone else. ;)

my vote goes to BB, who I have met briefly

Scare tactics are obviously working. Woo. :)

i change my vote to techno john

I'd have voted troll

Thanks SR, an even more special mention should go to Brad Spreadsheet for finally moving the site to its new home.

Yep - hear hear for Bad'n'Brad!!!