WTJU Rock Best of 2024 – MERGING WITH THE NIGHT – ANNIE de BLANCO
By WTJU Rock
MERGING WITH THE NIGHT – ANNIE de BLANCO
2024 in Review according to Annie De Blanco.
At the beginning of 2024 I vowed to shake off the debris of covid and get out more, stand in a crowd and enjoy live music.
I think I did pretty well, seeing (amongst others) Please Don’t Tell at the WTJU stage, Sunny War at the Front Porch, Danny Schmidt in Scottsville and, at the River Field, We Are Star Children, The Mighty Joshua, and many local bands who performed songs from Woodstock to a hippy-dressed crowd singing (and dancing) happily along.
It was also a year of reissues of albums from 1974 and 1984 and bands from those eras touring again which meant I played rather a lot of Depeche Mode, the Human League, The Thompson Twins and Paul Young. The Last Dinner Party, a new young band also turned their sights on the music of the 1980s, singing the songs of Sparks and Kate Bush.
The best new albums of 2024 came from Kim Deal, ‘Nobody Loves You More’; We Are Star Children ‘Spitfire’; Mark Knopfler, One Deep River’ and The Cure, ‘Songs of a Lost World’. Bryan Ferry also brought out a 5 CD ‘Retrospective’ of his career to date. Not that it is over. A new album is promised in 2025.
A few great tracks from the above:
Scavengers Yard – Mark Knopfler
St. James Infirmary – Please Don’t Tell
Wicked Game – The Last Dinner Party
