My dear friend Peter Zantingh has been publishing his personal best-of-the-year since 2013. I skipped last year, apparently, but hereby humbly present the highlights of 2015!
Book Ed Vulliamy – The War Is Dead, Long Live The War (from 2012, that’s my first joker)
Movie Mommy – Xavier Dolan
Photo The U2 live feeling
Play Clarence Darrow, with Kevin Spacey, Old Vic Theatre, London
TV Series Narcos
Album Blur – The Magic Whip
Song Foals – What Went Down (runner up: Troye Sivan – WILD)
Concert Manu Chao – Zitadelle, Berlin, June 14th
Festival performance Jon Hopkins – Melt, Ferropolis, July 18th
Column Industrial Scale Branded Content
App Google Cardboard Camera
City Leipzig
Daytrip Vogelsang, former Soviet nuclear base
Holiday destination Puglia, Italy
Club The Big G
Woman Aung San Suu Kyi
Man Jeremy Corbyn
Footy match Union Berlin II – BFC Dynamo Berlin
Exhibition Zero, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Farewell Lowlove
New beginnings Neue Signale (End of January)