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The time for the Head Space Daily Top Ten Albums Of The Year is fast approaching and the countdown will begin on December 1st. To whet your appetite and to remember some of the great music from last year, here is the top ten from 2015. Whoop, whoop...

HSD Top 10 Albums 2015

In other news, I have been without work for the past few weeks and made the most of it. Regular readers - and I know there are thousands of you - will have read that I have seen Ezra Furman at The Roundhouse, BadBadNotGood at The Electric in Brixton and Sleaford Mods, again at the Roundhouse. Tuesday night was Kate Tempest at Rough Trade East, playing to a tiny audience of 100 people. Being that close to an artist as they perform their work is a wonderful thing. If only Stevie Wonder had been performing to 100 people, instead of the 75,000 at Hyde Park. Kate Tempest is a majorly important voice for our times and I have nothing but admiration for her. I even waited for her to sign my album and spoke to her about how the ending of Let Them Eat Chaos reminded me of a snowball fight on our street. If you know the album, you may get what I am talking about.

If you are in London and like your exhibitions, the Abstract Expressionism show at the Royal Academy is seriously good. It is the first time that work from this group of American artists has been gathered together in London for 50 years. Walking from the Jackson Pollock room, to the Mark Rothko room, through to the Clyfford Still room is something else. There is so much wonderful art to see, it is almost overwhelming. At Tate Modern, The Radical Eye photography exhibition, a collection of photographs which have been bought and put together by Elton John is also impressive and inspiring. He is in a privileged position so we should be grateful that he has loaned the works out to the Tate to be viewed by the public.

You can't have a break as a freelancer without going to the cinema and the film I have seen is Nocturnal Activity, starring Amy Adams. Enjoyable and thought provoking.

Apart from that, I am managing my eldest son's football team, which is a labour of love. The boys are getting a lot out of it and we are winning some and losing some, which is no bad thing.

Back to work next week and keep your eyes out for the Head Space Daily Top Ten Albums Of The Year...