Happy New Year Please.
—Errata: Due to a drug-induced typo and subsequent mis-ordering of the months, the information on the back of the card is, to be honest, wrong. The correct playlist is below.
—Click here to download this year’s annual review mixtape. (mp3**)
—Intro: Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
January Starman by David Bowie, performed by Milky Edwards and The Chamberlings* British astronaut Tim Peake completes his first spacewalk before returning to his other duties on the International Space Station, which include installing the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, talking to primary school children and tweeting about installing the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module.
February Growing Up – David Bowie One of the side effects of growing up, everyone died this year. In February alone we lost Corbett, Daniels and Father Jack.
March Life on Mars – David Bowie The first stage of a major search for life on Mars was launched in Kazakhstan on the 14th March, as part of Europe’s ExoMars mission.
April Kingdom Come – David Bowie Official campaigning commences in the United Kingdom’s European Union membership referendum.
May Boys Keep Swinging – David Bowie Scottish Parliament elections take place, with all three main parties – Conservatives, Labour, and the SNP – led by women for the first time in UK elections.
June Stay – David Bowie Brexit means Brexit.
Interlude: Russell Harty (badly) interviews David Bowie, via a satellite connection with Los Angeles.
July Candidate by David Bowie, performed by Momus Donald Trump confounds the expectations of the media, political commentators and many members of his own party, and secures the GOP nomination to stand as Republican candidate in the forthcoming US Presidential Elections.
August Golden Years – David Bowie The Olympics and Paralympics take place in Rio, Brazil, under the shadow of the zika virus and one of the biggest doping scandals to ever hit the event.
September Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie The first of America’s televised presidential election debates sets the tone for a campaign that would eventually see the term ‘post-truth’ being named ‘word of the year’ by the Oxford English Dictionary.
October Drive in Saturday (live) – David Bowie The first driverless car hits public roads in the UK, and doesn’t hit anything else.
November Rebel Rebel – David Bowie Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, President, dictator and divider of opinions, dies.
December China Girl – David Bowie President-elect Trump outlines what the world can expect from his approach to diplomatic strategy, tweeting thinly veiled insults at China.
*or not.
** Control-click or right click to download file.