the 2008 jockrock poll
Here are the top 10s as selcted by the itm? and jockrock crew. And, the chance to agree, or otherwise. See our top 10s as 'suggestions'. If your favourite isn't in the list, instead cast your vote for them in the text box. We'll tot the votes up and let you know your winners sometime in January.
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1.
Frightened Rabbit
2.
Glasvegas
3.
The Twilight Sad
4.
De Rosa
5.
Copy Haho
6.
Mogwai
7.
We Were Promised Jetpacks
8.
Biffy Clyro
9.
Popup
10.
ballboy
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Top band: Frightened Rabbit
 It’s pretty clear whose year it is. Selkirk’s most famous musical export - and as it happens, last year’s runner-up ‘newcomer’ - just about swept the board.
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1.
Emma Pollock
2.
Kim Edgar
3.
Isobel Campbell
4.
Anna Meldrum
5.
Jo Mango
6.
Karine Polwart
7.
KT Tunstall
8.
Kat Flint
9.
HMS Ginafore
10.
Amy Macdonald
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Top female solo: Emma Pollock
 It’s Ms Pollock again, and quite rightly too say us... but encouraging that there are a whole 9 runners-up!
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1.
Malcolm Middleton
2.
King Creosote
3.
Colin MacIntyre
4.
Paul Haig
5.
Aidan Moffat
6.
William Douglas
7.
John B McKenna
8.
Beerjacket
9.
Al Mitchell
10.
Ross Clark
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Top male solo: Malcolm Middleton
 A two-way fight at the top of the chart seperated by fractions of a vote, so it’s apt that the two have recorded versions of each other’s songs. And more apt that last year’s top 2 are reversed!
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1.
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2.
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
3.
Remember Remember - Remember Remember
4.
ballboy - I Worked on the Ships
5.
Popup - A Time And a Place
6.
Hyena - Itchy Legacy
9.
Dan Lyth - Everything is Simple
8.
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
9.
Smackvan - Sound in Space
10.
Aidan Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart
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album: Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
 This again came down to the two bigest-hitters - one lauded by the man who discovered Oasis, the other massively popular with the cool kids in the USA. What this says about the writers here we’re not sure, but worthy winners the Rabbit are.
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1.
Mogwai - Batcat
2.
Copy Haho - You Are My Coalmine
3.
Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags
4.
Punch and the Apostles - Asylum
5.
Glasvegas- Daddy’s Gone
6.
Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood
7.
Zoey Van Goey- Foxtrot Vandals
8.
Roddy Woomble - Silver and Gold
9.
Glasvegas - Geraldine
10.
Biffy Clyro - Mountains
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single: Mogwai - Batcat
 What makes a good single in this age of the download? Times have changed and maybe Mogwai have too, but a ‘chart-topping’ pop single. Just goes to show...
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1.
We Were Promised Jetpacks
2.
De Salvo
3.
The Twilight Sad
4.
Frightened Rabbit
5.
Frog Pocket
6.
Le Reno Amps
7.
Plaaydoh
8.
Copy Haho
9.
Danananaykroyd
10.
Glasvegas
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Live act: We Were Promised Jetpacks
 Perhaps the tightest and widest-ranging category, embracing fight pop, folk, electro, and death metal wearing a pig nose. We’re still not sure how the winners managed to do so making good old indie rock, we can only assume it’s because they’re a stunning live act
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1.
The Phantom Band
2.
The French Quarter
3.
Plaaydoh
4.
Punch and the Apostles
5.
Hyena
6.
Triple School
7.
Jesus H Foxx
8.
Loss Leader
9.
Dan Lyth
10.
Debutant
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newcomer: The Phantom Band
 Ah, the ‘newcomer’. Yes, the really cool readers will point out that they’d seen half the contenders here umpteen times before 2005. Well, we did receive nominations for Glasvegas and Popup as well but discounted these. Instead, let’s say ‘bands likely to make it big next year’. Our winners, with an album on Cheiukal Underground due, are, we believe, likely to do just that.
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1.
13th Note
2.
Barrowlands
3.
Tunnels
4.
King Tuts
5.
Voodoo Rooms
5.
Stereo
7.
Nice’n’Sleazy’s
8.
The Doghouse
9.
ABC
10.
Cabaret Voltaire
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Venue: 13th Note
 Inevitable that the jockrock and itm? writers’ block vote should come into play here. But when you’re in a venue like this, whether watching or putting on shows over the space of a decade, we can’t think of a better place for live music.
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1.
Wickerman
2.
Connect
3.
Tigerfest
4.
Belladrum Tartan Heart
5.
T in the Park
6.
GoNorth
7.
Hey You Get Off My Pavement
8.
Dunstaffnage
9.
Rockness
10.
Live at Loch Lomond
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Festival: Wickerman
 Wicker is becoming as regular a fixture on the festival map as T, so fitting that the friendly Dundrennan festival should be recognised (not that it hasn’t been before of course!)
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