Monday, October 29, 2012

Starting at the begining



Ok. So I figure that I should start at the beginning. What is it I plan to do here; my mission statement I guess you could say - 'cause I have never had one before and it sounds a bit like a NASA thing...?
So, this blog is here for me to talk about music. 

Music is something I love. Many types; some obvious - some not so much. And I want to get all the thoughts I have down on cyber-paper for all to share. Maybe it will be cathartic. Maybe it will be something to remind of the things I love and loved as my memory gets worse. And maybe it will just be me. That's fine. Sometimes you just have to get this stuff out.

So, what I will stick up here is my thoughts on music. It may be a song, an album, an artist, a gig or collection of gigs. Whatever it is, I want to get down how it fits into my life. What it means to me. How it reminds me of a time, a place, a person.

Photo by CMBarker © 2009: dEUS at Rock Wretcher festival, Belgium

So, some examples of what to expect will follow to give you an idea of what this blog could be about:
It will no doubt include a blog about the shear immense feeling of happiness I get when I hear dEUS playing Suds & Soda live. With memories of friends, stand out gigs and peeing next to Mauro Pawlowski in the Roadhouse in Manchester, UK, when he was playing with the Evil Superstars.
Or laughing aloud when, on entering a Garbage gig with Emily, I hear Bis playing their song Kandy Pop fresh of their 'landmark' gig on Top of the Pops as the first unsigned band to play on the show. And how I subsequently chose Bis over Metallica at a festival and loved every minute of it.
How most of the songs on Brendan Benson's My Old Familiar Friend could have been written about me at the time.
How Shady Lane by Pavement will always remind me of getting lost with my friend Tony when headed to visit Reena in Leicester.
Or how the Flaming Lips just make me sad and happy at the same time, and I love them for it.
And other stuff. Lots of other stuff with stories that will relate to music and will hopefully be amusing, or at least a little entertaining. 

Photo by CMBarker © 2011:The Flaming Lips at Jodrel Bank, Cheshire
 

And I hope it is interesting. I write dull science stuff, and I want to write something for me. So fingers crossed it will get getter as time moves along. Maybe it will get worse. And it may be my friends reading. It may be just me in 10 years time. Who knows? But this is what music means to me and I am putting out for the cyber world to swallow.

Oh, I would love comments. But idiotic comments made by trolls will go. Simple as. If I like a song and you don't - well - I don't care. This is my head your reading.

Enjoy, and cheers :)

Listening to Amander Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra backers version of their first album Theater is Evil and dEUS The Ideal Crash during the writing of this blog. Do check them out :)