Right, let's resurrect this blog. I
make no promises of keeping it up to date and quite frankly it's
competing with my physical diary for time spent creating original
content. However it might actually get read by people, so that will
be it's niche.
I'm currently on the train back from
visiting my parents in Worcester, headphones in, Blink 182 blasting.
Guess why? Because I've got Reading festival tickets. I'm finally
going to my first festival.
Music and I have had a strained
relationship during my life. I spent many years assuming that music
just wasn't my thing. Fast forward to the end of Primary School/
early High School and I got my first CD (Busted). For about a year
the year 3000 was the epitome of music, but it led to me getting into
slightly heavier stuff. Blink 182 and Sum 41 followed along with
Avril and Greenday. My music taste could be described as Pop-Punk. I
progressed through to more classic rock with Evanescence, Queen, The
Killers and The Darkness
By the end of High School MCR released
Welcome to the Black Parade and Muse released Black Holes and
Revelations. This was the peak.
By Sixth Form I was getting through a
lot more music and bought the old albums of lots of my favourite
bands. The Raconteurs, The White Stripes and Queens of the Stone Age
all hit my wallet heavily. But I wasn't really discovering new
things, I was just trying to complete my collections of previous
favourite bands.
Then I hit uni and just stopped. I
think the only album I bought for four years was Danger Days. I
wasn't particularly sad about the absence, I didn't really notice it
happening. Technology got better and with the advent of iPlayer and
4od I found myself just putting them on instead of playing music. In
my mind Audio-Visual had to beat just Audio. The only time I listened
to any music was when I was walking to places and I never put
anything new on my iPod. Eventually with the death of a pair of
headphones I didn't replace until this year, even that practice came
to an end.
Then this year I started doing the
whole music thing again. In those moments in my classroom before
students arrive I started playing music. Students recommended things,
starting with Imagine Dragons and Bastille but evolving from there.
My friend Lily occasionally sent me playlists of songs and I would
pick favourites and play them over and over.
At a party at mine a couple of weeks
ago one of my friends commented that my music was stuck in 2007 and
she's completely right. I'll try to fix that. With Reading imminent
I'm going to use the line up as a menu, I'll go through it and find
new bands. In the few months between now and then I'll be able to
learn lots of songs.
So excited.
