Music for the Mind

And what a long time it's been since I've been here. A million things have happened since then, my favourtie of which has to be the rediscovery of Don't Go Away. My. God. I forgot just how beautiful this song is. As is Cast No Shadow and I have decided that probably the most perfect place to listen to these songs would be in the long shadow of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro at sunset. Okay, so I've never been to South America, let alone Brazil but that is beside the point. There are songs where your imagination roams and completely transports you to another world and this is what these songs do for me.

I saw Noel do an acoustic gig for TCT at the RAH and I got chills. Literally. The ambience harked back to when I saw Oasis at Wembley Stadium last summer and the crowd sung Don't Look Back in Anger by themselves. I also saw The Who do Quadrophenia that week which I think may have changed my life. I'm always nostalgic for eras played out before my years and whilst I may have been looking at the thinning grey hair of Roger Daltry instead of the permed lions mane of yesteryear, the energy yet simplicity of the whole thing really hit home for me and I thought that what they were saying was totally applicable to me. Even though I'm a random little girl from the Home Counties. Rebellion and all that, right? Tom Meighan came out and played the bell boy and just completed it for me. His presence immediately lifted the whole show and his swagger is, I think, unrivalled. Liam Gallagher was supposed to be there, but instead he was in Disney Land with his fam. Fact.

Well this year I have seen my four favourite bands. Kasabian, The Who, Prodigy and Oasis. Well...sort of. Roll on Glastonbury...