Living Reflection Of A Dream

2011-10-23T14:21:00.002+01:00

2011-10-02T17:08:00.004+01:00

5 songs......

"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five

"Do You Remember The First Time?" - Pulp

(The intro is one of magnificence. I hear it begin and I am instantly transported back to Hyde Park in July. The sun slowly setting and myself and my friend Claire running towards the stage. Fantastic!)

"Bag Lady" - Manic Street Preachers

"Eton Rifles" - The Jam

"Street of Dreams" - The Damned

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. " - Jean Cocteau

2011-09-25T12:59:00.001+01:00

2011-09-18T12:07:00.002+01:00

2011-09-13T19:40:00.003+01:00

The five songs in the spotlight this week are....

"What The Water Gave Me" - Florence + The Machine

"Switchblade Smiles" - Kasabian

"Revol" - Manic Street Preachers

"Seven Seas" - Echo & The Bunnymen

"The Queen Is Dead" - The Smiths

"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water." - Ray Charles

2011-09-11T16:52:00.000+01:00

Life is exciting. European trips, trips to London, further trips to London coming at the end of the year, a totally unexpected phone call from a member of Manic Street Preachers on my lunch hour, glittery shoes, long walks with friends and long conversations about music with work colleagues. Things are finally beginning to turn around.

2011-09-04T15:45:00.001+01:00

2011-08-25T10:16:00.000+01:00

Woke up this morning to find the trailer for Martin Scorsese's "George Harrison: Living in the Material World" waiting for me. I've known that this was coming for some time but to finally see a completed trailer only adds to my excitement and anticipation.

"George Harrison: Living in the Material World."

2011-08-19T14:25:00.002+01:00

2011-08-18T15:25:00.002+01:00

Another week and another five songs that I hold dear.

"Sea Within A Sea" - The Horrors

"City With No Children" - Arcade Fire

"The Great Skua" - British Sea Power

* please do your souls and minds an enormous favour and listen to this song. Simply beautiful.

"Perth" - Bon Iver

"Boys Keep Swinging" - David Bowie

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

2011-08-13T20:03:00.002+01:00

2011-08-04T11:34:00.002+01:00

A new week and a new selection of songs.

"There's A Ghost In My House" - R. Dean Taylor

(Thanks goes to the fabulous and extremely talented Michelle at Stray Cat Blues for introducing me to this absolute gem of a tune.)

"Glad All Over" - The Dave Clark Five

"Seconds" - Gladys Knight & The Pips

"The Highways of my Life" - The Isley Brothers

"Hold Tight" - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch

It seems that this week's music are either recommendations from friends or songs heard and picked up from my parents. The Dave Clark 5 and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch are all bands that have come straight from my Dad and that have been on my musical radar since I was very small. Whereas Gladys Knight and The Isley Brothers are musicians that I discovered through my Mum when hearing them through the cassette players of old cars, played at a very high level.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninov

2011-07-28T21:45:00.002+01:00

2011-07-26T17:38:00.004+01:00

A brand new week and a brand new selection of songs I'm currently unable to tear myself away from.

"Ready For Drowning" - Manic Street Preachers

"Stumble and Pain" - Joseph Arthur

"Tumbling Dice" - Rolling Stones

"The Air That I Breathe" - The Hollies

"Any Road" - George Harrison

"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Eliot

2011-07-15T12:59:00.002+01:00

2011-07-07T15:23:00.002+01:00

Five songs that I currently cannot go a day without.

"Still Life" - The Horrors

"The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade" - The Joy Formidable

"If You Wanna" - The Vaccines

"This Is Hardcore" - Pulp

"Pennyroyal Tea" - Nirvana

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo

2011-07-01T13:12:00.000+01:00

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller

Some of you reading this very first post may find that the blog title, 'Living Reflection of a Dream' is familiar to you. The reason behind that is because this is an old blog that ceased to be almost a year ago. Due to lack of time and if I'm honest with myself, a drop of 'falling out love' on my part, I decided to no longer update and hit that awful button that reads 'delete.' It was a silly thing to do and with hindsight, I wish I had never deleted and instead let the blog gather what small amount of dust it could gather until I felt ready to continuing blogging again. So, gentle readers, consider this blog a reincarnation of the old Living Reflection of a Dream. Same name but tweaked slightly to intrigue a broader audience into reading, enjoying and perhaps becoming inspired through the pieces, pictures and music that I post.