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How's your weather today? Are you OK?
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Take care, you folks up in the north of England...
[Poll #1852211]
Take care, you folks up in the north of England...
Have you seen her? Have you heard?
Jun. 29th, 2012 02:48 pmHistorically, I had a very hardline policy on reformed bands. Notably: don't.
If a band split up, it was probably for good reasons. If they subsequently got back together and went on tour, it was probably for bad reasons. It was probably for £££ and liable to be devoid of artistic merit.
I can't really remember what originally caused me to deviate from this, but deviate I have done. Many of the defunct bands whose music I like have been reforming, and I'm afraid sentiment has triumphed over principles. I went to see the Pixies when they started touring again, and last year I cheerfully partied to Pulp as if "let's all meet up in the year 2000" were still a sensible thing to say. Numerous smaller bands - like Ultrasound, yay, Ultrasound - have also lured me in.
( Which is why I'm off to Manchester )
If a band split up, it was probably for good reasons. If they subsequently got back together and went on tour, it was probably for bad reasons. It was probably for £££ and liable to be devoid of artistic merit.
I can't really remember what originally caused me to deviate from this, but deviate I have done. Many of the defunct bands whose music I like have been reforming, and I'm afraid sentiment has triumphed over principles. I went to see the Pixies when they started touring again, and last year I cheerfully partied to Pulp as if "let's all meet up in the year 2000" were still a sensible thing to say. Numerous smaller bands - like Ultrasound, yay, Ultrasound - have also lured me in.
( Which is why I'm off to Manchester )
My commute to work each day takes me down the A4074 which, so ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hendybear tells me, recently featured in the Sunday Times as "the deadliest road in Britain". However, I'm very fond of it. It goes in a straight line from here to Reading, passing through reasonably open farmland and little bits of woodland, with only the occasional flocklet of buildings to remind you you're just a few miles from a largeish city.
Driving along it each day I get to watch the seasons changing. At the moment, when the sun is shining, much of the land is the almost sickly, acid green of new leaves. I try to avoid looking at fields of rape - it's not quite reached eye-straining shades yet, but it's already too yellow for comfort. The candles are out on the conker trees, the bluebells are flowering under the beeches and various undefined arborial examples are showing blossoms of all colours.
The huge, green swathes do not look like they're in a county which faces the possibility of severe drought this summer. However, people with serious expressions and more knowledge of acquifers than I say things are bad, so we must believe them.
So we should be glad each time we look out the window and notice that once again (and frequently in defiance of the BBC forecasts) it's raining. The more it rains, the less chance of standpipes looming large in our future. Rejoicing in rain when it spoils plans and picnics is difficult, though, so to help out I thought I'd provide a nice mp3[*].
( Read about the song )
Quicksilver - England Green
(This link will expire at some point in the future. Click here if you want a zipped version.)
Update Files now actually uploaded. Whoops.
[*] I can't post to LJ from work, so this is written in advance. So if it's blazing sunshine at midday then, er, you can thank me and keep the song for later.
hendybear tells me, recently featured in the Sunday Times as "the deadliest road in Britain". However, I'm very fond of it. It goes in a straight line from here to Reading, passing through reasonably open farmland and little bits of woodland, with only the occasional flocklet of buildings to remind you you're just a few miles from a largeish city. Driving along it each day I get to watch the seasons changing. At the moment, when the sun is shining, much of the land is the almost sickly, acid green of new leaves. I try to avoid looking at fields of rape - it's not quite reached eye-straining shades yet, but it's already too yellow for comfort. The candles are out on the conker trees, the bluebells are flowering under the beeches and various undefined arborial examples are showing blossoms of all colours.
The huge, green swathes do not look like they're in a county which faces the possibility of severe drought this summer. However, people with serious expressions and more knowledge of acquifers than I say things are bad, so we must believe them.
So we should be glad each time we look out the window and notice that once again (and frequently in defiance of the BBC forecasts) it's raining. The more it rains, the less chance of standpipes looming large in our future. Rejoicing in rain when it spoils plans and picnics is difficult, though, so to help out I thought I'd provide a nice mp3[*].
( Read about the song )
Quicksilver - England Green
(This link will expire at some point in the future. Click here if you want a zipped version.)
Update Files now actually uploaded. Whoops.
[*] I can't post to LJ from work, so this is written in advance. So if it's blazing sunshine at midday then, er, you can thank me and keep the song for later.
