All the songs of my life, #9 and #10: “Crazy” and “Future Love Paradise” by Seal
The story of the time in 1991 when Seal briefly became my new pop god.
The story of the time in 1991 when Seal briefly became my new pop god.
Another week in December 2021 had passed, full of stress and uncertainty about the immediate future. But then it was Friday night.
What’s this? Paul Draper nonchalantly sneaking in with the Single of 2021 just as the year is closing? Yes it is!
Halfway though this, the final Manic Street Preachers gig of this most triumphant year for the band, I had what you might call A Moment.
My very first Ride gig. It had been a long, long wait.
A scorchingly brilliant Manics gig heralding the dawn of a new era.
My eighth time seeing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds felt very different to previous gigs from the band
My first time hearing Paul Draper sing in over sixteen years. It’s safe to say I was a little bit excited.
“Coming Up” by Suede is an album that soundtracked a period of huge transformation in my life.
Precisely 30 years ago, in 1991, if you’d asked my 16 year old self what her favourite band was, she would have replied without hesitation that it was Jesus Jones.