Everybody who knows music, knows. They know the impact, the laughter, are
defined by spontaneous or painstakingly
contrived creative expression. Their stories are laced with passion and truth which, whilst uniquely theirs, contribute to the musical whole in which I live.
It hasn’t always been this way. The music I heard as a child amounted to Christmas video’s of my mother’s heartthrob, the eminently cringe worthy Daniel O’Donnell, stood next to a gently crackling hearth with a reindeer on his jumper, miming the words and smiling like a wholesome Irish boy who needs a good dose of acid house. Fortunately, my dad’s eyes and ears worked a little better, and he let me borrow his Van Morrison cassette tapes and, dare I
say it, some of the
finest country music I’ve heard, with the likes of Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell. But that was it. Music wasn’t important in our house, and I was an irritating little black sheep.
Leaving home rather rapidly, I became the lost little office girl typing letters and counting numbers for an arrogant capitalist who, in his infinite wisdom, had bars
fitted on the of fice
windows to keep the world out and keep his little world in. I’ve been the lowly care assistant experiencing institutionalised complacency, resignation and the painfully vacant eyes of both the elderly people and their carers. I’ve been the young blind girl stuck in a dead end “love” with no one around to kick my ass and talk some sense. I’ve been belittled, dismissed, scorned, rejected and alone. And then I bought my first guitar.
the moments which
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