A trip down memory lane!

'so often the memory of a particular piece of music is bound up with an event in our lives.’

No matter what peoples views are on music, whether people don't really care about it or whether people live and breathe music, nobody can deny that Prince Charles is wrong in saying this.

Music is my biggest inspiration, it inspires my performance and my creativity. At the moment music is all I think about. I am currently thinking about my next project for university, it has to be a piece of performance which is outside of a normal theatre venue. I am planning on doing piece of performance art about how music affects our memories and as part of my research I have been listening to music that I used to listen to when I was at high school. It is quite emotionally draining because each song has a different memory attached.

I was quite an angry teenager and thinking back to the music that I listened to I am not suprised, all that screaming and swearing would turn any hormonal teenager into the girl from the exorcist.

In my piece I am intending on posting pieces of text about what music has influenced other peoples life so if anybody has a certain event in their life that they would like to get out there and if there is a piece of music that reflects that exact moment in their life I would be glad to hear it.

Thanx for reading

Muze.

Adventurland is not just an amazing film but it has a brilliant soundtrack.



The film is set in the summer of 1987 and obviously the music has to reflect the 80s. The 80s music in the USA was very different to the UK, ours was very techno and full of new romantic bands such as; Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran (this is not a bad thing), where as the american music scene was made up of' 'Arty Punk', such as; Elvis Costello. The Adventureland soundtrack is full of these 'Arty Punk' and 'New Romantic' gems.





My favourite scene is the fireworks scene...




The song used in this scene is ' Don't Dream its Over' by Crowded House, I felt that it was a pleasant suprise when the sing came on. The song really sets the mood of the scene.



If any of you have seen the film yet, let me know what you think about the soundtrack.




Songs to listen to:
Pale Blue Eyes- The Velvet Underground
Don't Dream its Over- Crowded House
Just like Heaven- The Cure

Muze

'Massive Attack'... by name and by music...

I have always thought of 'Massive Attack' as a melancholy Chemical brothers or a relaxed Radiohead, but their new album 'Heligoland' has proved to me that they are much more than this.
Heligoland is head and shoulders above their previous albums. They have stayed in line with the sound of today's music industry, which welcomes with open arms eccentric sounds and experimentation.
Heligoland consists of strange but beautiful sounds and the voices they have chosen to work with compliment the haunting sound that Massive Attack are so well known for, with epic tunes like 'Teardrop' under their belt they would be foolish to turn their back on their original sound.

Heligoland features some of today's most talented vocalists, such as; Tunde Adebimpe (Tv on the Radio), Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorrilaz), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) and one of my favourite lyricists Guy Garvey (Elbow).

Track's to listen to:
Pray for Rain
Spitting the Atom
Psyche
Flat of the Blade

Comment me and Let me know what you all think of Massive Attack's master piece...