This is a song that feels rather too close to my heart ♥
It seems just as I get close to thinking I know something I find I know nothing about anything…
The lyrics bring a truth that isn’t negative – it just is – and the upbeat tone of the music and the smiling faces of the band members is contagious and I think I just found a whole new LIVE act to follow Listen here and Enjoy…. What do you think? Luv it or Hate it? I’d be interested to know…
Midnight rambler ’hold on tight, you know it’s just a phase…’
Today is Friday and what a great day to discuss music. To be precise Pianos– why Pianos you ask? I’m a writer and not a pianist, yeah?
I am indeed a writer and it’s precisely why I want to blog about pianos **If you know me well, then you’ve probably heard this story before, so feel free to skip this post
♥ If you’re new to my site then after reading this, you will see why music is such an integral part of who I am and how it affects me as an artist and impacts on my writing. ♥
In recent months I have had the good fortune of coming into possession of a very old pre-loved piano (at least 100 years according to my piano tuner) from my dear friend and fellow writer from Ladies Wot Write – Sharon Phillips.
My beautiful piano ♥
I have dreamed about owning and being a pianist from as young as I can remember and the pivotal moment was when I was eleven and my friend Pamela offered to teach me on her beaaauuutiful, shiny piano if I went home and studied the theory. Looking back I can see she was quite clever at recognising my passion and exploiting it, as I helped her study theory for exams.
But totally oblivious to this scheming because I trusted everyone at that age – even though I had some nasty lessons that should have taught me otherwise – this trusting nature of mine eventually changed when I hit my teens. In the meantime, I was totally oblivious, and off I went in great delight with my music theory book and studied (I only mastered reading treble) as I gave up eventually when Pamela actually never taught me anything on the piano.
I pleaded and begged with my Mum to have lessons but alas twas not to be: early seventies, single parent household, no money – and I mean no money (we thought all our Christmas’s had come at once if we had a boiled egg for breakfast) – it was usually a Friday night dinner
And I continued to dream: Drool over my Grandma’s Pianola that we weren’t allowed to play but I watched and listened and delighted. I’d get over excited on visiting anybody’s household with a piano and still do to this day!
Me about 5 with my brother, Chris ♥
Five years old, first week in school and my teacher plays this creepy song on the piano that scared all the kids except me! I adored my piano teacher and thought the creepy song was the most perfect thing I’d heard.
Hope most of you had a dry and safe day. It’s been very wet here in Queensland over the past few days with many celebration/festivals cancelled and parts of NSW are having their fair share of the big wet! Hope it didn’t hamper too many celebrations and that you had a good day!
As I’ve talked about here , I listened to the Hottest 100 on Triple J and most of the songs I voted for came in and I actually enjoyed the countdown from 100-20 more than the top twenty itself (slightly disappointed). But I was really happy with the top 8. And of course I knew Gotye would get #1 – no surprises there! Well done to Wally and Kimbra. I thought it would be a battle between Gotye and Matt Corby but Matt came in at #3 and I was pretty stoked that The Black Keys made #2. Hoorah! Click here for the full list.
Anyway, that’s it for another year – until the album release. I love the Hottest 100 –it’s celebrated on Australia Day, it’s music, it’s Triple J and many of the artists are Australian and damn fine ones at that. And here’s No: 1 – Enjoy ♥
And just for something different here is Matt Corby’s ‘Like a Version’ of the #2 spot for ‘The Black Keys – Lonely Boy’. It’s not the pumpy, rock out version of the brilliant Black Keys but it’s pretty brilliant just the same. Let me know what you think…
Midnight rambler about to curl up with iPod and Triple J as have just received another one of those creepy, severe storm alerts for the northern suburbs and Moreton bay in which I live…Here we go again!
Listen here and Enjoy…. What do you think? Luv it or Hate it? I’d be interested to know…
