Regular readers will know that music provides the soundtrack to my life. My new book, Half The World Away, which will be published soon uses song titles as chapter titles, so Sweet Child of Mine marks my entry to fatherhood, Cold Hard Bitch is not about Hilary Clinton (though It could be) and You're So Vain is not about me, though it could be!
Anyway the last couple of weeks have seen me digging up some new, well relatively new, music that has made at least one of my playlists. First up is a band with a great name, The Airborne Toxic Event, I love the track Sometime Around Midnight - very Coldplay-like guitar and great lyrics about a girl dumping a boy (some things never change). The Toxic's as I call them are American but I'll forgive them that.
Next listen to a Wire to Wire from Anglo-Swedish outfit, Razorlight. Its a beautiful, almost haunting, piano-driven ballad with a great first two lines:
"What is love but the strangest of feelings?
A sin you swallow for the rest of your life?"
A little older (from 2007) is Panic At The Disco (is it me or are band names getting better) with the song Nine In The Afternoon which has a nice almost symphonic bit in the middle (I think that's a technical term, don't you?). Wikipedia informed me that the song was ranked number 76 on Chile's Top 100 Songs of 2008 - what more can one say?
Check the out...