Tell you what’s ruining music at the minute. It probably won’t come as a surprise, given they’ve been at it for centuries now, distracting artists, politicising the scene, causing uncomfortable moments at awards ceremonies. I refer of course, not to addictive substances, but to teenage girls, that persistent menace. Though Mick Jagger might argue both are linked.
“Interrailing” has been my catch-all excuse for about four years now. Don’t want to commit to something in the summer? Interrailing. Need an excuse for how tight you’re being? Interrailing. Can’t think of a polite way to ask for money for your eighteenth? Interrailing. Convenient reason to leave revision and go for a “meeting” in the pub? Interrailing.
In the interest of addressing the gender gap in music I wrote about here, I've compiled a list of female musicians and bands I love which you should check out- some are pretty mainstream but unfairly pigeonholed, some are a little more niche.
1. Never trust the British rail service to get you to a deadline. Even leaving an hour will result in an unspecified nine minute delay on the platform followed by some mysterious obstruction on the track which will end in the whole train being basically stationary for ten minutes at a time, the only information on this being delivered via suicidal Tannoy as Tim tells you, unnecessarily, that the train will be “stop start”. THE EUROSTAR WON’T, TIM! IT’LL BE START- IN HALF AN HOUR-AND THEN STOP, IN PARIS.
This was written for the 2016 Radio 2 1000 words competition. Which I did not win. Obviously.
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