Next week looks like it is going to be busy – catching up on all the stuff that I couldn’t do while locked up. First thing will be my grocery delivery. But I am looking forward to my midnight walk the most.
It was interesting watching the Greenbelt at 40 film this weekend – so many excellent old music acts, and interesting seeing the attitude of people.
The thing that strikes me is the energy and enjoyment. I was watching one of the BBC archive programmes the other night – one of the compilations of TOTP. Again, so many of the songs I liked involved a real sense of fun.
One of the songs here. This isn’t one of my favourites, but I think the football and John Peel and the attitude of Ronnie Wood gives the idea of the things I liked about the programme.
Listening to the music over the Greenbelt weekend it struck me that the miserable talks about serious subjects really don’t do it for me. It isn’t that I don’t care about the subjects, it is just I don’t care for being miserable.
It made me think – if we make important subjects miserable then how will we ever encourage people to pay attention to them?