I've got a feeling

I’VE GOT THAT FEELING


2008 Sprang a few surprises on me musically and 2009 started with one band firmly in my sights who up until October 2008 held no meaning to me other than people had told me how good they were and I had totally dismissed them as not my sort of thing at all. My love of music had long since been firmly set in the Bryan Adams/Bon Jovi rock genre, so anything long those lines was gonna be a sure fire hit with me ,so not hard to understand why my mates 10 Reasons to Live hold a top spot in my heart, and then along came 5 young men totally removed from my normal gig experiences, and in all honesty up until the first gig I nearly did not get there, lets face it who wants to make too much effort for a band they are not interested in. This is where luck played its part as my work day was so extraordinarily bad that the option of any gig was very attractive and that’s how I found myself at Wolverhampton to see a band who meant nothing to me.

I always approach every gig with an open mind as you just never know what or who you may discover, my review of this gig has been previously catalogued so no real need to repeat it here, but I suppose the thing I am still not too clear on is how this band managed in the space of one opening song to so totally invade my system that by the end of the night every brain cell in my body had been totally consumed by them, I am a realist and know that this can happen and quickly wear off leaving you with a sense of wellbeing , however these young men are still there like some invading army of musicians their songs going round and round like a radio station on continuous loop.

Now some people may complain at this behaviour lets face it my life is now like an episode of ”Invasion of the body snatchers” everywhere I look, up they pop...work they are there… home they are there.. and for one fleeting moment I even thought I saw one of them in the local Spar Shop…for others this may be a cause for concern, myself it just makes me smile… I never professed to be sane and whilst in others this behaviour may seem obsessive for me its just normal… I am never gonna be a person who turns up on their doorstep… I am not going to care what they do in their lives and I mean that in the nicest possible way, my life is interesting enough I do not need to lead someone else’s, as I have stated before I expect they possibly have a far more boring time than me, but when you have me hooked with your music.. you have got total commitment…………….

How you get from Jon Bon Jovi to Dan G Sells I have not really figured out but I am sure it all comes down to a genuine charisma as opposed to manufactured one, and apologies to all BJ fans, great music but real fan regard is pretty absent as they roll along one great big money making machine.

There is nothing in the world that gives you the real feel good factor like live music and a TF gig gives you that from the very first note… I defy anyone to leave a gig miserable … there are loads of great bands who produce brilliant music at every gig but somehow miss the show part of it... and I do not mean the over the top big stadium firework special effects show as these mean nothing to me… it’s that one artist who can hold you enraptured with just their voice and stage presence …