I sat on the train this morning, at St Pancras International, waiting to start my journey to the most international destination of all (Bedford).<\/p>\n
I had my suit-carrier, my overnight suitcase, a fresh container of Body Shop shower gel (Satsuma scented), my phone and, in my pocket, my iPod.<\/p>\n
Wait.<\/p>\n
In my pocket?<\/p>\n
I retrieved it, uncoiled the earphones, plugged them in and switched it on.<\/p>\n
Shuffle.<\/p>\n
The first track was Radio Monde by DJ Zebra<\/p>\n
This is a deliciously-building underground mashup of French mod-jazz artiste ‘Telephone’ and Radiohead’s ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’.<\/p>\n
Jesus.<\/p>\n
I turned the volume up to 11, pushed back in to my seat, closed my eyes and enjoyed the subtle Franco-British blend of genres.<\/p>\n
Radio Monde finished and I felt lost.<\/p>\n
Bewildered, that my mind-and-soul-and-body-hugging comfort blanket had been torn from me.<\/p>\n
I fumbled the controls from Shuffle over to the entire Radiohead collection and pressed play.<\/p>\n
‘No Surprises’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In my dark world of near-sensory deprivation I almost cried at Thom’s deliciously simple introductory E-G\/B-G string-picking.<\/p>\n The track reached its conclusion and segued in to ‘Nude’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I sat, not moving, as the music washed over me.<\/p>\n It seemed that I dared not breathe.<\/p>\n ‘Creep’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The two-track musical event of emotionally-charged lyrics and pile-driving guitar pickup held me spellbound.<\/p>\n ‘True Love Waits’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n *time passes*<\/p>\n I actually wept.<\/p>\n The track ended and I hit replay.<\/p>\n And fought back the tears.<\/p>\n The story is about being in a perfect relationship at the wrong moment.<\/p>\n But for me the lyrics have a deeper, more personal meaning. A direct link to a terrible\u00a0event\u00a0from my past.<\/p>\n An event\u00a0that just three people\u00a0know about.<\/p>\n But away\u00a0from this intensely personal link to a world-shattering, life-changing event, the track has enough power to stun most people.<\/p>\n It’s not just that this track was recorded in a live session.<\/p>\n It’s not that Thom’s guitarwork is so delicate, yet supportively, consistently brilliant.<\/p>\n It’s not that the simple vocal is almost haunting.<\/p>\n It’s not that the lyric is a direct line to the heart and soul of the writer.<\/p>\n It’s the hopeful\/hopelessness of a man who knows his perfect relationship is doomed.<\/p>\n Just don’t leave Just don’t leave Fuck you Radiohead, messing up my commute to work.<\/p>\n Fuck you.<\/p>\n Fuck you for being excellent.<\/p>\n But fuck you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sat on the train this morning, at St Pancras International, waiting to start my journey to the most international destination of all (Bedford). I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDon’t leave<\/p>\n
\nDon’t leave<\/p>\n