More Music Memories...

Our final day on our London adventure. We had expected to sleep late but the glorious bird song in the trees surrounding our gaff woke us up -that and the police sirens🤣 but to be honest mainly the bird song.

We were still very lazy and late to get going, we couldn't quite decide on a plan. I think we'd kind of done London as much as we could this time around but in the end we decided to go look at the 1996 music exhibition in the Barbican music library. We headed fpr the tube via the Keith Flint mural

The Barbican exhibiwere very Oasis led (that and the Spice Girls).. and quite minimal input from Blur in spite of the several references to the rivalry between the two bands.

There was some interesting stuff on how dance music was evolving with the Ministry of Sound.

There was quite a comprehensive 1996 timeline - 30 years ago doesn't seem like that long 🤣 seems quite recent in terms of our music!! It's about that time I discovered dance music - triggered by the underworld Trainspotting track - and went from being a 'rock' chick to a 'rave' chick (hardly🤣🤣)

But more fab memories evoked... its been quite a weekend of musical reminiscing. Lots of references to the soundtrack of my last 68 years - crikey Moses - that sounds quite old when you say it like that ... and yet sitting in the Bowie experience, and then looking at the photographs in the National Portrait Gallery... and then the music exhibition at the Barbican I really only feel 30 possibly 35... and a lot of that music wasn't even published then.

Finally after lunch in the Barbican we hit Kings Cross and the ( delayed) train home... weary but also energised by a fabulous weekend of cram packed fun...

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