Today sees the release of Hits and Pieces, a career
retrospective for one of my favourite artists Marc Almond. I won’t be buying it
as I’ve got pretty much everything on there, in some cases several copies in
fact but you can never have too much vinyl can you eh? Hmmmm. Anyway, wandering
the beach scaring the seagulls this morning this track, The Sea Says, popped
into my head and blow me down if this year isn’t the 30th ruddy anniversary of
the album that spawned it, the utterly splendid Mother Fist and Her Five
Daughters. Quite possibly one of Almond’s
finest and most distinctive vocal performances it never fails to remind me - cue sepia tinged memories - of
my days living in Brighton and working at 7-Eleven in Hove, a job which
necessitated rising at 5am, getting the train from Falmer to Brighton and then
plodding the 2 miles or so to work. I’d often walk along the virtually deserted sea front to get there
in all weathers, which was both pretty depressing and rather soul stirring (in retrospect at least) all
at the same time. Fast forward almost 30 years and I’m somehow back living by the sea
again (albeit on the opposite side of the country), thankfully not rising at 5am or working at 7-Eleven this time...
Plus ça
change, plus c'est la même chose.
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