Waiting....

Well, Right now I am waiting for my driving instructor to turn up as I have promised myself I will be driving my own car come September. God helps those who help themselves. And if I ever get the chance to publish my life story then it'll be great. Proof positive that god DOES listen to our troubles and DOES help us when we ask. Anyway. I have just been waiting outside for ten minutes not realizing the appointment is at 4:30pm NOT 3:30pm. All I can say is, that there is a serious family of butterflies that have nested in my stomach. I forgot what being nervous was all about. When I stop to think of all the things I have to be grateful for its cool. I've gone through a lot this past few years. This year alone its been hard work with one thing and another, but not only have I dealt with everything put in my way, I have also stopped smoking and become a lot healthier. Now I just need to put a sign up in the hall so when I get up all I see is "TEN MINUTES ON THE TREADMILL...NOW" Reason being, that I am forgetting to do a workout every single day and instead workout every two. I'll get there. Wish me luck. Hope I don't hit anyones car as its been years since I drove. oh, before I forget....

www.myspace.com/robbiebuk

Sophie my daughter and I were in Ipswich yesterday and bumped into an old musical chum of mine who used to write music together. Must be five years or there abouts since we've seen each other.I couldn't believe it when I heard "Hello Nick" and didn't even recognize him at first with his Aviator shades on. But there you go. Rob is now doing gigs under his name 'Robbie B' and has a big big fan base and even bigger web based fan base and following. Apart from that, he's got a nice girlfriend who supports his career path (lucky so and so, my turn will come...boo hoo, Gosh I hate being on my own and all that stuff blah blah blah) and a massive following on myspace.com too. Anyway.

Best of luck Robbie. And if you read this keep in touch and let me know if I can help the career in anyway. I would love to write a couple of tracks on the piano or guitar for you. That would be great.

www.myspace.com/robbiebuk

The 1980s

Reminiscent of the words from one of the Pet-Shop-Boys songs, which go: "....and left to my own devices, I probably would" I managed to sort out my online Flickr photo account all by myself. Without being boring, I basically locked myself out and although it was for a mere 2 days or so, it began to drive me crazy. I'm afraid the photo blogging and online storage craze got the better of me a while back and now I use it constantly. I adore taking snaps of anything from signs, graffiti, out of the ordinary to basically anything that is worthy of a push button moment.

Its 430am on a Monday morning. I've been on YouTube looking at Adam Ant and various 1980s videos from MTV as well as British TV reminding myself of the best era theres been. I am so grateful to have been fortunate enough to have lived through the 80s era. The best music ever came out of it. Bands such as Visage, Culture Club, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Yazoo etc all played a seminal part in the mapping out of modern music and the backbone principles that have gone in to modern music genres. So many progressive new wave bands of the time such as Modern Romance, Spandau Ballet and other "funny-to-look-at-but-cool-back-then" New Wave & New Romantic bands really did help form and nurture the magic, ideas and freedom principles that a lot of music has become today. The word 'transmuted' comes to mind for some reason.

I must add that my favorite 1980s bands that left there marks were:
~ The Human League [Dare: album]
~ Yazoo [Upstairs at Erics:album]
~ Depeche Mode [Speak and Spell:album]

How would I sum these particular 80s bands up if i had to? Well, In 3 simple words: "synth-ballad-emotionalists"
Felt I had to include a photo of TOTP.After all Top Of The Pops (c) BBC, helped so many bands along the way.
Long live memories.