Thank you for the music

I sat down to watch The OC last week as I had my dinner. I didn’t really have any idea what was going on as I haven’t seen it for years (and I am sure it used to be funnier?), except for the fact that Marissa appears to have died, which made me exceedingly happy. But I was absolutely thrilled to hear (even before the picture came up on the screen), Placebo’s brilliant cover of the Kate Bush song, ‘Running Up That Hill. Such a brilliant song and played, almost in its entirety, twice during the episode. They played this song when I saw them a couple of months ago and it is haunting live (first time I have heard them perform it). Made me realise again how much I love their music, and just how much I love music in general. I do feel so fortunate to have music in my life (to quote ABBA: “without a dance, or a song, what are we? So I say Thank you for the Music, for giving it to me”!)


Speaking of things musical, I had a major triumph this week. I have been quite desperate to attend the Make Poverty History concert this Friday – a musical gathering, in the vein of the Live 8 concerts last year, to coincide with the G-20 conference in Melbourne next week. Tickets are free, but as hard to come by as tickets to U2 this weekend. I was lamenting this fact to two friends at breakfast (shout out to Clare and Tristan!) and when eight tickets were made available through work this week, they both scrambled to get me one – gorgeous friends! So I am off to see Sarah Blasko, Jet, Eskimo Joe, Evermore, the Hilltop Hoods, Paul Kelly and John Butler Trio on Friday night, and cannot wait. There will also be some excellent speakers and I truly hope that this continues the wave of grassroots efforts around the world to end poverty.

If nothing else – should be a ripper night.