"But What Was The Year?"

Morning.

I'm up in the radio rooms for quite possibly the final time this semester although I don't think any of the second years will be in RP1 as they've got their podcasting lectures today, having handed in their websites yesterday.

I've always thought that module has been an anti-climax to the year as it's not that very exciting or motivating, although I appreciate that podcasting is an ever growing industry and several current students and alumni have started working for such companies.

However I'm feeling incredibly smug as by the time the dissertation is handed in, it's one week before the second years finish their podcasting module and some of them even have the Media Law exam that same week.

It won't be all bad though as I may end up joining them for a few drinks at the Underpants on the Friday when it's all due in, and then we'll all be celebrating.

Anyway that's all a month away and I need to be concentrating more on getting the dissertation done, but without anything to write from it's pretty tricky due to the focus groups and so on being postponed.

It's doable though and I'm sure I'll speed through it after being given reassuring help from Ana on Wednesday with regards to what's needed.

Right now I'm listening to the Golden Hour on the Chris Moyles Show as it's Friday and for quite possibly the first time ever, it took me until the second song to work out what the year was.

That's because the first song was the rather obscure dance hit "Played A Live (The Bongo Song)" by The Safri Duo which I assume only Radio 1 had on their A-list back then and in 2001 Radio 1 was quite literally at the far back of my mind as far as radio listening was concerned.

The Safri Duo also did a rather dodgy trance cover of Michael McDonald's "Sweet Freedom" a year later and it was bloody awful.

Other songs played have included "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy and "Demons" by Fatboy Slim and Macy Gray, which were all from the earlier half of the year when things for me were a lot better as I was still in secondary school even if the weather wasn't so good.

The summer and autumn that year was hard due to various changes, and starting college despite good GCSE results but a lot of my crushes had gone (or I never saw them again).

A lot of the music from the latter half of the year brings back some memories as well however, such as "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols and
"Flawless" by The Ones.

Not forgetting some of the stunning R&B such as India Arie and Alicia Keys who both had superb debut albums, as well as Mary J Blige who released "No More Drama".

Music can be really powerful in that sort of sense as every song has a personal story.