So as I started writing this blog, with the word 'Zenith' in large letters on my phone in front of me, Neil put on the 2nd side (we're talking vinyl here) of 'Drama', the Yes album that I want to get familiar before it is performed in full at the gig in June. And as ayou know, the first song on side 2 of Drama is 'into the lens' in which you will notice the oft repeated line 'I am a camera'. Zenith make cameras; I love coincidences like that, I said to Neil. What model did you have?
And so it was I came to realise that the cameras are made by ZENIT, not Zenith. I am hoping that zenit is Russian for zenith and I won't seem quite so foolish.
Regular readers of this blog will know how excited I was to be going to see Steven Wilson in concert. I will now own up to being rather disappointed. His album Hand.Cannot.Erase. was based on a news item about a woman who had died in her flat and only found after 2 years. The album imagined her life and the events leading to her death. He had made a film to accompany the music and this was playing on a large screen behind the band. I'm afraid I found this most disconcerting and distracting. It took away much of my enjoyment of the music. Still, we met some nice people and were glad we had decided to book into the Premier Inn - just 5 minutes' walk from the Dome, and a decent night's sleep instead of having to rush home.
Tonight we are enjoying the album without the visuals, as well as the mandatory Yes and more SW.
Oh dear, the theme of that recording seems difficult subject matter indeed. I do not mean to make light of such a subject, but you know my wicked tiny mind has already been thinking of alternative titles for the album. Bills.Not.Paid , Flat.Needs.Dusting , Out.and.About , Lady's.Year.In , Recluse.Reduce.Refuse ...ok I DO mean to make light of the subject...
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how we read what we want to see, not what's there - I even wrote a blog about it once:
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