Travelling through the busy London streets in our Tour bus #63 which looks identical to the big red double decker buses they use for public transport!
Sitting upstairs clinging on for dear life at the front while the bus roars full steam ahead into a narrow funnel of traffic which (I am so sure) we wont fit through!
It reminds me that a week ago I saw the aftermath of terrible road accident where they had cut the roof off one of the cars…. Probably, because some bus driver drove at 50MPH into a gap in the traffic that he was never going to fit into!
I take a deep breath and try and focus on something else…. A beautiful field, with angels feeding me gooseberries…. (whatever the fuck they are?)
This wasn’t exactly how imagined this blog to turn out … But hey?
There has been soo much going on in this tour and in a way I haven’t had a chance to(or maybe its that I haven’t let myself) step out of it and think about everything that we are doing… Switching off for a while and bringing myself back into the present. It’ll come in time but not today.
We have spent quite a bit of time, travelling. Either crossing the country or just crossing the city. It’s a time I spend scribbling in my note book, thinking about the next thing to come or watching strange interactions (or lack of) between strangers on the street or in the underground..
Its also a time and space when I usually join the millions and plug myself into an mp3 player to get away.
This tour, as all good tours, has been accompanied by a soundtrack. A hand full of albums that I have been listening to on constant repeat. My new favourite right now would have to be Heligoland by Massive Attack. I was walking through the National Portrait gallery when I first put it on and it blew my mind, took me away and wrapped me in its incredible sound scape. I’ve also had revisit from my old hi school days with the best of blur…. I’d forgotten how much I dug them when I was a gangly teen!
Anyways I wanted to make a mix tape and share it with you all…. But I don’t have a tape recorder and nor do I know anyone who has one…. So as nostalgic as that may be physically make a mix tape…. I wont. Because that would be totally useless!
Instead here is picture of what it would look like
And here is the playlist!
Milly’s U.K Tour Mix Tape 2010
Side A
1 – Song 2 Blur
2 – Bixby Canyon Bridge Death Cab For Cutie
3 – Falling Down The Mountain INXS*
4 – Factory Band of Horses
5 – And The Boys Angus & Julia Stone
6 – Pray for Rain Massive Attack
Side B
7 – 1901 Phoenix
8 – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song The Flaming Lips
9 – Blue Blood Foals*
10 – Young Americans David Bowie
11 – Paradise Circus Massive Attack
12 – Tender Blur
Listen here: UKPlaylist2010
*Sadly not on Spotify!
