07 November 2025
Describe music that reminds you of a specific place you've traveled.
I've been to a few places as more-or-less a 'music tourist' - I've been to Memphis, and Liverpool, and bits of Ireland. I think you could argue that that was more the place reminding me of the music rather than vice versa.
So there are two choices where it's very much the other way round.
I worked for a few years for Sony and we had some sort of conference in Dublin. From memory I think around half the presentations started with a video soundtracked by either 'Beautiful Day' or 'Vertigo'. I like U2...but it got rather wearing.
Anyway, the song for today is the theme to a 1970s slightly naff, and very, very English BBC sitcom.
I was stuck in a hospital in New Orleans for a few days in the early 1990s and I had nothing to read apart from the Times-Picayune. The paper had a three-page spread about Are You Being Served?
Reading about the show wasn't how I was expecting to be spending my time in New Orleans
Apple doesn't seem to have the original theme, but it's a good song (better and more amusing than the show tbh) and Matt Berry does a good version.
Let the good times roll!