I’ve just enjoyed my first holiday for four years. I’m painfully aware that other people don’t go on holiday at all, so feel free to wince at the air of smug entitlement.
It’s the first time there’s been a break in transmission of the podcast since the end of 2019. A chance to take stock, consider, reflect as I gazed at the masterpieces in the Uffizi Museum and the Sistine Chapel, at the massive stuffed walrus in the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill.
What should I be doing differently? How could I improve? Should I expand into new markets? Join Instagram, Tiktok? Get ChatGPT to write these blogs, perhaps.
Well, I’ve decided that nothing is really going to change. I like things the way they are and you seem to like listening to them. Or enough of you anyway, to make the whole project worthwhile. So that’s how it’s going to be from now on. More or less the same.
It’s not how Elon Musk goes about things but I, sir, am no Elon Musk.
Here’s some songs about returning. It’s nice to be in your ears once more.
Tracklist:-
Gotta see Jane, R Dean Taylor
Return my head, The Murder Capital
Backflip, Wombo
Black starliner must come, Culture
Holiday house, Beach House
Like it was again, Dignan Porch
Disco 2000, Pulp
Please don’t take him back, Bearsuit
Please don’t take me back, Martha
To remain/to return, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Don’t take me home till I’m drunk, The Wedding Present
Back in denim, Denim
Home sweet home (at Christmas), Viv Albertine
On returning, Wire
The most beautiful widow in town, Sparklehorse