Lets Make This Precious.

For Anyone Who Is Doing

The breakfast was late in it’s preparation this morning . The routine was later as was the rising from the slumber. And thats ok . Now, where is the coffee ?

Cerys Matthews is the soundtrack in the kitchen on almost all Sunday mornings on BBC6 Radio . Her passion and eclectic love of the world of art is a joy .

What makes Radio wonderful , what has always made Radio wonderful is the discovery of the undiscovered. This morning Cery’s introduced the music , the words and the beautiful quiet energy of Natalie Wildgoose into the kitchen .

Living working and writing her craft between 2 very uniquely different spaces, North Yorkshire and London, her obsession with the purity of what she is trying to create was utterly fascinating. She records on an old reel to reel machine gifted by her late Grandfather, insisting on using old instruments and recording in abandoned places . Cerys played a track and the ghosts of the space Natalie recorded in had entered the track and in turn entered the kitchen this morning . It is a beguiling listen .

I haven’t picked up a guitar in months, and thats alright. Writing tends to come in avalanches of reasons for me and that is just something I’ve learned not to force . Forcing it is often results in the wrong reasons. Down through the years in working with Joe I would drown demo’s and scraps of songs in reverb, perhaps to hide my own insecurities , and he would purify the noise , strip it back so that the bones could be heard .

I thank people like Natalie Wildgoose for the unique corners they work in . I thank people like Cerys Matthews for the corners they rummage in . And in the words of the great Kevin Rowland . I thank anyone who is doing .

First, let’s hear somebody sing me a record
That cries pure and true (like this song)
No, not those guitars, they’re too noisy and crude (sing it)
The kind that convinces, refuses to leave

There’s no need to turn it up
If it’s pure, I’ll feel it from here
I don’t need those bad influences, thank you very much
Thank you, but no thanks, I get enough on my own.

P. x