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| Wolf and Lockerby's Vanity Circus |
I hope he doesn’t mind me using his line, because it got me
thinking: it’s what happens, isn’t it? You fall in love, get your heart broken, patch it up with whatever bits of sticky tape and string you can find, before
doing it all again.
I’ve no idea what Andi thinks of my writing, so I hope he’s
okay with me commenting on his work! But
every now and again some tunes come along that capture a moment, a feeling, and
are so appropriate to the situation we find ourselves in.
It’s something about being human: we all share the same
experiences. Which is why a song written
so personally, with maybe only one person in mind, can apply to ... well ...
everyone sometimes.
Martin Clayton, writing about The Beatles’ song Hey Jude, said:
‘It is possible for
almost any listener to relate to it personally.
For John (Lennon) and for Paul (McCartney) it may have resonated with the difficult
circumstances of their own personal relationships, but which of us has not been
through the break-up of a close relationship, or some other comparable
trauma? Paradoxically, this intimacy –
the singer apparently speaking directly to each listener – helps create a mass
appeal.’ (Clayton, 2007, in Words and
Song, The Open University, p. 11.)
Wolf and Lockerby have achieved that here.
Check out the new EP For
When It Hurts... from Wolf and
Lockerby’s Vanity Circus.
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