A gait and walk can take lots of different forms. People everywhere are moving and shaping along footpaths. In a city it's easy to fall into step with the rythym of things around you. Those little white earphones are acting as conduits to deliver sonance and sounds to over one in six people when they pull the front door shut.

When my ear thinks of London, it thinks of this crazy beat.

Underworld - Cow Girl

How fickle we are to allow music to dictate our most personal possession - our feelings. Some might say the manipulation is perpetrated by our emotions, using music to attain instant gratification and affirmation. If that's the case, I use Joy Division's Digital like a cheap whore. I positively bound down the street when listening to them go bang! bang! bang!


Joy Division - Digital

Tracks that transcend all emotions are in rare supply but when they are played in the background of a noisy pub you drift from the conversation to sum up your emotional state. It's like the checks and balances of life are neatly summarised in a three minute pop sensation.


Stone Roses - Waterfall

Listening to some songs tell you the time. Van Morrison's Stranded tells me that it's night time purely because the melody says so.


Van Morisson - Stranded


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Published by Colm.