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Prohibition St Katherines Dock. Yachts, Cocktails & Awesome Music… 7pm Start.

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I’ve been nominated for an NME video award…

http://www.nme.com/awards/video/id/dVMvucLtV3Q

Brilliant !

Three of the best singers of a generation… Class tune

Don’t watch this if you love the red pill

I’m gradually becoming more interested with the human mind and it’s connection to why us humans behave so predictably irrational in the way that we do. I don’t claim to be even remotely close to a practicing psychologist, more a mere observant student of our perceivable existence and how and why we are what we are. I don’t know the difference between the frontal lobes, the cerebral cortex & I even forget which side of the brain controls the emotion/logic. Habitual programming, subconscious auto-suggestion and cosmic analysis aside, there is something absolutely fascinating about dreams which have captivated my attention recently through various personal experiences which have led me to investigate our frankly pitiful knowledge of how they work.

More specifically, there is something about the end of dreams which draws out the curiosity in me. I suppose everyone’s had that feeling of falling off a cliff, missing a step, misjudging the weight of a box (?) and suddenly jerking to alertness from a peaceful slumber. It leads me to wonder what our brain is transmitting when this kind of thing happens; are we controlling the dream or is the dream controlling us ?

A strange occurrence prevailed earlier in the week which led me to participate in my own subconscious laboratory examinations. When I was in a normal dream state, my alarm went off in the morning and the tune was, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit, ‘Your the voice – John Farnham (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-aP-ossRkQ). During this dream I was in a seemingly normal place with nobody unusual, this song began to play as naturally as if you were to hear music in your local supermarket or on the radio whilst in your car.

I woke up at the second time the lyric ‘down the barrel of a gun’ repeats which is approximately two minutes into the song. When I woke up, the song on my phone was at exactly the same point musically as it was during the dream, almost as if it had seamlessly drifted in perfect time from one state of consciousness to another.

This leads me to question three things:

Firstly, do our brains use external influences outside of our body when we sleep and intetionally manipulate them into our dream somehow ? Does it use rational images, sounds and sensibilities in our mind to utilize these external factors into that momentous point in time so that somehow our ‘dream world’ is effective and congruent with our physical world?

Secondly, Does our memory and image/aural recognition receptors over-ride that which seems plausible in our waking state and use other functions of reality and restrain to make the rules in this ‘other’ (dream) world, current reality ?

Thirdly, If the song on my alarm wasn’t John Farnham, what would be the outcome in the dream the moment the music started and my brain registered it ? Would the brain react and show a different movie/dream if it had a dancey drum break intro as opposed to a flowing melodic heavenly piano intro ? If so, the potential cocktail of all the different sounds, harmony, melody, rhythm that flows through every song, means we have the potential to instill one of a trillion different dream stories for that brief couple of minutes before we transition from asleep to awake.

I question whether we could have such control or even provocative analysis over something we know so little about. Our inner world is only partially discovered to the ratio of that in which a pin head is relevant in size to our universe, we have so much yet to learn and so much to gain from doing so.

As for my alarm in the morning, I’m going to give this bad boy a blast and see how my brain integrates this into my dream…. I can only hope !

Banging them out 1 a day at the moment… Enjoy the croon

This Special Night

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A bit of a break from the norm…. Here’s a new tune for ya….

This Old Love

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I always have been, and, probably always will be transfixed by this absolute jewell…. I fall in love every time it whispers lazily upon my undeserving ears. It’s mesmerizing, truly haunting and astonishingly beautiful.

To say “They don’t make them like this anymore” would be an understatement of epic proportions. The old desert island discs would definitely contain this masterpiece.

Take it away Frank: