Sometimes a specific moment of our life gets linked (with inexplicable strength) to a song, sound or smell. It is as though those things get charged with some sense that our conscious selves cannot really grasp. They seem to explain things better than just words, or even our thoughts.
These are songs that reappear in our lives and stop us in our tracks -they take us back to the past and at the same time redefine the present.
One of these songs for me is Dance With Me by the French act Nouvelle Vague.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQZPozjCX8
The other night Dave and I went to see Nouvelle Vague play at the Sydney Festival (At the barracks). Rachel and her friends were there too. I think that this band is brilliant and whilst at most gigs I can lose my concentration span after a few songs, Nouvelle Vague seem to carry the whole crowd all the way through. The self confident sexy French attitude of the two lead singers has definitely something to do with it.
When this song came up I felt propelled back to London, to the Flat of Dreams (this is how we called the place in Marylebone where we used to live). This is the song that lent itself as a background to the forming of a friendship that is so dear to me. It takes me back on a train towards a ballroom venue in South London. It also reminds me of fun times when I rediscovered and reinvented my whole life back in 2007.
The other night I remembered seeing Nouvelle Vague in Camden Town (at the Round House) a few years back. Just like this time back then I felt in a good place. I thought about how life has moved on since then and how lucky I feel for that past and this present. Not just for myself, but for the people in my life that that song connects me to.
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