The More You Live, The More You Love

After nearly twenty years it still is a treasure chest with undiscovered compartments. Although I’m interested in nowadays bands, I get more enthusiastic when I discover a band from my teens. Discovering B-Movie gave me more satisfaction than hearing a band like Snow Patrol or Keane. Don’t get me wrong I like them both, but discovering something new, for me at least, from the eighties gives me a kick. Volume 2 Bolland – Ouverture – You’re In The Army Now Philip Jap – Save Us When In Rome – The Promise (7”) Blanket Of Secrecy – Say You Will Frazier Chorus – Typical Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Annex Beargarden – A Seaside Song Paul Haig – Torchomatic Allez Allez - Valley Of The Kings Telex - L'Amour Toujours The Meteors - It's You, Only You Voice Of America - Seikou Dollar - Mirror Mirror The Armoury Show - Castles In Spain China Crisis - 96.8 Sophie & Peter Johnson - Television Satellite B-Movie - Nowhere Girl Human League - Marianne (remix) The March Violets - Turn...

My first contact with photography happened during my high school days. There was a photographic club which mainly worked with black and white films. They had their own darkroom in the cellar of the building near the big cellar room where we held our Friday tea club afternoons, with a lot of good music, and the class parties. I joined the club with a friend and had fun for several years making and developing my own pictures. Sometimes we spent hours in the darkroom to create, for us, the perfect picture. When I left high school and continued intermediate technical school I changed from black and white to full colour photos, but mainly made them during trips or while being on holiday. It wasn’t until halfway the nineties that I started to make pictures on a regular base again. During that period I wrote for a Progressive Rock magazine and visited a lot of concerts and did interviews with the artists. So it was easy to take a camera with me and make pictures during the gigs and after int...

A couple of entries ago I wrote about the re-discovery of eighties music. Since then I’ve been searching the net, the record stores, online stores, second hand stores and ebay to collect music from the eigthies. Last year I did a project which as a result turned into 60 discs full of eighties music found during the last five years. Most of it I wasn’t aware of at that time. So today I introduce you to the first volume of those discs. I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had with creating them. In the next couple of months I hope to present one on a regular base. Volume 1 Two People - This Is The Shirt White & Torch - Miracle Zerra One - The Banner Of Love Bamboo Industry - Hypnotized Cee Farrow - Wildlife Romance (so ramantic) Cetu Javu - Have In Mind Data - Stop Eyeless In Gaza - Stay Icehouse - Icehouse Fra Lippo Lippi - Light And Shade How We Live - Working Girl (demo) Keep It Dark - Outsider Thomas Leer - International One (B-Movie) - I'll Wait So - Are You Sure...

After a couple of days of nice sunny weather, the weather gods decided that it was time to switch to a wet version for a change. I saw a colleague turn in soaked completely. Within the atrium of our building the rain is pooring along the windows as heavy as on the outside, so our facilities manager has some work for the next couple of days. The funny thing is that immediately you start associating the event with music. So some nice songs popped up which I had to share with you. Alphaville - Summer Rain The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain Boulevard - Rainy Day In London Crazy House - Burning Rain John Foxx - Europe After The Rain Freiheit - Kissed You In The Rain H2O - Who'll Stop The Rain Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Mandolin Rain Ice Cold In Alice - When The Rain Comes Down Modern English - Rainbow Ends Virgin Dance - Rainy Days The Weather Prophets - Why Does The Rain