Honest Twenty Five
I wrote an honest list of the songs that have most coloured my life. They're not my favourite songs. They're not all cool . But they're a sort of aural map to how I got here. I wrote it for something but it was never used, so here it is, unwasted. 25 Just my curtain. Looks nice though. 1) “Fight!” The Theme from “The Flashing Blade” There are four big theme tunes that dominate my childhood. Monkey Magic by Mickie Yoshino, Rentaghost by Michael Staniforth, The Water Margin by Godiego and The Flashing Blade’s theme by Alex Masters, which is a pretty tough name, though not as tough as Ian from The Krankies, whose real name is Ian Tough. The themes have lyrics, which seems to be the thing I latched onto, even though the Water Margin’s were in Japanese. I think I always needed to have someone standing at the front of the song, officiating. A ring master, a celebrant. I’m old and boring now, and listen...
