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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Mainstream (Full Album)

10 years ago today, we lost David Bowie. He recorded his last album whils battling cancer.

Another legend gone.

In 1987, I was sixteen years old and had just started in technical college. I was doing an apprenticeship and I had enough money to buy some records at last.
Me and one of my best friends convinced a local night-club that we were 18 and that we would host a goth/alternative night for them.
He told us that we could do Wednesday nights because no-one ever came out on a Wednesday so what did it matter.

This was the first song we played, there were 8 people in and I knew them all on a first name basis.

By the end of the night there might have 12 or 13 people. This was more than usual (It was a small crappy place).

Over the next 2 years, we managed to make it a bit of a "Thing" with the local goth crowd and we were getting 40 or 50
people in on a Wednesday night.

By the end of it they totally knew we were underage, I got a birthday card from the manager for my 18th birthday .

Oh I miss being young and stupid, but this song brings it all back like yesterday.

Today is the 16th anniversary of my son's death. I've been a Linda fan forever and this one always brings tears to me eyes, especially on January 17th. But it soothes me too.