March 2008 - Bon Iver - Skinny Love

February 2008 - The War On Drugs - Taking the Farm

January 2008 - Sun Kil Moon - Unlit Hallway

Lost Weekend

This weekend, locked up in the house as I have been, my mind began to wander and I've been swept up by a wave of nostalgia, along with not being totally sure of where I am now.
So, my soundtrack to the weekend: Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon. I'm not sure why, but I've had this on heavy rotation since Friday. It's like an aural balm, a soothing voice and heart breaking lyrics that make me think of being in a passenger seat of a car, watching the landscape slip by.

Este fin de semana, encerrada en casa, mis pensamientos han divagado mucho y me ha dejado llevar la nostalgia, junto con mis incertidumbres del presente.
Por lo tanto, mi banda sonora del fin de semana: Carry Me Ohio de Sun Kil Moon. No sé por qué razón, pero llevo desde el viernes escuchandola constantamente. Sirve como un bálsamo, una voz que alivia y letras que deja el corazón en pedazos y que me hace pensar en viajar en el asiento del acompañante y ver como el paisaje me pasa.

Sorry that
I could never love you back
I could never care enough
In these last days

Her tears
Fell on her pages found me out
On her words I don't know what
To do or say

Wading through
Warm canals and pools clear blue
The Tuscarawas flows into
The prairie land

Riding back
To where the highway met
Dead end tracks
The ground is now cement and glass
And far away

Heal her soul, carry her, my angel, Ohio

Lingering in
What about the sweetness we knew
What about what's good what's true
From those days

Can't count to
All the lovers I've burned through
So why do I still burn for you
I cannot say

Sorry that
I could never love you back
I could never care enough in these last days

Heal her soul, carry her, my angel, Ohio

Children blush
And gather round the home she rests
So poor and gold with their mid west
Moon and sun

Flashes bringing on
My open eyes the lightning storm
The tortured mist felt soft, felt warm
On my face

Craving dreams
A million miles ago you see
And the star that I just don't see
Anymore

Words long gone
Lost on journeys we walked on
Lost are voices heard along the way

Sorry for
Never going by your door
Never feeling love like that
Anymore

Heal her soul, carry her, my angel, Ohio

A Bridge to Nowhere

It's been a funny month - an Olympian all nighter of a festival, discovering and falling in love with music all over again, a hormonal low, a wee incicent involving a brief loss of consciousness, a melodica and a song later...
And now, a pyjama day, shut up in my bedroom with some music and a smile.
Long live long weekends!

Un puente hacia ninguna parte

Ha sido un mes algo raro. Un festival de 24 horas sin dormir, el descubrimiento y la reafirmación de mi amor de la música, un bajón fuerte a causa de los hormonas, un incidente en que perdí momentáneamente el conocimiento, una melódica y una canción...
Ahora, un día, en pijama, encerrada en mi habitación con la música y una sonrisa.
¡Vivan los puentes!

La vuelta

After a dizzying few weeks back in Córdoba, I've finally gotten the chance to write something after the summer "holidays". Between looking for a flat, failing to find a flat, deciding to stay in the flat and then cleaning it from top to bottom, looking for a flatmate, finding a flatmate, starting work, spending a lot of time in work, joining a new swimming pool, catching up with friends...in short, I'm only just getting into the swing of things now.
But it's nice to be back.

Después de haber pasado ya unas semanas en Córdoba por fin logro escribir algo ya que se han acabado "las vacaciones". Entre buscar piso, no encontrar piso, decidir quedarnos en el piso y entonces limpiarlo a fondo, buscar compañero de piso, encontrar compañero de piso, volver al trabajo, pasar demasiado tiempo currando, hacerme socio de la piscina nueva, quedar con amigos y ponernos al día...en fin, todavía me estoy acostumbrando a la vuelta.
Pero me alegro de haber vuelto.

Setlist

Here's the setlist from our last gig by popular demand.

1. The Wild Rover (Traditional)
2. Like a Songbird That Has Fallen (Reeltime Travellers)
3. Spancill Hill (Traditional)
4. Star of the County Down (Traditional)
5. Ride On (Christy Moore)
6. Down to the River to Pray (Traditional - made famous by Alison Krauss)
7. Jug of Punch (Traditional)
8. Lady Margaret (Traditional)
9. How Can I Tell You? (Cat Stevens)
10. July (Mundy)
11. Black is the Colour (Traditional - based on version by Christy Moore)
12. 9 Crimes (Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan)
13. She Moved Through the Fair (Traditional)
14. Whiskey in the Jar (Traditional - made famous by Thin Lizzy and, later, Metallica)
15. The Valley of Strathmore (Silly Wizard)
16. I Remember (Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan)
17. The Parting Glass (Traditional)

I'm missing some of Rafa's that he added last minute so I'll have to ask him to fill in some gaps, but most of them are here.