What is a good memory you have involving 30 Field Music? I saw them at Paradiso in early 2007. I had a fever and felt high while I stood there with my head in the clouds and loved every minute of their quirky and ridiculously creative pop music. Field Music always felt like a band that wanted to have three songs in one. Some people probably found this frustrating. I however, loved it from the start. After the concert I went home and passed out, that might have been more due to the fever than their brilliance, but still. Its sad that they not longer exist, but nice that they became The Week That Was (who's song The Airportline gave this blog its name). Field Music is possibly one of the most underrated post millennium pop bands around.
Once after meeting one of my favorite bands at the time – Stars – in a nightclub in Berlin, I promised the singer Torquil Campell that I could help him get some weed when they played in Zürich, where I have a friend. He was talking a lot about weed, Torquil. I contacted my friend and checked if he could get him some. Unfortunately he was going to a wedding the same weekend they were playing there. And that is my only story involving trying to help a Canadian band touring Europe got get some weed. It’s not my greatest failure in life. But it’s still a failure I occasionally reflect on.
Later today The Week That Was explain what their song "The Airport Line" is all about.
Me and my room mate watch a lot of CNN, our favourite show is The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. To be able to have Wolf (or ‘Wolfie’ as we call him) Blitzer steering you through the most interesting and most uninteresting issues of the American day in the situation room is like crack for us. If crack would be a good thing. Wolf has an impressive resume to say the least, here is part of his life according to Wikipedia:
At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel. Sadat, somewhat taken aback, responded that such visits would be possible after an end to the state of belligerence between the two nations. This was the first time Sadat said that peace between Israel and Egypt was possible. In November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty two years later.
This is one reason for loving Wolf. The other one is his impeccable ability to make everything seem urgent and dramatic. People are ‘standing by’ all over the place in the Situation Room, and, in case we would ever forget he makes sure to say ‘the best political team on television’ at least once every five minutes. He is everything our lest favorite CNN-journalist, the painfully unfunny and tactless, Jonathan Mann is not.
Tomorrow the band that inspired me to name my blog The Airportline explain what their song "The Airport Line" really is about. Only on airportline.blogspot.com
