Have you ever listened to a song or bit of music or even heard a couple of lines blasting out of a speaker in a club and thought to yourself: Wow! That really sums me up? Well of course you have. You’re reading this, which means you read Indigo Flow, which means you are either a music geek or you have made a wrong turning somewhere and are now very bored. Fair enough, we’ve all done it from time to time.

There are even different bands to listen to for the different emotional states. For instance, if your feeling pissed off or in a rebellious mood, head towards the old time punk sound of The Clash. Or if that’s too old for you, might I suggest the new Green Day stuff? If you’re feeling paranoid why not try any Radiohead from OK Computer onwards. Loved up because you have a new another significant other? Try Celine Dion? No? All right so I was getting carried away with myself there but you get the jist of what I’m saying.

This all very well, it’s normal behaviour, even for your genetically challenged cousin who listens to Ibiza mixes, and dare I say it, Tim Westwood, would understand.

However what happens when you try to explain pet theories through somebody else’s words? The answer is most people in the pub look at you as if you’re mad. Its true; I tried to convince a friend that you had to get away once in awhile but called it Echo Beaching after the Martha And The Muffins song (If you’ve not heard it, it’s on the John Peel sponsored compilation called Sound of the Suburbs. A fantastic guide to New Wave with contributions from the Psychedelic Furs, Buzzcocks, The Only Ones and, yes, The Undertones — well it had to be there somewhere didn’t it?).

It’s not just that one song that trips me up. Radiohead have done it to me as well. I tried explaining to a mate that some times people split up for no real reason and that reason was the Black Star. Until that point I don’t think he had ever heard the song. He was a Townie. There are other problems as well. How do you know that you and who ever wrote the damn song are thinking along the same lines? For instance, to me the Stereophonic’s Goldfish Bowl song means to hate living in a small town where everybody knows what you’re doing. Unfortunately it could also be a song about missing all the crap thing that makes your own town yours. It all very confusing really…

Anyway, that’s it for my ramblings, I’d just like to stay how kind it was of Andy to let me start doings this after almost a year’s break and how unfair it was of John Peel to die on us. I am well and truly gutted.