Nick Drake’s Place To Be was one of those first golden keys that unlocked Music for me. I discovered it at the age of 14 through my Dad, who it turns out had played it to my Mum just after they first met. The fact that by the time I was born they’d already broken up adds a huge poignancy to the isolation of Nick Drake’s voice and his deep longing for an emotional home. This song and the rest of Pink Moon created the sparse autumnal space in which I spent the first half of my adolescence fantasising about being depressed enough to write Music like Nick Drake. By the time I had my first experience of Depression I realised, of course, that writing songs is the last thing you feel like doing when you’re low.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:06:35 +0000
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