I really, really want to write for some kind of online music journal or magazine. I love writing and I love music - they’d go so well together. Music is the one thing I absolutely could not live without, and the band competition yesterday reminded me of that. Standing in front of the stage, watching bands play, feeling the bass vibrate through my ribcage, hearing such amazing music… it reminded me who I really am, deep down, and that I should stop getting distracted from what makes me happy. Fuck art and psychology, there’s pretentious bullshit in both of them. Music is real. Music is everything to me. If I could stand in front of a stage listening to music for the rest of my life I would never want anything else. So back to my first sentence; I want to be part of the music somehow. Obviously, being in a band and creating music would be awesome but I acknowledged long ago that I have no real musical talent, so I want to be part of it in some other way, and writing about music would be incredible. Un-fucking-fortunately, I don’t know anyone else who’d be interested in helping me set up something, or any existing journals, and I don’t know if I’d have the time to do anything right now, as my GCSEs are approaching fast and I’m supposed to be revising. What I’d ideally want would be something where I - and possibly others - could write reviews and articles on gigs, bands, albums, songs… anything music related. There could be some kind of request taking, too - so people could suggest a band, gig etc. to be reviewed. And a large section on local music, naturally. It would give me an excuse to hang around gigs at the Junction and Man On The Moon more often, which would be fun, plus promoting local/new bands instead of well-established acts is something I wish more people would do.
Still, as titled: wishful thinking? If I could find even one other person who would be interested in this, maybe I’d have a chance. That’s a hint to anyone else living in or near Cambridge, by the way.
