Having started to write to about my favourite songs and the memories that are attached to them it seems that often I come to love certain songs when I associate them with exciting or pleasurable or interesting (or sometimes ‘sad’) things….. and so we come to this one.
I first heard this song properly in a Dance Lesson in the Victorian Ballroom at Sheriff Hutton Park in North Yorkshire where I was a student at east 15 acting school. I have always been a really terrible dancer (and some would say rubbish actor and singer as well but that’s another story….) and have successfully managed to reduce more than one professional choreographer to tears, so as you can imagine, I hated dance lessons but this was an expection.
In the first term of that second year at east 15 (Sept – Dec 1990) we had a lovely dancing teacher called Lesley (who was a truly lovely person as well as a dancing teacher but that’s yet another story…) and I remember her putting this song on and doing a whole lesson choreographing and performing a dance to it. The Ballroom was so large and so light and so brilliant for dancing and performing as it had wonderfully big bay windows, a magnificent wooden floor, a gun cupboard (every stately home should have one) and woodwork painted in a lovely light blue colour. The sunlight that shone through the window on the cold autumn mornings warmed the room as well as the movement of the dancers (and me!).
Although I’d heard ‘Twist In My Sobriety’ on the radio a few times in the past, I came to love this song from listening to it more acutely in this dance lesson and so I went out and bought it. I still have it on my ipod today and I listen to it as I travel to work sometimes. It always reminds me of that dance lesson and Sherriff Hutton. I had a truly wonderful time at east 15 and in Sheriff Hutton in particular and to be reminded of that makes me smile.
Now listen to the song…..
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