6. Breathe Slow – Alesha Dixon (Feb 2009)

This song is one of my most recent favourites and I totally love it. I came across it completely by accident when I was having a random glance at the home page of the itunes store and playing the samples of the songs in the top ten.  I had a listen and in the same way as one might fall in love at first sight I fell in love with this song from a short sample! The fact that you can listen to a little snippet of a song on itunes is (I suppose) like listening to a record in the shop before buying it in the sixties, which is something that had gone by the time I joined the record buying public in 1978 (up until this time I had my records bought for me as presents!) but must have been a great incentive to buy.

Before long I was listening to this song so much I felt the need to see Alesha’s video and so logging onto itunes once again I paid my £1.79 or whatever it was to download that too! During January and February 2009 I was travelling between London and Newcastle and London and Edinburgh most weeks and was spending many hours on the train in the late evenings coming home. The internet connexion on the East Coast Mainline is shocking so it was hard to log on and have a look at ‘facebook or ‘You Tube’ as the connection kept dropping so I would often turn to my collection of music and videos stored on my computer.

I particularly remember one very cold day when it had been snowing and (as usual) the trains were being cancelled left right and centre and I was travelling down from Newcastle to London. It was so cold that the doors of the train were frozen shut and we could only get on the train using certain doors and to make matters worse there was no working heating in the carriage in which I sat. I was wearing my coat and gloves but at least there was light and power. Luckily for me it was quite empty so I plugged in my lap top, fixed my headphones in my ear and listened to this song and later watched the video (which as you will see if you watch the clip) which was shot in Vegas where I had a few memorable days back in October 2010 – but that’s another story.

Listening to Alesha D will always remind me of that cold winter and miserable journey home once again made better by the power of music.

Now listen to the song….(and watch the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-503QA6F08g