This song reminds me of my friend Sara and the ballroom of Sheriff Hutton Hall in York back in 1990. At the time I was a student at east 15 acting school and during final term of that year was living in a house in a village called Thornton Le Clay rather than in the Hall itself.
As I may have mentioned I hated dancing but I did very much enjoy spending time in the Victorian Ballroom, which was added as an extension to the already large house (originally a Jacobean Hunting Lodge) in the Victorian era. The Ballroom was enormous, had wonderful and massive sash windows and an elegant wooden floor. We had all of our dancing lessons in there, rehearsals and at Christmas we built a set and used it as an auditorium! There was always a tape deck and amplifier in the room which was used to provide music for the dance classes but when passing time in the evenings or doing our own morning warm ups we brought our own music on cassettes and played them on that stereo.
At the time I had a copy of ‘Violator’, which was Depeche Mode’s latest album at the time. Both Sara and I were Depeche Mode devotees (as were a number of the other students) so I brought my cassette of the album down and we had it on a lot of the time. As a result whenever I hear ‘Halo’, ‘Personal Jesus’ or ‘Enjoy The Silence’ I am transported back to those happy days when I was training to be an actor and reminded of Sara (who like me now) has a big family and lives nearby!
Now listen to the song…
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