James who?
D & A were over from Canada for a few days; they stayed in Bath with D's dad, so we had a chance to catch up on old times.
D asked me: "What's new in music? What new stuff should we be buying while we're over here?"
I mumbled a useless reply. Years ago, when we were students, it made sense to ask me this question. In those days I bought NME every week, along with a ridiculous (given my income) amount of music. I was music-addicted and had to be on the cutting edge of all the new stuff. I knew what was hot, and what was not.
These days, I struggle to keep up with the times. Sitting on the loo this morning, reading through last week's Observer (because it takes me a week to read a Sunday paper nowadays), I noticed a raving profile of James Blunt. The former soldier is currently number one in the singles and albums charts, and I had no idea. I'd never even heard his name.
I sighed and made a mental note to look up some of his stuff, when I got a chance.
So this is middle age.
UPDATE: I checked out James Blunt and found his music was utter rubbish. So that's that settled then.
