Finally got round to having a proper sit-down watch of Synth Britannia and it made me remember how much I adore this song. It also made me realise how much of a huge synth pop head my mum is as I grew up listening and singing along to this stuff in the car and in the house...

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Guess I got my taste for harder music from my dad who was more into metal and punk.

Also the sound of the Newman stuff compared to the rest of the early stuff was HUGE... amazingly produced and still sounds great today, a lot of that early stuff with the crappy tinny drums and monosynths sound rubbish!

Watching it also made me a bit depressed that there's no music out there that mega excites me anymore through it's newness... seeing all those kids in the late 70s/80s being like WTF is this made me realise that because electronics/sampling now allows any kind of noise there's not going to be another quantum leap in music, is there? Also part of the feeling of belonging to a special scene that no-one knows about is now gone because of the internet. Back in the day I remember there were only about 100 folk in Scotland into Jungle/Breakbeat Hardcore and we pretty much all knew each other... now you can just tippity-tap into the internet and be part of any scene automatically. *sigh*

iain