Day 30 - Your favourite song this time last year

As it has been for over 30 years.

Day 29 - A song from your childhood

My gran used to sing this a lot and when Runrig sing it I get all patriotic. I love being Scottish, truly, it's such an integral part of me. I was at this gig and I sang along and danced, newly pregnant with Laura, didn't even know yet, so really it was her first gig. It was an amazing day, glorious sunshine, beautiful scenery and an atmosphere that was just perfect.

Day 28 - A song that makes you feel guilty

Because I know someone has felt that way about me. I know I've broken hearts and promises. I'm sorry.

Day 27 - A song you wish you could play

How I would love to be able to boogie woogie, I so wish I could play the piano.

Day 26 - A song you can play on an instrument

Well that's a big fat fail on my part, not a one, sorry.

Day 25 - a song that makes you laugh

Never fails to make me chuckle

Day 24 - A song you will play at your funeral

Because this song always make me think of how much I love my children and even when they cannot hear my voice I'll still be with them. They are my life and I give thanks everyday for the gift of them, the sheer life affirming joy and purpose and meaning they've given to my life, Laura Elizabeth, Jack and Lucy Abigail, mo chridhe tha gaol agam ort.

Day 23 - A song you will play at your wedding

Because love really is everything.

Day 22 - A song you listen to when you're sad

I was ready to leave my marriage but I carry the Catholic guilt that I didn't make it work. When it was good it really was good and it's still a sad thing that 2 people who loved each other so very much didn't get to the finish line together.

So today Gordon, I think of you with great fondness and wish you well (and a happy birthday)

Day 21 - A song you listen to when you're happy

I love The Killers, this was the first song of their's that really registered with me, so in my car, which is where I almost always listen to music, I put this on really loud and I'm happy.

Day 20 - A song you listen to when you're angry

Erm, I don't get angry very often and I don't think music would help, I always think of it as an uplifting experience. The best I get is passive aggressive. But the lines "To cook and to clean and to clothe and to screw, are not the sum total of all she can do" speak to me.

Day 19 - A song from your favourite album

I love this album, I don't think it was ever released in the UK, the ex mrauntiegwen bought if for EBD when he was in the States. I still play it now.

Day 18 - A song you wished you heard on the radio

One of the very best under rated bands, featuring John Duncan who came from The Exploited and after GMM joined Nirvana and Shirley Manson who joined Garbage. I loved this song.

Day 17 - a song you hear often on the radio

And I quite enjoy it, reminds me of MIA Paper Planes, I like that too.

Day 16 - A song you used to love but now hate

Ooh how much of the stuff you loved are you now mortified by. Although I didn't have the jumpsuit I must fess up to a silver sparkly belt. And then the following year I saw the light and sold my soul to punk.

Day 15 - A song that describes you

The theme tune for my new life. This is my favourite Killers track, I was there, one of the thousands and hoping they would play this track. It was their opening number and it was one of the best 4 minute moments of my life.

Day 14 - A song no one would expect you to love

One of my favourite all time songs, I would be first on the dance floor when this comes on, my ex husband and I loved this. I can do the Jerry shreiks beautifully. I wonder if he hears it now if the lyrics tug a little?

Day 13 - A song that is a guilty pleasure

I detest Mariah Carey with a passion but I love this song. I play it loud and sing louder, Christmas junkie that I am, how I wish it was anyone else but her.

Day 12 - A song from a band you hate

I don't like manufactured bands, I hate X factor/popstars the rivals/pop idol y type stuff, no harm to anyone who does but it's not for me. So I suppose I'll go for what I remember as being the first of that genre, I could be wrong but this maybe where (for me) the rot started. My elder daughter loved this and I listened to it ad nauseam.

Day 11 - A song from your favourite band

I am unashamedly a total victim. There are so many songs to choose from, but as I have been looking at my early years, enjoy "When you were young", turn it up loud and be Brandoned.

Day 10 - A song you fall asleep to

Going even further back in my childhood, I lived with my grandparents, Irish decendants but Irish to their core. They played the piano and the accordian and anytime we had friends and family round we owuld sing. I was raised on The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem. I would fall asleep to the sound of their singing. It was a close call between this and the Black Velvet Band but as I searched for the sound of my childhood, this made me weep, so this is the one, for Frank and Mary McTominie, the heart and soul of my childhood, I owe you everything.

Day 9 - A song you can dance to

Another trip down memory lane. The 1970's, the flares, the kipper ties, the American tan tights. Every Glasgow wedding would play this and the women would get up and dance The Slosh, it was the law. I loved the slosh and the alleycat too, I can still do them now.

Day 8 - A song you know all the words to

It's weird how you remember the words to songs, songs you'd almost forgotten and then you hear them again and can sing along, some songs that you didn't even like but the words are still there lingering in your subconscious. Most days I can't find my keys but I can remember songs from 20 and sometimes 30 years ago, feck that makes me sound old.

When I was waiting to see Primal Scream last week they played this in the bar. It took me back to being 15, my second gig ever was Siouxsie and The Banshees at the Glasgow Apollo. I was a total Siouxsie clone, totally smitten by my punk boyfriend, my first love Alan Osprey known to everyone as Ospur, rebel written on every fibre of my DNA, the year I sat my O grades, thinking I was so grown up and ready to take on the world, marching for CND, committed Socialist and idealistic to my very core, living on a council estate in Glasgow, hanging around chip shops, Top of the Pops on a Thursday at half seven, discos in youth clubs on Saturday nights where they would play 1 or maybe 2 punk records and we would get up and dance, floor to ourselves, performing our weird punk ballet, me with my Siousxie skip, him with his pogo and at the end he would grab me and kiss me so hard, that was my life.

30 years on, I am a middle aged mummy of 3, not only a home owner but a home owner with a holiday villa abroad, Mercedes driving, Cartier watch wearing, White Company decorating etc etc. I have become what I marched against.

So, I heard this and I sang along, remembering every word, remembering what I was, for this was the soundtrack to my young life, this was the girl who became me.

Day 7 - A song that reminds you of a certain event

No explaination necessary.

Day 6 - A song that reminds you of somewhere

We bought this album in Florida at the beginning of a 3 week holiday, we listened to it constantly, singing loudly and out of key especially to this track, it will be always mean Florida to me.

Day 5 - A song that reminds you of someone

Brown eyed girl is the song we sung to our first born daughter, my best male mate Neil always sings it for me and the song will always make me think of them both, with love.

So thank you, Edge for introducing me to blogging, nights of red wine, sneaky smokes and flirty banter. Most importantly of all, 2 decades plus of friendship. So here is my lovely mate Neil aka Edge with his band The Signals singing it just for you...

Day 4 - a song that makes you sad

Whitney Houston - I will always love you.

Day 3 - A song that makes you happy

In the car, turned up way too loud, and I am a happy auntie.

Day 2 - My least favourite song

Oh, the list is long, what song can't I bear? Probably a cover version of a song I love, I get disproportionately ticked off when someone makes an arse of one of "my songs"

I can't even bring myself to link to it but it has to be Leona Lewis's version of Snow Patrol's "Run" which genuinely does mean something to me and then she went and spoiled it with her vocal wanking.

Herumph in a very middle aged way.

30 day song challenge - Day 1 - Your favourite song

Day 1 - Your favourite song

From my mispent youth, I loved it then and I love it now.