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.