Jude Seal's Notebook

While the first record (yes, actual vinyl thing) I bought was Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills, the first album I ever listened to from end to end without any breaks was Clannad: Legend – also known as the soundtrack to Robin of Sherwood.   The second album was also by Clannad, Macalla (Gaelic for Echoes).    The themes in Clannad’s music, the sense of place, of past and present spoke to me in a way that, at that point, few things really had.   It seemed to bring places alive.   I’d often find myself wandering through places, thinking about all the people who had wandered that way before, what they looked like, how they felt.   Wandering around old churches (pretty easy when you’re a Clergy child – more on that in other entries), I’d find myself wondering about the lives of all the people who had done the same.   The music seemed to do the same thing.   The song which probably summed it up best was the song Poison Glen, also by Clannad...