I have to start today’s post with an erratum, an addendum. I oversold things in the 1983 post. It turns out, as i was told this morning, that Fi has not met U2. Was her brother Sean local tour manager for U2 when they came to Brisbane? Absolutely. Is Larry Mullen Jr.’s motorbike involved in…

You know what, date night was a late night and I’m tired. This is my second post of the night I’m catching up from not doing yesterday. I’ve been denying myself a phone it in for several nights now because it turns out writing an essay a day, even a small one, is an effort…

I first met U2 when my brother bought Unforgettable Fire, closely followed by earlier albums Boy and War. Fi… met U2. I journeyed with the band from that time through my own purchase of The Joshua Tree and then Rattle and Hum. Fi, if I recall correctly literally journeyed with the band in the form…

We don’t get to date as often as we’d like, but we do make sure to keep dating. Dating is about the feeling of being an adventure together – sometimes a simple adventure with maybe a movie and some dinner, but an adventure all the same. Something different from the usual. Tonight’s song is about…

Fi and I love dumb jokes. Like really dumb. One category of dumb jokes started for us while rewatching the muppets with our daughter. Introduced as “The Leprechaun Brothers”, the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker sang their version of “Danny Boy”. It’s chaotic and stupid. The Swedish Chef Bork Borks, Beaker Meep Meeps and Animal…

We’re going two Kiwi songs in a row, and this is one that really speaks to me about the early stages of us. Poor Boy is one of Tim Finn’s contributions to the Split Enz oeuvre. It tells a simple tale of love at a distance built around Eddie Rayner’s exquisitely constructed broken keyboard runs.…

In the early days of our courtship we were a long distance couple. Before I took the step of moving to Australia, time spent together was spent chatting via any number of methods or videocalls when we could. One particular favourite way to spend time together was in a game called The Blockheads. It was…

Dire Straits was a hard band not to like when I was a kid. I first remember hearing them when Money for Nothing hit the screens. The song was great but it was the video that had me amazed. The 3D animation was groundbreaking. The rest of the album was pretty solid too. Brothers in…

Plastic Bertrand’s Ça plane pour moi is another song written by the performer and sung by someone else. Or is it? No, it’s not. Or is it? No, definitely not. Or is it? Maybe… It was written by Lou Deprijck at more or less the same time he wrote the musically identical Jet Boy Jet…

When Fi and I had been becoming closer online for a while, I came over to Australia for a brief visit. Fi picked me up from the airport and we headed up the coast towards Montville. On the way we realise we’d deprived ourselves of good choices for dinner in a rural area and so…