2024 / July Love Changes Everything Love, love changes everythingThe Retune Blog – 19th July 2024When you hear a song like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Changes Everything do […] Read more
2024 / July Tubthumping I get knocked down, but I get up againThe Retune Blog – 12th July 2024If, like me, you’ve been watching Euro24 you […] Read more
2024 / July Parklife Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeurThe Retune Blog – 5th July 2024When asked about the song Parklife, Blur guitarist Graham […] Read more
2024 / June Southgate You’re the One Southgate you’re the oneThe Retune Blog – 21st June 2024Ok, so I’m being a bit cheeky with this one really as I’m […] Read more
2024 / June World in Motion We’re singing for EnglandThe Retune Blog – 14th June 2024It’s that time of year when I start to feel super optimistic! Maybe […] Read more
2024 / June Changes Time may change meThe Retune Blog – 7th June 2024Often during the week I will hear a piece of music and it […] Read more
2024 / May The Whole of the Moon You stretched for the starsThe Retune Blog – 31st May 2024One of my favourite bands of all time is Pink Floyd and […] Read more
2024 / May Place your Hands You know you cannot hide from what’s insideThe Retune Blog – 24th May 2024When it comes to big guitar riff driven songs […] Read more
2024 / May Dancing in the Street They’ll be laughing and singing, music swingingThe Retune Blog – 17th May 2024A couple of months ago I went on a silent […] Read more
2024 / May Deeper Underground What’s your walk on song?The Retune Blog – 10th May 2024I want you to imagine the scene. The lights are all off […] Read more
2019 / July 12 July 2019 4 mins 5 years 534 words 1 Tagged Blockheads, cheerfulness, Choices, Ian Dury, Reasons to be Cheerful Reasons to be cheerful (part 3) Choosing cheerfulness.
2019 / July 5 July 2019 4 mins 5 years 474 words 1 Tagged adversity, Andra Day, resilience, Rise Up I’ll rise up, and I’ll do it a thousand times again. Relational resilience in the face of adversity.
2019 / June 28 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 553 words 1 Tagged obsession, possession, Seasick Steve, Started out with nothin ‘Cause I started out with nothing and I’ve still got most of it left. Our obsession with possession
2019 / June 21 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 486 words 1 Tagged High Hopes, Pink Floyd, thoughts, wonder Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The impact of the loss of the wonder of youth.
2019 / June 14 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 529 words 1 Tagged decisions, Living, Longpigs, Lost Myself And dressed for the occasion day after day Living life or waiting for it?
2019 / June 7 June 2019 4 mins 6 years 470 words 1 Tagged Blur, normal, special, Tracy Jacks I’d love to stay here and be normal, but it’s just so overrated. The importance of living our own idea of life.
2019 / May 31 May 2019 4 mins 6 years 468 words 1 Tagged Little Mix, responding, Wings, words Spread your wings my little butterfly Responding to hurtful words.
2019 / May 24 May 2019 3 mins 6 years 369 words 1 Tagged despair, emotions, Everybody Hurts, REM Everybody Hurts The commonanlity of despair.
2019 / May 17 May 2019 3 mins 6 years 435 words 1 Tagged Ellie Goulding, Lights, self-talk, voice Noises I play within my own head touch my skin How crippled are we by our own self-talk?
2019 / May 10 May 2019 4 mins 6 years 452 words 1 Tagged Distraction, Lull, Radiohead, stress, thinking Distracted by irrelevance? How does our thinking impact on our experience of stress?