I Realised The Way Your Eyes Deceived Me
The latest photographs from our SoundTown project are bound to conjur up some bittersweet memories for many listeners. They were taken on Friday night at the Alva Academy school disco which featured live music from the up and coming band Jakil (lead singer Kieran is pictured with two new fans) and a live broadcast from our Music Bed presenters Jim Gellatly and Martel Maxwell.
But, for me, those very words 'School Disco' can recover more supressed memories than a session of hypnotherapy. Suddenly I'm back in Primary 7, Marie Osmond is singing Paper Roses and I'm in a slow dance with a statuesque girl called Yvonne. Tonight is about romance, but tomorrow will be about playground teasing and then week after week of ridicule.
Or maybe it's memories of Secondary school and being frisked for concealed bottles of booze by the P.E. teachers. And then standing around with the other boys, slagging off the D.J.s choice of music and watching the girls have a much better time on the dance floor than we were having loitering at the crisps stall.
Of course that was then and this is now and teenagers today are a lot more sophisticated than we were.
Aren't they?
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