A Trip Down Memory Lane

For the past couple of months I've been working on clearing out a couple of boxes of old cassette tapes I've kept ever since I was at school. I've always loved music and listening to the Top 40 chart on the radio was my favourite way to spend entire Sunday afternoons. My own music collection was started with a few cassette tapes, my very own hi-fi (I was so proud!) and a little help from my Dad. I'd record all of my favourite songs from the radio so I could listen to them on my walkman to and from school :)

By going through my old cassette collection, I've found so many old favourites which I had completely forgotten about!

My lovely old hi-fi is long gone but my Dad lent me his new gadget so that I could capture the old music and store it on our computer. Clever, huh?

So this is the little legend, the Ion Tape Express (I think this is a newer version than my Dad's) which is a cassette to MP3 convertor. It is so easy to use and it has meant that my entire music collection is still in tact even after I've cleared away my boxes of cassettes ;)

Something else I found super useful - when I couldn't remember the track name or even the artist of some of the songs I'd recorded, I used SoundHound. This is an app which will find all the information from a snippet of any song you play. And I do mean ANY song as I had no problems finding all the info I needed! Sometimes, I had to play it a couple of times to get a hit, but it never let me down!

So my cassette tapes are sorted. Now the question is what can I do with them... :)

Hannah xo

The Audio A-Z: A

I have decided to open up and give you an all-access look at my personal music collection, warts and all! Being a sentimental human being, I've still got a lot of my childhood favourites on tap. This all makes for an 'interesting' contrast with my more recent rockier tastes ;) So occasionally I'll be posting about bands and artists I love/ have loved and any mildly entertaining tales I may have about them...

So, fittingly, first up in my collection is a British band called 'A'.

 I first heard them on the radio when I was about 16 or 17 and loved their rocky sound. I had just recently started listening to more alternative music so I gobbled this up. Before then I'd only really heard chart music and suddenly this whole other musical world opened up before me. It was a very exciting time in my life and certainly changed my whole direction!

Funnily enough, the main vocalist from A, Jason Perry, is now a producer and has worked with a few of my more recent favourite bands. I clearly dig his style! I've never seen A live but fortunately they have a habit of playing reunion shows so maybe one day :)

So without further ado, here are my favourite tracks from A!

The track that got me hooked was 'Nothing', their lead track from their third album 'Hi-Fi Serious'. It's my favourite A song :)

And again from 'Hi-Fi Serious', a song called 'Starbucks'. I loved all this 'sticking it to the man' music in my late teens. Catch-y. But not sure about the visors ;)

These are the two songs that really stick out for me but I do suggest checking out their other albums if you're enjoying this!

Hannah xo