Whilst printing off this week’s reading, I had a sudden burst of memories – a moment I can’t quite confirm why it happened. I thought back to the car journeys my dad and I have had in Menorca, the heat, the relief from walking, the refreshing water that managed to stay cool despite the car being hotter than the sun. But most of all, I remembered the music – to be precise Kiss FM. Though we have Kiss FM over here in the UK, I have never seen it in the same way. It is as if the Spanish version of the radio simply has a taste in music that is in line with my own.  I can’t recall a holiday to Menorca in which Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger hasn’t been played. Whether that be in a restaurant, in the car, even in karaoke (not a particularly good rendition from my memory). Great songs simply permeate the radio in Spain. 

It is these car journeys too that have informed and added to my taste in music. Classics like Toto’s Africa, A-ha’s Take On Me (which has a technologically amazing music video for it’s time) and of course The Clash’s Should I Stay or Should I Go. Even hearing these songs multiple times in a single holiday, they never become tiresome- perhaps it is the relaxing atmosphere, the open breeze or maybe even the relief from walking that has made these songs so memorable and important to me.

Of course, I have listened to my ‘own music’ whilst on holiday but nothing can quite recreate hearing these songs on the radio whilst listening to Kiss FM.

As these songs are something I consider so important to my memories of Menorca, I may wish to incorporate them into my performance, perhaps having them playing whilst the audience walk in and around the space. In this instance, I would place a filter over the music that makes it feel more authentic to radio – a crackle, white noise and a lack of consistent quality. 

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A-ha, 1985. Take On Me. In: Hunting High and Low [Online]. Warner Bros [viewed 21st February 2017]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

America, 1971. A Horse With No Name. In: America [Online]. Morgan Studios [viewed 21st February 2017]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

Giggs, J. (2015) Menorcan Sea. Unpublished Photograph.

Survivor, 1982. Eye of the Tiger. In: Eye of the Tiger [Online]. Scotti Brothers Records [viewed 21st February 2017]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

The Clash, 1982. Should I Stay or Should I Go. In: Combat Rock [Online]. Epic [viewed 21st February 2017]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM