12 August - Road Rage & Moon Safari

Driving across London with a friend... it’s beyond maddening how long it can take to cross town and not even from the outer edges. Well, the destination is… Croydon which just makes it withing the boundaries of the A-Z. Yes. 80 minutes and counting and we’re not there yet. The worse thing is not the traffic, not the awful scenery provided by the uniform high streets we cross but that she has only minidiscs in her car (radio doesn’t work, ipod’s not charged). These md’s are circa 1996 and incredibly dated. Especially the dance music ones. We can save U2 out of 20/30 md's but who wants to listen to Bono going on and on.
We’re stuck with the Chemical Brothers and in trying to avoid hearing Block Rockin’ Beats or something now very disturbing, we concentrate on the filler tracks. Wow, it’s like we never heard any of these before. No, really, what were we listening to? Were we fast forwarding to the obvious hits? Because some of this filler stuff is not that bad.
We do however come to rely on Moon Safari by Air and keep the first track on repeat. It seems to act as a pacifier as we increasingly get frustrated trying to get out of central Croydon to find West Croydon. Don’t ask. We’re going to an Asian wedding dance. Yes, here’s a suggestion to the traffic police. Force all the radio stations in the land to transmit once every hour at least track 1 of Moon Safari. Sorry no titles on Md. It works.