Live Is Best

There is a photo of my grandchildren above me as I write.

But it’s not them. Even that representation of them is different. They’ve grown. They’ve changed. And the circumstances have changed. They’ve got another little brother or sister on the way now.

Change is, as they say a constant. A photograph is only ever a digital memory. And a recording of a song is only really that too. A version of how something sounded, forever captured as a moment in time.

Live music, live anything, will always be a more fluid, more real thing than any representation we could hope to make of them. It’s why it would be far, far nicer to have my grandchildren actually in the room with me.

It’s why live music is the best.