Now that’s what we call music!

We had an interesting exchange in the office yesterday stemming from whether to have BBC Radio 1 (Zoë and Victoria’s radio station of choice) or BBC Radio 2 (Clare, Katherine and Phil’s favourite) playing in the background while we merrily got on with our work.

We settled on listening to a variety of CDs, but as part of the debate about the pros and cons of various artists we stumbled across the topic of the first gigs we went to (we did get lots of work done yesterday too, honestly).

The results are shown below – some people are clearly cooler than others (I don’t think my Bros days cut the mustard when compared to some of the others!), but we’ll let you be the judge of that…

OUR FIRST CONCERTS:

PHIL: Dire Straits, On Every Street Tour, 1991, Sheffield Arena
ZOË: The Wonderstuff (Size of a cow and all that!), The Wedgewood Rooms
PAUL: Sugarcubes, Birmingham Hummingbird
LARA: Michael Jackson (I was 13), Wembley
CLARE: Jamiroquai, Manchester
VICTORIA: Madonna, Blonde Ambition tour, Wembley
KATHERINE: Bros, Wembley
EMMA: Cliff Richard, Location: Hong Kong 1977 (there were lots of over excited Chinese ladies throwing their knickers on stage, I don’t know who was more embarrassed Cliff or my Dad!)

OUR BEST EVER CONCERTS:

PHIL: U2 – Zoo TV / Zooropa Tour 1993 – supported by the Utah Saints and some dreadful Dutch rock band, Feijenoord Stadium Rotterdam
ZOË: The Police (19 weeks pregnant so had to sit down for most of it) How retro chic am I!, Twickenham
PAUL: Blur (though it is a bit of a blur), Nottingham Rock City
LARA: Mumford & Sons, Apollo
CLARE: Bjorn Again (ABBA tribute band), Manchester
VICTORIA: Chemical Brothers (also a bit of a blur….!!), Brixton Academy
KATHERINE: Coldplay, Crystal Palace
EMMA: Level 42, Brighton Civic Centre

OUR FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF THE MOMENT:

PHIL: (New) Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown, (One that’s come out the archive recently) The Cure – Mixed Up
ZOË: Got to be Plan B – the Defamation of Strickland Banks…love it!
PAUL: Paloma Faith – Do you want the truth or something beautiful
LARA: Nerina Pallot, ‘Put Your Hands Up’
CLARE: Supergrass – In it for the money
VICTORIA: Can I have two (which are polar opposites?!)? Magenetic Man and ‘Bright Lights’ by Ellie Goulding.
KATHERINE: 21, Adele
EMMA: Beautiful South, Brixton Academy

So there you have it, we’ve laid our musical tastes bare. I wonder what they say about us?