The Zombies

My friend in the USA, photographer Daniel Coston, has sent me a whole bunch of CDs. At the moment I'm listening to the Zombies, who feature the wonderful Colin Blunstone on vocals, and a string quartet. The music is utterly delicious- I bought Colin's single, Say You Don't Mind from a record sale in Barnet about a year ago; it was a huge lesson in songwriting for me when I was a little girl, because it is all there as clear as daylight, and has his beautiful, easy, soaring voce overlaid on it to make you want to listen to it over and over again. You MUST listen to them, they are fabulous, like sun-warmed raspberries and fresh cream on a sunny day.
Daniel takes distinctive photographs- he did some in the USA when I was over there. He is mostly non-digital, which means his pix have a dreamy feel that you just don't get with high-definition digital photos.
(I like this style of photography; when I was at art college in Brighton I took loads of photos with my grandpappy's old camera which didn't focus properly, and they were most unusual, misty and overcast and odd).
Daniel came to the UK a few months ago to see the Zombies with his wife, Sandra, and we wnet out for lunch on a cold rainy London day, and that's when we discovered that we were all Blunstone fans.
He's sent a load of other music too, which is a lovely treat. Diana's coming over this afternoon to edit some film about Indian musicians, and we will listen to it together, eating raspberries of course, even though it's raining.
Above: one of Daniel's photographs, taken on Dolph Ramseur's porch in North Carolina