Clocks and Time
9:56 am on the 23rd of May, 2003Everywhere you go these day’s you hear Coldplay’s ‘Clocks’, hang about for 15 minutes and you’ll hear it again. It doesn’t really bother me the way other songs on the radio do, it has the benefit of being instantly forgettable so it doesn’t stick in your head but it’s everywhere so it is hard not to have it in your head for a while. I hate it, it’s rubbish that repetitive piano bit like someone playing a chromatic scale with a stutter and the man’s whiny voice. I maybe would have liked it had I heard it first on a decent stereo rather than over rubbish tinny speakers in the union’s servery like I did and still do. But tough that’s how I heard it and that’s why I don’t like it, but still it’s on ALL the time, I heard it when I went in to the dining room in the union at twelve on Wednesday and again just 20 minutes later!
But getting to my point, This song won the Ivor Novello songwriting award in the US, another winner was the soundtrack to a TV show, fair enough, why not. The thing that got my attention in this article on the BBC today was the subject of the show :
What?! A musical where the singers are the inmates? A documentary about the activities of prison inmates in the showers? Apparently it’s already been on and it wasn’t an American show as I had expected, it was on Channel 4. Did anyone see it? Was it as ridiculous as it sounds?
