The Indigo Girls are coming here and doing a free performance thingy at Readings the ONE day I can’t make it. But I found this little gem on YouTube. Remember when videos were fun?

Why not?

The perennially soppy James Blunt’s 1973 actually got to me. Not that I was around in 1973 itself, but the song and video capture some of the nostalgia that’s been plaguing me lately. I quite like the way the video’s done, with the street and shops lighting up as he passes. I think it captures the feeling of going back to a place you used to know well. The editing towards the end of the song, when the music picks up a bit, is just lovely and I like the way the dancing’s been filmed. The whole thing makes me think of Kathmandu because that’s one place I did actually go back to and still want to return to at some point. In the mean time, the song’s good to sigh to.