After our run of gigs towards the end of last year, it has been a quiet few months on the music front. But we’ve had a few events booked for a while and March feels like music month.

It started with me finding my old iPod nano … miraculously it still charged, and I discovered my old running playlists from marathon training in 2013 and 2014. It is definitely a nostalgia-fest – apologies to anyone who was on the Caldon Canal and listening to me sing along during my long run a couple of weeks ago. There’s some Deacon Blue of course, and a few tracks from Nashville too. And a whole playlist just of Snow Patrol songs – the line “don’t keel over now” from “This Isn’t Everything You Are” still does the trick if I need some extra motivation.

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And then it was an afternoon at the Museum of Liverpool and the Wondrous Place exhibition – revisiting Merseyside’s musical past. We were definitely lost in music for a while.

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And then it was off to the O2 Academy – Mr T’s choice this time. I was feeling outside my musical comfort zone but also a little bit confused as to what was to come – something punk-y was all my brain had registered in advance.

Google to the rescue – what we’d actually come to see was an “all-star line-up celebrating Iggy Pop’s classic Lust For Life album” including Clem Burke (Blondie’s drummer), Glen Matlock (bass player with the Sex Pistols), Katie Puckrick, Kevin Armstrong (guitarist who played with Bowie) – see, something punk-y!

Even when I knew all that, I wasn’t much the wiser.

And in a packed venue, I couldn’t really see all that much either (being not very tall is not a great help at times like these).

But I could hear and feel – and the place was jumping. Amazingly, I even knew a few of the songs – maybe I wasn’t as far outside my musical comfort zone as I’d thought.

It was Friday night in Liverpool; and time to get lost in the music.

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50 for 50 #28: 50 posts for my 50th birthday to be posted before I’m 51.