2. HORSES

I’m a little ashamed to say I did not discover the song Land by Patti Smith until I heard it performed by Jen Cloher at the Melbourne Town Hall in 2015. It was a one off Patti Smith Tribute show featuring Adalita, Cloher, Gareth Liddiard and Courtney Barnett. It was definitely in my top 3 best gigs I had ever experienced in my whole life and Cloher went off. I just now did a wee look about for a review or something to link to and discovered the whole show is available on Milk Records YT!

So right this minute I’m experiencing the show for the second time. If you’re a fan of beautiful noise then I urge you to drop everything and watch it. 

Anyway… back to the point of this post… HORSES!

Of course I used to ride and of course I had a life changing crash that meant I couldn’t ride again. I gave away my beautiful mad paint gelding Sir and got on with not being a horse person. I spent many years missing their big stinky selves and their dirty hooves and the water drops running off their chins after a drink. I missed all of it. I can’t remember when but one day I had the bright idea that I could still LOOK at horses even if I couldn’t ride anymore. As often happens looking eventually lead to photography and suddenly HORSES HORSES HORSES HORSES COMING IN IN ALL DIRECTIONS…