The Importance Of Being Musical
I found myself in a particularly uninspired mood for a blog subject today. That’s not to say nothing is happening. The Wutars continue to work their hardest with gigs aplenty and recording sessions filling up the rest of our time, but there’s only so much material to be found there.
And so I turned to my friends for advice (something that I really should do more often every day) and the obvious answer was just to stick to what it all comes down to: music.
It’s hard to analyse just why music is so important to me, or to any of the Wutars come to that. In the same way that I will probably never understand what Sam and Maz get out of football, or how Kewie and Weeman can handle being vegetarians (in the inimitable logic of our friend Flynn “If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of food?!”). At it’s most emotive and lyrically insightful music shows me the path to follow, reaching me in a way no religion could ever hope to. It strips away all my cynicism and moves me in the most natural way possible. At it’s loudest, scuzziest, fastest and rawest it has an effect more powerful than any drink or drug (not that I’ve tried any mum, scout’s honour!!).
And that’s what being a real band is all about, as opposed to a bunch of musicians. With the Wutars we all have our different extremes (Sugababes, Erasure, and one day I will convince the others of the awesome body of work of The Charlatans!), but the music we all connect with is where our bond is unbreakable. When you find someone who loves the same music as passionately as you do, who feels the same emotions and takes the same message away, you have no choice but to do something about it.
Right, I’m off to join the others in the living room – Franky Lego’s rented out ‘Hatchet’ and it’s jaw-splittingly face-sandingly disgusting. Lovely! Ta-ra for now,
Vally Wutar
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