A Southside Rendezvous

...the road to Wembley actually started unintentionally - and quite a while ago - with, well, 'Knights of Cydonia'. The impact this song had when we heard it for the first time might not be so easy to comprehend now that it has become one of Muse’s most popular tunes. But back in the June of 2006, in the midst of the ongoing party that was the Football World Championships, on an abandoned military base hosting Southside festival in Germany it was an epiphany, really. One of the weirdest pieces of music ever heard; and maybe exactly therefore: one of the best, too. You know these moments in life when you feel you've just witnessed something extra-ordinary, something special, something so spectacular that you will always remember where you were, and with whom you shared it...this clearly was one of them. Over the years there were phases when music didn’t play as big a part in our lives as it used to be. But then, occasionally, you listen to a song and it means the world to you. Maybe just for the three or four minutes it lasts. But the good ones, those with a soul, stay with you. They accompany you through the good, the bad, the ugly times. Like true friends do. It is such an incomparable feeling when you realize the eternal truth in John Miles’ unforgettable lines “Music was my first love, and it will be my last”.

It’s all about emotions, really.

Music makes your heart and soul blossom.

And occasionally, it simply blows your mind.

So here we are, 4 years later, 4 years older…more mature, one might think.

Nah, come on, you should know better.