When stumbling across this song, Brian and Michael's "Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs", I'm reminded of the Radio 4 DJ who first introduced this song to me : Joey.
Joey used to host a programme called "Midnight Memories" which ran from 12.00 am till 3.00 am - can't remember which day of the week. He spun some really good stuff, mostly concentrating on oldies. What I especially liked about him was that he regularly spun stuff that I had never heard before, like the aforementioned "Matchstalk" song. Of course, with that time slot, I usually fell asleep after a while.
I wonder what's happened to Joey since ....
This song is about an artist called L. S. Lowry. His most famous works depicted urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as 'matchstick men'. The paintings were usually of Salford and surrounding areas in Manchester, England, where Lowry lived. The video shows a selection of his paintings.
When we were in Manchester, we had considered going to a theatre and galleries art centre in Salford called The Lowry. Whether it was time constraints or logistics, we never went there. Now, knowing the background to The Lowry, and the fact that it houses the largest public collection of L.S. Lowry's paintings in the world, I wish that we had made more of an effort to have visited The Lowry.
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