Mellow alert! Summer cruise video for Peter Hemsley's prog-jazz track Breath
I've tried to avoid making it all about the narrowboat… but this is different
One thing I’m keen to avoid is making it all about the narrowboat. There are countless people out there writing blogs and publishing vlogs about the act of day-to-day life is a liveaboard. And to be really honest, it’s not massively interesting to me. Life’s about people, not the method you use to meet them.
But… there is, of course, something intriguing about life on the cut. Otherwise I wouldn’t have gone there myself, would I? So when the moment feels right I can live with that. And this moment is most certainly right, because it keeps happening.
I’m not one of those folk who go racing down the canals, desperate to chalk up miles and tick off destinations, moving too fast to stop and enjoy the fruits of a walking-pace lifestyle. And despite my enjoyment of loud music, I try not to inflict my tastes on those I pass. The music of Solstice drummer Pete Hemsley, though, is worth separate consideration. It seems to match the vibe of a day’s cruising so perfectly that I decided to try matching some canal video with one of his tracks,
Breath. This is the result:
