Woods

I decided to look up an old band I loved when I was about 14 and see what they were up to.

Turns out they're touring a full 20 years after the release of their biggest selling album and doing the fashionable thing that bands do now and playing the whole album in full from start to finish live.

That made me look up a couple of other bands from those days.

Then I started looking up some of the TV shows these bands appeared on like Zig & Zag, MTV's Most Wanted with Ray cokes, the ITV Chart Show, Headbanger's Ball and RAW Power.

I remember getting MTV for the first time and literally having it on every minute I was in the house. I remember the summers hanging out at my mates drinking cheap beer and JD and playing pool in his garden. Staying up all night getting wasted, falling asleep still holding cans and bottles in the armchair, waking up and picking up where we left off. I think that they were the best days of TV and MTV in particular.

Summers seemed to be of the clichéd type that lasted forever, we were young and dumb and living life as best we knew how.

I wouldn't change the life I have now for the world, I have a beautiful wife and son and things are just starting to get exciting, I have big plans for the rest of my days on this earth with my family, but there's a part of me that feels that pull, that warm feeling and that fondness for the early 90's when my best mate and me were invincible and would take on the World.

So I texted my mate and we're getting together for a drink. It won't be like the old days, we've both changed and grown in different ways. We'll probably talk kids, we will have to get home at a reasonable hour and we don't have the hair to mosh like we used to.

I've never felt that feeling I feel for those days before though, I'm not sure what it means, but I do know that I'll be getting in touch with more people I used to know and catching up because a part of me still feels 15 and invincible and I'm sure those people I used to know feel exactly the same way too.