Much as i get, if not always agree with, the obsessions about obscure stuff on this site. I am not interested in the slightest in anybody's commute to work, am I the only one?

The first record I heard this morning was Open Your Heart by the Human League, and aside from setting off some obvious nostalgia pangs involving Mike Read and the abandonment of fashion concerns as you felt the benefit of your school blazer on the walk to school as winter drew on, I thought it sounded peculiarly modern.

Aside from the fact that La Roux and her ilk are currently in the charts in some of sort of 80's electro re-fashioning, I wondered if it would sound acceptable to someone who is the age now that I was then (11 or 12).

When I was that age, I absolutely hated the sound of pretty much anything that would have been more than five years old (i.e before punk/das neue wave). Imaging anything recorded before I was born having any relevance to me was impossible. To my ears, raised on a diet of Ring My Bell "boos", Gary Numan, 2-tone and even scratchy punk guitars, the sound of the sixties was the sound of antiquity, and possibly due to Grease, rock and roll, which was going through something of a revival then thanks to the Stray Cats, Shakin' Stevens and er, Racey did seem genuinely historical and more akin to something from Disney or The Wizard of Oz than anything I would have called pop music.

However now, it seems there is a free for all for the young, and they will quite happily admit to liking Elvis or the Beatles or Elton John or Michael Jackson or Nirvana, etc, all of whom were making records almost exclusively before they were born. Do they actually like them or have we just entered the age where pop music is to be treated like literature or cinema where there is a canon of classics to be accepted, which you are required to be educated on to appreciate? If so, I think this is a shame as pop music should be about the present, my memories of Open Your Heart relate directly to a period of my life as does my liking for You're Not Alone by Calvin Harris.

I do some work in schools and was talking to a girl recently who has been put in the "Lennox" community as her school has just changed over to an academy. To her Annie Lennox is a piece of history, and I think that is healthy, as Sweet Dreams was as much before her birth as Peggy Sue was before mine, and God Bless Her and all she sails in if she thinks the Human League are cack.

She cancelled her European tour, does anybody have any idea what happened to our favourite LA indie-boho queen

That's It.