A New Decade and a Bit of Navel Gazing.

I've just hit my 40th birthday and I've been doing a bit of navel gazing.  Hence the title of this blog post.  Enjoy. 
Discovering indie music in the 80s was a revelation to me.  I danced in my bedroom to The Smiths and New Order and felt like I was part of a special club.  I was a teenage girl and I had my fair share of Wham and Duran Duran posters on my wall but there was something about the music that came out of the independent record labels Rough Trade and Factory Records that was just...