S12 E9: Jemima Coulter and Ed Tullett

I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee

A few years ago I was going through some stuff with my mum and dad - they were getting towards the end of their lives – and as the only child I was finding it really tough to make the choices I had to make. And having to make these choices didn’t stop.

I wrote a piece about friendships and family relationships, ostensibly about my uncle – my dad’s brother – and how I felt his presence before I’d seen him walk into the room after having not seen him for many years. I just felt that things were going to be OK, such was his gravitas. His death was a huge loss, but his funeral reconnected me to family members that I’d drifted away from.

Anyway, this got me thinking about my whole relationship with relationships and friendships, how I sometimes let them go too easily, how reconnecting made me feel and then trying to trace all of this back to some formative influences or events to give myself some understanding and, I suppose, peace….kinda like DIY therapy that would probably make Laurel and Hardy look professional – and I’m really hoping that I’m not the only one to remember Laurel and Hardy!

I feel that human relationships are the one thing that’s going to act as the glue to keep us together in such a damaged, splintered and unhinged world and having the emotional intelligence to look inwardly and outwardly about why relationships work, why they don’t, why they should and shouldn’t is such a super power. Jemima Coulter and Ed Tullett have written their third LP as Hailaker called Serenity Now which is largely (or not so largely if I haven’t done my homework properly!) about their own experiences of disconnecting and reconnecting – it’s such a powerful and beautiful piece of work from beginning to end.

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