Perfect Pitch by Dan Holloway
A while back I did a piece like this on my personal blog, but it was whilst babbling on for the lovely Roz Morris' undercover soundtrack series that I realised just how useful this kind of musical thinking could be for getting a handle on your characters (as I explained to Roz "I like to know what band a character would be in, and if I can’t think of one I’m probably not interested enough in the character for them to be central"). As well as fun. It's no secret I love music. Of many kinds. If I had an ounce of aptitude I'd have been a musician instead of a writer. Sadly, I don't, but I'm lucky enough to know a whole gamut of people who do, and being a writer I put together the occasional music review after going to gigs , which has got me to know a lot more bands. So whenever I put together live shows, I am in the very lucky position of being able to think what music will go best with the things we're reading. That does three things. 1. It makes for ...