Light years apart

News has reached Medd Towers that stellar intellect Kim Kardashian has this week called the Apollo 11 moon landing a hoax. Buzz Aldrin the oldest living American astronaut doesn't take kindly to that kind of talk. Aldrin, the man who followed Neil Armstrong onto the surface of the moon, is a highly respected, much decorated, NASA & United States Military hero. Kim Kardashian, on the other hand, is a skank.

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Never one to shy away from shameless self promotion, did I tell you I wrote a song about the moon landing? It's called One Small Step...

John Medd · One Small Step

One Small Step

Despite being such a relatively short book (more a novella than a novel; 207 pages and a word count of roughly 40,000) Orbital was always destined to have a huge impact. And so it came to pass - winning, as it did, the 2024 Booker Prize. I remember saying at the time it would be a book I'd return to often. In pretty much the same way Andrew Smith's Moondust knocked me sideways, so Samatha Harvey's fifth novel, despite its brevity, is still resonating with me long after I finished reading it.

It was also the inspiration for one of my newer songs. I wrote One Small Step last September and recorded it last week (along with I'm Doing Just Fine), and I've got to say I'm blown away with the sound Phil Cooper has achieved. His remarkable production and (almost) angelic backing vocals have lifted the song in a way I couldn't imagine when I was driving down to Bristol last Monday morning singing it in the car. 

John Medd · One Small Step