Martin Fletcher

Blues and Solution Focus may seem a paradoxical combination of interests/obsessions, but that's mainly because the vast majority of people misunderstand what Blues music is about.

Blues concerns sadness and misery, grief and loss, and yet is all about recovery from the dark times and aspiration towards something better.

It's about coping, resources, exceptions, and given the number of train journeys and railway metaphors....scaling. Compliments also feature large (although they usually have a poorly hidden sexual component!). I'm also never quite sure how to categorise songs like 'My Next Ex-Wife' in SF terms...

The music is uplifting, it links closely to Gospel music, with themes of redemption and ascension to a higher state of being. That's why it works for me in conjunction with SF, it's about progress, but it's also maverick, unconventional, and even 100 years after it's inception it is still subversive, viral, but massively influential.

I hope SF stays like that, too.