Music

As most of you probably know, Kayleighs favourite artist was Lily Allen, especially and 'F**k You' and 'It's Not Fair' songs. She however wasn't really into the 'top 10' music and her music tastes probably stemed from both Terence and I. Terence is into high quality recording, no matter what the music, where as I was brough up with classical music and the 60's music. I also learnt the flute, which has mostly classical overtones.

Kayleigh therefore liked a range of music, from Lily Allen and Avril Lavigne, to jazz/blues and Mussorsky's Night on Bald Mountain - as long as it sounded good, she would listen to it. She hated Rihanna, Dixie Chicks and Britney Spears but loved Madness, Foo Fighters, Lily, Avril, Evanensence and early Madonna stuff.

Last birthday she really wanted an MP3 player, but we said no, Terence doesn't like compression formats plus she had a habit of playing thing loud, so there was always a chance of hearing damage (I know, we're really mean). She liked the turntable that we got at the end of last year, especially the Lily Allen RECORD we got, plus Foo Fighters.

Kayleigh got her own flute in year 6 after I found one at St.Vinnies for $50. Kayleigh picked it up really quickly and she was up to the standards of the other fulte players at school, who had been playing for 2 years, in about 6 months. She played in the intermediate band at Calwell High for 6 months, but got a little pissed when she had to do the assessment as she had a cold and her asthma was playing up - hard to play a flute that way. Her teacher remarked ' I thought you were better than it' even as she was having trouble breathing so she quit.

Kayleigh won a guitar in Year 6, which we swapped for an electric guitar (which will still have) The only song she played on it properly was Celine Dion 'My Heart will go On' - it drove us crazy!!!!!! She did try to play some of the Avril songs as we bought her a song book for Xmas but she kept forgetting the fingering.