the cover of this album. Its shade of blue has adhered to my memory with Beverley's iconic presence looking you right in the eyes a...

   being aware of the single 'Overload' and not immediately loving it, but knowing that it felt a bit different to other girl groups...

  being part of the wave of excitement over the Spice Girls. I was the age for it, about twelve, I guess. The fun, the cameraderie, the outf...

  spending hours of my time, in my room listening to albums like this one. At age 15, I was on an R n B/ soul train, browsing the comparativ...

   being 16 or 17 and this album just becoming part of my world. I owned it on CD and was starting to branch out a little from my beloved R ...

    having a family barbecue back home one Summer. It must have been 2008, a truly significant year for me. I was due to start my new job, b...

   hearing this album for the first time and finding it very different to the Stevie Wonder music I had previously been listening to. I foun...

  ...finding Marika Hackman on Google Music (as it was then) on my phone and apathetically browsing through the new releases thinking: '...

  ...happier times before this pandemic. Times when we weren't faced with restrictions and would think nothing of travelling across the ...

...a time, maybe a year or two ago when I had more or less given up on finding new artists that I could get on board with. I'm from an e...