My Dad is Dead, the end of youth, and ambition.

There's this band that I heard a very long time ago because of how much I liked the name of a song called 'Seven Years'. At the time I was barely getting into David Bowie and I liked the idea of a sequel to his song 'Five Years'. The name of the band was My Dad is Dead and I was hooked.

Yet, in those times I didn't really know about post-punk and didn't know who or what Joy Division were. So you can imagine how listening to something like My Dad is Dead was enticing and new. Unique to the point where I only listened to that song twice, saved the album it was featured on, and would return to it on and off for years.

A few weeks ago I started to listen to them again after a chance reunion while driving along with some friends when they made a few comments on the off-putting name. It sparked a lot of memories within myself and how back then I had no idea I'd be making music and running this label with Starlon and Co.

It really hit home though when I stumbled upon an interview with Mark Edwards, the founder of My Dad is Dead, from last year in which he describes how he was ready to stop the band. He details his life and how he had gone from having a period of touring and playing with his live band and then hitting an immense decline in poverty.

The realities of uncertainty in the future and how living as an artist/musician is truly a difficult one struck me (this isn't the first time...). For Mark Edwards there truly was a struggle but he ended up having a great conclusion to his beloved band and has a happy married life. It's uplifting, redemptive and ominous at the same time for me and many others I assume.

Being a musician who truly began to write personally meaningful music on my own at home, I relate to Edwards's experiences. It's tough and it's easy to get lost awash in your own ambitions.

Whatever comes along the way or whatever never comes, I at least will keep my ambitions so to be able to reflect in a seven or more years in genuine conciliation.

Here's the interview: 'My Dad is Dead bids a redemptive farewell'.

The song that started it all.