Love Sunshine

Rejoice: It's National Sunshine Day

Today is the Vernal Equinox. The day, as my druidic advisers inform me, when the 'the light is in the ascendancy and first matches strength with the darkness, and the young sun reaches maturity on winning this annual clash of horns'. Got that? I prefer to look on it as the sun's coming of age party. Or ancestors solemnised this important date with their ceremonies; but we, cosseted sophisticates, have lost touch with the solar rhythms, and the sun has forsaken us. Look at that sky today? Dismal. And what does this foretell for the summer? Well, there is no reason for us to prance around in woods, naked except for white flowing robes which scarcely conceal the perky outlines of Ingrid Pitt (in her younger days), or that saucy one with the weird eyes who always gets vampirized. Although, if you do, let me know when and where. The sun can still be welcomed back and encouraged by modern means. We can celebrate the good old current bun's return by wearing a piece of yellow, smiling a bit, and with a few sunny pop songs.

There's plenty of them. Pop loves the sun. And to prove it, none other than Nick Reynolds, the High Priest of Heliotastic Hi-Fi, has sprinkled some sonic solar scorchers into his weekly show, to get you hipsters humming and hymning the sun on this, his very special day. Check out show 51, the equinox extravaganza, and let the sunshine in with style.