20 January 2001
In January 2001 I was sharing a large but still crowded house in Dublin with six people, including a couple from Portugal. Every morning the Portuguese couple would shower together in the downstairs bathroom, right beside the kitchen where I was trying to have my breakfast alone in peace. Touch me in the morning, indeed. (They also made food so salty that every mealtime nearby houseplants would wither. Otherwise, nice people.)
Anyway, also in January 2001 their lusitanian compatriot Rui Da Silva became the first Portuguese act to have a number one single in Ireland. I remembered its chorus lyric of “Touch me in the morning” by the raspy voice of Cassandra, a Brit, but nothing else. Having listened again just now, the same applies. ‘Touch Me’ is not unpleasant, just unremarkable – your average Ibiza-friendly turn-of-the-millennium house-trance electronica, here benefitting from the traditional January lull in new releases that allows this sort of mid-pack bolter to nab a week or two of glory at the top. A bit of salt, or any flavouring at all, wouldn’t have gone amiss here.
