Tag Archives: Best Before End
LYRICS // Endgame (2007)
Back in 2004 and with the London march against the invasion of Iraq still fresh in my mind, I made an approach to UK music organisation Peace Not War (PNW), to offer them a track for their then pending ‘Volume … Continue reading
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LYRICS // Second Hand Sunshine (2007)
‘Second Hand Sunshine’, a title that popped up one day in search of a song, was written as a global warming song. It’s not a subject that seems to have been tackled a great deal yet by songwriters, so it … Continue reading
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LYRICS // Ghosts (2007)
I was born in Brighton, a seaside town on the South coast of England. Despite this beginning and several later visits to then-still-resident grandparents, I grew up getting to know an entirely different place – Cardiff, the city I got … Continue reading
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LYRICS // Games (2007)
Reading Eric Schlosser’s ‘Fast Food Nation‘ a number of years ago, I was quite struck to find out that many of the smells of American fast food are actually manufactured in large plants off the New Jersey Turnpike and then … Continue reading
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LYRICS // Vonnegut’s Blues (2006)
An early attempt at a political song with Shelf Life and our first original song written together. ‘Vonnegut’s Blues’ was written as a (loosely disguised) diatribe about the Bush administration, inspired by a piece written by the late American author … Continue reading
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