Episode 16-People Are Strange

 

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Here's Episode 16, a tune about people doing each other harm, in subtle and not so subtle ways. This is probably the "songiest" song I've written in a while, which to me doesn't make it the greatest, I like to claw out real things rather than think things through and structure them and such, but there are some honest things going on here nevertheless, some personal details and such, hidden stories and the like. Have a listen, see what you think.

Episode 15-Five To Ninety Nine

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Here's Episode 15, a Ukulele song about forgetful old men, alcaholic mechanical birds and babies who are wiser than politicians. It's not a super serious song in any way but it's not a joke song either, it's a whole lot of little ideas mixed together to make what I hope is a cohesive whole of some kind. The title comes from the age range on board game boxes, as a kid I remember we had a couple that said, 5 to 100, or 5 to 99, and I'd imagine a five year old playing a board game with a really old person, somebody creaky and toothless, a stereotypical codger so to speak, maybe in some ways this song is about how the old and experienced and the super super young and inexpereinced have the most wisdom overall, but they're not able to communicate it so well, or if they are they're often ignored...?

Episode 14-Back To The River

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This weeks tune is about a zombie dog, or atleast a dog that just won't die. It's also about bad habits and how they make a nice warm home in you for themselves, and come back to it far too often even when you take severe measures to do them in. It's another Banjo song, bit of super simple finger picking and three chords,hope you like it.

Episode 13-High Tide

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Here's episode 13. I've had some dark times, everybody has, every so often they regurgitate themselves in a song or a drawing or some such similiar thing. This is one of those reguritative moments. More a distant look at a feeling than a being in it I guess. It's called High Tide for what I suppose are obvious reasons, some times the sea comes in to eat up the beach yeah? That's how life works. Sometimes the beach is super wide and there's kites and fish and chips and monkey bars and sometimes there's nobody there at all.

Episode 12-Where You Are, Where You've Been

 

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Here's Episode 12, a tune called "Where You Are, Where You've Been" which takes that "there but for the grace of God go I" saying and says well, by Gods grace actually we're all going the same way to some degree, for better or worse, and maybe sometimes eventually worse becomes better, if you learn from it. It's a bit of an optimistic vision I know, but Billy Bragg told me and about 300 other people that optimism is important, that it changes the world in small ways where it counts. Billy Bragg is a smart guy.

Episode 11-Some Other Fool

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Here's episode 11. I wrote this song while taking a sick day from work, inbetween being asleep and being asleep some more. It's about jerk men and the way they see women. It comes across as heavily judgmental no doubt, I do understand that there's good and bad in everyone and no person is defined by one behaviour. I do however believe that some behaviours negate a whole lot of possible good and need to be eradicated by the individuals practising them, from the inside, especially any form of abusive treatment of anyone, for any reason. It's not on fellas!