#goodart

@bantlers drew me and it’s soooo cool

So Wayne sends us a WhatsApp a couple of days before rehearsal last week and says he’s been listening to an old fishonastick recording of a song with loads of slide guitar on it and that he wants to have a go at recording it. The original was frantic and unrelenting in pace and here is the old audio version from a live set at the Iguana back in 2004……. Because we are now all soulful and…

We are supposed to be genetically disposed to protect those closest to us. However, we are only required to do so if they cannot protect themselves. So what happens when that protective inclination has no outlet? You write a song about it.   We are in an emotional bunker. The lame and worldly distractions are the munitions that rain down on us; trying to distract us from just being. It’s the…

When did you first have sex? Put the answer in the comments at the bottom please. I don’t care what kind it was. For there are kinds. I just want to know exactly how old you were when it first happened. For it does usually just happen. I not only want to know how old in years you were, but also ideally to the minute if possible. Thanks. Why? Just nosey mate. Doing a spreadsheet. For most, I…

Wayne is back!! After popping out to get some milk pre-Covid, the big hearted drummer moves amongst us once more. This video is from our first rehearsal together for nearly five years. Adam brought the milk. Victory rehearsalGorse Hill 24.04.25 Victory The Victory of Irene Nemirovsky (1903-1942) I wrote this song after hearing Irene’s daughter being interviewed on the radio in January 2006.…

Don’t you hate it when musicians start telling you what they think about stuff? Lecturing you on what you need to think about this or that? Hoisting themselves all over your airwaves to give you their opinion about the rights or wrongs of the world. Self-righteously lecturing the listener with their first world, unremarkable views which they hold for their own entitled amusement, while people…

Except now we’re rehearsing in the acoustically marvellous Methodist hall in Gorse Hill. After a 5 year hiatus, we’re back and getting ready to promote a new album. This implies that we prepared to promote the last album, but that was a kind of lockdown effort so we couldn’t really. Anyway, a new album is coming and this time we’ll be ready to share the torture around. So how can we continue…