1979 live track, written by Pete Wildgoose

"Flight Of The Worrells" live track by Avant Garde

Home recording on a Boss BR 80. I wrote the song in 1981 and performed it live during the 80s with the bands Avant Garde and The Cynics.
LYRICS:
You're trying hard to break out from your crowd
Cos you're going nowhere
They've got too many inhibitions about acting loud
And you're going nowhere
They don't like it cos you're not the same as them 
And they can't understand about the state you're in
Going nowhere

It's like you've lost your way at spaghetti junction
You're going nowhere
Choice of direction but you just can't function
Going nowhere
Glossy advertisements say how you should live
But you can't advertise what you've got to give
Going nowhere

Someday, it's easy to say
You're gonna find what you're looking for
But it's hard to find, when your mind
Is in a state of civil war

Girls unspoken in the smoky air
See you're going nowhere
No opening line could show that you care
And you're going nowhere
Rejection's a trigger to your other fears
So you live your life always in arrears
Going nowhere

"Going nowhere" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

Another home recording, this time of a mid-80s composition that I used to play with The Cynics, Smashing Time, and early lineups of My Cat Dances.
LYRICS:
I don't know what's going on
But I know it's not to my advantage
And I don't like it, they say dishonesty's rife
And a voice on the grapevine tells me I'm fooled again

You can break a heart, you can cheat a friend
Live a lie all your life or just pretend
You can sow your seed
But you reap what you sow in hate
Like the office Romeos

I hear you say, "Self help is the order of the day"
You're talking like someone from the cabinet
And you take another drink, you know it's not out of conscience
But someone's turned the medicine on you

"Office Romeos" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

A new (2024) composition! Lyrics by Jeremy Stokes, music by me.
LYRICS:
Verse 1
Never guess what I saw
When I walked down the street
Broken bottles on the floor
And a dead parakeet
Glass strewn around the carcass
Like cheap commemorative jewels
Of a bird that couldn’t take the pace
Of the south side of Ewell

Bridge#1
The suburbs are calling
The traffic is crawling
Some suburbs are alluring
Some suburbs are appalling

Chorus
I don’t want to go…
I don’t want to go…
To Banstead

Verse 2
No one walking the streets
On a Saturday afternoon
No-one moving into that luxury flat
Any time soon
Just someone rifling through shelves
In the Tesco Express
Marked down best before food
Value range gastric distress

Bridge#2
Stolen bike against bus stop
Vomit outside the chip shop
Vague echoes of hip-hop
Cops outside the Co-op

Chorus
I don’t want to go…
I don’t want to go…
To Banstead


"Banstead" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

New version of one of my oldest songs, written in 1978, lyrics by Patrul Devlin, music by me. A former live staple of Avant Garde, Croydon based new wave band.

LYRICS:
I descend into the underground
I see a thousand faces below
Each one emotionless and dry
Eyeless blindness everyone
Moving through the webs of light
Fragments of their former selves
Hearing the venomous viper approach
Victims without thought or feeling

CHORUS
Travelling underground, travelling underground, underground

We are numbed by the fumes and poison
In this created blackened abyss
Platforms full of empty statues
Repeating history every working day
The shadow is cast on the sundial
Though it can't be seen through the smog
It seems a crime with no reason
When this nothing becomes everything

"Travelling underground" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

Song I wrote in 1986, a live favourite for my bands The Cynics, Smashing Time, and early My Cat Dances.
LYRICS
Just like The Searchers I've been sailing on a sea of heartbreak
Waking up to worktime, I suppose it's better than nothing
And the boss says, I'm useless, though I know in my heart it's not true
And the woman I loved sleeps in the arms of a drunken man

So how can this
Be love
When it's something
Found on the shop floor?

Albert Finney says "It's heaven down here"
Albert Finney says "It's heaven down here"
When the pub shuts down and I'm all alone
In a one way street so far from home
Albert Finney says "It's heaven down here"

And did you learn about love in the sand dunes down by the estuary?
I only learned about love from those who couldn't find anyone
In the old films, though the hero's in trouble, he always has a girl
In this grey age and in dark days I must seek comfort elsewhere

"Albert Finney says" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

A 1989 composition of mine that was played live by Smashing Time and early My Cat Dances lineups.

LYRICS
I'll take you down
To the place where they make asses' milk
Well I've been an expert
Making pigs' ears out of silk
And I know that I've made
A dog's dinner of my life
But I've really learned a lot
Yes I've really learned a lot

And this is my strategy
This is my strategy

I'll show you round
All the high spots of the south
You may laugh, quite rightly
I'll curse my big mouth
And I will creep in
To your lifestyle oh so quietly
You won't feel a thing
You'll hardly even notice me

Because this is my strategy
This is my strategy

In this life there are "haves" and "have nots"
The "haves" are missing out
With all the things we've got
But listen!

I will not be
Like a lapdog hanging around you
And I won't tell a soul
I'm so happy that I've found you
And when you're down
I can help just like Billy Swan
Just say the word
In a moment I'll be gone

This is my strategy
This is my strategy

"Strategy" by Andy Callen and the Cagoules

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"Anglicana" by Andy Callen & the Curmudgeons, from the album "Virtue signaller" on Low Quality Accident Records.. Song by Andy Callen/ Patrul Devlin.

"Anglicana" by Andy Callen & the Curmudgeons, from the album "Virtue signaller"

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"Dufflecoats on the beach" by Andy Callen & the Curmudgeons, from the album "Virtue signaller" on Low Quality Accident Records. Song by Andy Callen.

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Guitarist/ backing vocalist/ occasional lead vocalist with Picnic Area. My debut solo album "Virtue signaller" is now out on Low Quality Accident Records.

Andy Callen

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