Guitar/Vocals: Ryan Finch
Guitar: Chris Mills
Bass/Vocals: Anthony Martin
Drums/Vocals: Dan Purton

Eightweeks Live

Lay/Move

Eightweeks

Dream is over

Invite Happiness In Heaven

A little song about how desperate times seem to be with the news that The UK is now fully closing it's borders to refugees and asylum seekers.

A shameful chapter in our history.

I Want The Future Back
They said that when they come,
It'll be with marching drums,
But now you know you can't believe the news from anyone,
And my dad told me son,
They'll come for everyone
There's no one left to save the poorest and the last of us.

The baby boomers came,
Filled up with righteous claims,
Their parents died and fought the fascists just to save our souls,
But when their moment came,
They played a different game,
And fell into the trap of bankers and their dog whistles.

You know that I just can't believe,
The words you say to me,
I want the future back,
They've taken it from you and me.
I want the future back.

When we were boys and girls, 
We all watched Tomorrow's World,
Aren't we supposed to travel in an airtight tube  by now?
Where have you taken us?
Why have no faith in us?
We're asking you for answers but you won't tell us how.

A generation lost,
We've paid the greater cost,
Financial crashes crush the masses as the planet suffers drought,
And if we stay the same,
We'll be the ones to blame,
But blame the parents they're the ones who sold us out.

You know that I just can't believe,
The words you say to me,
I want the future back,
They've taken it from you and me,
I want the future back.

They blame the immigrants,
We know that's just a front,
And this is how we know they would treat the rest of us,
It's not 1933,
It feels the same to me,
Financial crises that they make and simply blame some other ones.

The drums are pounding now,
There's fascists in our towns,
Just hold on tight and hope we make it through the other side,
There's lessons we won't learn,
While there's a quid to earn,
The hard-won freedoms that we're losing for which our grandparents died.

You know that I just can't believe,
The words you say to me,
I want the future back,
They've taken it from you and me,
I want to understand,
But now they run the BBC,
I want the future back,
I want the future back.

I Want The Future Back

This is a song about one of my earliest memories of my dad, Philip John Martin.

My mum and dad split when I was less than a year old, we'd have little visits here and there, but ultimately, I didn't meet him as a fully conscious being until I was 12/13 years old.

I have one memory of dancing on his feet at Rock Avenue Working Mens Club, I must have been around 4 years old and it's one of those memories where you wonder if it really happened. 

My dad committed suicide in February 2009.

You didn't know,
You couldn't know,
Over years as the tears had begun,
Yeah, they started to flow.
 
I'm not very old,
The rooms full of smoke,
There's a man and he's standing beside me,
He's telling some jokes.
 
And all our lives,
You wasted all our time,
You don't know what I've seen,
And at four years old,
My memories ran cold,
But I was there and I was dancing on your feet.
 
You made a choice,
You took a chance,
All the roads that were closed,
With my hand holding your tattooed hands.

It wasn't fair,
It wasn't right,
As we fuss at the bus stop
But you don't turn up on the night.

And all our lives,
You wasted all our time,
Now we don't know what could have been,
And at four years old,
My memories ran cold,
But I was there and I was dancing on your feet.

I'm all alone,
You left me alone,
With no guide or defenders,
No men, just a boy on his own.

But I'll be alright,
I will survive,
It's my way every day,
I take darkness and turn it to light

See you there, 
With the fading of your hair,
A family just in my dreams.
And all our lives,
You wasted all our time,
Now we don't know what could have been,
And at four years old,
My memories ran cold,
But I was there and I was dancing on your feet.

Dancing On Your Feet

“Sarah” repaints serotonin as “the one that got away” in an upbeat pop funk love song devoted to that most coveted of neurotransmitters. Bowie meets Bruno Mars in Jack’s sultry yet speedy vocals on a head nodding bed of Nile Rodgers and Jamiroquai style grooves.

Sarah is the first single from an EP recorded with Gormie (Angie McMahon, Julia Jacklin) at Treehouse Studios, Victoria.

Reframing mental health as a lover that was taken for granted, the song recounts those substance-fuelled feel-good moments you had together, through a lens of nostalgia and a tinge of regret.

Sarah

Written by= Mark Johnson and Isabella Coulstock.
Mark J= Music and Lyrics.- Isabella C= Spanish lyric translation.
Produced by Paul Midcalf. 

Crew Members=
Isabella Coulstock= Lead and Harmony vocals.
Mark Johnson= Acoustic and High-Strung guitars.
Angus Cousins (Unit 48 band)= Saxophone.
Paul M= Bass, drums, percussion, keys.
Vocal arrangements= Isabella and Paul.

Image by Angus.
Recorded at Audio Sorcery Recording Studios. Royal Tunbridge Wells. UK. TN3 9EJ.

One Stop Song. Contact = markjohnson145a@gmail.com

Also.
www.isabellamusic.co.uk
audiosorcery.com

The Midnight River Crew albums =
'Scirocco' and ‘My City Of Fire’,
are available now from all the usual places!

Lyric=

Ignition at the moment I saw you.
Heaven bound from thereon.
Love’s transmission across the airwaves,
won’t always be so strong, but………..

Love’s flame will burn forever.
Melting hearts, frozen by remorse.
Love’s cure is the hidden treasure.
Discovered it will ease the loss.
My flame won’t burn forever,
without you………..

Obsession from the moment I met you.
Appearing in every room.
Your impression left its mark on me but,
I don’t want to assume that……….

Love’s flame will burn forever.
Melting hearts, frozen by remorse.
Love’s cure is the hidden treasure.
Discovered it will ease the loss.
My flame won’t burn forever,
without you………..

I am here to be your lover.
In you I can confide…......
I feel real now we’ve found one another.
I need you to bring me back, 
from the other side………

It’s alright! - I’ve been searching everywhere!
It’s alright! – I’ve still got love to share!
It’s alright! – You know I’ll always care!
It’s alright! - …………………...…Yeah!

Love’s flame will burn forever.
Melting hearts, frozen by remorse.
Love’s cure is the hidden treasure.
Discovered it will ease the loss.
My flame will burn forever. 
Now a hand of fate fits in mine.
I know we’ll shine……..it’s our time……..

Love's Flame Will Burn Forever

Love's Flame Will Burn Forever- The Midnight River Crew (feat Isabella Coulstock)

Somewhere In My Heart - Aztec Camera Cover

Here's a studio cover of Easy Lover originally by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins.
Special Thanks to Tom Knight for assisting with Vocals and playing the guitar parts!

Philip Bailey & Phil Collins: Easy Lover (Studio Cover)

My name is Anthony Martin and I am a musician from Kent. I've always struggled in one area of music: direction. I've always written sad, introspective songs to use as an exercise in catharsis. I've also always written silly little songs and often use comedy as a defence mechanism which means that I'm often self depricating and attempting humour between songs for live shows.

With the ever-present dichotomy of comedy vs tragedy, and after years of hiding behind my ill conceived and childish comedy moniker "Antmonkey" I decided to put my "serious" songs out under my own name and leave my comedy for the Antmonkey to devour. 

This presented a problem for live performance in a sense that I don't have enough songs to fulfil an entire set of just one of those genres. So, effectively, if you come to an Anthony Martin/Antmonkey show you will get comedy times tragedy. Which hopefully equals awesome. 

I am also active in various other areas of music, I am a part-time promoter, usually for charity and through Antfest/Antfestive/Herofest/TheResurROCKtion I've helped to raise over £40,000 for various charities over the years. Go team.

I also play bass and sing in Beer Pressure, a wedding and functions band playing up and down the country at weddings/parties and in pubs and clubs. Entertainment-tastic!

Band History:

FUS
The Godless Reds
Dogma
The Sunshine Bus
Funplugged
Eight Weeks
Rage Against The Latrine
Release The Hounds
Quarter Past Caring
The Legacy
PhilAnthRopy
Balls Deep Full Throttle
Baubles Deep
Less Than A Reel Big Gold Fish Finger
PEDESTRIAN ZERO

Bands I've Helped Out

Liars Club
Battleska Galactica

Dancing On Your Feet

Anthony Martin Acoustic

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