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Supertramp

jesus

Teri Mantere - guitar & vocals
Antti Kokkola - electric guitar
Esko Grundström - double bass
Juhana Kiiski - drums
Special guest: Linda Fredriksson - baritone sax & awesomeness

Teri Mantere is an Australian-born Finnish musician, who has moved back and forth between Finland and Australia several times, the last of which was this year. He has been writing music for around 20 years, and performing for at least 10, confusing people of all backgrounds with music that does not seek an outright genre but still gets a groove on. In this song he is joined by his confused band, The Manta Rays, as they sort through a range of questions, requesting back-up from a good friend and saxophonist.
'Questions' is a single from the band's new release "PART I", out digitally in all stores.

Lyrics:

Why take a stand
Why take a walk
Why think: "Gonna go"
Take time to talk
Why hide
Not tell, nor show

Why love, why lie
Why live, why die

Matter of fact
Try evidence
Matter for faith
Try providence
Why fight, why still
Why rage, kill

Why love, why...

Take alone
Or take tandem
Is there a reason
For this jealousy candid
Why none, why all
I'll climb, we'll fall
To chance trust
Is not to cower
And not to wilt
Is to flower

Why love...

All those sleeping beauties
Hit the spindle
They try the bottle
They try the needle

Why love...

Part I

TERI MANTERE & THE MANTA RAYS – Questions feat. Linda Fredriksson

Outside (ZY Version)

MOVE AROUND. LIKE A FUCKIN CHAINSAW

Fast Food

Here's a preview of our new track 'Love Drunk' due for release 29th September 2017 to purchase the Love Drunk EP go to https://oceanruins.bandcamp.com/album/love-drunk-ep
© 2017 Ocean Ruins

Ocean Ruins - Love Drunk

You don’t question anything that lies beyond your front door
Life is so simple with a mind inside of four walls
Maybe I’m jealous, maybe it’s pity that I feel
One thing I haven’t said is it annoys the hell out of me

If ignorance is bliss
They’ve got loads of it

And when it’s time to speak
We are not the quiet ones

A few words, a bit of fuss
The quiet ones
A little noise, now a bigger buzz
The quiet ones
God damn there’s a lot of us
Quiet!

You don’t like the symptoms but you stay home and comply
And your silence costs us who are trying to question why
Using the ones you really should be shouting for
To excuse yourselves from your place in the outside world

If ignorance is bliss
They’ve got loads of it

And when it’s time to speak
We are not the quiet ones

A few words, a bit of fuss
The quiet ones
A little noise, now a bigger buzz
The quiet ones
God damn there’s a lot of us
Quiet!

We are not
We are not
We are not the quiet ones

Quiet Ones (Video Version)

Quiet Ones (video version)

Having recently been enjoying the excellent audiobook of Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle,  I decided to play Alexei's classic 1984 hit Ullo John Got A New Motor on my Saturday night show on 6 Music. When I floated the idea on Twitter loads of people were keen to hear it on air and started quoting lines from the song at me.

But it seems the regular 7" single mix has vanished off the face of the bloody planet. The BBC no longer have a copy in their library, you can't buy a download on iTunes or a CD on Play or Amazon. The only video versions on YouTube are absolutely awful quality. But what you can find on iTunes is loads of Karaoke versions because it's such a well-loved classic

In the end my Twitter friend Drew Tabori sent me an audio file of the sweary 12" version, so we finally did get to play it on Saturday 3rd February 2013, although (as you can hear) it was severely edited down for BBC compliance purposes....

Check out that audiobook by the way: www.audible.co.uk/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B004EW5PSW

ALEXEI SAYLE - Ullo John Got A New Motor - on 6 Music

Written By: Marina Florance
Released on all streaming platforms Dec 14th 2020
Credits:
Marina Florance: Guitar, BVs, LV, Production and Mixing
Ben Walker: Resonator and Piano
Mark Jolley: Bass
Tobisonics: Mastering
Artwork Photography: Gary Florance
Lyrics
Too many dreams have been broken
too many hopes pushed aside
of all those words we’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies
Lonely runs both ways
if I could read your mind
Oooh I’d know just what to say
know the words I should hide

What have we got right now
all that’s me, all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

But you can see right through me
and you can read my mind
and you know just what to say
know the words you should hide
But too many dreams have been broken
Your hopes pushed aside
and of all those words you’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies

What have we got right now
all that’s me. all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

A Sky of Blue

A Sky Of Blue

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