thank you for presenting the lyrics as well, dense stuff.

Manchester Jazz Festival

Body and Soul

On BBC Tees, Bob Fischer and music journalist Robert Nichols discuss tomorrow night's gig as part of Whitby Krampus Run.

+ Elaine Edmunds' interviews

Image by Si Mulgrave

Whitby Krampus

We made a Scott Walkerish sort of thing. Heaven only knows what we're going to do with it.

(Sonnet for a) Chivalrous Knight Ashamed

This fountain must be sealed, as well you know.
Your heart will flood with what, blood-ripplingly,
can never be. Your drowning will be slow.
Go at once. Trickling in search of the sea,
moon-silvered fingers form pools ankle-deep.
You pulled a double rainbow from your sleeve:
a bit of luck. But words unuttered keep
you stuck. A fool in thrall, you fall, deceived.
Oh no—Oh Christ!—an iridescent Love
has come. Between the leaves, Her beauty snuck.
That madly flutter-sparking soul above
is yours. An emerald endlessness took
its husk. She was, is still, the summer’s long
enrapturing—the river’s looping song.

BLUE-JOHN VS SKY MOUSE (PRODUCED BY QUIDGYBOPPER) – (Sonnet for a) Chivalrous Knight Ashamed

Comatose is taken from the upcoming album Uncomfortable Illusion by Quidgybopper. Vocals by Blue-John Benjamin.

The absence
of you is
a blackhole
sung into.

A stark waltz
for winter,
a blackbird
at midnight,

a coma
tose flicker,
and words made
of twilight,

each reaching
out into
the void for
an angel.

http://www.quidgybopper.co.uk
http://www.bluejohnbenjamin.com

Uncomfortable Illusion

Comatose [with Blue-John Benjamin]

~~~o [_(- _ -)_] o~~~ The words are Emily's. The guitar is tuned to DABCAB.

Blue-John's introduction to Mythical Creatures, a Whitby-esque LP released on May Day 2017, can be listened to at https://bluejohnbenjamin.bandcamp.com/track/mythical-creatures-unshackled

Mythical Creatures

Emily Brontë

Blue-John's Mythical Creatures, a Whitby-esque LP released on May Day 2017, can be listened to at https://bluejohnbenjamin.bandcamp.com/album/mythical-creatures

Eggshell Blue: a cheery song about mental illness

The vicar wets his whistle
with liquor from a hipflask.
He’s fraying at the edges;
his mask begins to slip.
Wendy said she saw the Devil
in a damp patch on the wall.
She cleans on Tuesday mornings—
knew his faith was wearing thin.

Down the local rec, her nephew
picks the clubhouse lock.
He’d no ingredients for Food Tech,
so now he’s doing glue.
Later, using misdirection,
and ramping up the pathos,
Wendy says she sees an angel
in graffiti on the wall—
a wounded angel.

Paint the room eggshell blue!
A soothing, gently cleansing colour scheme;
a liberal coat of eggshell blue.
Let the light in—imprison the
winter night’s whispering of vampires.

She’s got a lifetime’s worth of songs and
books and films and
photographs of those departed;
all of them amount to what?
Secrets of the universe are bound up in
Nothing—difficult to un-imagine;
is Nothing what they think it isn’t?

Fictitious, fretful child,
your mother’s only flaw
was to love you for all time;
she could never let you go.
She began to see the answers
to long-forgotten questions—
patterns in black mould
expanding on the wall.

Not being a man’s man,
the vicar does the best he can—
goes with Wendy’s nephew
to the local boxing club.
Wendy is a hit
on the psychiatric wing.
She sees the good in everyone,
and gets us all to sing.
And gets us all to sing…

Paint the room eggshell blue!
A soothing, gently cleansing colour scheme;
a liberal coat of eggshell blue.
Let the light in—imprison the
winter night’s whispering of vampires.

I’m quite fond of Christmas coffee—
cinnamon muffins, too,
though I’d settle for a cup of brick-red tea, and
a sharing of secrets with you.
Eastertime eggshell blue,
Eastertime eggshell blue,
Eastertime eggshell blue.

Eggshell Blue on BBCTees with Bob and Raphael Doyle, April 2017

Eltje: https://eltje.bandcamp.com/
Bob on BBC Tees: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7y6
Nick on BBC Newcastle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xf10n

Eltje on BBC Tees and BBC Newcastle, 13 May 2017

We are Sky Mouse and Blue-John Benjamin from North Yorkshire's unexplored darknesses.

BLUE-JOHN VS SKY MOUSE (PRODUCED BY QUIDGYBOPPER) – (Sonnet for a) Chivalrous Knight Ashamed

Blue-John Vs Sky Mouse

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