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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 213

i love you

you can’t know i always think of you

i cant even speak in front of you

i just dont know what to do

one thing

i cant understand is there something

that makes me so scared until i think

that i just cant tell you

hey do you wanna get together

lets start a brand new chapter

i want to bathe in your smile and laughter

but i havent had nearly enough liquor

though babe

you dont even know my name

i still love you just the same

it’s such a fun game to play

and you’ll never know my name…

carriebees | crushes demo

'When You Were Mine', written by Prince. Demo performed, programmed, recorded and mixed by Ally Craig, 13/14 May 2016. Originally performed by Prince on his 1980 album Dirty Mind.

When You Were Mine

Don't Be That Dude, by Bug Prentice. Taken from the forthcoming EP, released 16th September 2016. Pre-order now on bandcamp.

Ally Craig - vocal, guitar
Ruth Goller - bass, vocal
Stephen Gilchrist - drums

Recorded at One Cat Studio, Brixton. Engineered and mixed by Jon Clayton. Mastered by Mark Cawthra. Written by Ally Craig.

Don't Be That Dude

A Huntsman collaboration with the talented poet Tommy Sissons. www.facebook.com/TommySissonsOfficial

Somewhere I Used To Know (feat. Tommy Sissons)

Nucleotides is Trev Gibb's first solo album release, produced by Mick Ross of Mono Productions at The Tower in the Ouseburn, with initial recording sessions engineered by Mark Broughton at Blast Studios. Recorded between autumn of 2013 and the winter of 2015 the album has gone through various permutations, starting out as a single project with David Burn (Detroit Social Club) before becoming an album-project under the tutelage of Mick Ross and Mono Productions. During work on the album Trev and his band supported Kaiser Chiefs and Public Service Broadcasting at Newcastle Arena in the spring of 2015 and subsequently played at The Stadium of Light and  Lindisfarne Festival, culminating in a single launch and digital-only double-A single release Old Wounds/Skinny Arms on the Mono Productions label in January 2016.  

The album features quite the array of North-East musical talents, with Tom Fletcher (The Lake Poets, Hyde & Beast) on pedal steel, synth and piano from Dale Knight (Keep Breathing), Fran O'Hanlon (Ajimal), Matt Hardy (Tessera Skies) and Rob Murray (Minotaurs) on drums, and Chris Murray (Minotaurs) and ex Let's Buy Happiness / current EatFast and Apologies' Mark Brown both on bass. The album also features guest vocals and guitar from Martin Longstaff (The Lake Poets), guitar from Matt Weaver (Rushers of Din) and Nick Sheffield and violin and mandolin from Patrick Lawrence and Guy Bainbridge respectively.

The album will self-release on Nov 4th on Spotify, Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

5. Last Great Psychedelic Band

Fifi Rong's new single 'Future Never Comes' released 4th Nov 2016
Written & Produced by Fifi Rong and Mark Rose
Mixed by Robert L. Smith (Defy Recordings)

Lyrics

Ready for another fight 
Dark sky swings from side by side 
Ocean, land and the blinding lights 
All become one before my eyes 

Ready for another strike 
To feel something to do or die 
Time and space in disguise 
Doubt and fear in a wasted mind 

Show me the way to the sky beyond 
where the love is real where I can fly 

Show me the way to the sky beyond 
Where the love is real where I’m finally alive 

Wana end this hopeless night 
Waiting to find out who am I 
So afraid to fall behind 
So afraid to live a life 

Disappointed all this time 
No where to find peace of mind 
Knowing tomorrow is a lie 
This moment is all that I have 

Show me the way to the sky beyond 
where the love is real where I can fly 

Show me the way to the sky beyond 
Where the love is real where I’m finally alive

Future Never Comes

Fifi Rong - Future Never Comes(Radio Edit)

Ross Palmer - guitar & vocals
Colin Somervell - double bass

Meet The Evening

'Beautiful Cosmos', written and originally performed by Ivor Cutler. Demo performed, recorded and mixed by Ally Craig, Friday 7th December 2018. Dedicated to all the friends who meet me for tea.

Beautiful Cosmos

'I Want To Be Yours' - demo written, performed, recorded and mixed by Ally Craig, 10th February 2019. The first song written in my new flat!

I Want To Be Yours (demo)

'Buffering' - demo written, performed, recorded and mixed by Ally Craig, 8th / 9th April 2019.

Buffering (demo)

'Lead A Normal Life', written and originally performed by Peter Gabriel on his eponymous 1980 album. Demo recorded, performed and mixed by Ally Craig, Saturday 13th April 2019.

Lead A Normal Life

'Living Without You' - written by Randy Newman, originally released on his eponymous debut album in 1968. Demo recorded, performed and mixed by Ally Craig, Tuesday 7th May 2019.

Living Without You

Here is a song that I wrote for my darling pal and favourite ever guitarist Jenny Macro. She is sadly departing from the live band and I am naturally very sad. I wrote a little song that I was going to sing to her at her last ever gig, but because of the current crisis the gig never happened.  So instead I decided to record it properly in the comfort of seclusion which I am sharing to you now.

Take care and #stayindoors

Jenny

'Chrysalids' - written, performed, programmed and mixed by Ally Craig.

This track was inspired by the John Wyndham novel The Chrysalids (released in the US as Re-Birth). The novel is set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear event, and focuses on a group of teenagers who become outcasts when it is revealed they were born with telepathic abilities. The outcasts are the next step in humanity's progression; the fundamentalist, conservative society which shuns them is doomed to stagnation.

Available now on Bandcamp.

Chrysalids

Bug Prentice is a three-piece avant-punk band based between Oxford and London. Our influences range from Shellac to Thelonious Monk, with nods to Orson Welles and Futurama.

This account also includes solo demos by Ally Craig.

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Don't Be That Dude

Bug Prentice

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