Name: 01 Track Panama Dave by calmcarl in from life gigs openmics
Duration: 4 min 40 s
Description: One of the finest guitarists and humans i've met.

If ever learn to play one 10th as well as Dave I'll be a happy lad.

from life gigs openmics

I've always thought this song does a pretty good job of speaking for itself and doesn't require a tonne of further explanation. I played it at an acoustic night in London once, and an audience member came up to me afterwards and said "I loved that morbidly optimistic song you played". I think he summed it up perfectly. Like... it's a slow moody song about the inevitability of death, it is morbid. The line about "what's the point in a probable truth"... The probable truth is that death is final, we might have a bias to prefer the idea of an afterlife, but we're not exactly swimming in evidence for there being one.

So this leaves us with some options.

Option 1: Push it down and pretend we don't know that life is finite

I think this is the default for most people, most of the time. It has its upside and lets us get from one day to the next with minimal drama, but it's not really being honest with ourselves and it lets us off the hook for acting like flourishing can be put off til later.

Option 2: Know that it's true but be saddened or crippled by it.

Ok so we won some honesty back here, but fuck... don't do option 2, option 2 is the bad place. It can at least be countered with more honesty though. Like yeah, we're all going to die but look around, there's a 13.8 billion year chain of uninterrupted events that led to you. It's so incredibly unlikely, we're privileged AF really. Have you ever actually completely stopped and just felt how long 3 minutes is.. Like, there's really no need to be upset at the prospect of living for 80 years.

Option 3: Consider life, and time to be precious.

In a nutshell this is what I'm trying to say with this song: take charge. Find what you love. It's easy to get stuck, living the same day on repeat, but if you find yourself there, remind yourself that time is precious, remind yourself that it's possible to be excited by stuff and go get stuck into it.

Something to do

Something To Do: feat Izzie Yardley

A collaboration with Carl & Conor AKA Double O'Sullivan

SiLVER

Punkthing To Do

Kids With Dirty Faces.

Lady Your Dead To Me.

Stay Free.

Your The One For Me.

The weather

Written one afternoon in the early 1980s by myself, Tam & Chic. We recorded it on cassette tape the same day. The last bonus track on the Pride Games 30th Edition album out on March 21st 2025

19-Life Could Be So Much More (Home Demo)

Jenny Hallam is an accomplished songwriter, singer and  pianist who is releasing her début album on the 25th February 2012.

This track is from her '25,000 Days'

She started writing songs whilst still at school and has performed since the age of 15. She has enlisted the help of LIPA music student, producer and percussionist Chris Hewitt and guitarist Alex Albrow to embellish her intelligent , lyrics and catchy melodies with polished arrangements that herald the arrival of a truly stunning new talent.

Admirers regularly comment on the insights contained within her lyrics which seem at odds with her tender years ranging from the difficulties of adolescence in ‘They Say’  to the reflective relationship commentary of 'Background'. However, she is not so precious that she cannot write songs that cry out for old fashioned chart success  as in the first single from the album ‘Me ,Me ,Me’ and induce the smile in the listener that inevitably accompanies  the first hearing of  such future pop classics as  'BBQ Sauce', 'Summer Song' and 'Struggle to Find'.

Jenny regularly stuns audiences with her powerful, soulful but above all human voice - an oasis of quality in the cultural vacuum of this X Factor  karaoke age. Spread the word, this girl has music generating from every pore and above all a real charm that makes the world a better place to live in.

JENNY HALLAM - Me, Me, Me

The Dance Macabre by Gaea Knight Tribal

Josefin Winther's fift release in 2012. Perfect for car driving in the summer time. 

Josefin Winther - lyrics and melody 
Magnus Åserud Skylstad - arrangement, production, drums and programming. 
Kristian Fanavoll Tvedt - guitar. 
Peter Sæverud - bass. 
Cover art - Íris Stefanía Skúladóttir


Firestarter

One of the finest guitarists and humans i've met.

01 Track Panama Dave

Your Alabama 3 Christmas Present. 
Larry, Rock and Aurora got together specially to make this little stocking filler for you. 
We hope it will make your Christmas that little bit warmer.
Lots of love from Alabama 3.

Cold Christmas Eve

Recorded especially for Solstice on Solstice 2012
Shruti,Medicine drums,Boss rc 50, kKaos pad 3

Solstice 21 12 2012

I host open mic nights, go to open mic nights and occasionally organise musical extravaganzas with the people i've heard at open mic nights. I love to share music.

01 Track Panama Dave

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