Love this. Lotsa Floyd undertones, yet your own sound.

Children's Favourites?

Written by me and Richard Marris. We play guitars and his son Dan plays drums. 

llama up a ladder

A one take version of my song Stay fuelled , in part, by an end of evening brandy or two... 

Stay

And so, the end is near and the final piece of the Celebrity Torture jigsaw falls into place. Four years in the making and tonight is the final show. Last year's star has been discarded and is living in a house of straw and this year's hopefuls wait in the wings. 

Our host, Leery Old Dermutt, no longer simply introduces the contestants. He has been moulded into a bona fide song and dance man, and in truth he's a lot better than most of the contestants. People now tune in early just to see his opening number. 

Tonight they've pushed the boat out. A 60 piece orchestra with a dance troupe of laughing gnomes, elves and faeries. Leery will sing a song celebrating the wonder that is illusory fame. 

The contestants, having proved how well they can't sing, will tonight show how they can't dance. And off they go. A bit of faux latin jazz funk gives way to a spot of 80s euro-disco from Sir Dennis Crowther. The disco dancing stops and the dancers find a new challenge in the experimental take on Fred Astaire from MeesterJim but it's OK, we're into 70s cop show mode soon enough (nice sweater Starsky). 

But wait, what's this? Last year's hero has broken through security and is determined to have his swan song and …...... is that a bomb he's holding........ ?

Cue the tape Bob. 

Dramatis personæ

Leery Old Dermutt : Graeme Hobbs 
Last Year's Hero : Dick Langford 
Euro-pop maestro : Sir Dennis Crowther http://www.macjams.com/artist/sir+dennis+crowther
Fred Astaire's diabolical twin: MeesterJim http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=910842 
Toto: himself
Wicked Witch of the North: Margaret Thatcher 
Not here at all : Sir Timothy de Ferrars
Sheep: All of us

The Fairy Tale of Rock Rebellion / Swansong Lullaby

One of the social consequences of Brexit.
Words: Dick Langford and Richard Marris
Music: Dick Langford

He's a dancer not a number he's got a name. 
He's here to dance, to entertain
Now you tell him in the street, go home and take your dancing feet
we're dancing to another beat and won't need you again

His grandad flew a Spitfire in the war
Helped to keep the Nazis from the English shore
First they called him hero and then showed him the door
We've beaten our old enemy we don't need you any more 

Your fathers and grandfathers won that war
Can you remember what they were fighting for?
And now it's all unravelling you've heard the weasel lies
Who's your enemy? I think they're in disguise

The Dancer

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Poor Man Mp3

A song that, despite being written 20 years ago, just doesn't go out of date. 

From the 1999 album Where the Skeletons Dance 

Lyrics/music: Graeme Hobbs, Dick Langford
Vocals: Graeme, 
Guitars: Dick
Violin: Mark Knight
Drums: Rick Burtonshw
Bass: Paul H.

Where The Skeletons Dance

Rotten To The Core : Tricks Upon Travellers

This is a song that I wrote. Sarah Kingswell was kind enough to sing it for me. Dick Langford the brilliant musical scolar (in my opinion any way) added the orchestration. 
I played the guitar.

I hope you enjoy it.

Sadder Now with Sarah and Dick

Some words and a tune that came to mind in the current (May 2020) situation.
Big thanks to Dick Langford for Bass and lead guitar.

Lockdown
 In our homes
Shut down
In our homes

I miss friends and family
And holding hands
There’s a new kind of fear
 Stalking the land
And we’re changing

Mantra’s
We recite them
Clap for hero’s
In the night then

We follow the science
Keep watching the R
New ways of working
Finding our who we are
And we’re changing

Twenty, Twenty
We didn’t have the vision

We see others
Who can inspire us
Keep two meters
Avoid the virus

We’re finding out
What we really need
Re arranging our world
Cutting back on the greed
And we’re changing.

©Mark Spruce May 2020

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