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From Skeleton Hill by Firefly Burning
Release 9 March 2015

Words by Bea Hankey
Produced by Tim Friese-Greene
Recorded at Mount Harry House, East Sussex by Phill Browne and Tim Friese-Greene
Mixed at Toybox Studios, Bristol by Ali Chant and Tim Friese-Greene
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering

Bea Hankey, voice 
Jack Ross, guitar & voice
James Redwood, violin & voice
John Barber, piano & voice
Sam Glazer, cello & voice

Pioneer

Fran Wyburn: Lead vocals and song writer
Mari Raekallio/ Bernadette Dales: Backing vocals
George Birkett/ Harry Orme: Guitars
Tom Maddison: Double bass
Matt Parkinson: Drum

Growing Away

Fran Wyburn: Lead vocals and song writer
Mari Raekallio/ Bernadette Dales: Backing vocals
George Birkett/ Harry Orme: Guitars
Tom Maddison: Violin
Matt Parkinson: Percussion 

November Night

Songs and music written by Chris Belson, also lead vocals, guitar and Wurlitzer. Drums and percussion Ben Brown. Bass, Nicholas Stevenson. Trombone, Lee Drage. 

Recorded by Simon Trougthon and Sam Beer at SoupStudios, 2015.

The Planets Align

Crooning Cowboy Ballad with Tremelo guitar,  Double Bass ,Mariachi Horns and soulful laid back groove
Featuring 
NoNameKId72 Vocals, Bvs ,Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar ,Castanet,Vibraslap and Organa  
Darrin Mooney on Drums (Primal Scream,Gary Moore)
James Beatt on Double Bass (Emeli Sande band)
 L'Homme Sans Visage   Claves of doom
Mixed @ Lynch Mob Studios by Max Heyes(Primal Scream,Paul Weller,Doves etc)
Mastered by Brian Lacey@Magic Garden(Arctic Monkeys ,Black Keys ,Dr John )
Horns translated by Felix Shepard(Size 9)
Trumpet Mike Brown
Sax Jack Thrush


Produced Arranged and Written by NoNameKid72
Executive producer L'Homme Sans Visage



IN THE SHADOW OF LOVE

The jagged yellow smile of the jaundiced moon
Pokes through the clouds and plays peekaboo
Spits light into the Room
In the Shadow of Love

The silent phantom its eyes watch lovers who
Make cloak and dagger plans to run away real soon
Leave this Ugly place and find a somewhere new

In the Shadow of Love 
Where the Angels hide 
I sit inside and call your name
In the Shadow of Love
I Play the fool and lose my cool
Aint that the way


Outside the hunter hides in the dark
Pulls back his bow and aims straight for the heart
Cupid smiles as his arrow hits the mark
In the shadow of Love

There amongst the sailors bones that heard the sirens call
Made Johnny walk the line and pride take a fall
Romeo and Juliet and Bogart and Bacall

In the Shadow of Love 
Where the Angels hide 
I sit inside and call your name
In the Shadow of Love
I Play the fool and lose my cool
Aint that the way


I am its witness felt hands laid on
Felt its warmth in the middle of a storm
Seen it reflected in the eyes of my newborn 
LOVE…. love…. love…. 

Bonnie and Clyde Barrow on a jagged country road
Holding hands while machine guns unload 
they died together and they wanted nothing more 
In the Shadow Of Love
In the Shadow Of Love

In The Shadow Of Love

'Piggy Got the Conch' video here: http://youtu.be/qys2ALsMdKE

Ladies and gentlemen 
Strap yourselves in for the light show
Hold out your hands to your loved ones then bring them in close
No refunds or cancellations will be valid from here on in
Any concerns you should leave at the gate or at home

It's the same for you as me

I'm on a tightrope
with a heart beating like stone
I'm an isotope
with a half-life running low
It's like when Piggy got the conch and he could talk for us all
But look what happened there

WEBSITE: http://sinkorsoar.co.uk
SOUNDCLOUD: http://soundcloud.com/sink-or-soar
YOUTUBE: http://tinyurl.com/SoS-tube
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/SinkOrSoar
FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sinkorsoar



Piggy Got The Conch

Debut single from Liverpool writing duo 'Katie and I' 

Produced/Mixed by Mark Butler 
Artwork by Dominic Veakins

Lyrics:

Bright red cheeks and blood on your hands
Tried to run but you couldn't stand, 
The sight of her I could see, 
That the light behind your eyes had gone out, for me

Well guide me closely for I cannot see
The love you claim you hold for me
And the sight of him I could see,
Well the light behind your eyes has gone, for me

And on your side of the quicksand It don't sink so low
I'm not a fan of this movement, these to's and fro's
And I'm not here for amusement you should know, 
But on your side of the quicksand, It don't sink so low
So low so low so long

Oh lover look what you've done to my pride x4

(Ohhhhhhhh Instrumental)

And on your side of the quicksand, It don't sink so low
I'm not a fan of this movement, these to's and fros
And I'm not here for amusement, you should know,

That I'm not here for amusement.

Contact us: katieandiofficial@gmail.com

Buy on iTunes

Quicksand

Written & Produced by PJ Pearson

I’m moving my family to the end of the earth 
Near the cape of good hope
Where the blue birds are soaring 
On the thermals of love 	

And down on the beaches are statues of all
Those people you knew
But your never sure why
No your never sure at all

And I’ll never move out
No I’ll never move out of an Angel’s way

Dry cement it will not hold your heavens up 
Dry cement it will not hold your heavens in

And on the fifth of September we gathered our belongings
And we headed for the coast
To the voice of no gods  
Where the church bells were rising 
On the thermals of love
And out under the waves where the sea falls apart
Swam a mariners girl
And with her mineral eyes she said
 ‘oh your too late'
But I'm never sure why
No I’m never sure at all

Dry cement it will not hold your
Your Universal Will to become

	
   	
   	
   	
  

Cape of Good Hope

Streets Talk

"The internet-based love affair, there's really no commitment there. Several thousand friends but no one cares..."

I wrote this about a couple of people I used to work with.

Mixed and Mastered by David Mood in Vienna, Austria: http://soundcloud.com/david-mood

Thanks to Jampottt Recordings for recording the vocals:
http://soundcloud.com/jampottt

Being Blonde

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BEING BLONDE

Written by Sky Mouse (instrumentation) and Blue-John Benjamin (lyrics and vocals);
Vocals sound-engineered by Jon Fleming;
Produced by Sky Mouse.

Free to download from 23rd October 2015 https://blueskymouse.bandcamp.com/releases

Last of the Music Hall Comedians

I play to the autumnal auditorium—
trees heavy with birdsong and bonfire smoke.
Now, beneath them, I take my final bow;
timing was always everything to me.

Last of the Music Hall comedians—
last of the incurable romantics.
My mind whirs at seven gags per minute.
I am, at heart, a Shakespearean clown.

From Lime Street Station to the Palladium to
the last pie shop before the stadium,
when life is a comedy of errors,
keep your chin up, and let happiness in.

Not for me, the solitary meal in a tray.
Not for me, the damp chill of a bedsit.
Vaudevillian to my bones, skin the texture
of an autumn leaf,
now the time has come, I will take my final bow.

Last of the Music Hall comedians—
the last of my kind—
last of the incurable romantics.
My mind whirred at seven gags per minute.
I was, at heart, a Shakespearean clown.

From Lime Street Station to the Palladium to
the last pie shop before the stadium,
when life is a comedy of errors,
keep your chin up, and let happiness in.

A gentleman’s epitaph:
With Death he has finally consorted,
but to online dating he never resorted.

BLUE-JOHN VS SKY MOUSE – Last of the Music Hall Comedians

© Luxo Jr, 2015.

Get the whole mini-album 'Fingerpaints' now on Bandcamp!

https://luxojr.bandcamp.com/releases

Written, Performed and Produced by Luxo Jr.
Engineered by Tom Ford, Nick Upton, Michael Sumner and Laurence Morgan.
Mixed and Mastered by Tom Ford.
Artwork by Tom Ford.

LUXO JR - Belly Button

RIDLEY WOOF - Boy

Swooshed - compilation album CD, out now, Cae Gwyn Records.
CD albwm amlgyfrannog, allan rwan, Recordiau Cae Gwyn.

Dan Amor & Huw Owen - Mothers In Day-Glo

I'm chiseled and stubbled 
I'm pouring the bubbles 
I'm watching the taxis stack downtown

I'm given to others 
I'm open to offers 
I'm pouting and panting til i'm found

The way that I smoulder 
A weight off your shoulders 
I wait at the docks with buttocks clenched

Italians and Russians 
And red blooded passions 
I'm starting to get what Pablo meant

A fleeting encounter 
A meeting of ardour 
Furthering fervour til the end

This isn't the talkies 
We're not in the movies 
They're rolling the credits now my friend 

(This Isn't) The Talkies

"Sometimes I feel like a ghost. Unwanted marketing post. Dead artist nobody knows."

This track was selected as 'Demo of the Week' on Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter's Disco Down show on Minster FM in April 2016. It has also been played on Radio Hartlepool's Northern Beat show.

Mixed & Mastered by Jamie Donnelly: https://soundcloud.com/jampottt

Ghost

GHOST

Zero Degrees featuring Faerytale

OLD TRAMP - Drink

Modern Studies' debut album Swell to Great is out on digital, CD and vinyl on Song, by Toad Records on the 12th September 2016.

Modern Studies are a chamber pop band from Glasgow-via-Yorkshire.  Their quietly experimental landscape songs are played on analogue synths, cello, double bass, drums, guitars, a wine-glass orchestra and, at the creaking centre of things, a Victorian pedal harmonium.

The band came together in early 2015, when Glasgow songwriter Emily Scott recruited old pals and collaborators Pete Harvey (King Creosote, The Leg), Joe Smillie (boss of Glasgow’s The Glad Cafe) and Rob St. John.

Working throughout the year at Pumpkinfield – Pete’s rural Perthshire studio – the band shaped a set of Emily’s skeleton songs, drawing largely from the salt and spray of the sea.  This communal arts-und-crafts-werk resulted in their debut LP ‘Swell to Great’ (named after a stop on the wheezing old harmonium), which will be released on Song, by Toad Records of Edinburgh, Scotland in September 2016.

The band also began an ongoing collaboration with London-based label Earth Recordings in 2015, contributing a Shirley Collins cover ‘The Bold Fisherman’ to the ‘Shirley Inspired’ tribute LP.  More releases with Earth are planned for later in the year.

Modern Studies will play a selection of UK shows and festivals throughout 2016.

***

A recent past, a decade ago.

A Belfast-born Victorian harmonium is entrusted to the care of Glasgow chamber-folk singer Emily Scott. It looks like it should sound: imposing and statuesque, ornately carved with wax-dripping candle holders, organ stops with enticing names and elaborate levers, yet the years have taken their toll.

The ‘mouse-proof’ treadles are mended with gaffer tape. Its breathing is choked and laboured; a ridiculous amount of pedalling is required to produce even the simplest melody. Most of the keys don’t sound; some muster but a grim rattle. Those tones which can be coaxed from within are off-key in one way or another.

And yet, they fall in love, and conspire together to bring about a skeletal cluster of musical fragments. Slowly but surely the harmonium gives up its provenance. Cigarette cards of moustachioed soldiers tucked between the keys, a Miss Havisham drape of cobwebs, a selection of foxed and edgeworn song-sheets, and a short hand-written history of a short life.

A distant past, a century ago.

A Belfast-born Victorian harmonium is entrusted to the care of Daisy Skelly, a music teacher with a sweetheart lost to the Great War, and who would succumb to typhus in her mid-twenties.

Early 2015 and the harmonium migrates to Pumpkinfield, a studio in rural Perthshire. It becomes the thing around which a constellation of people, instruments and ideas begin to orbit. Fragments become lines become songs.

Vinyl/CD pre-order

Modern Studies - Dive Bombing

I was delighted that this track made BBC Introducing's MIXTAPE in June 2016. It's had a bit of radio play - including the Tom Robinson Show on BBC6, Bob Fischer's BBC Tees Introducing and Radio Hartlepool's Northern Beat show.

"Mixed with rascals and common criminals - and the sort of women my mother warned me all about."

Vocal tracking, mixing and mastering by Jamie Donnelly: http://soundcloud.com/jampottt

Dedicated to my wonderful mother. There is a light that never goes out...

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Christopher Gale