A song about the perils of being young, debaucherous an rock n roll :P

Chris Dorgan - Vox/Guitars & Bass
Jon Rymer - Drums

Lyrics & Music by Chris Dorgan
Recorded by Guillaume Llamas & Andrea Merella
Mixed & Mastered by Guillaume Llamas

Copyright of Chris Dorgan 2010

Slow Down - Chris Dorgan (Studio Version)

Another song recorded in SAE Liverpool in only a matter of hours.

Chris Dorgan - Vox/Guitars/Bass
Jon Rymer - Drums

Lyrics & Music by Chris Dorgan
Recorded by Andrea Merella & Guillaume Llamas
Mixed & Mastered by Andrea Merella

Copyright of Chris Dorgan 2010


Whirlwind Darling - Chris Dorgan (Studio Version)

This song was written about September 11th 2001 and the atrocities that happened over the pond in the USA. I remember watching a documentary about it a couple of years later and it just really moved me. I hope this song can be a tribute to all of the heroes and all of the fallen. The song recorded is in it's demo stages, a lot of work needs to be done to it to clean it up and take out some of the instruments that aren't needed. But there's an acoustic version on youtube so i thought i would post this.
Thanks for listening.
Chris Dorgan - Vox/Guitars/Bass/Tambourine
Katy McGrath - Backing Vocals
Austin Ray - Harmonica/Mandolin/Violin
Lyrics &amp; Music by Chris Dorgan
Recorded &amp; Mixed by Andrea Merella
Copyright of Chris Dorgan 2009


Falling man - Chris Dorgan (Studio DEMO)

This was a blues song that Tom had written and brought to us a couple of days before we went into recording our Sandhills Sessions. We jammed the song once, on the last day we all set up in the live room with a couple of mics and this is what we came up with. It was one of the moments when we were all back in the mixing room and everyone had the hairs on the back of their neck standing on end. The whole thing just worked. We were made up.

Tom White - Guitar & Vox
Chris Dorgan - Slide Guitar
Jon Rymer - Drums

Recorded in Sandhills Studios
Lyrics by Tom White
Music by The Hokes

Copyright of Tom White & The Hokes 2007

Mersey On My Mind - The Hokes

This is a rare live track from the epic Cavern gig in Liverpool. Awesome times. Enjoy!!

Chris Dorgan - Guitar & Vox
Tom White - Bass & Backing Vox
Jon Rymer - Drums

Lyrics & Music by Chris Dorgan
Music/Performed & Arranged by The Hokes

Copyright of Chris Dorgan & The Hokes 2007

Hold Me Down (Live) - The Hokes

Music & Lyrics written by Chris Dorgan 

Guitars/Bass/Vocals - Chris Dorgan
Piano - Mark Quinn
Violin - Claire Stranger-Ford
Percussion - Congas/Cymbals/Shaker - Matty Dean

Produced & Engineered by Chris Woodward

Lyrics:

Verse 1
He drank around, every night,
Waking up late, with bloodshot eyes,
He staggers out to the afternoon sun,
Walkin that street he's been washed up

Chorus
All that he wants from this world,
Is the chance to dance with a steady girl,
Out there in the pouring rain
He hopes that this girl will light his flame

Verse 2
As darkness falls, he's gone out late,
just running around, a different girl again,
An he doesn't stop, till he see's the sun
An he falls back home oh he's been washed up

Chorus
All that he wants from this world
Is the chance to dance with a steady girl
Out there in that pouring rain
He hopes that this girl will light his flame

Verse 3
Now his lifes been pissed down the drain,
He's realised he's ruined his name,
But what he's got he's had all along
An he's the only one that can sing his song

Chorus x2

Outro

Thanks for listening ;)

Copyright of Chris Dorgan 2011




He's Been Washed Up - Chris Dorgan (Orig. Studio Vers. 1)

Singer Songwriter from Liverpool UK. 

Musical History :
1. Covers band at 16 called the Jalapeños, can only really remember doing gigs where the bass player was miming bass whilst doing shots off the bar. General good fun band played parties and local dive bars.
2. Started writing terrible originals which would never see the light of day now. Started the band "The Chris Dorgan Experience" playing my early originals, the band consisted of friends Jon Rymer on drums and Joe Diaz on bass. Played a sell out gig at the Cavern and handful more local gigs until... 
3. Joined friends band "Orizon" to take the place of their recently departed bass player, shared backing vocals. Good times were had and some really good gigs all around the country were played. Unfortunately the lead guitarist left so we had to do some rearranging and I started to share Guitar and Bass with lead singer Tom White. Eventually we didn't know where to go with the band and it's songs, so tried a new direction.
4. "The Hokes" was born, we became a full time three piece and used some of my new blues based tunes to get a starting point for our writing and live sets. We then went on to pen some of our best songs to date together. I played guitar and shared lead vocals with Tom White. "The Hokes" will still gig, but unfortunately the band no longer does regular sets. During this time, I supported Paolo Nutini in a solo acoustic matinee gig in Barfly's The Masque. I was joined on stage by a multi instrumental wizard by the name of Austin Ray. 
5. Present day - still writing and recording, mainly doing solo acoustic sets. The music is leaning a lot more to the singer songwriter style. Playing at jam nights and keeping the stories coming is what it's all about. The most recent name that I've supported was Nigel Clark from Dodgy down in Walsall, he was even kind enough to invite me up to play Come Together as it was John Lennons birthday on that particular night & play guitar on his hit Good Enough For You, however I had snapped strings on my guitar so decided to get back in the crowd and sing it back to him along with the other 400 people!

Enjoy my music and feel free to get in touch. Thanks for your time & interest ;)

www.youtube.com/chrisdorgan

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