On The Metaphorical Boat's podcast, our Captain, Christopher McBride, sits down with one of our favourite musicians, to ask them about music, life, and most importantly, what their favourite cake is.

Our guest on this episode of The Metaphorical Boat Podcast is Strabane singer/songwriter and member of A Northern Light, Darren Doherty, who talks about his musical journey, his first solo album "What You Do" and its spontaneous recording process, and his new band, The Heathen Choir.

Find Darren Doherty on -
https://darrendoherty.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/darrendohertymusic
https://twitter.com//DarrenJDoherty

The Metaphorical Boat Podcast Episode 05 - Darren Doherty

Debut album from Scottish band, Galileo's Fan. 

Tracks written by Fi Vass (1,3,6,7,9) and Martin Vass (2,4,5,8,10) (PRS, MCPS)

Recorded by Iain Hutchison at Glowormrecording 
Produced by Iain Hutchison, Fi Vass and Martin Vass
Mastered by Peter Beckmann at TechnologyWorks Mastering
Artwork and Design by Kim Richards

Fi Vass: vocals, piano/keys 
Martin Vass: vocals, guitars
Iain Hutchison: piano (tracks 3,6,10), guitars, programming, synths 
Graeme Smillie: Bass (1,2,4,5,6,8,9,10)
Louis Abbott: Drums (1,2,3,4,5,6,9)
Scott Mackay: Drums, percussion (1,4,8)
Mike Vass: fiddle, vocals (3,6)
Euan Burton: Bass (7)
John Lowrie: Drums (7)

I Won't Be Found

Waiting to Hear

Waiting To Hear

Lyrics:

I walked a thousand miles one night, oh, in a dream
I came upon a familiar figure stood by a stream
He called to me a warning, look of fear upon his face
I woke, afraid, but ventured further into this wild place

Through losing track of time and sense of reality
I’d seen so many wondrous things on this journey
And soon my world was covered in a frozen, wintry bed
The nights grew colder, I grew older in my head
My head

Alaska, great teacher
Strange dreams possess my mind
But your beauty captivates me
And awakens my soul to infinity

I’ve read the words of all the greatest writers of our times
They’ve left me now with nothing more than riddles and rhymes
My introspective quest has finally led me to see
That happiness is only real when shared with somebody
I am free, but lonely

Alaska, great teacher
Strange dreams possess my mind
But your beauty captivates me
And awakens my soul to infinity

The day, it came, when weakness tore through my every bone
With no-one there to save me, I faced the end alone
I thought of those I’d left behind and gently closed my eyes
My escape from that material world had made me so alive
I’m alive, alive

Alaska, great teacher
I give to you my life
My story, throughout history
Should remind the world that we
Are so much more than material things
We’re infinity

Alaska

Winter

This is my new song called ‘i’m lonely’. Pls tell a friend if you like it ! Thank you so much x

https://platoon.lnk.to/imlonely

[LYRICS]

Another day, another welcome mat
A door engraved with 28, I won’t remember that
These corridors, they never lead to anywhere 

Another face, a late reminder of
How I’m so used to being used 
So, I don’t carry love 
My hands, they pay respect to what they once could bare
Oh, how I wish you’d hold them now, but you’re not there 

Why don’t we talk 
Why don’t we talk?
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh please can you hold me 

That’s all I ask
No more than that 
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh why can’t you hold me?

All it was, was wishing you’d not stall
And hoping I preserved the coating on these pebble walls
But misconstrued, I’ll always lose what I can’t solve 

The hanging on to ambiguity
Each stone I hold’s a sequence shown on every road that we followed
but, now we don’t speak, no

Why don’t we talk 
Why don’t we talk?
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh please can you hold me 

That’s all I ask
No more than that 
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh why can’t you hold me?

You’re serving a purpose
In a life that hurts
But bound to the surface
You’ll forget what it’s worth 

You’ve never looked better 
Suppressed and reserved

Why don’t we talk 
Why don’t we talk?
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh please can you hold me 

That’s all I ask
No more than that 
I’m lonely, I’m lonely 
Oh why can’t you hold me?

i'm lonely

‘The Love You Give’ is an upbeat indie-tune in the style of ‘Palace Winter’ or ‘The War On Drugs’ with a melancholic vibe and thoughtful lyrics about the nature and behaviour of karmic love. It’s a shout out to the Beatles-classic: ‘The End’.

'The Love you Give' is released via We Are Suburban the 3rd of April.

Silque - The Love You Give

The Love You Give

On Top Of Me

‘Husbands’ is named after the 1970 John Cassavetes film. The album takes the big music out of its pagan places and into the suburbs, evoking feelings of existential disquiet. It is carefully sequenced; cohesive and immersive; twelve tracks that build in form and content to evoke the widescreen indie LPs of the late nineties.

Produced by Jamie Savage and recorded at The Delgado’s legendary Chem 19 studios, 'Husbands' is a richly melodic fever dream lit up by a subversive intelligence working within its lyrics. The album’s twelve songs are Trojan horses smuggling in feelings of disaffection and disappointment.

‘Nightlights’ and ‘Seven Years’ suspect that the weight of responsibility may be too much to bear, however 'Clucky’, ‘A Disaffection’ and ‘Various Witches’ refuse to give in to despair. ‘Husbands’ is an album that recognises that the blues of the verses must give way to the gospel of the choruses. An old trick, granted, but when the melodies are this good it would be churlish to complain. Fans of imperial phase REM and Elbow at their most anthemic will find much to love. Those interested in the Scottish literary scene will be intrigued to know that Booker Prize winning author James Kelman kindly gave the band his blessing to incorporate lines from his short story ‘If It is Your Life’ into the track ‘Various Witches’.

'Husbands' is an album without bombast or bluster. The big choruses are earned; underwritten by the intellectual rigour of lyrics that are allusive and elliptical, yet able to evoke the specific feeling of suburban ennui. Husbands is an album of Rorschach blots; suffused with the guilt of being comfortable, yet still longing for something more. The title track explores the anxiety of influence. The song is one room of a ghostly hotel where spirits wander the corridors, a purgatory of the self; a warning of the consequence of putting your life in the hands of a rock n roll band.

Pale Fire make pop music for those people who feel pressure to put away childish things. Their second album is a meditation on the passing of time and the way that it can fray the ties that bind: friendship, love and community. Their music reckons with unfashionable subject matter: the demands of adulthood. ‘Husbands’ is a word traditionally weighted with responsibility and expectation; indeed the band’s existence itself is an act of protest: six school friends exploring how to navigate and exist in a world that demands the sacrifice of your essential self.

A Disaffection

Release 16th September on Big Indie Records

I Meant What I Said

With emotionally stirring songwriting and lush electronic, atmospheric production, ​Tore It Down excels at marrying ambient, cinematic tones with rock and pop sensibilities and conventions.

Tore It Down

‘I Won’t Remember You’ is the first single from Invaderband’s second album, Peter Gabriel - following up on their eponymous 2017 Northern Ireland Music Prize-shortlisted debut LP. Like the fruit of a now-lost collaborative project between Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley and Wire, it’s an immediately earworming punk-pop nugget that clocks in at just over 2 minutes. Accentuated with razor-sharp guitars and a singular voice, the track release is cut from a strain of garage-leaning art rock that embraces idiosyncrasy and eccentricity, à la Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, or Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur.
BUY: https://adamleonard.bandcamp.com/album/i-wont-remember-you

Invaderband - I Won't Remember You

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