A collection of songs recorded between 1994 and 2016 (with three non original songs omitted)Chasing Shadows was written about the 1999 eclipse and the celebrations for the Millennium. It also celebrates life between two rivers, and when I perform it nowadays I replace “…from Crouch to Blackwater” with “from the Severn to the Wye. WYSIWYG stands for ‘What you see is what you get’ and the instrumentation was inspired by listening to the Boo Radleys. Mathematics is a song about making the most of life and calculating what to do with whatever precious time you still have. After Summer  was a reworking of the song After Supper, recorded for a Saint FM competition. June 4th was written by Greavesy about the Tienneman Square events in China and I was challenged to record a version of it. Between the Lines Remix was as it says a remix of the love song on CMC8, with added vocals and harmonica. The Wicked Gate is a forest fantasy, a sort of Forest of Dean meets The Blair Witch Project. The Darkling Thrush puts to music the well-known poem by Thomas Hardy which tells the story of an optimistic thrush looking at the world during a period of bleak winter. Big Issue draws on imagery and words from Streets of London but basically tells the story of the 2010 street riots from the viewpoint of a homeless rioter, although the harmonica at the end of the song is meant to represent a police siren. What About Something? Is another song about the choices that we can make according to the opportunities that life deals out to us. Water Doesn’t Hurt explores the elements of Air, Fire, Earth and Water and how they can do us both good and harm. The Ballad of the Plump Hill Miners tells the story of Westburybrook Iron Mine (aka Edgehills mine) and the victims who lost their lives their during the tenure of mine manager William Henry Merdland Phillips, who lived in the very house that we now occupy. Frying Chicken Wings is a spoof version of Westlife’s Flying Without Wings, inspired by a dreadful case of campylobacter which put me and three friends out of action after a curry meal in a Burnham restaurant. Nowhere as Grand and Disassociation were originally put on this recording as two bonus live tracks – the former is a homage to the Forest of Dean and the latter is a reworking of the last part of Caravan’s ‘Nine Feet Underground’ with a folky alternative ending. These were performed and recorded live in 2016 at Mitcheldean Festival. They are now placed on CMC 13 (see below)

The Clint Mann Collection: Volume 10 SHADOWS AND FOREST

The title track of the Chasing Shadows CD, written and recorded in the year 2000 about the 1999 eclipse and the celebrations for the Millennium. The version I currently perform live has replaced Essex locations (ie Crouch & Blackwater) with those in Gloucestershire (ie Severn & Wye) and now refers to the 2015 eclipse! 

Chasing Shadows

CMC 10 Shadows and Forest

WYSIWYG

A reworked version of an older song called "After Supper". Features harmonica, guitars and vocals.

After Summer

Mathematics

Red Nose Day

Clint Mann is a singer/songwriter who lives in the Forest of Dean. His music is grounded in Prog rock but is also inspired by the history of the local area and contemporary issues affecting our environment. Original compositions are driven by vibrant guitar playing with varied chords and complex time changes. Think 'Genesis' meets 'Roy Harper' meets 'Big Big Train' and you'll get the idea. Hear Clint at events and festivals around Gloucestershire or at Mitcheldean Folk Club on the 2nd Thursday each month. 150+ original composition are available online at Soundcloud. 
For direct contact, email to: mannclinton0@gmail.com