‘Lost Boy’ was written about someone that I loved many many years ago. It really wasn’t a healthy relationship. I helplessly watched as he set out to destroy himself (and almost took me with him) but I learnt a very valuable lesson -loving someone isn’t  enough to save them, however much  you might want it to be. I’ll never forget the utter hell that he put me through but I forgave him a long time ago and I always hoped that one day he’d find happiness and a reason to build a better life, but he never did and sadly, at much to young an age, he passed away earlier this year. 

To anyone who’s currently lost - I hope you find your path…

Lost Boy

Our new track. A mixture of electronic and traditional instruments mixed with strong female vocals to create a mysterious yet driving song.

Take My Hand

A song about letting go of unrealistic childhood dreams and discovering that its OK to simply be yourself and that there is still time to achieve something worthwhile, even though it might not be what your younger self had envisaged.

Produced with a mixture of "real" and electronic instruments.

Ghost Of Me

Life can throw some difficult obstacles in your path, and often seems to have a habit of making you deal with issues you really don't feel quite ready to deal with. Winter is a song that I wrote a short while back, and was born because of the growing realisation that certain people who have always been a hugely important part of my life are getting older, their health is deteriorating and that they won't be around for ever. 

It was important to me that it didn't become a sad and depressing song - there is enough going on in the world that makes me sad - I wanted this to be more of a bittersweet celebration of the circle of life and hope that comes across in the song. 

I hope this song brings some comfort to anyone who is or has been in a similar situation xxx

Winter

My Second Face was written to express the inner turmoil between the person that I feel that I am supposed to be and the secret part of me that is hidden deep inside.

My Second Face

See the video at https://youtu.be/pqXJXvpcJjI

Dark Water is a love song. I've been through some quite traumatic and turbulent times throughout my life, and at times really felt that I had lost my way. Dark Water is about being saved by someone that I love with all of my heart, someone who lights up my darkness, holds my hand when I feel lost and who I know will always walk life's path with me, no matter how rocky.

He knows who he is...

Dark Water

See the video at https://youtu.be/brS8SjUvsgs

So...

We finally managed to all find the time to get together to work on some recordings - we've had a number of songs that are "almost there" for a while and we had all agreed to get them finished before we started working on anything else.  We sat down with the full intention of finally finishing at least one of them. Things however as usual didn't go quite to plan - Steve (its always bloody Steve!!) ​started playing the guitar while waiting for James to finish setting everything up ready to record and got a chord progression stuck in his head. And rather predictably, that's  when all our carefully laid plans for finishing what we had already started went straight out of the window,  as both Steve and James disappeared into creating yet another piece of music that we  didn't need right then. I tried to keep them in line, I really did, but it was pointless, and anyway I got caught up in the magic of what they were doing so started writing some lyrics - and that's how Strands Of Silk came into being. It was one of those songs that just flowed - I was writing lyrics as fast as they were coming up with the music - hardest thing about the whole process was naming the song - I think we've gone through 4 different names for the song before finally settling on Strands Of Silk!

Strands Of Silk

Little Hurts was a song that I wrote in the middle of a really big argument - literally! 
I stopped shouting pretty much mid sentence, flounced off (obviously in a very dramatic manner) and started writing the lyrics,  because I had a sudden, almost epiphany type moment where I realised that yes, while I was really (wanting to lash out, draw blood, and inflict slow, painful torture kind of) angry, and that even though I wanted to scream and shout, that there was no point because I was still in love, still wanted there to be an 'us', and even though I felt deeply wounded by the words that had just been exchanged, I started to realise that my words also caused him as much pain and together we realised that it was pointless carrying on with the conflict  because we still wanted to be with each other more than anything else.

So... does he still sometimes make my blood boil to the point where I could cheerfully throttle him?
Absolutely!
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Do I ever really want to be without him?
​Never.........

Little Hurts

I've always been a Daddy's girl....
My mum is absolutely brilliant and I love her more than words can say, but when I was growing up, it was always me and my dad who went off together on little adventures. He was my hero and I truly believed that he could do anything. 

I lost my dad to Cancer last year, exactly one week and one day after his 76th birthday. Even though I had known for some time that it was coming, when it actually happened I was totally devastated.

My dad was brave, kind, uncomplaining and a true gentleman right up until the very end.
I miss him each and every day. He's always in my thoughts and I still can't quite believe that he's gone - but memories are strange things, they can be so vivid that sometimes its as though he's still here, and a place, sound, sight or smell instantly makes me feel as though I'm travelling back in time.

Father's Day seemed to be a fitting day to release this track. I hope he would have liked it.

Love you always Dad.

​xx

Travelling In Time

I’ve been in a little bit of a dark and lonely place over the last year.
“After the Storm” is about being lost and not quite knowing how to find your way. Sometimes you just have to believe that even though your surrounded by darkness, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 
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I’ve thankfully now re-found my light. 
But to anyone whose currently still in darkness, don’t give up - keep faith in that fact that you will eventually find a path.

xx

After The Storm

Concrete Spirit are a three piece band from the picturesque South Wales valleys. We use a range of electronic and real instruments to create and produce original songs, often with deep and emotional lyrics.

Steve Bear is the musical genius in residence.... He has the incredibly annoying ability of being able to play pretty much any instrument that you put in front of him. If he can't already play it, give him a few minutes and he'll figure out how to.
​And he will also do it sickeningly well.  
While musically Country is his first love, this six foot six, grizzly old hillbilly, can and will turn his hand to any style of music.

Kie is responsible for the vocals and lyrics. She has a penchant for lizards (and owns a Bearded Dragon called Jaffa who spends most of his time running around the studio, generally getting in the way and into as many photos as possible). 
Kie likes anything creative, and particularly enjoys sculpture and pyrography, She REALLY likes to sing.
She also makes great coffee and even better cakes.

Computer programmer by day and innovative sound technician (or ‘sound fiddler’)by night... James is in his element mixing tracks together that no one else particularly thought would work. Smug should probably be his middle name....
He has an ever growing collection of musical paraphernalia which seems to have a direct correlation with his ever dwindling bank account...
Oh, and he plays bass guitar too.

Concrete Spirit

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