Ian Roure: vocals, acoustic guitar, 12 string electric guitar, bass
Liza Roure: melodica

With Peter West: drums

Albion Asunder

My challenges this week were to a. defrost the freezer b. finish a song and c. record a demo of it. Well, I've defrosted the freezer and here's the finished song - now for the demo...

World Of Illusion - live acoustic run through

News From Nowhere - demo version

Experimental and, er, rather silly track from the Dada Paradox workshop...

Ian Roure: Garage band synthesisers

Space Hamster

January Sun

2022 Remix by Simon "Houbsta" White

Ian Roure: songwriter, 12 string electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Liza Roure: melodica

Peter West: Drums
Simon "Houbsta" White: piano

Albion Asunder 2022 remix by Simon "Houbsta" White

Summer Rain Reverie (demo)

September To Go - demo, mix 1

The Big Parade (demo)

Placebo Windows demo

Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup (demo)

Demo of a new song - I had a dream that I'd been invited to the secret office party and things started to get strange...

No trifle or Twiglets for you
No jelly or ginger beer
Cracked coffee cups, cold corridors
Wispers fade and disapear

At four the faces of the clocks dissolve
Time has gone on holiday
Friday never felt like this before
Reality has given way

You're invited to the Secret Office Party
Surprised to find you're at the Secret Office Party
Secret Office Party

HR shadow guards escourt you to the manager
Something ominous is surely on the cards
Floating down the hall, float up to the second floor
Your dream destiny is at the office door

Mangement is on the sofa charming
Offering a drink or two
The monitor becomes a jukebox and the staff put on their dancing shoes

You're invited to the Secret Office Party
Surprised to find you're at the Secret Office Party
Secret Office Party

Everybody laughing, lucky spirit
Finally you take the cake
Bouncy castle bouncing up a tier
A mighty headache when you wake

You're invited to the Secret Office Party
Surprised to find you're at the Secret Office Party
Secret Office Party

The Secret office Party (demo)

Ian: acoustic guitar, electric 12 string guitar, lead vocals, bass, tambourine, mob bellowing
Liza: melodica, harmony vocals 

From Mobile Flight: CD slated for release in May 2016

The Apocalypse Cheering Committee

Spray Tan Apocalypse: A musical Journey through the seemingly meteoric disintegration of U.S. politics 2016-17

It's about time someone spoke directly to us
Not at all like any others that have come before
It's about time someone fed us easy answers 
And it's about time someone promised us the world...

It's about time someone started spouting nonsense 
It's a goldmine of ideas that we can get behind
It's about time someone dismissed limitations
And it's about time someone promised us the world...

Forget compliance, f*ck the earth, what has your caring ever done for us?
Forget the future, take the cash and f*ck the science that's been stopping us.
We've been angrily waiting...

Just suppress those nagging doubts
Don't look too close and it will all work out
Take your daily dose of fear
And bow your head before the biggest mouth
Ya got Trouble Right Here
In America...

Trouble Right Here

Spray Tan Apocalypse (Ian Roure)

Bombshells bursting here and there 
A whiff of sulfur in the ether 
Gradually the war began 
On your phone and your computer 
Incoming: voices of destruction punish and deceive 
Incoming: scathing degradation 
Venom imported from a well-known Slavic regime 
And in the dawn's early drizzle:

Spray Tan surprise: a win for the delusive 
Spray Tan Apocalypse!

Insults in the articles, injured in the comments section 
Casualties have mounted up: spelling, grammar and non-fiction 
Incoming: denial and distraction - always hide never seek 
Incoming: gross appropriation 
Tiny fingers grabbing that which was once out of reach 
And o'er the land of the taken

Spray Tan surprise: a win for the delusive 
Spray Tan Apocalypse!

The seven tawdry trumpets blow 
The golden rain from heaven flows 
The age ends for all who live below 
In an orange glow...

Spray Tan surprise: a win for the delusive 
Spray Tan Apocalypse! 
Spray Tan surprise: there's no gettin' over it 
Spray Tan Apocalypse!

Spray Tan Apocalypse (EP remix)

Kind of a sarky paean to super conservative Summertown in Oxford - according to their crime stats, their biggest issue is with shoplifters...

Summertown Autumn - Demo Version

Written when I thought Brexit was the worst crisis on the horizon - I think the line "We've never had it so odd" still has a resonance to it...

You've Never Had It So Good

On Deep England (Ian Roure) 
Somewhere...
A golden afternoon, pint of mild,
Creased cricket whites
Somewhere...
A different history
Made a different present you'd like
Empire declined, industrial rewind, 
Reality refined...
(chorus)
Your Deepest dreams have new life
Now you gave up the mental fight
You can almost feel from clouded hills
Your feet alight...
On Deep England

Somehow...
Your fainted form was found
And a tonic was prescribed
Somehow...
Then you saw the vision 
And your fainted form revived
Escher-like design, your saviour ever kind
Has graciously resigned...

When you close you eyes
You can see quite clearly
The future comes alive 
Like a cartoon on TV...Oh, oh...
When you close your eyes 
They've got you easy
Selling to the blind
The world you'd like to see
If you just believe...

On Deep England

Progressive Retro-Pop: guitar pop & rock with psychedelic & folk-ish tendencies.
“...slacker pop with an Anti-Folk edge for the anti-Trump movement” - Nightshift magazine
“Brilliantly lyrical, darkly funny”
"Ray Davies channeled through the prism of peak-era, mid-90s Blur...""Majestically Jangly" - New York Music Daily
Lucid Culture says "(Ian Roure is) a sort of missing link between Ray Davies & Robyn Hitchcock"

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