1000 Years (COVER)

From the new studio album, ‘The Long Way Home’, released 15 Jan 16. now available to pre-order from SOH Online Store: http://bit.ly/1I6Ng44 and AMAZON: http://amzn.to/1kwtnZ2  

Breme Fell at Hastings

Just me, a guitar, a microphone and a residual chest infection.  I like the extra gravel in my voice, but now my lungs feel like they've been punched in the balls.

She's so lovely.  Great song, and she is.  :-)

She's So Lovely - Scouting for girls (cover)

A song of gratitude for the life of my dear friend Martin, who died two years ago.  I wrote most of it the week after his death, intending to play it at his funeral, but it was too raw and i couldn't finish it back then.  This weekend, taking part in a ceremony of remembrance for him, I caught and reeled-in the bridge which completes my feelings.  It's a very simple song.
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When I was a boy, you were already a man
And I could tell by the way that you opened a beer, you could do anything you turned your hand (to)
To me, when things went bad, you were the brother that I’d never had
If I didn’t say it before - thank you for that.

And you were a brave one, crossing those lines in the sand
that say that “You can’t go to uni at thirty you old man! Just stick to the work that you can (do)”
Do you know what you did?  You proved there’s no age limit on being a kid
I know I said it before - thank you for that.

I’m so glad to have known you, even now when I’m counting the cost
And somehow you gave me what I needed to survive your loss

Surrounded by people, but somehow you still felt alone
And you had been working your whole life, caring for others, healing everyone’s pain but your own
And now you’ve been gone for more than a week, I don’t know if those are raindrops or tears on my cheek
All of that pain, you didn’t deserve, we’re all here because we loved you the way you were
Holding hands tight, it’s ok to be sad, you were the best friend that I ever had
I’m going to say it once more - thank you for that.

Martin's Song - D. Flecknoe

Together with award winning Producer and composer Bill Lovelady, her band, and backed by her fan base who pre-bought the album half a year in advance, she created her first album ‘Montpelier’. Made on a complete shoe- string, it was recorded in a barn in Oxford in freezing cold October. Wearing hats, gloves, coats and drinking endless cups of hot tea and trying to record around crowing cockerels, squeaky wheelbarrows and one local celebrity who liked to take his plane out most days, ‘Montpelier’ was born. The barn was chosen for it’s unique acoustics and it’s what eventually gave the album such an individual sound.

blowing this candle out

1 All The Saints

Track 1 from the EP "The Ballads of the Loved & Lost".

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-ballads-of-the-loved-lost-ep/1438469974

FINGERPRINTS

Written by D. Flecknoe
Produced by L. Scurville & D. Flecknoe

Vocals & guitar - D. Flecknoe
Drums & bass - L. Scurville
Backing vocals - S. Doherty
Violin - L. Lipscombe
Keyboards - B. Hayes

Lyrics:

So now you’re gone I’m wondering would I
Have felt the same if I knew we didn’t have to say goodbye
Would I have recognized your colours, and tell me
Would I have looked the same to you, what kind of man would you see?
We didn’t have that long, we made the most of the time
And now it’s over I can only wish that it was still mine

We took a chance to love, time running out, and I could pretend
That from the distance you’ve flown, I could be more than a friend
We were an unspoiled moment, in lives confused, and I cannot be sad for what I had with you

Now I cannot escape your fingerprints are inside my head
The miles between won't let me hold you but I will not forget
The memories come unlooked-for, the smallest thing connects to you
Now when I think of summer then I’ll remember you

Why do I miss you more tonight than yesterday
And how can I re-write the words in my heart just because you couldn’t stay
And what the hell was I thinking of to fall for you when I knew soon you’d be gone away?
Well anyway, we’ll bridge the oceans on the telephone
and I’ll kid myself today maybe you’ll be waiting for me when I get home
Somehow the empty room is no surprise
but your photo’s on the wall and I’m still captured by the warmth in your eyes

this summer’s memories push back the cold
the picture of you in my mind will never fade and never grow old
and I’ll sing the ballads of the loved & lost as if you could hear
but they sound brighter now than before you were near

Now I cannot escape your fingerprints are inside my head
The miles between won't let me hold you but I will not forget
The memories come unlooked-for, the smallest thing connects to you
Now when I think of summer
When I think of summer
I’ll think of you, the words you said
The nights we spent wrapped up in each other on a borrowed sofa-bed
The perfect day when we waded in the sea
The perfect night when you turned the lights out on me

Now I cannot escape your fingerprints are inside my head
The miles between won't let me hold you but I will not forget
The memories come unlooked-for, the smallest thing connects to you
Now when I think of summer then I’ll remember you

Fingerprints

Track 2 from the EP "The Ballads of the Loved & Lost".

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-ballads-of-the-loved-lost-ep/1438469974

IN THE AIR

Written by D. Flecknoe
Produced by L. Scurville & D. Flecknoe

Vocals & acoustic guitar - D. Flecknoe
Drums & bass - L. Scurville
Backing vocals - S. Doherty & D. Flecknoe
Violin - L. Lipscombe
Keyboards - B. Hayes
Electric guitar - G. Heath

Lyrics:

I made a sound that wasn’t a word when the wheels left the ground 
and I couldn’t explain the logic of leaving when i must remain

I could get sad 
thinking about all those second chances we’ve had
and i can’t quell 
my fears about stories that only the black box can tell

‘Cos you’re in the air tonight
The loneliness hits with the plane still in sight
In the air all night
And I can't help wonder if you and I are still alright

I walk home past the park, under the flightpath where it’s growing dark
Closing our door, the debris of packing all over the floor 

...are your discarded clothes
deep in the night I reach out for you with my toes
But you’ve flown away
I’d offer a prayer for you if I knew how to pray

‘Cos you’re in the air tonight
The loneliness hits with the plane still in sight
In the air all night
And I can't help wonder if you and I are still alright

I could get sad
thinking about all those second chances we’ve had
And i can’t quell
my fears about stories that only the black box can tell

‘Cos you’re in the air tonight
The loneliness hits with the plane still in sight
In the air all night
And I can't help wonder if you and I are in the air tonight
The loneliness hits with the plane still in sight
In the air all night
And I can't help wonder if you and I are still alright

In the air

This is a great song.  It's Friday night and I felt like learning it.

End of transmission

Garageband

Hell or High Water - Passenger (cover)

Chris Whitty probably needs no introduction to our UK audience - he's the chief medical advisor to the UK government, has played a pivotal role in shaping the country's response to Covid-19.

He rarely does interviews - so in this conversation we wanted to ask him the questions that matter to clinicians, about how the pandemic will impact them over the winter. 

This was recorded yesterday, just before the announcement of the strict lockdowns in France and Germany.

For more covid-19 coverage
www.bmj.com/coronavirus

Martin's Song - D. Flecknoe

Danny Flecknoe