Berlin ’39 – inspired by Gandhi’s letter to Hitler: http://gu.com/p/3jey6 – was adapted from a song I wrote in my (turbulent) early 20’s called Lonely Dream of Angels.

In 2013 I was going through old tapes with Justin Richards (producer) to see if anything was worth revisiting for Darkbloom, and this one particular lo-fi home demo, really stood out. In fact, Justin liked the vibe on it so much, he wanted to try somehow to rework the original, but in the end, technically that turned out to be unviable, plus I thought the lyrics were awful and singing way too manic (which my was certainly state of mind at time of demo). Still, I have to agree.. there is definitely something about this recording

Lonely Dream Of Angels (2002) [Home Demo Sample]

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Lyrics: 

Harold says you’ve never had it so good
Let's be frank, we are the first ones who ever could
The mother country dries a tear from her eye
Children are leaving, goodnight is now goodbye 

And you're forever now, the one for me
In a big, small, strange, open world
at best, we'll never see
I'll be your candle lighting darker times
Just take my hand, everything will be alright
Walk with me, love of mine

Don't have much money, ain’t got a plan
Got to do something, get to understand
Ain't got no money, ain’t got a plan
But she’s my woman and I'm her man

A few short years until the family home
Kids still playing outside, he'd come home late
Take her to the bedroom, beat her to a pulp
Kids about, of course, listening in

Is this what you wanted?
Did it just turn out this way?
This could be a heaven if there wasn't hell to pay
Watching every footstep just to make it through the day
This is not the way

On the sick, his working days were through
Barely middle aged and lost none of his wrath
Doctors on alert, not for him, but her
A few times almost killed her
She said she'd never leave

(Chorus x 2 - Is this what you wanted?..)

Looking back, boy did I make you pay for my love
Man, was I a little on the mean side
No use now, everyone has a cross to bear
Hold mine and I'll cut you down to my size

No use now, everyone has a cross to bear
Hold mine and I'll cut you down to my size

Family Fortunes [Alternate Mix]

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Family Fortunes [MP3]

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Family Fortunes

About a boy…

Darkbloom (in real life Noam David Wright) is a singer-songwriter from Manchester, UK, with more than a few tales to tell. Raised in some of the roughest parts of city, as a teenager he narrowly escaped a lot of hot water. 

Channeling a heart full of anger, in 1997 he formed the infamous, and short-lived, punk band Breather, who released just one vinyl-only single (financed by Manic Street Preachers' management) before imploding in spectacular fashion.

In his early 20’s, and in a right old mess, he'd had it with songwriting and took off abroad, over the next 10 years living and working in eight countries - Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Poland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Israel - where he did everything from getting arrested for bar fighting in Nairobi to becoming a voice-over actor for Italian cinema commercials to nursing acute dementia sufferers in rural New Zealand.

After this all this, on returning to his home country, there was only one thing to do; become Jewish. 

His rich and multi-faceted songwriting has been praised by fellow musical greats such as Tom Robinson (TRB), John Bramwell (I am Kloot) and Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), as well as the late (Mr Manchester himself) Tony Wilson (Factory Records). 

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