Out now on Street Mission Records: https://push.fm/ps/daveburncoldstation

Dave Burn - Never Did Dance

Dave Burn - Cold Station

Dave Burn - Sun Sometimes / World In My Way, out now on Street Mission Records: https://push.fm/fl/sunsometimes

Lyrics:

Been meaning to put up that picture
So long but I can’t find the time
Plant a tree in the garden
Poison the ants but I can’t find the time

I feel like the sun sometimes
Casting a lonely shadow
Waving the world goodbye
Like there won’t be tomorrow

There’s a smell in the front room
Rip up the floor and I’ll see what I find
Empty bottles, drowning ash trays
The cigar I’ll smoke, come the end of time

I feel like the sun sometimes
Trapped in a mind so narrow
Waving the world goodbye
Like there won’t be tomorrow

Two steps behind all the time
Two steps behind all the time
Two steps behind all the time
Two steps behind all the time

Sun Sometimes

Dave Burn's new album Medium Dave + Friends is out now: https://push.fm/ps/mediumdaveandfriends

Medium Dave + Friends

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Universe

Fine Company

Music by End of Neil and band
Mix by BM
Art by CB

With the dead beside me

Carus Thompson proudly presents his first new track in five years, the dark summer single ‘Beach Fires’ from his forthcoming album ‘Island’. 

‘Beach Fires’ was co-written with Island’s producer Joel Quartermain, the production force behind Australian powerhouse Meg Mac, writer of many chart topping hits with iconic rock band Eskimo Joe and collaborator on singles for Dan Sultan and Dustin Tebbutt.

The exciting pairing has yielded a massive artistic leap for Carus, one of this country’s hardest working singer-songwriters.

Like an Australian Springsteen or Mellencamp telling engaging and intelligent stories through song, in ‘Beach Fires’ Carus paints a vivid lyrical picture of escape, breaking out, leaving an imploding town behind and starting anew. Beneath the breezy summer vibes lies the story of a small town ravaged by the ice epidemic: a biting social commentary delivered by one of Australia's finest storytellers.

Beach Fires

So Close To Magic

"My album The Violence is a concept album about the Essex Witch Trials in 1645 during the English Civil Wars. It has 20 songs on it.

One reason it is so long is that I found it very hard to find a song to end the album. At one point it ended with King Charles 1 execution, another time it was all the people of England trampling ‘Desire Lines’ out to the coast.

It took me three attempts to find the resting place of Matthew Hopkins, the self proclaimed Witch Finder General. The ruins of St Mary’s church are clearly marked on the ordinance survey map but on three trips I couldn’t locate it. I wondered whether the smallest ruins even odd bricks were sometimes marked on maps and I would never find them amongst the grass on the heath.

Driving through North Essex one day my wife persuaded me to try one more time. She looked over the wall and there was the forlorn pile of stones that used to be St Mary’s church. Growing out of the stones was a twisted old tree that appeared to be smiling.

It’s worth visiting the geography of the places where you are sitting stories. You never know what detail they might throw up.

I had my last song; Matthew Hopkins lying, dead in the ground, waiting to fly to heaven, his remains feeding a tree that laughs down at him."

Darren Hayman

Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament - The Laughing Tree

New album 'Dudes vs Bad Dudes' available to stream/pre-order at http://cowtown.bandcamp.com/. Out 01/04/13 on The Audacious Art Experiment/City Hands. To celebrate check out 'Ski School' - it's a party ballad.

Ski School

Singer-Songwriter Dave Burn is a pioneer of UK alt-country whose music takes elements of Brit folk artists such as Richard Thompson and American singer-songwriters from Tim Rose to Tom Petty, then blends them with the sound of classic London indie bands and UK Americana, topped off with literary, twisting lyrics examining both life’s biggest questions and it’s most fascinating ordinary moments.