From Honeyfeet's debut LP "It's A Good Job I Love You"

HONEYFEET - Buried My Husband

Part of Debt Records' Open Recording Sessions series in which artists create a track in front of an audience. 
This song was written specially for Snowapple by label-mate Louis Barabbas.

Vocals: Laurien Schreuder, Una Bergin, Becca Williams
Drums: Tom Cleghorn
Bass: Biff Roxby
Saxophone: Gus Fairbairn

Produced by Biff Roxby
Engineered by Dan Watkins and WR Audio
Recorded at The Eagle Inn, Salford

LYRICS


Come let me in
I'm soaked to the skin
And the wind begins to blow
The sand in the hourglass has turned to snow
But if you let me lie
Awhile by your side
I will go with you come the dawn

Where did they go
All those tomorrows
That turned and fled so fast
I've no plans for the future
Just for the past
I don't fear the fall
I don't fear it at all
But I call call call to you
Don't face this fall alone.

For blood still flows
Where once it flowed
Still flows though now so slow
I can't give you joy
But I'll take your woes
Widow
If you let them go

I should've stayed
If only to fade
Along with the photographs
Old age is a disguise you can't take off
How can you deny
The lure of these lies
And why why why
Won't you lie to me no more?

Blood still flows
Where once it flowed
Still flows though now so slow
I can't give you joy
But I'll take your woes
Widow
If you let them go.

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SNOWAPPLE - Widow (feat. Becca Williams)

SNOWAPPLE - Track 22

New single from Dutch trio Snowapple about the desperation of the business commuter rat-race, taken from upcoming train-themed mini-album TRACKS.

SNOWAPPLE - Businessmen (Single Edit)

Liz Green joins Louis Barabbas in this tragic duet from the album "Gentle Songs Of Ceaseless Horror" (released March 2016)
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Written by Louis Barabbas
Produced by Biff Roxby
Vocals and Guitar - Louis Barabbas
Vocals - Liz Green
Double Bass - Joel Roberts
Keyboard - Fran Lydiatt
Tuba and clock sequencing - Biff Roxby
Recorded at WR Audio 

LYRICS:

I was always almost a good man
But I've never been almost great.
And you watched me rue all the rest.
Though I trust you with my disrepair
More than love and more than hate
It's for the things that are torn
In the thick of the dawn
That I wait.

Some lives are just loose ends to sew
And our threads are still entwined
They are bound fast around all I have left.
You gave me a song in a watch
It would play and I would wind
But the last time it did
I unclasped the lid
Too late

For inside the case I saw more than one face
As the hands both raised to noon
And when counting the cogs in the musical box
I forever lost its tune

One day I awoke from our love
As though from a pleasant dream
Each kiss was an abyss without end.
At its core were two fictions made flesh
With this song their epilogue
That the tiny tuned teeth
Rotating beneath
Will attest

You said you'd stay with me always.
Was that a promise or a threat?
Now you're not around I don't know.
You left me these words but no voice
Just tones tapped on tin
And as the cylinders slow
The keys it should toe only rust

I dream every night
That the wraith personae
Dance to Clair De Lune
But when counting the cogs in the musical box
I forever lost its tune

Each tick of this clock is a beat
Of my heart as it once was.
Oh you are still beautiful now.
I wasn't cold until you showed me that warmth
In the time between the tunes
Our lives were to be
Played in the wrong key
And too low.

I'm losing my way
More and more every day
And I know I'm losing you too
So I'm drawn to follow
All the silent echos
Of old bones
Because counting the cogs in a musical box
Will never explain its tune
Before it began
And long after its end
I have known
Our waltz was always to be
Over too soon

LOUIS BARABBAS & LIZ GREEN - Musical Box

The final recording by The Bedlam Six. 
This song is taken from Louis Barabbas' musical tragedy "Jocasta".

Recorded at WR Audio, Salford in September 2016.

LYRICS:

My daddy always said
When you drop down dead
There are certain things that just ain't allowed
When you get your angel wings
Don't you try to bring a thing
Because there ain't no pockets in a shroud

Oh my boy you'll soon be finding
Behind every silver lining
There lurks the biggest deepest darkest cloud
But it don't matter if you're rich
Or if you haven't got a stitch
Because there ain't no pockets in a shroud

There ain't no pockets in a shroud
There ain't no pockets in a shroud
There ain't no pockets in a shroud
So smile and leave it all behind

When the end is nigh
When you've sighed all of your sighs
And your last remaining furrow has been ploughed
Come and bid adieu
For it's not au revoir for you
There ain't no pockets in a shroud

When that big red curtain falls
And they're sweeping up the stalls
And the girls have dropped their curtsies and you've bowed
You've taken your last turn
There are no more lines to learn
There ain't no pockets in a shroud

There ain't no pockets in a shroud...

All it takes is one calamity
For alas such immortality
Is a trait with which you never were endowed
When you've quit all of your hurting
There's only one thing left that's certain
There ain't no pockets in a shroud

So now no more caveats
You've bagged up and drowned your cats
And choked a sob as each of them meowed
Well isn't life a bitch
You've scratched your final itch
There ain't no pockets in a shroud

There ain't no pockets in a shroud...

LOUIS BARABBAS & THE BEDLAM SIX - Pockets In A Shroud

Written by Louis Barabbas, sung by Bridie Jackson.
From the musical "Jocasta" (soundtrack album released 5th May 2017).
More information at www.louisbarabbas.com/jocasta

LYRICS

Wait
a little longer
Stay a little longer
The world slows
And hollows
Yet my heart still remains
So full
With a lullaby
But no baby to lull

Don't say a word to
Those who would hurt you
It's cold out
But just hold out
Your hand
I won't ever let you go
My lullaby
With no baby to lull

Now I make
Sure that every
Mistake
Is carried with me
And I've set
Every regret
In stone
As a monument
But still
This is a lullaby
With no baby to lull.

Wait a little longer
Stay a little longer.

Jocasta: A Musical Tragedy

No Baby To Lull

BRIDIE JACKSON - No Baby To Lull

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Part of BBC Radio Manchester's 40x40 project, forty bands were allocated a different year from the past forty years that BBC Manchester has been on air. With that year came a hit single with a Manchester connection. In the case of Louis Barabbas &amp; The Bedlam Six, the year was 1993 and the song was "Relight My Fire" by Take That and Lulu.
Listen to the track to hear what they did with it...


"Relight My Fire" by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six

Single by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, on general release 22/10/12. Recorded at The Black Lion, Salford, mixed by WR Audio and mastered by Paul o'Brien.

Credits:
Louis Barabbas: Writer, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Biff Roxby: Tenor and Bass Trombones
Fran Lydiatt: Organ
Tom Cleghorn: Drums
Matthew Cleghorn: Lead Guitar
Dan Watkins: Bass Guitar, Engineer

LOUIS BARABBAS & THE BEDLAM SIX - Three Down, Four To Go

Debut single from Manchester sequencer blues duo WALK. On general release from Debt Records on 25/02/13

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WALK - This City

Becca Williams - Guitar, Vocals
Joel Roberts - Double Bass
Rob Hall - Percussion
Claire Newton - Viola, Violin

Engineered/Produced by Dan Watkins
© Debt Records 2011

BECCA WILLIAMS - Maria

“Truth is often the jester”

For a figure that delivers fearful news in a voice of mirth, with a face of folly, accompanists from Manchester and Bristol have gathered to upturn a corner of the solemn court of musical hierarchy, with a joke nearly soiled and serious enough to be human.

Ten join pianist Daniel Inzani (The Mandibles, Count Bobo and the Bullion) and poet/singer/saxophonist Alabaster dePlume (Honeyfeet, Liz Green) in creating a wash of fugues, invocations and tunes.
 
Employing unusual and cut-throat practices, analogue equipment was used to capture the creative expressions and communications of the 12-piece ensemble, live. Spontaneity, sincerity, and humour taking stubborn precedence, the characters of all involved have formed this delightful, unique and deeply moving piece of work.
 
Theatrical spoken-word and song joining chorus, horns, strings, piano and percussion, this release is a rich and frighteningly varied gem for the diverse and single-minded Debt Records of Manchester (Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam 6, Bridie Jackson and the Arbour, Walk, Honeyfeet)
 
It will be available on CD, Vinyl and download, on the 8th July, accompanied by the following concerts, in celebration:
 
12th July Three Minute Theatre Manchester

13th July Three Minute Theatre Manchester

14th July Kazimier Liverpool

20th July Folk House Bristol

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ALABASTER DEPLUME & DANIEL INZANI - Tell Me

Manchester-based record label with a big idea and a small bank balance. Merrily punching above our weight since 2009.

Acts we represent include Honeyfeet, Felix Hagan & The Family, Snowapple, Alabaster dePlume, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, Richard Barry, Becca Williams, WALK, T.E. Yates, Ivan Campo and Roxby's Wonky Disco.

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