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Modern Fencing

The opening track on the new Echo Machine album "Accidental Euphoria" which crashed into the Scottish album charts at no.2 in April 2024, and hit no.5 in the UK Record Store Chart. 

A song about feeling like you are being followed. All the time. By some unnamed presence. Some kind of 21st century fog, making everyone on edge.

Anticipation

We’ve all been there at times… losing faith in life, questioning who to turn to for solace and meaning – and this time it’s lead singer and guitarist Dave Lightfoot of South London garage rockers The Fades. Having heard a rumour that Keanu Reeves was filming around the corner from their rehearsal studios just after experiencing a midlife breakup, Dave’s imagination was set alight thinking: imagine bumping into Keanu on the street, hanging out and going back to the studio with him for a jam together – then an amazing lifelong relationship can begin, but before that there’s a song to write and here it is…

Looking for Keanu is a 90’s inspired slice of slacker indie rock that features The Fades at their most reflective and self-effacing.

The naked honesty in the verse lyric is plain to see but even in the darkest moments there’s always hope to guide us through to better times and then comes the chorus: it’s powerful, catchy and you can’t help but be lifted up by its energy. There’s the video too, jam packed with ‘Easter eggs’ from Keanu’s various films, all shot around the area where Keanu was filming in South London when Dave came up with the song.

With DJs like Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy & Marc Riley supporting various releases & glowing write ups in Louder Than War, Fresh on The Net & alike throughout their career, The Fades are a band who’ve consistently turned adversity to their advantage, finding the best in life while not taking themselves too seriously.

#lookingforkeanu

Looking for Keanu

Complex instrumental track. Closer of our debut, self titled album.

Dirty Nancy

Forget

Pluto

The M.E Scandal
I’m about to tell a story, a true story
I was Living life, music in my bloodstream
Then I got flu & it  vanished like steam 
Who knew flu could evaporate a dream
I never knew what it was all gonna mean?  
But I’m still Shackled to illness like I’m its b#tch 
Still scratching this 30+ year frickin itch
Kicked by exhaustion & lack of belief
All these stolen lives by the invisible thief
I need to escape to somewhere the wind blows
I don’t wanna  become yet another blue rose
On the social media posts of some
Let’s light a candle there goes another one
It’s become normalised an acceptable fate
The lingering death that we live and await
And I absolutely hate this, did I create this
Stressed til I burnt out, I struggle to face this
Denied point and purpose, rhyme or reason
Every day, week &  month every year, every season
Cancelled appointments, damn disappointments
And a default sorry well that’s the only ointment that we have to offer
With guilt & frustration
And with limited ways out of this situation.
It’s a lingering death that we live and await
And WE ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS.

Chorus
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)
It’s the M.E Scandal
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)

They never believed us, they all deceived us
Government, medical, media teased us
Decades of promises, words without action
The crumbs of their biscuits, huh, just a distraction
Allergic reaction all taken its toll
And the shrinks try to shrink us to the size of a pinhole
Oh no you don’t, we’re building the ark, 
Stronger together sailing out of the dark
Barking this is physical, co-operation critical 
But typically politically I have to spit it lyrical
They’re criminally sick but it’s of their own choosing
To neglect and abuse us, refuse the improving
I’m loosing my sh#t, get a grip, there’s still a way to go
I swear it’s gonna happen just not in my lifetime though
A  test, treatment maybe a  cure 
& future generations won’t suffer anymore
Get down off ya  cross and lay down ya crown 
Give back the award, there’s a real god in town.
Called truth, been here since the beginning
Standing in the shadows waiting for that winning moment
Our voices heard and apologies given
Watch this space for the next lyrical edition
Coz we ain’t going nowhere. It’s time. 

Chorus
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)
It’s the M.E Scandal
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself) 
Let’s get down to facts

It’s the M.E scandal, It’s the M.E scandal
It’s the M.E scandal, it’s the M.E scandal

Yeah it’s time the world knew, what people like me and you
Have been going through. It’s The M.E Scandal

You’ve been playing a god so long, you believe it yourself.

The ME Scandal Radio Edit

after eight

Palo Alto - Holding On

Recorded by Billy Foster at Snap Studios and mastered by James Trevascus at Bakewell Audio, the song fuses intimate verses with big anthemic choruses, charting an internal monologue of the author battling with himself and ultimately choosing life over self-destructive behaviour: 

‘You could be the enemy, I’m not - When the fever stops I just Bleed a lot - I’m not the enemy, not your enemy’

To celebrate their releases, The Lunar Keys often put their little money where their big mouths are - in support of good causes. For example, ‘Silent Ricochet’ aided the arrival of 900 trees (and counting), whilst ‘Stop This’, ‘Oxygen Type’, ‘Once’ and ‘Maniac’ raised money for the charities Nordoff Robbins, Oxygen, TheTrussellTrust and the nurses at The Royal Surrey Hospital respectively. 

The release of BLEED will continue this Lunar tradition: Inspired by recent events and, well, the song’s title, the band pledges to donate £1 for each of the first 250 airplays or reviews that BLEED receives to the Haemophilia Society. So, if you like BLEED and are good enough to play it on your show, please let us know, so that we can up the tally and big you up on our socials. 

Thanks to great DJs like your good self, previous Lunar Keys releases have enjoyed over 5000 plays from more than 400 radio stations including Planet Rock, BBC Wales, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, where 5 of our singles enjoyed ‘Track of the Day’.

We are deeply grateful to anyone supporting our music and always happy to do interviews or recorded intros for your show. 

And if you’d like to check us out live, we’ll always be happy to put you + 1 on our guest list, as well as donate a couple of tickets, if you’d like to run an on air competition: We’ll next be appearing live on Saturday, the 22nd of June at The Exeter Cavern.

‘The Lunar Keys greatly impress with epic alt-rock anthems and trade in strong, direct songs with memorable tunes.’ Tony Hardy, Glastonbury Festival ETC Judge

‘Brilliant, a classic feel with a contemporary twist from a band well worth knowing about.’  Stereo Stickman

And here’s some more info about the band and the release: 

The Lunar Keys are 4 anxious types from Guildford (UK) with too many tunes and nervous energy trapped in their psyches not to be in this band. The band perfected its line up in February 2020 and have had a blast ever since, honing their craft and building a dedicated following.

Previous Lunar Keys releases have enjoyed hundreds of reviews and more than 535,000 views and streams. 

https://linktr.ee/thelunarkeys

Thanks for taking the time to listen and read.
Lunar Love 

Lyrics: 	

Eye to eye
Yeah we're standing tall
Blood will paint the sky
Rain until we fall
If I draw your heart
Can I have it all

Fight & Scream until I dream
My jealousy is overpowering
Then it cuts

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh


Blinding lights
Thunder in the wind
Burning day and night
Underneath my skin

Fight & scream until I dream
My jealousy is overpowering
Then it cuts

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh

Open your eyes
Watch my pain run through you
Cut me like a knife

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh

Bleed

vampire blu

4077

I'm afraid that I've been livin in my
final moments...and every day
is a repeat of the death state misery
O yea
and there's intrigue and romance and 
cliff hangars for some cheek
but if the truth were to be told
I've seen this story on repeat
of my death state of my misery
yea like a countdown...countin up
yea one, two, three...
cut to black and fade me in...to do it all over again
O yea
well, I was crossin the street on a 
unusually cold damn day
and there was a pop-poppin in the drive-way
metal scrapin metal
and I was gettin knocked up off of my feet
ass over tea kettle
yea...and now just layin in the street
watchin a river O red
as my life bleeds away
O oh
every damn day!!
O yea
cause if the truth were to be told
I've seen this story on repeat
of my death state- my misery
yea...like a countdown countin up
one...two...three

Count Down

Dorothea Tanning

OneWay

watch the music video ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKqCTjHJYK0

Electrify (music video link in description)

Storm and Soul Fire is a powerful rock anthem that channels the raw force of a hurricane into a song of resilience, rebirth, and unity. With churning guitars and thunderous drums, the song mirrors the spiral of the storm itself—building tension, exploding with energy, then opening into moments of emotional clarity. Lyrically, it weaves between metaphor and lived reality, honoring the way natural disasters tear through lives while revealing the deepest good in people. It's a tribute to the human spirit, to neighbors helping neighbors, and to the truth that even in destruction, we rise together, soul on fire.

Storm and Soul Fire

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