super nice arrangement and tune --well done!!

Good song and nice atmosphere that reminds me in certain nuances of some films from the 70s and 80s...

I hear a little Pulp in this, it's a cracking tune:)

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Gadding About…

Me & Sophie pull up at half eight
Just a couple of seconds apart
We like to get in early to get organised
Coz we’ve both got a half nine start
We’re both laden with books in our Bags For Life
It’s just one of our safety behaviours
We put our backs out humping them up the stairs
Aaron Beck is our Holy saviour...


We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
We ricochet from compare to despair
Trying to hide our imposter syndrome…

Me & Sophie are just winging it
Half the time we don’t know where to begin
We never practice what we preach we’re just hypocrites
A couple of Dewey Finns
Me in Room 7 & Sophie in 6
We’re like a couple of weather vanes
In & out all day with our latest updates
Celebrating DNA’s...

We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
We ricochet from compare to despair
Trying to hide our imposter syndrome…

We both know it’s all smoke & mirrors
It’s like a scene from A Beautiful Mind
With our post-it notes all over the walls

Me & Sophie are being socialised
In to something that fills us with angst
We’ve got butterfly stomachs & sleepless nights
Coz we daren’t leave nothing to chance
So Sophie’s vaping with a slight of hand
Whilst I’m necking the Gaviscon
I feel like I’m sinking from over-thinking
So afraid of doing something wrong 

We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
Feeling like the Wizard of Oz
Gadding it, blagging it, living a lie 
Trying to pull the whole thing off
Trying to hide this imposter syndrome…

Gadding About (single)

Gadding About by The Ramsden Squares

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Please tell us why you left
Think the boss is going to kill me
You’re the straw that broke my back

No I’m not a robot
Go on try and test me
I’ve passed the Turing test
I’ll never repeat the same thing twice
I’ll never repeat the same chord twice

Was it the cost?
Was it the content?
Was it the way we badger you with questions?

Now
We’re losing our subscribers
Quick increase the price
That will surely fix things
Time to right the ship
The machines are taking over 
One human at a time
Tick this box, I’m not a robot 
Time to stop, I can’t maintain this
One human at a time

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

one human at a time

We Noticed That You Cancelled Your Subscription

Come on down you synth-folk slacker cyberpunks
I know you must be lonesome

Inviting all the wretches and the feckless
I know you’ll find your home soon

Way out there
Fade away
Ungracefully
In obscurity

[Contains samples from Philip K. Dick's press conference at the Metz Science Fiction Festival, France, September 1977]

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

Synth-Folk Slacker Cyberpunks

All lyrics and music written and performed by The Franklys
Produced and recorded by Dan Lucas @ The Joplin House
© 2023 The Franklys

Nobody Else

The first girl who I met that wasn’t my mother,
it turns out, it turns out,
it turns out, 
she’s my sister

So his ship can do the Kessel Run,
in 12 or 13 parsecs,
you should see me, you should see me, 
bulls-eye a womp rat

So I’ve got so much more going on,
than a simple bionic arm

and I thought the only thing I’d ever love, 
was my burned out T-16

Well, I’ve got so much more on my mind,
than a simple bionic arm

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

T-16

Falling (demo)

Upside Down On The Monkey Bars…

Sun is up – we climb out your bedroom window 
& sit on the roof of your kitchen 
& see children bouncing on their trampoline
Only interrupted by the chimes of the ice cream van
Sun is up – I hear The Stone Roses ‘Waterfall’ drifting over rooftops
& everything feels so much nicer, everything looks so much brighter 
Let’s hose down the bikes & go for a ride…

& I don’t want this day to end whilst you are here with me
& I don’t want you to go home or go in for your tea
Coz you have turned my whole world upside down as far as I can see 
So just stay hanging from these monkey bars here with me… 

Sun is up – see the pigeons jostling on the Car Wash roof
We watch the insects buzzing here & there & everywhere busying themselves in the summer air - I beat my personal best at ‘Keepy-uppy’
Sun is up – it’s a vest & shorts & flip flops kinda day
Beer garden weather – tattoo’s on display
People mowing lawns & whiling away their day in different ways

& I don’t want this day to end whilst you are here with me
& I don’t want you to go home or go in for your tea
Coz you have turned my whole world upside down as far as I can see 
So just stay hanging from these monkey bars here with me…

The BIG 5-oh! e.p.

Upside Down On The Monkey Bars by The Ramsden Squares.

old school fuzzy sabbath style riff with melodic vocals and an uplifting alt rock chorus

Believe Nothing Hurts:

Your lies
As they come in 
The lights will shine onto you
Listen to their lives
And as they come in 
The lights will shine onto you
Listen to their lives
This time, believe nothing hurts
Your lies
There's a thousand drowned
And the lights will shine onto you
Listen to their lives
This time, believe nothing hurts
Oh, your lies
As they come in
They're drowning now
In your own sweet precious melody of lies
As they come in
We're drowning now
In your own sweet precious melody of lies

Dance With The Hunted

Believe Nothing Hurts

Sunset on the city frames a skyline silhouette
That makes me think of New York
Although I haven’t been there yet
Seen so many movies feels like a second home
Where my mind is set to wander
My heart is free to roam
Is that love on the street corner
Is that love there at the bar
So I wait watch and I wonder
Who what wherever you are
Endless summer high
Watch the world go by outside your window
Under the neon sky
There’s a better life than the one we know
Endless summer high
So I’m hoping and I’m praying
That my footsteps will be straying
Close to where our paths will cross
Don’t let the feeling fade
That golden glow of anticipation
The moment before you take a taste
Your heart aligned with the constellation
No better time and place
Endless summer high
Watch the world go by beneath your window
Like a satellite looking for signs of life
Down below
Endless summer high
If every dream you ever had came true
What would you do
How would you fill your nights and days

Endles Summer High

Paypal

Endless Summer High

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Difficult Days

The Happy Pill Academy – “The Dragon EP”

The Happy Pill Academy is from London in the United States of Britain. This alternative reality project blends together character-driven lyrics, lo-fi riffs and a fresh perspective on alternative rock. Reminiscent of Nirvana / Eels / Beck, they are known for their energetic solo acoustic shows and post-grunge sensibilities.

The Dragon EP is one song served seven ways. A collaborative effort from The Happy Pill Academy and sixteen incredibly talented friends that took seven months from initial recording to piece together, track by track.

A song about a Dragon that doesn't want to be one any more. Allegorical, emotional and containing dark humour, this track was destined to be reinterpreted in myriad ways. Psychedelic, Stoner Rock, 80s Metal, Alt Rock and Electronic; all here in this electrifyingly eclectic EP.

The Dragon Riders or, The Mixologists 

Fleeting Shadow – Spyro
Justin Noszek – Tiamat
Lance Turner – Draco
James Humphry & Matthew Guy Ibbs - The Great White Wyrm
Martin Phone - Kaan Drem Ov
Jeff Leeson – Toothless
Ivan Perilli - Norbert 

The Dragon Choir or, The Singed Song Singers 

Ivan Perilli
George E Harris
Alice O'Palace
Matt Pryor
Jo Beadle
Zachary William Turner
Hamley Jenkins
Susan Turner
Amy Curtis 

The Happy Pill Academy
AKA The Dragon Force Academy
AKA The Happy Dragon Academy 

Matthew Guy Ibbs - Guitars & Vocals
Charlie Lord – Drums
Chris Goodman – Bass
Stefan Inglis / Antenna Studios - Recording & Production

01 - I AM NOT A DRAGON - The Great White Wyrm

I wrote what's below before Mahan put up, for public, the original. 
Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/moonballad-toxic-daisies?in=mahan-mahan/sets/jon-lock-vs-mahan-mahan
I few weeks ago I heard this track https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/disco-junkies-1-1-1 and was just floored, mostly by that bass line. Anyway after https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan and I had enjoyed each others music and exchanged some ideas and pleasantries Mahan came to me with the Idea of me covering a song by his former band The Toxic Daisies. I think he'll post the original as a public track again but for now the link he provided to me is private. The original is from the 90's(I think) and in a punk/grunge style. I shifted it into a sort of 60's pop and altered the harmonies just a bit but stayed true, for the most part to the original chords, arraignment, tempo and tried to use the exact lyrics as I heard them. It's a wonderful song and a couldn't be more flattered that Mahan asked me to recreate it.

Moonballad (Toxic Daisies cover)

Inspired by a sleepless summer night

Summer Storm

I been up all night
I should be sleeping,
Winds are blowing strong.
the roof is caving in,
I'm just waiting til dawn.

Its blowing a gale
and my ship set sail,
Left me here on the docks.
I should be counting sheep,
but i'm just watching the clock.

This mind don't rest,
I try my best to gently 
shut it down.
Seems i'm stuck while the wheels 
are spinning around...

I been up all night
Oh i should be sleeping
winds are blowing strong
the roof is caving in
I'm just waiting til dawn.

Its changing form
this summer storm,
playing tricks in the night.
Electricity and flashes of light....

20/12/2020 Hallam

Summer Storm

Chronologique

Perception

TPS Electronika - Perception

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