A protest song which talks about climate change and the lack of action our self interested leaders show....

Save Our Souls

A song inspired by marty robbins, and many other things

Empty Whisky Bottle Mariachi Blues

cometh the hour, cometh the man, 
with a fresh manifesto in his bloody right hand
cometh the man cometh the hour, 
does he come here to save or come to devour?

well he’s tribal and he’s angry he’s irrational and cruel
cometh the man, or cometh the fool?
if resistance is futile, believe what you must
in god or in man - in whom can we trust? 

in data protection? in misinformation? 
in corporate logos, in flags or in nations?
rising to strike, raising the stakes
stretching the fabric until something breaks

cometh the hour, cometh the man, 
the past can’t be changed, but the history books can
cometh the man, cometh the hour
to protect us? to serve us? or protect those in power?


They’ll never go short on Champagne and cigars 
or their ivory towers or their abattoirs
after the wealth and the power and the glory
come the riots and the looting, the filth and the fury

We are led by the cruelest, the meanest the basest
the least empathetic, the greediest, the racists
soaked to the skin with the sweat of corruption,
pushed to our knees by immoral seduction

cometh the horror cometh the dread
it’s dark in the tunnel down which we’ve been led
cometh the future cometh the fight
there’ll be nothing left left if we keep going right

Cometh The Hour

A song about a monster with a Transylvanian flavour, but no need to be frightened boys and girls, he's actually, underneath the leathery skin and the fangs, a sweetheart, all he wants is to be happy with his headless bride.

Monster

A song I wrote many moons ago, finally got around to doing a half decent recording of it!

Coin Is God

The songs of Chant des Humains 2016 came from a collaborative workshop held at Association Bongo.  We invited 7 musicians from 7 different countries to collaborate together for 7 days, they wrote and recorded a live session album from scratch.  7 days of intense creativity, performance, radio sessions, jamming and recording!
Featuring:
Nika Solce (Slovenia)
Daniel Wall (USA)
Bradley Benson (Australia)
Jonas Pour mozaffar (Sweden)
Omar Sherrif (Sudan)
Maya McCourt (UK)
Edmarcio Paixao (Brazil)

Milkman

August (Dez) Wav 210816

Fergus and Nothing Concrete are everything and the kitchen sink, folksy and jazzy without being twee or pious; world without being routed in any particular culture; cabaret without being pure novelty. This, for all its bells and whistles, is music stripped down to “real” musical instruments and the ancient art of storytelling to music.

Talkative River

A song about our relentless consumerism, and keeping warm.....

The Fire

A tim Burtonesque song about a creepy looking moster who lives alone in a castle, though all he really wants is to find love....

Private playlist with the songs of our forthcoming album "The Haberdasher's Voyage"

9 Sycamore

6  I Need Money

5  Provolone

4 Dear Liza

3 I Don't Know

2 Sit Tight

91 Absence Of A Strategy

1 The Tale Of Pandora And Mr Hyde

Songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, travelling troubadour and one man band, record producer and founder of Nothing Concrete, Fergus is a diverse talent with many strings to his bow. Based in the South of France from where he runs his many projects, Fergus's songs and voice have been compared to The Waterboys, Dylan and Joe Strummer.
 
Years of travelling the world have helped to broaden his musical horizons and he is as comfortable playing balkan or south American rhythms and styles as the celtic and Americana roots music he grew up with. Working in formations from his traditional one man band "Bandolino" act through the ever changing line-up of Nothing Concrete, to producing the "humanitarium" albums that bring musicians from around the world together in Fergus's studio, he is constantly striving to create music that sounds real, communicates to the listener, and avoids cliché and overproduction.
 
With a UK based publishing deal and a distribution and licensing deal in the USA, exciting collaborations on the go, having worked with and supported such acts as Grammy award winner Joan Armatrading, Leo sayer and Rick Wakeman amongst others over the years, a new Humanitarium album, the forthcoming release of the debut Nothing Concrete album and an upcoming 2015 summer tour, Fergus is certainly keeping busy!
 
Fergus's extensive live experience has made him a captivating performer who relishes situations where he can really connect with his audience.Check the website to hear sound files, watch videos, find out about his other projects or to find out where he is playing next.

Nothing Concrete

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