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In The Zone

In The Zone (Original Mix)

A three martini lunch
That’s what I need.
A three martini lunch,
It’s all been agreed.
Done too many lines,
For Camel and Heinz
It’s on a liquidity luncheon I wanna dine.

A three martini lunch
I’m top o’ the heap.
A three martini lunch,
I’m in way too deep.

I wanna be a part of it;
You know I’ll never grow out of it.
Just watch me crawling down Madison,
High on my martini medicine.

A three martini lunch
What can it all mean?
A three martini lunch,
Reassuringly obscene.
North Bay in the sunshine,
The lobster’s divine.
My libido’s erupting, is it any wonder why?

My accounts are in ruins,
The deals I been doing
Keep all those movers and shakers a-grooving
I say light up a Lucky
From Maine to Kentucky
Black as the lungs in Marlboro Country
You’ll hear me holler
Dollar for dollar
I’m so goddam hot under my collar.
I say dementia
Do say Du Maurier
Best I go my way and best you go your way.
It’s a sight to gladden the heart of a man,
You’re always so goddam alone with a Strand.

Words/Vocals: Davies. Guitars/Drums: Phillips. © Davies/Phillips 2016

Three Martini Lunch - DEMO

Tagging

Quit your job, pack your bag
Are you ready for a life you've never had?
Grab your stuff, lock the door,
We're going somewhere you've never been before

Forget your card, and phone, 
Gonna do something you've never known
Forget your watch, loose the time,
Let’s leave this place while we're in our prime

Come away, come away, run away with me, come and see life's mystery
Come away, come away, run away with me, let’s explore what there is to see

Tell your friends, and your mum, 
We're going somewhere they can't come
Leave your car, throw the keys,
No more stress, live your life at ease

Ditch the camera, use your eyes, 
No need to live through filtered lies
Just bring yourself and don't ask why,
It’s the start of our life, you and I

Won't you follow? Put your trust in me?
Hold my hand? Take a risk with me?

We could leave old ties behind and just be free, the world is our oyster if we let it be
We could leave old ties behind and just be free, you and me together, poetry 

Come away, come away, run away with me, come and see life's mystery
Come away, come away, run away with me, let’s explore what there is to see

Come Away

'Sleepwalking' is the first single from Low Chimes' debut album 'Illumine'.

UK tour dates for April/May 2017 available at www.lowchimes.com.

Illumine

Sleepwalking

Track 1 of the Nothing Ever Happened EP. Available at https://themightyorchidking.bandcamp.com/

Why do I feel so cold? 
What is this pain in my soul? 
Why do I do the things I do? 
A means to an end; I'm passing through. 

What are the skulls that we hold? 
Innocence stands like a distant role. 
Where do I stand? I don't understand. 
And how will I know when I'm a man? 

Nothing Ever Happened. 
It Was All Imagined. 

Patterns are repeating in the sky, 
Rainbow serpent passing through the night. 
Speak to me you never really die. 
This is just love whispering goodbye. 

I was summoned to the highest court, 
They could not stop these electric thoughts. 
I close my eyes and block out the sound, 
And wait for the light to rise through the ground. 
Cease to exist and learn how to love, 
Happiness rains down from above. 

Nothing Ever Happened. 
It Was All Imagined. 

Patterns are repeating in the sky, 
Rainbow serpent passing through the night. 
Speak to me you never really die. 
This is just love whispering goodbye. 

Nothing Ever Happened. 
It Was All Imagined.

from Nothing Ever Happened, track releases April 28, 2017 
Michael Rea - Guitar 
Martin van Heerden - 12 String Guitar, Harmonies 
Pete Martin - Bass, Harmonies, Keys 
Jonny Bennett - Vocals, Drums, Cowbells, Shaker

Nothing Ever Happened EP

Nothing Ever Happened

Download from Bandcamp

Hidden Hills

The Beauty Of The World

Track 06 from 'I Live On The Outside' - the new album released for FREE on 1 December 2017.  Pre-order here:
https://www.joeperkins.co.uk/product/i-live-on-the-outside-free-download/
(Album release contains remixed and remastered HQ audio)

Written, engineered, produced, mixed & mastered by Joe Perkins.
All instruments played by Joe Perkins.
See this track being recorded in real-time here: https://youtu.be/6SvRpeTUmas

press@joeperkins.co.uk

I Live On The Outside

Monochrome Andalucía

Track 06 - Monochrome Andalucía

Same Mistakes - HVMAN 2017 ©

Music & Lyrics - JimmyGreen / Louise Piper

Vox- D Ari & Louise Piper
Guitar - Jimmy Green
Drums-  Ed Martin
Keys - Louise Piper
Bass Guitar: Kev Jefferies

Produced by Olivier Behzadi & HVMAN

HVMAN 2017

Same Mistakes

From the album 'Nocturnalium' - OUT NOW
To purchase, visit: https://www.arthurincolour.com/shop or https://arthurincolour.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnalium

Nocturnalium

Mariella

Written and performed by COLOUR OF SPRING
Produced, mixed and mastered by Matt Peel @ The Nave, 1st-4th & 12-13th March 2016
Artwork: Jon Rush

Full e.p. released via @holrecs on 23rd June 2017

e.p.

Love

Newly recorded poem at Roc2 Studios North Wales. Expanding on themes of youth, abuse, memory, nostalgia and growing up in the 90's. Influenced by Kate Tempest, Dr John Cooper Clarke and Irvine Welsh.

90's Times

The song is about being on the verge of a big move, a giant step, or leap into the unknown -And it's about all the doubting and delaying involved, and the efforts to stay strong.  -A song of hope, fear and trust.

UK Single Release date June 23rd (In Denmark June 6th).

From the upcoming album Disturbed (to be released September 2017)

Trust Is My Anchor (Radio Edit)

Trust Is My Anchor (Radio Edit) -Andreas S Jensen

June 2017 New release from Canberra punks Sketch Method.

Sketch Method - Elephant<Universe<Me

" I like watching things. I can just watch them and try to understand, but it's not easy. It's easier to get closer, but I feel like a cold piece of ice. Still. Still like ice. "

Still Like Ice

Silently Staring

A taster of Issaka's EP 'Take Me Away.' A laid back acoustic blend of heartfelt catchy lyrics, mixed with up beat sounds and dynamic beautiful vocals. 

Issaka's full EP is available at Spotify, iTunes, Google play, Amazon and other online music download platform. 

https://play.spotify.com/album/0eLPP5qZXhZO9X5NcPDlUA

<a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/take-me-away-ep/id1224100270?mt=1&app=music">Take Me Away - EP - Issaka</a> 

Find Issaka on Facebook/ Twitter/ Instagram @issakamusic

1. Take Me Away By Issaka

Even Scores

Jouska - Nature (shorter)

Performed, recorded and produced by James Holt, 2016-17. Mastered by Alex Wharton, Abbey Road studios (2017)
Demo first released in 2015.

Hey Bill, what d'you kill? Ain't no way stop a thrill.
But Jill, write your will, hope you don't rest in landfill,
Stop there young lady, don't you go and shed any more tears,

Oh boy, here's your toy, give yourself a little joy.
My ploy, decoy, the horse that's heading for Troy,
Sit up and stand up, against all of your darkest fears,


You can stand me in a line but you'll never be in control,
There ain't a lot of hope for me,


Hey John, you've gone, went out and left your light on.
I spawn, break of dawn, conducting cars with a baton,
You better find the key to all that ever will be,

Oh Paul, on the wall, see it that you don't fall,
Close call, canon ball, ringing the local town hall,
Maybe we'd hear the answer to our plea,


You can stand me in a line but you'll never be in control,
There ain't a lot of hope for me,


You eat like a Roman, lie on your back and want more,
You kiss like a demon, crouch on your front like a whore,
You talk like a Queen, foam drooling from your mouth,
You fight like a teen, who's left all of his arms back down south,


Oh Lord, take a sword, and strike me before I get bored,
Ignored, in the ward, lying on the cutting board,
Hope I can pay, my debt in bags of stone,


You can stand me in a line but you'll never be in control,
There ain't a lot of hope for me,
There ain't a lot of hope for me,
There ain't a lot of hope for me,
There ain't a lot of love for me,

iTunes

Whatever Happened to John?

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