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You're Not The Freaks

Ganwyd Eto

Birdsong

A song of generations.

My grandad passed away in 1982, 1 year before I was born. He served in The Durham Light Infantry, before, during and after the second World War.
My dad was born in 1953, a child of the revolution and a hippy to this very day.

My grandad's hobbies were Gambling,Drinking and army life. Everying and maybe everyone else was secondary.

The difference between a kid growing up in the 50s/60s, and a dad returning from war at the same time,  is pretty obvious. One that is maybe incomprehensible. 

Anyway, this song is basically my interpretation of their relationship.

A kid watching a world where "All You Need Is Love"
And a dad living a world where " All You Need Is War"

 And maybe something to bet on

I'll drink to that.

Gamblin' Man

The Man Down the Road is the first of two singles to be made available digitally since the recording, release and deletion of the concept album The Fen Sessions.

The Fen Session took place over a weekend in February where ten songs were to be produced, promoted and released, and then deleted from distribution on 9am the Monday morning. Each song was released on the hour every two hours starting at 10am on the Saturday. 

The results were a collection of tales with the predominant theme of delinquent youth running through them set to the back drop of synth laden tracks. The Man Down the Road is one of the tracks that really encapsulates the project, hence the reason it was chosen as the first single to be taken from the sessions and to be made public since the album was deleted.

The concept of The Fen sessions tested both the creative process, writing and producing songs one after the other with no reflection time was a testing challenge for Davies, Pearce and Hodges (guesting on electronic drums) and was also an experiment into fan engagement via social media for an artist with an underground profile. Some of the results were surprising both creatively and the engagement process. The songs were uploaded via and made available via bandcamp for free, but many of the downloaders opted to to pay a sum of money of their choice for the album.

After much deliberation, a post event survey and emails to those fans who had downloaded the album the decision was made to release two singles to a wider audience to ensure that the full Fen Sessions remained exclusive to those who engaged at the initial stage and therefore keeping the integrity of the process intact.

The Fen Sessions

The Man Down the Road

I Could Be Wrong

Say what you will or what you really want from me
Tell me all about the things I’ve done
Say when you will or when you won’t get back to me
Tell me what it is that I’ve become

Take me as I am
Heaven knows I’ve tried
But I could be wrong

Romeo did not hold back from Juliet
Even when their fateful time had come
Heathcliff took his Katherine up to the heights
Only for their love to tumble down…when all’s said and done

Take me as I am
Heaven knows I’ve tried
But I could be wrong

Shame me if you want to
But you know I’ll always try to make it up to you

Take me as I am
Heaven knows I’ve tried
But I could be wrong

But I could be wrong
But I could be wrong
But I could be wrong

Take me as I am
Heaven knows I’ve tried
But I could be wrong

I Could Be Wrong

Lyrics:

Quintessential English sounds awake a reverential English town
Put down your bags, put on your shoes, 
We’re going underground.
To where the river flows and where the heartbeat gets a little bit louder. 

Cause I am calling from a pay-phone, asking ‘what do you believe?’
Is that the way the compass points or is it the way it’s been perceived?
Save up your pennies, though talk is cheap 
And your credit card keeps whispering: ‘Ask and you shall receive’.

You should be afraid of the price of doubt,
The river’s running through but it’s not running out. 
Sometimes you might feel like you’re stuck in a cage
Don’t wait for the dust to settle, don’t wait for the tide to change.

We do pirouettes with promises and lie about our weaknesses
The traffic flows, the feeling grows, but what’s lost has now been found 
And as you awake to find a city made of glass
A universe indifferent to your culture or your class
Step away, step away and put away that mask.

Cause I am calling from a pay-phone, asking ‘what do you believe?’
Is that the way the compass points or is it the way it’s been perceived?
Save up your pennies, though talk is cheap 
And your credit card keeps whispering: ‘Ask and you shall receive’.

Cause you should be afraid of the price of doubt,
The river’s running through but it’s not running out. 
Sometimes you might feel like you’re stuck in a cage
Don’t wait for the dust to settle, don’t wait for the tide to change.

The Price of Doubt

Summertime

Unknown Album (17/10/2007 15:03:31)

Never Hide Behind Stone

Drifting Away (Single)

Release date:
4 October 2019

Produced, Mixed & Mastered @theblueroomstudiosuk
www.theblueroomstudios.co.uk

16 Shots

New mix of 'Spin Round' with vocals by Hodges https://soundcloud.com/hodges-jp
https://twitter.com/hodges_jp
https://youtu.be/pri0IKPndBA

Spin Round

Purchase at Bandcamp

Spin Round with Hodges

From the new album "The Rock, the Sea, the Rising Tide" released September 2019. Available from iTunes, Spotify and all download stores. CD available from my website and also here: http://simonscardanelli.bandcamp.com/album/the-rock-the-sea-the-rising-tide

Please consider buying a track now and again - independent artists survive with your support - everything can't be free!

Patience

Patience  (radio edit)

Pinkish

Sexy But Sad

Written by Craig Allen and Steven Douglas
Taken from our latest album
WHO GETS THE UNIVERSE?

Hard To Believe

This is a track from my debut ep 'EASYAS...[growing up] out on Oct 16th.

Half Of It

Sea to Sky, Sky to Sea began as joint project between Victory Kicks songwriter and guitarist John Sibley and his sister Harriet, writing and recording songs that were originally intended for a new Victory Kicks album. After a string of gigs playing both these new songs and older Victory Kicks tracks the project became a band and the album was released under the name 'The Young Flood'. It features 8 new songs including the single Northbound Train plus two reworked Victory Kicks songs, No Great Shakes & Bayonet. Sea to Sky, Sky to Sea was written as a companion piece to the forthcoming Victory Kicks album 'Lovers in Peacetime', which comes out early in the new year. 

Follow the our facebook page for gig updates, videos and new music: facebook.com/theyoungflood

John Sibley: Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Machine, Vocals 
Harriet Sibley: Vocals, Drums, Electronic Drums, Percussion 
Claire Sibley: Bernina on Northbound Train. 

The Young Flood is: 
Sam Beard, Sam Harvey, Harriet Sibley & John Sibley 

Recorded at John's flat in London, our parents' house on the Isle of Wight, Panic Studios in Acton and Arch Studios in Stamford Brook. 

Unmanned Aerial Vinyl 
UAVTYFLP001
all rights reserved

Sea To Sky

Lead single off debut 'Scratch EP' out on 31 October (Brexit Ghosts Day)- a comment on Brexit and a crowd favourite at live shows.

Angerland (Radio edit)

Angerland (Radio Edit)

When you wake up, 
Would you make some time for us?
To be waiting 
Is frustrating when I know it was 
So good.

I’m not erasing the time we’ve taken,
We just couldn’t get enough.
(It’s there but it’s all covered up)
So if we’re finding out 
That it’s not sticking around,
That it’s all done and dried up…

Did I get an invitation 
For all this pressure accumulating?
Was I underestimating 
The whole equation again?

It doesn’t have to be for…
It doesn’t have to be for…
It doesn’t have to be forever.

Could we make it up?
Or are we out of luck?
Just had enough 
Of this occasional love,
And now we’re out of trust.


Did I get an invitation 
For all this pressure accumulating?
Was I underestimating 
The whole equation again?

So if we’re finding out 
That it’s not sticking around,
There’s always another way out.
To realise it now,
That love gets lost and found.
This much I know,
All things can grow
When you leave them in the ground.

It doesn’t have to be for…
It doesn’t have to be for…
It doesn’t have to be forever.

STROODLES

Invitation

PSYCHO COMEDY - PICK ME UP

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