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No Concern Of Mine

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

You’ll get dressed up
Jacket and tails
Ready for the day
Like a magpie, caught in the nude
You hide yourself away
You’ll put one foot forward
Then you take it back
Restless feet on a broken track

You’re a loud-mouth
Say what you hear
And speak before you think
Put your ear that close to the ground
And dirt will soil you speech
Won’t you let us in
And we’ll watch you cry
Smiling broadly with arms held wide

Don’t mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t Mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t you go
No don’t you go
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you

When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you going to learn?
How long, how long, until you learn?
I said when you gunna
When you gunna
Learn?

I won’t

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

Don't Mind Me

Instrumental from the fourth LB album of the Buttness band

Opera

Beliefe

All The Pubs Are Closing Down

https://mouthofghostsband.bandcamp.com
Released 3 April 2020. 
Track listing:  Fool Me, Island, Colours, Strangers.

Colours

Mad Barz

Get your hands on a "latex single" of Long Distance Friction at the buy link!

Long distance friction 
got me!

Well, it’s been such a long time 
since I felt this way.
This feelin’ keeps on growing
deep within me day by day.
Communication’s breaking down till I gotta say:
“I just can’t take it no more!”
I can’t stand that
I keep on dealing with this
Long distance friction, got me?(Yes! It’s got me like)

Building me up,
Knocking me down,
Turnin’ round,
I don’t even know what to say to you, baby!

Long distance friction got me!

You cross my mind, I can’t unwind, reality decays.
I hunger for your body but
you are so far away.
I’m getting desperate, “oh, dear lord!” Now I start to pray.
I just can’t take it no more!
Well, I can’t stand that
I keep on dealing with this
Long distance friction, hot dog...(Mmm, a long shaft of meat... It’s got me like)

Get in the bun,
Having some fun,
Catholic nun
better not forget the ketchup 
or mustard!

Guitar/Vocals: Brandon Vasko
Bass: Everest Johnson
Baritone Saxophone: Matt Souaid
Clarinet: Noah Century
Trumpet: Daniella Carbert
Trombone: Mathieu Lahaie
Percussion: Alex Gagnon
Drums: Luke Maloney

Written/Produced by Brandon Vasko
Mixed by Alex Gagnon
Mastered by Kristian Montano

Long Distance Friction

Black Flowers Cafe's new album is out,
listen to it everywhere: https://pirames.lnk.to/Flow.

bit.ly/blackflowerscafe
facebook.com/blackflowerscafe

Flow 

Black Flowers Cafe - Kinshasa

I'D REALLY LIKE TO MEET YOU MAN - Moonlight Parade

Heart Food for Hard Times is out on Friday 15th May 2020. 

Track credits: 
Nealo - Vocals & Lyrics
Adam Garrett - Music 
Uly - Trumpet
Adam Shanahan - Production 
Marcin Ciszczon at Diffusion Lab - Mixing & Mastering


For more information please contact: 
Sheena Madden
+353 87 245 8046
sheena@amplifyagency.ie

HEART FOOD FOR HARD TIMES

A really good track that tries to bring hope, positivity, and optimism to everyone around the world.

Needa Beer Mdbmastered High

French Sunset

The Light

Debut track from Brighton based music maker Joe Peter. #SelfAdhesive marks the first step in a new solo project, acting as an introduction to his alternative pop productions.

Watch official music video: https://youtu.be/A_mLZLNgGh0

Follow:

https://www.instagram.com/joepeterhq
https://www.facebook.com/JoePeterhq
https://twitter.com/joepeterhq
https://soundcloud.com/joepeterhq

Self Adhesive

Hello universe, 
Here are some demos that have been lurking on my laptop for a while now.  When all of this is over, I will be getting in the studio with friends and the brilliant drummer, my brother, Mr. Fred Bond and smash these out with some new material.  Very excited.  Hope you enjoy them.  Sad/melancholic songs but that's pop.

You're Not Alone Now

Into The Room

In My Prime was written and produced in lockdown, and reflects the frustration that many of us feel in not doing all the things we’d planned to do with our free time. But it’s also about being a twenty-something seeing those around you do great things while you’re stuck doing the same old same old, struggling to move forward with all the ambitions and plans you hoped to achieve long before now.

In My Prime

You can never see the sun
You can never see the days
You can never find a way of letting go
That's another day to waste
As the sun begins to fade
I've gotta find a way to let this go from me

Like a wrecking ball
I'm gonna lose it all
Until there's nothing in sight
I need a wake-up call
Or I lose it all
Until I've nothing inside

Let's start over just save me
I know that lately I've kept you waiting
Know that I can't stop wishing that maybe 
I could be changing
It's driving me crazy

Well I'm surrounded by the darkness
Not a hope or glimpse of light
With little voices saying 'you should disappear'
But I pretend that I can't hear them
I will never let them win
I've gotta find something to change the way I live

Like a wrecking ball
I'm gonna lose it all
Until there's nothing in sight
I need a wake-up call
Or I lose it all
Until I've nothing inside

Let's start over just save me
I know that lately I've kept you waiting
Know that I can't stop wishing that maybe 
I could be changing
It's driving me crazy

It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy

Just Save Me
Just Save Me

Let's start over just save me
I know that lately I've kept you waiting
Know that I can't stop wishing that maybe 
I could be changing
It's driving me crazy

Let's start over just save me
I know that lately I've kept you waiting
Know that I can't stop wishing that maybe 
I could be changing
It's driving me crazy

It's driving me crazy (Just Save Me)
It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy (Just Save Me)
It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy (Just Save Me)
It's driving me crazy
It's driving me crazy (Just Save Me)
It's driving me crazy

It's driving me crazy
Crazy crazy crazy crazy

Let's Start Over (SilverFox Remix)

Let's start Over (Remix)

Seun says of the track: 'The lyrics are literally 3am thoughts. A stream of ideas about the way things work and how we feel about them. At the end, you have to decide what truly matters to you, and the final words express this.'

https://www.facebook.com/CodewalkersBand
https://www.codewalkers.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/codewalkersband/
https://www.youtube.com/c/codewalkersband
https://twitter.com/CodewalkersBand
https://soundcloud.com/codewalkersband
https://open.spotify.com/artist/71rpqbB0LgyVFcM5zbUEHQ?si=8k4xNSp9RUe1UvxFAkwWxw

This world is not what you think it is.
These towers of steel and glass that we as human beings use to impose order on nature, on ourselves,
they are a hollow beauty, empty desire, not fecund,
a testament to our impotence.
You clean, you wash, you fit a social straight-jacket over your tiny shoulders,
a harness on which to yoke the weight of the world.
You smile, you walk down these moving metal stairs into these concrete tombs,
rat-like tunnels that connect one soulless suburb to another.
You weep, in the privacy of your own home,
curtains drawn against the light that burns an illuminated soul.

When you die, the money that you amassed will be wasted 
on government taxes and luxury items by your ungrateful spawn.
When you die, the kids that you abandoned and spouse that you rejected 
will mourn the loss of what could have been.
Your son will never visit your grave, will never tell stories about his old man, 
about learning to swim, or riding a bike. Because you were not there.

My old man lived his life the best he could.
Made good friends, even better enemies.
He wasn’t perfect. At times he was barely good.
But he never told me a lie. 
His truths? They hurt, scar tissue around the soul that healed,
and made a stronger spirit.
He had my trust, respect, loyalty.
And if he asked, I would march to hell with a bucket of water, in my birthday suit
trusting that he had a good reason.
trusting that he had a good reason.

World

Tom Auton & The Bottle Breakers (Live at The Gate) EP out June 3rd.

Tom Auton - Blues Train (Live At The Gate, Cardiff)

'Reasoning' explores our relationship with anxiety and why sometimes we choose to cling to it, through familiarity and frustration.

[Verse 1]
Here we go again
Digging my way through
I believe in now and then
Somehow I can get to you

[Pre-Chorus]
But I can't find the time
And I can't find the mind to do it
Between wrong and the right
Blind, I'm invited into it

[Chorus]
And I can't take your hand the way
The poison just gets me
And I'll go blind, don't feel my way
To the reasoning

(To the reasoning)
(To the reasoning)

[Verse 2]
So here we go again
Like I don't remember you
Take my thoughts and play with them
Somehow I will get to you

Reasoning

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