This track was written on the cusp of autumn, reflecting on how the changing in seasons can have such a visceral internal effect on us. I find that every year, the shift between seasons has a huge impact on my mood and outlook, and was in awe of how powerful nature is to move us so much. 'Evergreen' is an acknowledgement of how we have to embrace this, and that - no matter how hard we try - humans are no match for the forces of nature.

Evergreen

😎It's summertime, 🎶the festival of music🎶, and I'd like to take this opportunity to present my latest musical experiment.🎹 I hope you enjoy listening 🎧to it, as I did...✨
😎C'est l'été, 🎶la fête de la musique,🎶 l'occasion de vous présenter ma dernière expérience musicale,🎹 je souhaite une bonne écoute 🎧comme j'en ai eu à la réaliser...✨

Uprising Vs Goodbye (Feat Sergi Yaro & Anna Zitnikova)

Songwriting by James Gable
Arranged by Two Headed Horse

Two Headed Horse is Leigh Baines, Tristan Gable, James Gable & Gary Hanratty

Bass by Gary Hanratty
Drums by Leigh Baines
Vocals by James Gable
Backing Vocals by Tristan Gable & James Gable
Bouzouki by James Gable
Piano by James Gable

Engineered by Tristan Gable
Mixed by Tristan Gable & James Gable
Mastered by Tristan Gable
Artwork by James Gable

See For Miles (Bounder's Motif)

RITUAL / AWAKENING

RITUAL

If you’re bored, are you boring?

Either way, don’t worry - Garvie’s bravely-titled Boring is, thankfully, anything but. This high-energy indie pop stomper is abundantly fun. 

Lyrically, Garvie’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics show a brutal honesty that most people can relate to - don’t we all secretly worry that we’re boring sometimes? “There’s always that person at a party that you don’t want to get stuck chatting to, and sometimes think it might be me” confesses Garvie. “I was always told that if you’re bored, then you’re boring - so when you’re telling a dull story, you’re bringing everyone else down too. It’s almost infectious, which is the idea that birthed a lot of these lyrics - that and What We Do In The Shadows, obviously.” Bear that in mind next time you tell that story with no punchline. 

The production of Boring boring borrows from a number of different areas, but Garvie’s hyperactive and irreverent charm sinks its teeth in almost instantly. A searing, bit-crushed, chromatic guitar riff leads the charge in the chorus, drawing throwback inspiration from acts like Elastica and The Hives, whilst Garvie’s love of bitcrushed gameboy-style synths remains ever-present. Garvie’s hyper-active production style is full of variety, never sitting still for too long - ultimately that’s what drags this song back to the present day and sparks further interest.

There you have it - scrap your exciting 2024 plans and celebrate your vanilla side with Garvie.

Boring

Confetti & Kalashnikovs

our brand new single "homewrecker" is out now!!

to all those who have been screwed over this valentines - this one is for you. we're so excited to finally have this song out, get screaming the chorus with us!

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homewrecker

A song I wrote with my old band some years back now- hope you enjoy! :D

Jumpstart (Original)

For a home to be a home, I'm told,
One needs a straw-broom seven centuries old.

It took years of dust passing through us
For you and I to come so unmoored.
And, now, no one home is quite home enough.

It's Hard To Tell

Huge thanks to Jacob Vallen for providing the incredible beat that inspired this track! I've added my own lyrics and vocals to this amazing production.

BACKYARD THOUGHTS - KAMAL

Slow movement of the Sonata for Double Bass and Piano (2024).

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. Adagio [Sonata for Double Bass and Piano (2024)].

Garvie is a songwriter who spent too much time playing video games during lockdown… now he’s trapped in one.

That’s OK though – life in the real world wasn’t for Garvie. He spent years writing for other artists and cutting his teeth on the London live scene, but the lightbulb moment came when the gigs stopped, the Gameboy turned on and he learned to produce during 2020.

Garvie was forced to immerse himself in creating a sound of his own for once. What emerged was a sound-world that mixes the signature guitar grooves and bigger choruses of his past writing projects with the synths and cheeky 8-bit throwbacks of his new videogame existence. This sound is complemented by his animated DIY videos which use retro gaming graphics and Instagram filters to tell his story.

Lyrically Garvie is straight-talking with a touch of the dramatic and an unshakeable dry sense of humour. These are complemented by a voice which Frank Turner once commended for its authenticity.

With his first three singles Garvie has received airplay from BBC Radio 6 (Tom Robinson called his first single ‘Bad Person’ an ‘irresistible earworm’), consistent airplay on all 3 releases from BBC Introducing and also regular airplay from Amazing Radio in the UK and US.

Boring

Garvie

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