THE SMILE ROOM

87 and the Toys - "You"

Have It All

A sun-soaked story of a beautiful and mysterious woman. Enjoy the soul, reggae vibes with a laid back beat x

Surfer Lady

You and I

This song sounds a bit like if David Bowie and Simple Minds had a kid that went to karate club with Future Islands, Darwin Deez and Everything Everything.

Winner

Welcome Home

Nice Guy

'No Cages' is my third album, and my first in seven years. 

It features the singles 'Simple Life' and 'Incomplete'.

It is my first collection of predominantly animal rights songs and covers topics such as intensive chicken farming, toxic masculinity, humane-washing / greenwashing, and the perception of vegans by a non-vegan world. The project also covers other themes such as loss and loneliness, how technology is disconnecting us from the real world, escaping from the human race, and the beauty of the ground beneath our feet.

It has been a labour of love, taking over two years to complete, delayed by various set-backs, most noticeably damage to my vocal chords. 

The album features over 40 contributors from across the world, including Vegan Queen V, Liz Mitchell (Terrorvision), Ian Haywood, Giles Bryant, and Chaos Collective (Blur). It was recorded at Half-ton Studios in Milton by Neil Rogers, mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies), and features artwork by Tom Jones. 

No Cages

Out in Space (featuring Vegan Queen V)

Pinto

Grrrl in the Mirrror

That I'm Not

Wanna Be With You

Gavin's third album 'No Cages' is available now. 'Milkshake', the first release from his new musical project, is available from Soundcloud as a free download.

Gavin Chappell-Bates is a vegan indie-alternative-pop-rocker from Cambridgeshire, England. His music has featured on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2. He released his debut album ‘We Are The Ones’ in 2016, on R*E*P*E*A*T Records, followed up by his second album 'The Last One' in 2018. 

Gavin also co-founded Peace On Your Plate, a vegan musical collective, who made it to number 40 in the UK downloads chart in Xmas 2019 with a song of the same name. The collective followed this up with a full album ‘The Forest Garden’. He was also part of an electro-grunge duo, Star Pixel, who released the album ‘Hadron Kaleidoscope’ in 2022.