Illya Kuryakin

Watch the new animated video for The Pigeon
https://youtu.be/8jBcOF_5Ikc

In early 2020 Lomax formed a short lived but intense relationship with a dove on his bedroom window ledge. The two would meet up during their weekly ‘middle class clap for the NHS’ exchanging ribald tales and knowing coos until Lomax realised it was no dove that he’d befriended but a lowdown, dirty pigeon. Unperturbed he penned this song about eschewing the imaginary in favour of finding beauty in the everyday.

“Who needs unicorns when you’ve got rhinos?
Who needs doves when you’ve got pigeons?
Who needs angels when I’ve got you?”

The recording features a cast of collaborators including an the astounding fingerwork of world renowned bassist, Steve Lawson, vocals and piano from the wonderful Lobelia, and jagged guitars and drums that wouldn't sound out of place "striding down an urban British street in 1969" (SNACK Magazine) courtesy of Hello Cosmos’ Adrian Ingham, and Andy Lyth respectively.

Richard Lomax - vocals/beats/organ/acoustic guitar/synths/Omnichord
Lobelia Lawson - vocals/piano
Steve Lawson - bass
Adrian Ingham - electric guitar
Andy Lyth - drums

Download from Bandcamp
https://granfalloonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-pigeon-2

The Pigeon

The second single from the forthcoming Positive Songs album, the result of a collaborative project from 2020 focusing on positive subject matter.

This track was recorded with an exclusive Granfalloon cover of the Zombies song 'Care of Cell 44'.

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Richard Lomax - vocals/guitar
Daz Woodcock - bass/vocals/synths
Thirds - guitar/vocals/piano
Richard Jupp - drums
Andy Lyth - percussion
Maya McCourt - cello

Positive Songs

Working On Your Own

First single from the upcoming double album Calendar*.

Watch the animated video by Roomer Animations at:
youtu.be/BFMHyaQzn5I

When Catherine** was an 8 year old girl, she learned two facts about bees. Fact number one about bees was that bees cannot fly backwards. Fact number two was that, if you were to catch a bee in a tupperware box and place that tupperware box in a fridge, you would lower the bee’s body temperature to the point where that bee would go to sleep.

Combining these two facts, Catherine, at years old, caught a bee in a tupperware box, placed the tupperware box in the fridge, cooled the bee and put it to sleep and whilst the bee was rendered comatose Catherine tied a very thin piece of cotton round one of its back legs. She then took the tupperware from the fridge, warmed the bee and woke it up. Safe in the knowledge the bee could not fly backwards and sting her, she took the bee for a walk around her local park.

*working title

Calendar

Bee On A String by Granfalloon

Video for Please Write Responsibly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0k39FFV9xw

Subscribe to Granfalloon at https://granfalloonmusic.bandcamp.com... to gain access to the entire back catalogue including a tonne of exclusive music and video.

Credits:
This video was a collaboration between Really Really Final Final Productions and Look Woolly Films.

Music:
Richard Lomax - vocals/guitar
Molly Becker - violin
Andy Lyth - banjo
Daz Woodcock - bass/vocals
Dom Major - guitar

Please Write Responsibly by Granfalloon

GRANFALLOON
ANNOUNCES ALBUM WITH NEW SINGLE
'PAINT IT BY NUMBERS'

"Granfalloon - what's not to love about that?!" - Chris Hawkins, 6 Music

Richard Lomax is releasing Calendar, his fourth album as Granfalloon this Autumn.
(Influences include: Harry Nilsson, Jonathan Richman, and Love.)

The album focuses on traditional songwriting, and not quite traditional storytelling; to chisel out small, beautiful moments, filtered through Lomax’s surrealist lens.

That surrealist lens is exemplified by the new Granfalloon song Paint It By Numbers, a rock'n'roll/doo wop song by way of Poincare, Pythagorus and Fermat. The song is sung from the perspective of a professor who can only express their love through mathematical formulae.

Calendar will be out this Autumn.

Richard Lomax - vocal/guitar
Daz Woodcock - bass/vocal/keys
Andy Lyth - drums
Cleg - guitar
Garreth Knott - trumpet

Produced by Richard Lomax

Calendar I

Paint It By Numbers by Granfalloon

Witch of Woodplumpton by Granfalloon

"Granfalloon - what's not to love about that?!" - Chris Hawkins, 6 Music

To announce Chapter II of the Calendar triptych, Granfalloon are releasing ‘Travelling Song’, the lead single, on Friday 15th September.

Richard Lomax (AKA Granfalloon) first embarked on writing songs for a proposed year-long journal in 2014… a maddening yet rewarding journey which documented the fever dream of a chaotic year in the form of fifty-two pieces of music.

Almost 10 years after its initial conception Lomax is about to release Calendar - Chapter II as a collaboration with fellow songwriter Lobelia. Chapter II is the follow up to 2022’s Volume I album, taking those fifty-two ramblings, ideas, half baked thoughts and overcooked dreams and turning them into what will become a trio of albums.

‘Travelling Song’ is a co-write between Lomax and Lobelia. Inspired by both the creative freedom one feels whilst in motion and the bitter pangs of homesickness for a home that no longer exists when even your family has moved on.

Travelling Song is taken from Granfalloon’s fifth studio album, ‘Calendar - Chapter II’.

Where Volume I was mostly songs written at the initial conception of the project and then meticulously recorded under studio conditions, the majority of Chapter II was recorded live with Lomax and Lobelia in the same room singing and playing together.

Calendar II

03 - Travelling Song

From the album Down There For Dancing.
Available to download and stream:
https://granfalloonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/down-there-for-dancing
https://open.spotify.com/album/0XDj4vzLsOHu9QMjGLsfmj

Richard Lomax - vocal/guitar/synth/Omnichord 
Dave Bertram - guitar 
Si Borkin - bass

Down There For Dancing

Windmills

The new single ‘Broken Things’ is out now on Spotify and iTunes. 
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Liqe1yyqQb39J28r8ZlPk?si=sC1td716TVOsr70hk9THpw

iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broken-things-single/1370628940?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Richard Lomax - vocals/Omnichord/guitar
Peer Van See - synths/blips/bloops/beats
Oli Hughes - Casio
Dave Bertram - guitars

Mixed by Andrew Glassford at Glass Sounds
Mastered by Chris Daniels at UK Mastering

BROKEN THINGS - lyrics
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You can see the place it used to stand
There goes a broken man
There goes a broken man
But when there's nothing left to lose
Every ego bruised
Keeps the world amused

I know that's a hefty weight to share with you
An unappealing mess of feeling
But oh
You could have the fix I need

You can see the place it used to land
Falls like a broken branch
Upon your broken ground
Forgive and forget
Not every pound of flesh comes
To regret

I know that's a hefty weight to share with you
An unappealing mess of feeling
But oh
You could have the fix I need

I ask too much of you
But branches break and people too
I hope in time
With string and glue
And glue and string
We'll mend these broken things

I know that's a hefty weight to share with you
An unappealing mess of feeling
But oh
You could have the fix I need

Broken Things

Broken Things (radio edit)

ABOUT (First person):
Manchester based composer and recordist. Lo-fi. Folk. Psych. Songs. Unusually long neck for a man my height...

Influences drawn from just about everywhere (though favourites include the album Forever Changes and anything written by Kurt Vonnegut). The common unifying threads are a twin lust for imagination and storytelling.

BIO (Third person):
Currently working on his fourth album; a double, potentially triple album… Granfalloon continues the work of his third album, Positive Songs, to focus more on traditional songwriting, and not quite traditional storytelling, to chisel out small, beautiful moments. It showcases this non-traditional storytelling with subject matter like... the meta-narrative approach to the dangers to you and the relationships around you that writing can have, expressing love through mathematical formulae, and 8 year old girls catching bees in Tupperware boxes, all with a heavy dose of Richard Lomax’s absurdism.

CONTACT (All the persons):
info@granfalloonmusic.com

Check out Bandcamp for our latest releases: 
https://granfalloonmusic.bandcamp.com

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