This track introduces a talented, new singer. Milli gives an emotionally-charged performance of an original song, written by a new band, Midnight + The Patio Chairs. The song, which tackles the theme of alienation but is always upbeat, brings together numerous influences, including New Order, Duffy, Prince and Billie Eilish.

Lonely Fire

This heart-wrenching, piano-based track tells the plight of fishermen in an English coastal village in the way that Don Henley ('A Month Of Sundays') or Joni Mitchell might do. It uses the conversational phrases they would use, since it steals fragments of actual eavesdropped conversation among fisher-folk in Seahouses in Northumberland. It is beautifully sung - and the sparse instrumentation and delicate use of sound effects takes you to the seaside.

Bless The Nets

To upbeat Abba-like backing, the song explores dark themes of deceit and revenge with the choral hook of 'You thought you knew me, I thought I knew you ...'. Is this the singer, Milli Nixon, speaking to a betrayer, or more sinisterly, to an alter ego she can never throw off? You decide!

Open Your Heart

Martunis is the little boy who was swept away by the tsunami that hit Banda Aceh in Indonesia now almost 20 years ago. He went missing for 21 days until he wandered into a group of journalists filming the aftermath of the wave. From there he was touchingly reunited with his father by the Save The Children charity. Martunis, only 7 years old, had been perhaps only a day from death. His mother and sister had perished. This song imagines his mother talking to Martunis now as a grown man with a daughter of his own.

Song for Martunis

The song is inspired by Sandy Tolan's extraordinary narrative non-fiction book 'The Lemon Tree' about an unlikely friendship between a Palestinian man and a Jewish woman in the midst of the long-running conflict. It is sung beautifully and emotionally by 19-year-old Milli Nixon.

Hell To Pay

This is a brand new band, song and singer from Macclesfield in Cheshire.

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