ROTHKO

This is a song I wrote about the south of England. It's about the kind of behaviour we have here.

MIDDLE CLASS BEHAVIOUR

This is 'Welcome To The Urban Sprawl'.   This is my second attempt to nail this song.  It's a song about progress (or regression maybe?)

Welcome To The Urban Sprawl

King Arthur returns empty-handed.  People aren't best pleased.

THE HOLY GRAIL

ERIS

This is a song about someone with depression etc etc etc etc.  I've set it to a jaunty tune which obviously doesn't help.  :-)

I've tried for a sort of Everly Brothers vibe on this one to sugar the pill.

UP AND DOWN

When someone you know dies and then appears in the form of a dragonfly you can always write a song about it.

(RIP Peter)

PETER BEMJAMIN (DRAGONFLY)

This is a song I wrote during lockdown.  Trees helped.

Saluting Trees

This is a song I wrote about what happens when words are not enough . . .

I've actually allowed myself a tune on this one and tried to get the mandolin to sound ok (even though I can't really play it).

Louise Brooks (in the picture) was a silent screen goddess.

Hope the song makes sense.  

JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT

This is a song about waiting for someone.

OVER AND OVER AGAIN

This is a sort of wistful song I wrote about leaving someone (everyone?)

I'm using my old voice on this one.

WHEN I'M GONE

This is a song I wrote about the Home Counties In England.

Outskirts

MARY IN THE NUDE

Hi, 

I am a singer-songwriter in my mid life.   I probably should have given up writng songs by now and be doing something 'sensible' but I just can't.  So here I am!

 I suppose you could call my stuff acoustic Folk with an Indie leaning.  I have been told my voice sounds a bit like Robyn Hitchcock.  And my biggest influence lyrically would be Bob Dylan.  

 Lyrics are my thing really and I try to write tunes to enhance them.  My album One Inch War is just completed (I recorded at a friend's house - a nice chap called John who understands how to work computers and record things).  I have tried to say what it is about England today that gets under my skin.  I feel we are at a crossroads and that many important things are being lost on a battlefield.  I hope what I say makes sense to you.  Maybe you feel the same way?  

Thank you so much for listening. 

James Bishop

JAMES BISHOP

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