©Jim Pearson 2015
More existential angst and a little hope.

Listen to the album on Spotify or listen/download from here... https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/album/it-might-never-happen

Thank you to everyone who helped me complete the recording of this song, it has made it a bit special for me. 

Paul Marsden (trumpets), Russell Cottier (melodeon), and on vocals... Ian Heath, Jeff Roberts, Scott Cryer, Jo Bywater, Tom and Helene Lockett (The Kirk Owls, Caroline England, Henry Priestman, Phil Chisnall, Bob Glass and Elizabeth Fitzsimons (Coast), Fred Arnell and members of The Wallasey Folk and Acoustic Club. 

Right now is the moment that you are alive
So put down your burdens and give yourself a high five
You can’t run away ‘cos there’s nowhere to hide
Right now is the moment that you are alive

If you’re stuck in the past you will never be free
Thinking life was better the way it used to be
When you're lost in the mist of your own memory
Look under your nose and I hope you can see

If you look too far ahead you are going to miss out
Consumed by anxiety, riddled with doubt
But when you’re on your deathbed you’ll you figure it out
You came in with nothing and you’re leaving with nowt

The state of the world’s driven you to the brink
You get out of your mind so you don’t have to think
And it’s all flashing by faster than you can blink
So wake up before it all goes down the sink

Wake up, smell the coffee make the most of the day
Or wear a stiff upper lip in the civilized way
Or get down on your knees, beg for mercy and pray
But the voices inside you just won’t go away

Too many opinions, you can’t hear for the din
You long for the day when you’re silent within
But don’t let the bastards get under your skin
Just take a deep breath and get ready to sing

Right now is the moment that we are alive
So put down your burdens and give yourself a high five
You can’t run away ‘cos there’s nowhere to hide
Right now is the moment that we are alive

©Jim Pearson 2014

Right Now Is The Moment That We Are Alive

You can buy Debs Albums via her Bandcamp page:
http://debsmccoy.bandcamp.com

Contact: stu301@yahoo.co.uk

What people say about Debs music:

'Quiver lipped acoustic folk from Newcastle' 
Time Out, London

'...you realise how this music has elevated your sympathy, for in the silence that follows, you feel that the sound is still there, like a phantom limb.'
Tom Hollingworth, NARC Magazine

'....actually very beautiful, haunting and other worldly....I am a fan of what she is doing' 
Simon Raymonde, Bella Union Records/Cocteau Twins

'So beautiful....great atmosphere to it'
Lisa Hannigan, Musician

'I like your rework a lot, I'm so grateful it reaches my ears'
Nils Frahm, Musician

‘…artwork of immense depth..…a brilliant performance, an emotional kaleidoscope of rare beauty’
David Klavins, Pianist & Piano Maker
Creator of the Una Corda, M370 and M450 pianos

'Warm and engaging music from an exceptional musician and visual artist....the result is both fascinating and painfully honest.’                                                                               Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music 

'Dark, cinematic, and imbued with a miasma of mysterious melancholy, it conjures up moonlight walks and more than a hint of Edgar Allen Poe'
Andy Von Pip, Von Pip Musical Express

'It’s the sort of stuff where you'd just want to put on a  whole album and let yourself be part of that space'
Kathryn Tickell, Musician

Debs is a Newcastle based artist and maker of music. She trained at The Kent Institute of Art & Design and Goldsmith's, University of London.

Debs is a multi-instrumentalist. She began writing what could be described as acoustic indie-folk. She now tends to focus on writing experimental and cinematic soundscapes.

Debs has played live in session for the BBC. She’s received multiple plays on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Newcastle, Amazing Radio & many other UK & international radio stations.

Debs has collaborated with New York based cellist Leah Coloff (Damon Albarn/Blur, Nancy Sinatra, Iggy Pop) www.leahcoloff.com 
They will be looking to work together again in the near future.

Album Reviews 'For David' 2017:
http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2017/03/review-for-david-by-debs-mccoy/

Album Review  'Silent The Corner' 2016:
https://bothbarson.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/debs-mccoy-silent-the-corner/

Interview/Review Sept 2015:
https://dervswerve.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/the-real-mc-coy/

Demo Of The Month December 2014:
NARC Magazine
http://doyouseeantstoo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/debs-mccoy-therapy-sessions-1-demo.html

Interview 2014 http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2014/03/prick-and-ding-79-debs-mccoy/

Album Review 'The Therapy Sessions' 2014: 
http://musicvstheworld.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/dotty-view-debs-mccoy-the-therapy-sessions/

Interview 2013: 
http://fruitbatwalton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/debbie-mccoy_8.html

Album Review 'Silent The Corner' 2013:
http://musicvstheworld.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/dotty-view-debs-mccoy-silent-the-corner/

Album Review 'Tiny Wooden Blocks' 2013:
http://musicvstheworld.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/dotty-view-debs-mccoy-tiny-wooden-blocks/

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA

Husband and dad, between the day job Steff writes, records and occasionally releases material from home on his very own imaginary record label. His latest EP 'Tunings' continues to receive positive reviews both at home and abroad, as did his debut album 'Blue Pathways' . Furthermore, Steff has had success with commercial placement for his music as well as receiving BBC radio airplay.

Latest uploads on: The Cobbled Moth 2 -  "Cobbled Moth Regenerated" Soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth2

Outsider songwriter cobbling lo-fi demos (because I don't know how not to). Achieved solo with a Tascam pocket studio, acoustic guitar, Telecaster, tambourine and bloody bongos...not all used on every track. Some Instrumentals. 

"Compliance is a deadly vice 
That makes you think you're safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors we face"  - The Cobbled Moth, from the song 'On the Outside' 2016.

Double translated as:
"Compliance is a deadly defect
This makes you think that you are safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors that we come across" Bulyznik Prays, or Cobbled Midge. 

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