Jackie’s last parade. Robin Murray

Recorded 1 January 2025, Robin on Bass joins Jonny Gavin, with Ann and Steven on Ukelele and Mandolin

The Notes

A song about friendship and paths crossing again, the friends described here helped me to open my eyes.

3 - Musketeers Song

Taking a true tale and using it to persuade.

4 - The Girl In The Lift

5 - Running For Everyone

This song recounts the best of times living in Devon, tinged with the melancholy  of moving on.

6 - Rivierra Sunset

Commentary upon the role of banks, bankers and cash itself in UK society.
 I love the extended jam we did in the studio at the end of the track, its raw and captures one of those best studio experiences when everyone is in the zone together. The marching part and the accompanying lyrics are not meant as sarcasm rather that at the time with British people in the forces risking so much ... the mood tries to capture the hopeful chants one can imagine are made by those who must have needed motivation to carry on tasks that must have seemed to be become more and more futile. Kandahar, not in a war zone, is chosen as a spiritual oasis within a desert of confusion.

7 - The King Will Fall Last

The lyrics probably suggest resisting limitations placed upon the individual by society. I wrote the song after re-reading 1984.

8 - Network Machines

Open to interpretation but influenced by observing those who date in a virtual context, with avatars as well as real people - I am serious - Ive seen it.

9 - Android Boy

A love tale across the miles. Phoung Vy is a red flower/ tree that blooms in a favourite time of year for the Vietnamese. It needs the rains and so is seen around May/June time, it symbolises the start of the wet season and the school holidays.

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