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Sitting down to my fifth pie and pint of the week, I realised that something must change.
There’s an unnerving feeling that you get when you know that you are digging your own grave.
Deep down in the dirt, covered in the muck. Always up to something, never up to much.
They know my name there, you know? There’s no shame in there, you know?

Is this the time to discard bases?
Lose ourselves in separate places?
Drown in seas of strangers faces?
All these changes.

And as the old gents left and they drew the curtains, suds fell flatter and I flatter still.
Past pride and dignity, there is just, still, one more bitter pill.
Deep down in the depths, I stop to catch my breath. I jump up on my feet. It is never safe to rest.
They’ve seen it all in there, you know? From brown to blue, to green to blow.

And down South’s a million miles away, from pot banks and pits and men of clay.
I fear it’s true, what they all say, “you are free to leave but you will always stay.”

Between the Oak and the Oatcake Shop, is where I stop to cut my cloth.
They say it’s true, we know it’s not, you can always twist on what you’ve got.

Gaze at moon and start to trot, to chippy’s fryers, spitting hot.
To poultry packaged perfectly, I drift across an endless sea.

Patio Gas are:
Jack Melvin: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Orchestral Arrangement
Lewis Fernyhough: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals
Adam Heath: Drums, Tambourine, Cowbell, Shakers, Backing Vocals
Accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Produced by Jack Howorth
Additional Production & Mixing by Sam Carrick
All songs Written by Jack Melvin
Engineers: Jack Howorth, Sam Carrick
Mastered by Jack Howorth at The Warren Studio, Sheffield

Sleeve Concept, Design, & Art Direction by Jack Melvin
Photography by Jack Melvin

© 2023 Patio Gas

Digging Your Own Grave

Winlaton (win-lay-ton) is the third single released by the Ilfords since their 2022 rebirth.

Our David on Winlaton: 'Winlaton was written during deep lockdown. Nothing was open and late night running was the only space I had to myself. I suppose it reflects on what methods you can try to use when you feel lost. On one late night trek however, I realised I wasn’t just lost mentally at that time but geographically as I’d managed to run all the way to Winlaton.'

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Ady Hall and Lee McCarthy of Sugar House Productions
Recorded at Catalyst Studios, St Helens
Mastered by Nick Watson of Fluid Mastering

Winlaton

Why would we girls be sad - lyrics 

Mitä me tytöt suremma
Olkaamme tytöt yhessä
Rinnatusten rinkilöissä
Laulakaamme laatuisasti
Vetäkäämme vienoisesti
Mitä me tytöt suremma
Kuta hullut huutelemma
Ei meitä veroista vieä

Mitä me tytöt suremma
Olkaamme tytöt yhessä
Rinnatusten rinkilöissä
Laulakaamme laatuisasti
Tanssikaamme taitavasti
Tuota kaunot katselevi
Tuota kullat kuuntelevi
Ulkona oven takana

Mitä te pojat suretta
Sitäkö pojat suretta
Ett' on meillä pienet piiat
Piiat pienet ja matalat
Jos on pienet niin on pystyt
Jos matalat kaksi maksoi
Siinä pieni pisteleksen
Kussa suuri käänteleksen

Mitä te pojat suretta
Sitäkö pojat suretta
Ett' on meillä pienet piiat
Piiat pienet ja matalat
Vielä meiän pienet piiat
Ja nämä tytöt matalat
Tuntevat tupansa pestä
Rappusensa raivailla

Nyt me outona olemma
Ja kulemma kummempina
Kun tulevi toinen vuosi
Toinen vuosi ja parempi

Nyt me outona olemma
Ja kulemma kummempina
Kun tulevi toinen vuosi
Toinen vuosi ja parempi

Hei hei 
Hei hei

Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt
Mitä me tytöt

Why would we girls be sad

Written by Tim O'Connor
Produced and arranged by James Houston
Mastered by Paul Tipler @ Unit 13 Studios

Hear The Bird Sing

I Like It

Come On

The Chills

Gold Spectacles - PseudoFriends

‘Just a Little’ is a collaboration between NI songwriters Rory Nellis & Kris Marsden. Engineered & produced by Kris Marsden in his lo-fi studio, where he’s recording the third Kippysmuse album.
Drums by Stephen Leacock (General Fiasco, Nathan
Connolly).
Mixed & mastered by Phillip Watts d'Alton.

Just A Little

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

 天黑黑The Dark Day is a mandopop genre cover song music single. This is an acapella interpretation with no instruments added sound vocal audio included in the music release. It has already released through music distribution stores on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Tencent Music and others. 

🎶Music Streaming Link: https://push.fm/fl/eubz5hw8

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天黑黑 Tian Hei Hei The Dark Day

Tickly Synapse

Somebody New To Be Scared Of

Garvie takes the AI conversation and holds it up to a fun-house mirror with Default, a frenetic pop rock stomper. 

Default opens with a groove-laden, rough and-ready garage rock beat - but that’s far too simple cool for Garvie’s liking. It didn’t take co-producers Garvie and props long to cover this simple canvas in irreverent lyrics, bit-crushed synths and cartoonish SFX (banana peels, anyone?). Default walks a hyperactive tightrope between the extremes of cool minimalism and pure fun, where Queens of the Stone Age’s sense of groove and Metronomy’s production style can be gleamed.

“I like to make music that nods to the past in a fun way whilst sounding modern at the same time.” Garvie explains. “While it’s fairly tongue-in-cheek lyrically, Default is ultimately about feeling obsolete and replace-able in a relationship, which is why it uses quite a lot of computer-based references. It’s also got a lot of parallels with all of the recent developments in AI, which have definitely made me feel like I might be obsolete soon as a human artist!”

Default

A song that playfully asks the philosophical question: do our pets go to Heaven. If so, is this all pets? Or is there a cuteness filtering process?

Pet Heaven

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'Free From Form' by Kippysmuse released 2022.
'My #9' by Kippysmuse released 2017.
 'Never Ending Loop' & 'Some Kind Of' released 2014/15 by Kris D Marsden. 
www.kippysmuse.com

Just A Little

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