i (together) Live at Glastonbury

Song from the Latin Quarter album 'Swimming against the Stream', featuring Richard Wright on guitar and David Lindley on violin.

A slow waltz for Chile

Something Isn't Happening

From the Latin Quarter album 'Ocean Head'.

Legalise It (The Making Of Al Capone)

04 Imaginary Friend

A 44.1 version of the recent Jaffa remix.

Another Nights Broken Glass 441 020714

Reworking of a song from the LQ album 'Bringing Rosa Home' 1997.

Come On Angel Master 2015

Originally recorded in 1987 but now rearranged on  the new Latin Quarter Acoustic album 'I Together'. Chack out the whole album on Bandcamp.

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A track from the Latin Quarter album 'Releasing the Sheep', check out the whole album on Bandcamp.

Releasing the Sheep

Mersey tales

A song written in 1988 but considered too different to anything else we were doing at that time so left off the 'Swimming against the Stream' album. Resurrected however in 2019 for the 'Releasing the Sheep album and became one of the highlights of the live gigs

Your Last Show

From the 2007 SSB album 'Imaginary Friend'

06 Whisky - Hatha Yoga

Latin Quarter Trio - Little By Less

Latin Quarter - Free as a bird

Track written for the film' Proud Arabs and Texan Oilmen 'by Platform Films in response to the first Gulf war. produced by Ian Hill.

Not in My Name

Title track for Latin Quarter's 1997 album. Still available on Amazon I believe.

11 Bringing Rosa Home 1

Track from the last Latin Quarter. Song about the terrible effects of the UK's nuclear testing in the 1950's.

Latin Quarter Acoustic - After Maralinga

iPhone demo of a song about genocide that I'm hoping to develop soon with the band. Never Again (Until now)

In black and film we’ve seen the round up in ghettoes
And the train lines to camps that we somehow allowed
To the sinister sign that ‘Work Makes Free’
Never again
Until now.

In 100 days there died 800,000
Stories so grim we don’t understand how
Machetes and guns and cold bloodied hands
Never again
Until now

And now streamed in colour 24/7
Yet those who would lead us seem to miss it somehow
Ceasefire they whisper and say war don’t say slaughter
Never again 
Until now.

Never Again (Until now)..demo

Track from the album 'Releasing the Sheep'

Latin Quarter - Mersey Tales

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A Song written when DC Comics decided to kill off Superman. He was soon reinstated due to public demand but in the real world what has become of our heroes? Who inspires us now? Marx, Lennon, Obama? 

This is a track from the  Latin Quarter album 'Ocean Head' released in January 2012.

Written by Steve Skaith and Mike Jones. Published by Westpark Music.

EVEN SUPERMAN

Remake of 1997 LQ track.

From the album 'Latin Quarter Revisited'.

Latin Quarter Revisited

Heart Stop Speaking

A track we never got to play live but still one of my favourites from the 'Bringing Rosa Home' album from 100 years ago.

Bringing Rosa Home

Love Ain't What You Get

Recorded by Radio Bremen on May 6th 1987. A gig in the wonderful Modernes Club. Drummer Darren Abraham. Rest of the band as was for that period.

Modern Times (Live in Bremen)

Long Pig

Phil Ochs

A tune put to a poem by the writer Sheila Rowbotham. '‘I wrote  this  after the  Labour  Party led by  Jeremy  Corbyn who I admire  was  defeated in Britain in December 2019. But Steve Skaith’s musical version has giving it a wider meaning. Songs touch on feelings that words  do not  necessarily reach - hearing it took what  I had scribbled  late  at  night on paper off  into  another realm of  expression.’

There is no shame
 in being defeated
when the odds are stacked unfairly 
Only a besieged sorrow
 at being severed from millions
who believed false stories 
Of benign deliverance
scattered carelessly
 by a blustering pretender.

 I wish to dodge
 this sadness
which makes my hand weaken
as I wring the words out
turning them dry of hope

Could it be that
 those I can no longer reach
felt too hurt
to trust in quiet reason
too weary for sharing power?
Did the lies kindle
embers of some old imagined glory?

But bombast
cannot heal us
It comes in a flash car
and slinks back to padded privilege
leaving despair
glutted with a fearful anger

Sheila Rowbotham 2019

LONDON

There is no Shame

A reworking of the LQ song 'Eddie' from the 2010 SSB album 'Latin Quarter revisited.'

Latin Quarter (Reunited)

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