I was commissioned to write this  song as a special for PMS Radio Show on BBC Radio Merseyside to commemorate their immense 40 year broadcasting history since the 70s, we were told to pick a number ( year)  and I chose number 1977  , it was originally a poem I wrote, then I turned  it into a kind of anthem song. This is the demo version I think it should more fierce when its rerecorded .

7 Inch Single 1977 DEMO  Campbell L Sangster

I wrote this for the opening of a short film called No Ordinary Joe about a teenager coming to terms with his sexuality, inspired to do so, whilst reading the Orton Diaries at school, about the Play Writer Joe Orton. Its a great coming of age story set in London .

No Ordinary Joe Titles Music-Short film

This is a song about trying to win someones heart in a gallant way. I imagined it as like a fairy story like Jack and the Beanstalk set in a Cowie or a B-movie film. The narrator is deffo up for the challenge 
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Odds are Stacked -  Campbell L. Sangster

Follow That Feeling KIT Mastered 1990

Trustin' My Perception KIT Mastered 1989

How To Break This - Kit Mastered 1990

Love Sic - KIT Mastered 1990

Dangerous -KIT

This was a demo we did for Ghetto records who subsequently went bankrupt and we never signed to them 
this song would of been KITs fourth single i think

KIT - NOTHIN' LIKE A REASON

A song about thinking about getting back with someone who you loved dearly but they were a nightmare to go out with and now  theyve  done some work on themselves, do you get back with them ,  can people change ?

HISTORY REPEATIN'

Library Fines (Mix 3)

 A tale of unrequited queer love set in a inhospitable 1970s inner city Liverpool 

1. WHY DIDN'T I SAY

7 .SUMMER RAIN

Lee's Settee 

ME AND THIS GHOST

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Lein Sangster is a singer/songwriter  their songs are beautifully crafted pop laments elegantly and simply constructed , woven with heartfelt passion that are both melancholic and celebratory . Adding to the three studio albums already out there with other music projects , Sangster releases the long awaited debut solo album  In Spite of Everything , The Stars  in  early June  2025  check out singles Why Didnt I Say , Library Fines and current single History Repeatin' from the record 
Sangster previously recorded as Bad Anorak 404, the acclaimed second album in 2006 LP All In Miniature is jam-packed with gorgeous jazz/folk ballads and blues numbers mixing Brill Building classic compositions with odd pop DIY experimentation. At times Bad Anorak 404 came across like Keyboard Money Mark backing Terry Callier or Julie London singing the Broadcast songbook. Uncut described it as ‘an intrepid, boundlessly rewarding delight’

 Dipping in the past of their music career its worth mentioning that Sangster fronted a  group called  Kit an out queer band in the homophobic late 80s, they recorded 4 singles and an album Unshakeable Faith. Liz Naylor writer / NME music journalist at that time said of them ‘Kit make a tough, emotionally indefinable music that carried a lineage from Fred Neil, Laura Nyro and Patti Smith reimagined as the Go-Betweens from Liverpool one of the great underground outfits of the late 1980s ' A compilation was released in November 2024 called Picture Postcards Dreams Unsungs songs .
Sangster also writes for screen and has wrote soundtracks for an impressive number of documentary and  indie film features and continues to do this along side writing songs.  At some point in the future a third Bad Anorak album will be released on the Chemin de Fer label

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