Waking up from a dream where you’re only 16 and you come home late for dinner again ‘cos you’ve been drinking in Parliament Park

It's the place where you can find us hundreds of kids every summer every winter sharing cheap liquor and a few cigarettes
And every once in a while we’d gather together in old wedding halls with worn out decorations to see a gig with all our friends
Since the sweat and the passion has become your vocation you've been craving you've been dying to have your own band one day


Oh
Nothing’s like before
But we’re still the kids of Ankara


On this wednesday after school you hit the city with your best mate to dig cassettes in Shades records store like every teenager
That’s how things have begun, wandering and dreaming with The Street Dogs and The Losers and all those other bands
You had started to hang out with this cool punk boy but you'd rather play guitar than making out and becoming so popular
And you were such a good friend to someone you loved. He never knew oh he never knew or else he’d answer he loves you too


Oh
Nothing’s like before
But we’re still the kids of Ankara
Nothing’s like before
But we’re still the kids of Ankara

Ankara Punk

These are live studio recordings from one of my new musical projects, 'Blackwater Lightship'.

Featuring Tom Roberts on drums and Charlie on guitar with myself on vocals and guitar.

This was only the seventh time we've played together!

Tom and myself met on a mutual friend's stag do in Manchester and got talking about music. Realising we both loved the same bands and then finding out that we both play instruments, I invited Tom down to the studio for a jam. He took me up on the offer and a few months later Tom's friend Charlie came onboard too.

I've never been in a cover band before! I'm still not because...
This is an Alternative Covers Band! Haha!

Plus we're doing a few of my original songs too!

2. Jesus Etc. - Wilco

take a break and imagine a field full of sunflowers in front of you (mehh nevermind go back to work you lazy bum!)

sunflower

©℗ Nik Newark & Erin Wolf 2023

Lyrics, Melody, & Composition: Nik Newark
Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, Arrangement: Erin Wolf
Theme: Fireflies & Twilights

Photo credit: https://openart.ai/discovery/sd-1008497979486900274

Song note: Massive shout-out and much love to Nik Newark for the invitation to collaborate on this one. 

Peep the original "Fireflies" by Nik Newark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60O4dMhcR-Y

somewhere there's a happy sound
people singing songs as they gather 'round
the bonfire as evening dies
like the summertime in twilight 
and fireflies

one day we'll be left behind
like a battle scar on the borderline
not so far away lights up the sky
with the moon and stars in the twilight
fire flies

one day we'll leave this behind
all our history in the sands of time
one day we'll be living in peace
and leave behind days like these
where fire flies

one day we'll leave this behind
and ignore the scars on the hands of time
let the highway light up the sky
with moon and stars in the twilight
and fireflies

Fireflies (with Nik Newark)

Produced and recorded by Joshua Rumble
Mixed by Caesar Edmunds
Mastered by Felix Davis

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Coming Up Roses

Don't Let It Break Your Heart

Don’t Let It Break Your Heart

A metaphor for self-reliance, but also totally about the climbing knot

Bit by bit, hand over hand
Up by your bootstraps, stick to your plan

All the rapid ascenders, and death-mod descenders
And people so brave they abandon the rope
But I've got my prusik and that's what I'll use
To climb out of the darkness and into the hope

It's fair to say I'm difficult
But show me someone who is not
People are complicated you know
We'd have a tedious world if they weren't
The prusik will hold!

Inch by inch, hold after hold
Up by your bootstraps, out of the cold

Not enough turns and you'll slide down the mountain
Grip on too tight and you're stuck where you are
Don't lose your cool though, 'cos we've got the prusik
It won't let us down, well, it hasn't so far

It's fair to say I'm cynical
It's the way I've become over time
But even I still rely on the prusik
And I'm sure in the end we'll be fine
Grab your prusik and climb!

Is it prusik or prusik? Just dance to the music!
A Kleimheist just isn't the same
Use what you've got, you can't use what you've not
Oh the prusik, The prusik remains
The prusik remains!

Prusik

Archie Topp's 4th Single "Dead To You" - out on all streaming platforms on Friday 23rd February!

Dead To You

7. The Long Game (Alt Mix)_V4

Words + music: Carl Springer. Performed + produced by CSp_music

Echoes

And there's a possum that comes by...

Lyrics:

Couldn't tell what you've been dreaming
It's already there
I'd rather die than fake it
You're eaten by desire

Uh-Oh Oh-Woah

You turn me onto something cruel

Defy the time
You try to find out why

Uh-Oh Oh-Woah

You turn me onto something cruel
Another one you might recall
I'll throw my mind

Stay where you are
(Stay still, don't drift, make up, don't trip)

Subzero

Camera operator and editor by day.
Musician and producer ￼by night.

2. Jesus Etc. - Wilco

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