+ FEBRUARY 2025 PART II

Vagabond

The first year at the University of Glamorgan, probably late 2002. I only attended 3 lectures or so my entire career, preferring instead to plumb the depths of my soul and examine my mind from both micro and macro viewpoints, like a man standing between 2 parallel mirrors. After doing something that tends to keep you awake for too long, then doing it again, again, & then again. A marathon. 3 days later and still no sleep, a spider absailed down the curtains in my Halls cell-like box room. For some reason this produced an intense few hours of nightmarish arachnids lurking on ceiliings, chasing me down corridors, webs thick across the common room. God knows what I looked like, tearing wild-eyed past the silent doored & slumbering student rooms. Eventually managing to wake Matt, Apprentice Green's drummer, multi-instrumentalist & all round good egg. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the spider invasion had not occurred & I had not, in fact, been whisked off as the Devil's plaything to the caverns of Hell. Even the original rappelling spider was actually a bit of fluff suspended on a thread of curtain material. Ah well. Stay in school kids. 

The song was written a year or so later, morphing through a few forms. Special mention goes to Brummy's loping bassline & Matt's guitar overdubs. All recreated here. I have no idea how I wrote the piano riff. Probably just mashed the keys until it sounded good. Much like I do now.

Apprentice Green

Nightspiders

Released 24-01-25 via Velvet Echoes Records

Recorded by Dreamwave & Dom Bailey at Nine Volt Leap 

Mixed by Dom Bailey at Nine Volt Leap

Mastered by Jason at LOUD Mastering

Songs written and performed by Dreamwave

Benjamin Harry: Guitar & Vocals

Hester Battin: Keys & Vocals 

Cameron Organ: Bass & Vocals 

Alex Andrews: Drums, Percussion & Vocals 

Dom Bailey: Vocals

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A Few More Years

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Love So Grand

CREDITS

Music and lyrics - Tom Woods, Paul Statham
Music production - Paul Statham
Cover photo - Shevchuk Foto

LYRICS

Words are going in
Under my skin
A tingling feeling been
Following me all day
Crossing the bridge
To a new location
 
I see you standing there
Snowflakes in the air
We're meeting to the sound
Of the cars flowing down below
Streetlights are lonely
Only wake at night

Mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm
 
So let’s make this the start
No longer strangers now
Kissing in the park
So glad that I’m with you
Dancing in the dark
No longer strangers now
Hold each other close
It’s automatic
 
Pushing through the crowd
Heading back in town
Gimme a ring
If you’re thinking of the sound we made
Streetlights are lonely
Only wake at night
 
What was that about
Instead of sitting down
We were lying on a bench
With our feet still on the floor
And hearing your heart
Like a faint vibration
 
Mm-mm-mm
Mm-mm-mm
 
So let’s make this the start
No longer strangers now
Kissing in the park
So glad that I’m with you
Dancing in the dark
No longer strangers now
We hold each close
It’s automatic
 
Like you’re singing like you’re singing when you kiss me
When you’re moving with your la-la-la, la-la-lips
When you say it when you say it with your warm words
When you’re moving I want more like this yeah

Like you’re singing like you’re singing when you kiss me
When you’re moving with your la-la-la, la-la-lips
When you say it when you say it with your warm words
When you’re moving I want more like this yeah
 
Streetlights are lonely
Streetlights are lonely
Streetlights are lonely
Streetlights

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