@manuel-perazzoli-920683675: Thank you very much Manuel, I'm glad you like the track!

Love this vibe 🙌 I’m also a singer/songwriter close to Cambridge. I’ll have to pop into the city to see you perform 👍🎵🎤

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'Terrorist With a Gentle Heart' is the fourth single from my third album 'No Cages'.

The track will be released on Friday 5th September 2025 and will be available to download and stream from all major sites, as well as from my Bandcamp store.

'Terrorist With a Gentle Heart' is a song about what it's like to be a vegan in a non-vegan world. It was inspired by a friend who once declared to me that vegans are just a bunch of terrorists. 

The album 'No Cages' is available on limited edition CD, and to download and stream.

'No Cages' is my third album, and my first in seven years.

It features the singles 'Simple Life', 'Incomplete' and 'I Would Have Left This Party By Now (If It Wasn't For You)'.

It is my first collection of predominantly animal rights songs and covers topics such as intensive chicken farming, toxic masculinity, humane-washing / greenwashing, and the perception of vegans by a non-vegan world. The project also covers other themes such as loss and loneliness, how technology is disconnecting us from the real world, escaping from the human race, and the beauty of the ground beneath our feet.

It has been a labour of love, taking over two years to complete, delayed by various set-backs, most noticeably damage to my vocal chords.

The album features over 40 contributors from across the world, including Vegan Queen V, Liz Mitchell (Terrorvision), Ian Haywood, Giles Bryant, and Chaos Collective (Blur). It was recorded at Half-ton Studios in Milton by Neil Rogers, mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies), and features artwork by Tom Jones.

Credits

Gavin Chappell-Bates - vocals & guitars
Tim Gifford - bass
Paul Richards - drums
Ian Haywood - piano
Fallon Howe - trumpet
Liz Mitchell - saxophones

Recorded & mixed by Neil Rogers at Half-ton Studios.
Additional recording by Gavin Chappell-Bates at The Drift

Mastered by Pete Maher

Artwork by Tom Jones

No Cages

Terrorist With a Gentle Heart

'I Would Have Left This Party By Now (If It Wasn't For You)' is the third single from my third album 'No Cages', which was released 4th July 2025.

The track will be released on Friday 1st August 2025 and will be available to download and stream from all major sites, as well as from my Bandcamp store.

'I Would Have Left This Party By Now (If It Wasn't For You)' is about being trapped in a situation you don't want to be in, whether that's a literal party, or something else, like the mess we currently find ourselves in in the world. 

It's a love song of sorts, about finding strength through love and the people you care about in your life, in this case, my wife Ali. 

The album 'No Cages' is available on limited edition CD, and to download and stream.

'No Cages' is my third album, and my first in seven years. 

It features the singles 'Simple Life' and 'Incomplete'.

It is my first collection of predominantly animal rights songs and covers topics such as intensive chicken farming, toxic masculinity, humane-washing / greenwashing, and the perception of vegans by a non-vegan world. The project also covers other themes such as loss and loneliness, how technology is disconnecting us from the real world, escaping from the human race, and the beauty of the ground beneath our feet.

It has been a labour of love, taking over two years to complete, delayed by various set-backs, most noticeably damage to my vocal chords. 

The album features over 40 contributors from across the world, including Vegan Queen V, Liz Mitchell (Terrorvision), Ian Haywood, Giles Bryant, and Chaos Collective (Blur). It was recorded at Half-ton Studios in Milton by Neil Rogers, mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies), and features artwork by Tom Jones.

Credits

Gavin Chappell-Bates - vocals & guitars
Tim Gifford - bass
Neil Rogers - drums
Trevor Lewis - lead guitar

Recorded & mixed by Neil Rogers at Half-ton Studios.
Additional recording by Gavin Chappell-Bates at The Drift

Mastered by Pete Maher

Artwork by Tom Jones

I Would Have Left This Party By Now (If It Wasn't For You)

'No Cages' is the title track from my third album, released Friday 4th July.

I wrote the song a couple of years ago, shortly before I started a new job working for an animal protection charity. I was inspired by the work of the charity and am proud to be part of it now. We work tirelessly to end the abuse of animals raised for food, and one of the things we aim to do is end the use of cages. 

So this a protest song calling for an end to the inhumane use of any form of cage and entrapment, and a reflection on what it says about us and our society that we enslave so many sentient beings across the world. 

'No Cages' is my third album, and my first in seven years. 

It features the singles 'Simple Life' and 'Incomplete'.

It is my first collection of predominantly animal rights songs and covers topics such as intensive chicken farming, toxic masculinity, humane-washing / greenwashing, and the perception of vegans by a non-vegan world. The project also covers other themes such as loss and loneliness, how technology is disconnecting us from the real world, escaping from the human race, and the beauty of the ground beneath our feet.

It has been a labour of love, taking over two years to complete, delayed by various set-backs, most noticeably damage to my vocal chords. 

The album features over 40 contributors from across the world, including Vegan Queen V, Liz Mitchell (Terrorvision), Ian Haywood, Giles Bryant, and Chaos Collective (Blur). It was recorded at Half-ton Studios in Milton by Neil Rogers, mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies), and features artwork by Tom Jones.

'Incomplete' is the second single from my forthcoming album 'No Cages'.

Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TTU0NRsAt8

'Incomplete' will be released on 20th June 2025 and will be available to download and stream from all major sites, as well as from my Bandcamp store. 

'Incomplete' began life as a couple of scribbled lines of lyrics that I wrote down when I went on my first solo tour back in 2016. These became the first two lines of the song:

'There's a piece of me missing when you're not there
A ghost that walks beside me'

That tour was the first time I'd spent significant time away from my partner (now wife) since we'd got together and I felt a hole within me that I couldn't explain. 

When it came to writing songs for my new album, I expanded upon that idea. 

'Incomplete' is about a sense of something being absent or missing from our lives, whatever that may be, that leaves us feeling lost and less than whole. 

'No Cages' will be available on CD, and to download and stream from 4th July 2025.

Credits

Gavin Chappell-Bates - vocals & guitars
Tim Gifford - bass
Neil Rogers - drums

Recorded & mixed by Neil Rogers at Half-ton Studios.
Additional recording by Gavin Chappell-Bates at The Drift

Mastered by Pete Maher

Artwork by Tom Jones

Incomplete

Holding Fast - DrewJam

From Within (Future Rave mix)

Stars Twinkle (Future rave mix)

The soundtrack from the audio version of issue 8 of Coming To Our Senses, a digital zine (https://the-haven.co/zine)

The Footsteps Only Go In One Direction (Coming To Our Senses)

Words & Music © Nic Evennett, 2019, 2025. 

For Helen 

Let me be water,
And feel with flowing arms,
Seeking the corners
Then flowing, flowing.
And evermore I'll float.
There, I will linger.
There, I'll find stillness.

I'll only keep moments
And a calm heart.
No one could hold me down -
Slip through tangled hand.
And I will sing their songs -
The voice of the coral,
The melody of the sands.

Be.
Beautifully dawning.

The words of a dreamer,
The messenger of the sea.

~

The Letter ~ For Helen

Just An Episode

SOMETHINGS ALWAYS BREATHING
BREATHING DOWN ON MY SOUL
SO IM DIGGING THESE HOLES SO YOU KNOW

Somethings Always Breathing

Luke James Williams - Jenny Writes Letters

Out on Bandcamp/I Tunes/ Amazon etc
robclarkeandthewooltones.bandcamp.com/album/…single

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBwHyC88SS0&t=36s

new year new day - Rob Clarke and the Wooltones
To everyone hoping for or expecting another Wooltones xmas record this year, we did that already - but do not wish to disappoint so invite you to bypass the bulldozer of xmas and join our celebration of
That Which Is Yet To Come. Who knows what it may hold? The thrill of a snowbound bus, a scattering of applause, a short set during the interval of the charity bingo at Ashton Labour Club.
Table reserved for artistes.

Side A new year new day
Side A ashton labour club charity bingo interval

rob clarke guitars vocal
gp chesters bass
pepe hoonose drums
recording produced by fran ashcroft
www.robclarkeandthewooltones.co.uk

Ashton Labour Club Charity Bingo Interval

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In November 2018, Luke James Williams released his debut EP Drove. The first single, 'Rabbit Hole’, received airplay on BBC6 Music, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, whilst other cuts from the EP have been featured and played by Folk Radio UK and Hype Machine. Second single ‘Still In Bed’ received huge support from BBC6 Music DJ Tom Robinson, who chose it as his 6Music Recommends Track of 2019 so far in July. It was subsequently played across the station by Tom Ravenscroft, Lauren Laverne and Steve Lamacq. The song has also attracted a large listenership on Spotify with over 61,000 streams on the platform. Luke has received rave reviews for his engaging and emotive live performances and has supported artists such as Stu Larsen, Kirsty Merryn, Mark Chadwick (Levellers), The Little Unsaid and Megson. Luke is currently recording his debut full length album due for release in 2020. Drawing influences from the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Nick Drake and PJ Harvey, Williams paints pictures with words and sings them in his own distinctly British voice.

"The songwriting and the vocal delivery are just so raw, heartfelt and beautiful that I find it irresistible"
Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music

"A perfect slice of alt.folk pop"
Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio

"Gave me a shiver down my back, just like the first time I heard Nick Drake and The Lake Poets. Luke James Williams is the Real Deal"
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"Really beautiful melodies and instrumentations which bring you back to listen time and time again"
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"Reminds me of Bon Iver, only with an English accent"
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