Name: Next Big Thing by Mark Woolley
Duration: 4 min 17 s
Description: Everything you worry about in that big bad world is real. Its just how you cope with it that counts.

Terpsichore Polyhymnia

The Model

Recorded on a mobile phone (professional or what?!) doing a 30-minute set in the sold-out (400) Marshall auditorium of the Stables. More about Dan, gigs, workshops, recordings, etc. at www.aortas.org.uk.

09052014 Stables Eelfeathers (Plews)

A gentle riposte to a guy who pulled one of my gigs after four songs in Dec 2022, because it wasn't "upbeat" enough. It was a town wide charity event he'd asked to be part of. It was unpaid. Cold. My first gig in 18 months.
Revenge is a dish best served cold and with relish and large flightless birds native to Australia.

Have you ever heard of charm, did no one teach you manners?
Does the weight of your ego strain your back
Do you have to get up early to practice being so surly?
Are you making up for something that you lack?

You're a strutting little minnow in the widest of oceans
I've met your kind a thousand times before 
A self appointed king in your grubby little kingdom
Just because your name's above the door

You didn't join the queue when they gave out grace
They didn't make good nature in your size 
And the corpse of your charisma lies rotting in your kitchen
Underneath a swirling cloud of flies

Downbeat's the new upbeat, chill out and listen in
Perhaps the words will move you or beguile
Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, you smile

Revenge is a dish best served cold and with relish
To turn the other cheek would just be wrong 
Public humiliation was the weapon that you chose
My weapon of choice is just this song

So may your barefoot road to hell be paved with drawing pins and lego 
May curdled milk forever grace your tea
May a herd of rampant emus peck your beady eyes out, 
Then I'll show you upbeat, wait and see 

Downbeat's the new upbeat, chill out and listen in
Perhaps the words will move you or beguile
Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, you smile

Your face won't crack in two if you break into a grin
And the world won't end if God forbid, 
Won't end if God forbid, 
Won't end if God forbid, you smile

copyright 2024 will riding

Downbeat's The New Upbeat

First dreamed up in a paper mill in N Wales, I used to turn waste paper and newspape	into toilet rolls. It was a long tedious and dirty job, twelve hour night shifts. Before the bosses and the day shift went home, they'd pile us up with waste paper, when they came back in the morning there would be lots of brand spanking new toilet rolls. It didn't take a massive leap of the imagination to make the comparison with the fairy tale …
	The first song in the "Footwear Trilogy"


The Elves And The Shoemaker

Recorded live at the Aortas open mic, The Old George Stony Stratford on Sunday 21st August 2016.

Kathys Song

Miles To Go

From the album 'Live' released August 9th 2017
Available online from http://www.gigspanner.com/shop.html

Silbury Hill / Gigspanner Big Band with Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin

From the album 'Live', released on 9th of August 2017
Available online from http://www.gigspanner.com/shop.html

Hard Times of Old England / Gigspanner Big Band with Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin

Audio recorded by Will, Tim and I for our promotional video

Galopede! Ceilidh Band

Everything you worry about in that big bad world is real. Its just how you cope with it that counts.

Next Big Thing

Mark Woolley

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