Board Game Cafe Theme

as promised to those who pm'd me.

made approx 2006-07

Short Forgotten Produk  Trk Omc

microtonal instrumental lofi hip hop chill study beats

The Microtonal Day Melts

Human Error

The title track from the forthcoming album on German Shepherd Records out on 19 April 2019 : https://germanshepherdrecords.com/

Pub Bin is a dark comedy concept album set mostly in the venues, shops, offices, pubs and bins of modern Manchester.

Pub Bin

Loop station tune with Christian Callaghan-Newsham on guitar

Sorewa

--Lyrics--

Turn us

Bleed in the shallows of where you come from
Disease falls like arrows
Pierce through the loved ones
Taken one by one

Can you deny me?

Aim through us

Will you bond with me
Suffocate me
Close my eyes shut
Use your hands to cover my mouth

Can you deny me?

Turn Us

Granddad enraged by handsome rebuke
And I hide in a box, carried to sea
Virulent fumes poisoning me
Everybody gets whacked - mutiny
It's never this bad at the BBC
The health of the nation is bothering me
NHS provider transparency
Raworth, Keunssberg, Chakrabati
All paid for by the license fee

We watch
We stay
We yawn
Away

Skeletal face grinning at me
Difficult interviewee
Drink his blood: code of the sea
Keep myself alive for another week
Great bog roll tragedy
New death toll 703
Stick together separately
My bunghole needs TP

THE NARRATIVE OF HUGH GORDON PYM
I'm saying this with emphasis
We couldn't do without Hugh Gordon Pym

Zoom in on face when about to cry
Sea cucumbers: plenty
Testing kits: not many
People gravitate away from me
One thing's happening normally
Skegness Beach, Southend-on-Sea
Great British Public idiocy
One rule for them, another for me
Laughing as they kill the elderly

Drifting towards a cataract
Dominic Cummings acts like a twat
I think I'm coming down with a very dry cough
There's a grim white figure ripping me off

THE NARRATIVE OF HUGH GORDON PYM
End the privatisation of health and social care
We can't live in these choked towns, we can only be buried here
In this foul year of Our Lord 2020
Hugh Pym, BBC News, Manchester - Back to the studio!
THE NARRATIVE OF HUGH GORDON PYM

The Narrative Of Hugh Gordon Pym

Assignation we say we'll meet up
I've a methodical grasp of my clock
But exceptions can occasionally be made
I thought I felt a frisson of surprise
You weren't supposed to be on time

I couldn't comprehend what I saw
I'd just assumed your timekeeping was poor
I will never underestimate Billy Idol again
I thought I felt a frisson of surprise
You weren't supposed to be on time

The lesson we've learnt is entirely absurd
Hypothetical truth of the mocking word
I thought I felt a frisson of surprise
You weren't supposed to be on time

Punctual Punk

The solo project of Mark Corrin, Liverpool born, Manchester based writer, producer & radio broadcaster.  Formerly know as Shirokuma, and as a member of Elaskikbande, Rose & The Diamond Hand, Octobuse and Poppycock. Currently presents a weekly radio show for Salford City Radio 94.4FM. Also plays bass for Rose & The Diamond Hand. Has also previously collaborated with the likes of Can's Damo Suzuki, Ria Mazini from Mikro, The Fall / Blue Orchid's Una Baines, Max Tundra, Andy Votel, Ian Moss from the Hamsters / Four Candles and many more and assisted with the running of Manchester's Valentine Records. Currently releasing on German Shepherd Records.

The songs presented here are generally downtempo, melodic and experimental with surrealist lyrics, catchy melodies and short song lengths. The playful and varied musical backings are woven from electronic and organic sound sources and are influenced by psychedelia, world music, cinema and folk.

For a bit of history…Mark Corrin's early demo CDRs as Shirokuma made him a regular favourite on John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 Show for the final five years of its broadcast (1999 – 2004). Rob Da Bank and BBC 3 Late Junction & FloMotion’s Nick Luscombe continue to be radio supporters, whilst Shirokuma was made single of the week by both Steve Lamacq and Phil Jupitus during their time at BBC 6 Music. A debut album “Secret Moves At The Midnight Chess Club” was released via Manchester label Faith & Hope records in 2005, which yielded a joint NME single of the week, “Moonlight In The Afternoon”. The track, which the paper curiously confessed “makes us want to have sex in dressing-up clothes”, was also remixed by Max Tundra (Domino Records) and Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve \ B-Music \ Finders Keepers). An EP on Twisted Nerve records came next, before Shirokuma began working with the Manchester electronic & future rock label Valentine Records. Mark Corrin currently releases on German Shepherd Records. 

In 2015 an ongoing series of brand new EPs is being released monthly on Valentine Records.