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Old Coney Street [Ned Roberts COVER]

Not so long ago
The whiskey and wine
I saw you dancing colours round the room

You were my eyes of the open road
Where the red kites fly
The crimson sun goes down as the night comes in

We went south to the sea
To find the way
The restless night gave in to the asking


The sail billows black
At the edge of the sea
A storm coming on
Adrift and unseen

Lain on the grass
Beneath a reeling sky
We did not seem to see the falling

For now the cold wind just blows
Our love away
We’ve got nothing, nowhere and no one to hang on to

The sail billows black
Where the sea meets the sky
I'm not coming back
I’d be a fool to try

Maybe I love you still
I always will
A refuge and regret to know each day

I’ll head north to San Jose
With the road stretched out
The stars will sing to sleep the aching

The sail billows black
At the edge of the sea
The wind cries out
For the miles between

Miles Between

BANDANA_Rocks& Stones

Dreams of A Dreamer

Alessandro Ciminata - Over and Over

Come over tonight
Bring your weapons 
Bring your rage
I can hold them all
Come over tonight
Bring your fire
Bring your hate
I can hold it all
Bring yourself
The parts you cannot love
I will kiss them

Come over tonight
Bring your body
Bring your mind
I can hold them all
Come over tonight
Bring your chaos
Bring your fear
I will touch it
Bring your heart
The tender and the hard
No matter who you are
I'll be there for you

All of you
All of me
No past no future
Come over tonight
We can lie outside
Under the stars
And feel it all
Just as it is

Come Over Tonight

Public Service

Jamie Boyd - Vocals, Guitar
Matt Adkins - Bass
Kees Toft - Guitar
Helen Weeks - Vocals

Recorded 2020

Side Of The Road

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London based singer-songwriter, Ned Roberts, has four studio records to his name, which have all featured frequently on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland, and have been championed by the likes of Lauren Laverne, Jo Whiley, Gideon Coe, and Roddy Hart. His bittersweet songs sit comfortably among the classics of the Laurel Canyon era, with a timeless quality and a poetic turn of phrase. With shows across Europe and America, live highlights include a tour with celebrated songwriter Anais Mitchell, plus support slots for Joe Pug, Micah P. Hinson, Those Pretty Wrongs, and Sarabeth Tucek amongst others. He has released two critically acclaimed albums for the Aveline label (home to Ani Di Franco), and has a decade long creative partnership with renowned US producer and songwriter Luther Russell (Sarabeth Tucek, Fabiano do Nascimento). He’s received significant national press, notably from the Guardian and Uncut magazine, and has recorded live sessions for BBC Radio London and Bob Harris’ Radio 2 show.

In 2024, Ned released his fourth studio album, Heavy Summer, which was supported on Cerys Matthews 6music show, and across BBC radio. Teaming up again with producer Luther Russell, and sound engineer Jason Hiller, the record was cut and mixed in 6 days in the late LA summer heat. Recorded mostly live to a vintage 8-track tape machine, Luther (keys, mellotron, guitars, drums) and Jason (bass) doubled as an expert band. Heavy Summer showcases both sides of Ned’s creative output, with gorgeously constructed band takes, recorded during the heat of the day, and intimate acoustic numbers, recorded just as night drew in. The sparse fingerpicked opener, ‘Play My Cards’ – cut last and written during the sessions – recalls Ned’s debut single ‘Red Sun’, some 10 years ago. The more expansive sounds of Heavy Summer then emerge; ‘Down to the Edge’ develops into a wide, open soundscape, and ‘Days Into Days’ drives the momentum and energy onwards. Lyrically, on first listen, these tunes echo the romantic melancholy of his previous records. Yet the record contains more existential themes too – of aging, regret and loss; of childhood; of escape and creative expression – on ‘Another Record Round’, ‘Tomorrow in Time’, and ‘Losing Sight’. Throughout, there is a sense of searching, of something just beyond reach. ‘Days into days / a uniform parade / Run ‘cross the fields / is salvation on the way? / To ease the sense of time / Go steady on the wine / I’m young and I’m old / I’m living and I’m dying.’ Solo acoustic closer, ‘The Breakers’, with Sarabeth Tucek on backing vocals, brings the record to a meditative end.

Miles Between

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