VLMV - Cosmonaut (Neil Milton Remix)

We're tiny castles and we're impossible shells 
Our eyes heavy with wine and with lead 
Eyelids they slide shut as the conversation ends 
and a cartoon anvil falls on our heads 

i feel selfish and foolish and embarrassed and shy 
I listen to you when you're tired and you cry 

this bridge will burn and we have no boat 
as the waves crash around us 
we sit by the flames

Bridge Will Burn

You drew a life in the margins of a book
You bought when you were seventeen
A graphic novel of success and pain
Found on the page of Judy Blume
Moments sketched in red ink and in black
Characters appear then they are gone

Your aspirations and your darkest fears
All remembered and recorded here

The book discarded, left on the night bus
Found on the ride from home to Hope
Rain slows down the journey through the town
And I can read your history

Did you leave it there for me to find
Or do you miss it now it's gone
Was this all that you wanted to say
Are there adventures still to tell

Your aspirations and your darkest fears
Your hopes and doubts remembered here

Sixes and Eights

Football fan
From the start you showed me the way
Football fan
Follow your team home and away

Anticipation of the afternoon
Waiting for the kick-off in the rain

They never hunger, the glory hunters
The cats that got the cream
You pulled me under, when I was younger
Support your local team

Football fan
Followed your team through my teenage years
Football fan
Ignore the trophy-chasing sneers

The hope that kills us springs eternal
Daydream of cheers of victory

They never hunger, the glory hunters
The cats that got the cream
You pulled me under, when I was younger
Support your local team

They never hunger, the glory hunters
The cats that got the cream
You pulled me under, when I was younger
Support your local team

They switch to a different team
When they run out of steam
The cats have lost their cream
You gave me a sense of pride
To follow my local side
Support your local team

You said support the local team
I will support the local team
We will support the local team

Local Fan

Have we pushed ourselves to far this time 
The rising river overflows 
The spiteful banks too cruel, too steep to climb 
Dragged beneath by undertow 

There must be a better song to sing 
Some harmony to mend our broken wings 
Protect us for whatever we may bring 
Are we alright now? 

The warm sun dries our weary heads 
The water slips back to the sea 
Trust in all the things we said 
Together in our sanctuary 

There must be a better song to sing 
Some harmony to mend our broken wings 
Protect us for whatever we may bring 
Are we alright now? 

I know there's a better song to sing 
A harmony to mend our broken wings 
Protect us for whatever we may bring 
I think we're alright now?

Bird Sanctuary

all songs written, recorded and mixed by neil milton in warsaw, poland. 2012.

Taiwan

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Pop-up Books - Without You

The Missing Passport e.p.

Troika - Are We...

Variations of Chopin

Fryderyk Chopin's 24 Preludes op. 28: no. 7 in A major: Andantino

My Life as a Thief

The Frozen North - My Life as a Thief

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Wave of Mutilation (Pixies cover)

Elegy for Tramway

Neil Milton is a Scottish musician and photographer, based in Warsaw, Poland. He is the owner and manager of too many fireworks records and is best known as guitarist in the frozen north from 2014 to 2016 and as a solo artist.

He began writing and recording music in 1999 with the post punk / post rock band, Troika. Before Troika split in 2005, he had formed his own record label, too many fireworks records, through which he has released records by Flying Matchstick Men, Laeto, Errors and Titus Gein among others. In 2004, the label gave birth to its Glasgow club-night, Fire: Works and Neil took up DJing, in a style which was later affectionately described as electrodiscowonkpop.

After a break of several years, Neil began to compose and record modern-classical music and experimental, ambient soundscapes and released several e.p.s on Manchester’s Valentine Records. He joined the Varsovian post-rock band, the frozen north, in January 2014 and released their debut single, “Origin / Electric Mistress” through too many fireworks in August. The band sadly split in 2016.

In Spring 2018, Neil released 'You Are The Summer', the first single of a new direction towards indie and guitar pop.

Neil Milton

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