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Produced & Performed by Claire Odlum & Dave Redfearn

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Telegraph Hill is the first single to be taken from The Parachute Testers debut album due for release in summer 2025.

LYRICS

A lookout over the silent city
Above the worrying world
Go fly our flag on Telegraph Hill

I lookout over the silent city
Above the hurrying world
Go light our fire on Telegraph Hill

Where the full moon hangs in the bluest of skies
Know all I need to know from the look in your eyes
You lift a heavy heart with a semaphore smile
Lets go up, stay for a while
Telegraph Hill


A lookout over the silent city
Above the worrying world
Go light our fire on Telegraph Hill

I lookout over the silent city
Above the scurrying world
Go fly our flag on Telegraph Hill

Let's go up, escape of a while
Lets' go up, stay for a while...
Telegraph Hill

CREDITS

Performed by The Parachute Testers
Produced, recorded and mixed by Dave Redfearn & Karl Odlum at Bastardstown Studios, Wexford, Ireland & Black Mountain Studios, Jenkinstown Ireland.

Written by David Redfearn

Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering, Limerick, Ireland.

Telegraph Hill

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Bluebirds is the new single from The Parachute Testers. Due For Release 22.01.25

LYRICS

All the noise,
The deafening din,
The constant buzz of everything,
It's time to fly,
To spread our wings,
Oh lord...

And we will watch the bluebirds fly,
On the breeze,
Way up high,
And we will hear the bluebirds sing,
above the sound of everything,
And we will watch the bluebirds fly,
Watch the bluebirds fly...

Locked in a cage,
Don't make a sound,
Just keep your feet,
On the ground,
But we need to fly,
We need to sing
Oh lord, oh lord...

And we will watch the bluebirds fly,
On the breeze,
Way up high,
And we will hear the bluebirds sing,
above the sound of everything,
And we will watch the bluebirds fly,
Watch the bluebirds fly...

CREDITS

Performed by The Parachute Testers
Produced, recorded and mixed by Dave Redfearn & Karl Odlum at Bastardstown Studios, Wexford, Ireland & Black Mountain Studios, Jenkinstown Ireland.

Mastered by Andy 'Hippy' Baldwin at Metropolis Studios, London, UK.

Written by David Redfearn, Anna Elias, Philip Hicks, Daniel Norton & Emily Norton.

Bluebirds

Declan McClafferty aka Ramper released his debut solo album Loner on March 7. Formerly a member of the award-winning Donegal band In Their Thousands, along with his brother, Declan  is a session musician who plays as part of Ryan McMullan’s band. He says of Loner: "It’s about lots of things. About my childhood growing up and feeling the wheel go around when I had children of my own and I was on the other side. About the characters I grew up around and the way of life they had that’s almost unrecognisable now. It’s a reminder to keep things simple. I made it for the love of making music. Starting with nothing but ideas and ending up with 10 things that paint a bigger picture is a great lesson. Anything else that’s come along after that is a bonus - and I’m grateful for it all!"

Press release: Loner is an apt name for the album; Ramper played every instrument on the LP, which he recorded and self-produced over six months at his own home studio during stolen moments when his sons were napping. The record was mixed by Daniel Ball (Chubby Cat, Ryan McMullan) and mastered by Richard Dowling (David Bowie, Sinead O’Connor).

Ramper takes the best of primal rural simplicity and transports it into the future whilst telling the stories of our past and ever-changing present. Based on a childhood lived before the internet and in the Irish language first, Ramper captures those moments in time that are almost so simple you may not notice them at first, but when you let them settle hold a beauty that cuts through the noise. Much of his music ruminates on the slow erosion of our language and culture: “It’s not a right-wing approach that things should be conserved and locked down, or that other cultures are not welcome. It’s a lament that the culture of a place and skills like weaving, fishing or boat building are lost, while the people who should be carrying that on are in Australia and priced out of returning.”

Loner’s songs, adorned with woozy pedal steel and deftly fingerpicked guitar, are about the peace of rural living (‘Cold in the Morning’, ‘Back to the Start’), the drawn-out death of Irish traditions (‘EYES’), the struggle to accept depression (‘Pale as the Moon’), the satisfaction of a job well done (‘If You Want a Good Dream’, ‘Promised’), his culture shock upon moving to Brighton for college (‘I Can’t Pretend’) and the many lessons McClafferty learned from his neighbours growing up in Donegal. These neighbours populate the songs, bringing rich colour along with them—like the “real quiet character” on ‘Cold in the Morning’. McClafferty remembers her as “humble and kind, but not very confident. This song is remembering her and putting her at the centre of the narrative for maybe the first time.” Or there are the two very different men on the penultimate track ‘Don’t Forget to Look Up’. “One worked every hour that was sent his way until he eventually accepted retirement and the other read books, smoked cigarettes and was an alcoholic. I attended both of their funerals in the same week,” McClafferty recalls. “This song is trying to zoom out from what a life is and realise the importance of balance. Both these characters would have changed things I think.”

TPOE 341 Ramper

Our take on John Martyn's beautiful song.

LYRICS

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

Sometimes it gets so hard to listen
Hard for me to use my eyes
And all around the cold is glistening
Making sure it keeps me down to size.

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know one thing about evil
Only want to know about love.

I’m waiting for the planes to tumble
Waiting for the towns to fall
I’m waiting for the cities to crumble
Waiting till I see you crawl.

Yes it’s getting hard to listen
Hard for us to use our eyes
Cause all around that gold is glistening
Making sure it keeps us hypnotized.

And I don’t want to know about evil
I only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

I don’t want to know anything about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.
credits
released April 11, 2025
Performed by The Parachute Testers

Produced and mixed by Dave Redfearn & Claire Odlum at Bastardstown Studios, Ireland.

Mastered by Dave Pemberton at Manchester Studios, UK.

Written By John Martyn

Don't Want To Know

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Something Beautiful

The Waves - Performed Live at Bastardstown Studios, Bastardstown, Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland November 2020.

Written, performed and recorded by Dave Redfearn

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