Smoke Show is the first single from Old Flame's debut EP "Wolf in the Heather"
Emma Ayres: Vox
Sam Perry: Guitar and Vox
Chris Kerrigan: Drums and Bass

These songs were written in the late Fall of 2016 as an active form of resistance and dissent against the impending administration.

All music and lyrics written by Old Flame
Produced, recorded and Mixed by Chris Kerrigan at Amity Studios in Amherst, MA Feb. 2017 
Mastered by Morgan Sizer at Mozu Mastering 


lyrics:
Slow and steady 
Moving towards me 
Hands are shaking 
I’ll do better next time 

Here before me 
Smoke show talking 
Won’t be waiting 
For you to come round’ 

Smoke show 
Smoke show 
Don’t hold on 
To something, something 
Born to be gone 

Ain’t no pageant 
Raised on visions 
Feed you dreamin’ 
You’re standing alone 

Oh by careful 
Hands reach for you 
The eyes in the forest 
Think you’ll fall for anyone 

Smoke show 
Smoke show 
Don’t hold on 
To something, something 
Born to be gone 

Smoke show 
Smoke show 
Don’t hold on 
To something, something 
Born to be gone 

And oh I’ll try….

Smoke Show

Emma Ayres: Vox 
Sam Perry: Guitar and Vox 
Chris Kerrigan: Drums and Bass 

These songs were written in the late Fall of 2016 as an active form of resistance and dissent against the impending administration.
credits
released April 17, 2017 

All music and lyrics written by Old Flame 
Produced, recorded and Mixed by Chris Kerrigan at Amity Studios in Amherst, MA Feb. 2017 
Mastered by Morgan Sizer at Mozu Mastering

Thread the projector 
Watch it spin 
You’ll never know 
The state I’m in 

I ain’t proud 
Can’t get out now 
Open my mouth 
But it don’t make a sound 

What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 
What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 

Send up a flare 
It’s too dark to see 
The hole in the sky 
Where the sun used to be 

Lay me down gently 
These days can’t rise 
Voice on the airwaves 
Wears a guilty disguise 

What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 
What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 
What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 

Whoever told you, 
You wouldn’t regret 
Has never had 
A hole in their head 
So wake your sleeping dogs 
Don’t let them lie 
This ain’t the time to sigh 

Do you copy? 

What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 
What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 
What’s it like to be on the other side of nothing? 

Dream machine 
That endless whirring 
Make me believe 
There’s something better 
Thread the projector watch it spin
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from Wolf In The Heather EP, released April 17, 2017

Silver Screen

The forth track from Old Flame's debut EP. Queen Trigger is an undulating, nebulous dance of guitars and floating vocals.

Old Flame - Queen Trigger

A spacey, funky, alt-rock journey through the interiors of the modern mind

Hollow

Three Of Swords Reversed

Hey Kid

Venus Fly

A dark slow burner advocating raising minimum wage.

Service Industry

An ethereal Art- rock journey reflecting the dystopian ramifications of the US pulling out of the Paris Accord

Paris Accord 2017

"ECHO BASE" is the first single off of OLD FLAME's upcoming debut full length record "YOUNG AND IN DEBT"  It is accompanied by an original music video that you can view here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfhASFV0a3E

Music by: Old Flame 
Drums: Ken Birchall
Bass: Nate Mondschein
Guitar/Vox: Sam Perry
Vox: EJ Ayres 
Recorded & Mixed by Andrew Oedel at Ghost Hit Recording Studios
Mastered by Andy Cassella at Shape Recording 
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“Echo Base” LYRICS: 
 
Honey I’m so tired
“All the women in me are so tired.”
Call me if you change your mind.
No use working overtime

Why are we so broken-hearted
Don’t let them catch us with our heads down 

You’re the great American novel
And I can’t my keep words in a bottle 
Call me if you change your mind 
But I’m not coming back this time 

Why are we so broken-hearted
Don’t let them catch us with our heads down

Why are we so broken-hearted
Why are we so broken-hearted
Why are we so broken-hearted

ECHO BASE

"Lip Service"

Music written and performed by Old Flame
Emma Ayres: lead vox
Sam Perry: guitars, synth guitar, backing vox
Nate Mondschein: bass, keys, synths, add. guitars, aux. perc, backing vox, programming
Ken Birchall: drums, aux. perc.

Produced by Nate Mondschein
Recorded by Andrew Oedel at Ghost Hit Recording and Nate Mondschein at Echo Base Studios
Mixed by Andrew Oedel at Ghost Hit Recording
Mastered by Andy Casella at Shape Recording



Lip Service is a ballad of fury of a lover done wrong. The red velvet curtains of the song part in an explosion of unabashed frustration and cryptic metaphor depicting a man of empty promises and rife with lies. It may look good on the outside but all that glitters isn’t gold and the pursuit of this gold rush results in desolation and disappointment:

“Fiction dogs starving, words are wasted, trying to feed them empty sound. Sit up all night, talking and smoking, count the dead and wait ‘till morning comes. It’s a tiny glimmer, it’s a glimmer all the same. Well I’m just a simple man, hear you calling my name. He was such a trip, he was hardly there--leaving me hanging with that uneven stare.” 

The disappointment drives the song forward with energetic rush of your new favorite pop song and the performativity and ferocity of Lady Gaga. The refrain of this song won’t leave your head for days: “Didn’t order your lip-service!” You know this song already. You know this song well. This tune is the hymn of the ghosted and the battle cry of those who know they deserve something better. It’s the song we’ve written 10,000 times in pursuit of happiness, the song we howl to the back of the head of someone leaving, the song we shout at the top of our lungs to remember our worth when we wash our life of someone unworthy. The song that plays when we dress in drag and strut across the stage. We don’t care if the song’s subject is sitting in the audience. If you do a songstress wrong, you too may have a song written about you. 

All we ask: Be decent. Be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to the world. We don’t want to hear it. We didn’t order your lip service.

Lyrics:

 LIP SERVICE

Fiction dogs starving, words are wasted 
Trying to feed them empty sound 
Sit up all night, talking and smoking
Count the dead and wait ‘til morning comes

You said--”It is a tiny glimmer but its a glimmer all the same 
I am just a simple man, hear you calling my name.” 
He was such a trip, he was hardly there
Leaving me hanging with that uneven stare

Didn’t order your lip service
I didn’t order your lip service 
I didn’t order your lip service
Didn’t order your lip service 

Didn’t order your lip service
I didn’t order your lip service 
I didn’t order your lip service
Didn’t order your lip service 

I ain’t no hired gun, still got my dignity
Everyone’s reaching for a piece 
Of a man who ain’t got no civility 
Won’t give my days to wait on bended knee
(123) While you’re looking in the mirror at someone I can’t see 

It is a tiny glimmer but its a glimmer all the same 
I am just a simple man, hear you calling my name.
(Comes in later 12) While you burn all your bridges, and the surrounding towns 
‘Till everything comes tumbling down 

Didn’t order your lip service
I didn’t order your lip service 
I didn’t order your lip service
Didn’t order your lip service 

Didn’t order your lip service
I didn’t order your lip service 
I didn’t order your lip service
Didn’t order your lip service 


There’s one thing that was never said
When the only thing left was the back of your head
Walking away like it made sense
Leaving your lies like some game of chance 

Come on get your money and run, run, run 
You won’t clear your name leaving me undone
Get the hell out of town change your name 
You’ll never find me knocking at your door again

Lip Service

An alt-rock anthem about the student debt crisis

"The only way to live 
Is to buy something we can’t pay back 
From the cradle to the grave 
Work ourselves until we crack "

Young & In Debt

The lyric video for Old Flame's first single of 2020

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You can stream "Limbs" on Spotify and Apple Music and download from  Bandcamp.com

"Limbs"
written and performed by Old Flame
Produced, mixed and mastered by Nate Mondschein of Echo Base Productions

Old Flame is:
Emma Ayres -vocals
Sam Perry - Guitar
Hannah Rosenbaum- Synth
Nate Mondschein - Drums, Bass

“Limbs” is a coming out story. It describes the ingredients of tangled love. It is an ode to the days of suppressed feelings and aching guilt: “When I was old enough to write, in my museum of dreams at night. Spill my love for you to miss, ‘cause I burned my diary with a matchstick.” The haunting cinematic sounds of Hannah Rosenbaum’s synth are the dreamscape of the song, punctuated by Sam Perry’s lush, delay-laden guitar, and the intimate lines of Nate Mondschein’s resonant bass. Emma Ayres’ vocals are up close and personal as if you are reading the pages of her diary over her shoulder and she doesn’t know you are there. “Limbs” is an alt rock hymn with shoegaze density about embracing your identity and living as your truest self against all odds. It is the lie you told in “two truths and a lie.” It is the risk you take every day. The rich instrumentation and the raw vocals create the ultimate feeling of saudades—the dissonance that comes when you look back on bad times with nostalgia because you don’t know how to be happy. Intoning harmonies and pictorial lyrics cast a spell that remains. 

LYRICS:

LIMBS

When I was old enough to write 
In the museum of dreams at night
Spill my love for you to miss
‘Cause I burned my diary with a matchstick

You were always shining bright 
I was aching just to feel that light 
Told myself I can’t have this 
All the way back to my doorstep singing 

Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Maybe we were never right
Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Still I want you all the time 

We had nothing better to do 
Waiting around for somebody new 
Searching for some answers to
The reason why nothing ever grew 

You met me back in the shadow
 How do you see me when I get this low               
Caught my breath with a spoon 
Hold me in your eyes like the moon oh

Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Maybe we were never right
Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Still I want you all the time 

oooooooooooo

Built this love of tangled limbs 
Peaks and lows of salty skin 
Built this love of tangled limbs 
If you only knew where I’ve been 

Built this love of tangled limbs 
Peaks and lows of salty skin 
Built this love of tangled limbs 
While my fear was filling to the brim 


Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Maybe we were never right
Honey I was born to lie to your face 
Still I want you all the time 

oooooooooooo


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Limbs

Old Flame is born of the Western-MA DIY scene, and spins gritty honey rasp vocals into an art rock nostalgia with a shoegaze afterglow. In the words of ‘Ear To The Ground Music’: "Love this sound, retro and brand new all at the same time. Toes the line of vintage & psych rock. Addictively good." Your crush is Emma Ayres (Emma June), Sam Perry (Dios Trio), Ken Birchall (Eric Culberson band), Hannah Rose (Sodada), and Nate Mondschein (Trot Fox). Since forming in 2017, Old Flame has been nominated by The Deli Magazine as “New England Artist of the Month,” and released two EPs “Wolf In The Heather,” lauded by The Valley Advocate for its “acid-tongued lyrics that rail against corporate capitalism and capture the spirit of proto-punk in a bottle; a rollicking anarchistic flair for damning it all to hell,” and “Hush Money,” “...evoking the intensity of The Bends and OK Computer-era Radiohead with lead vocalist singing with ethereal subtlety that’s reminiscent of Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac.” You can’t get enough. 

Old Flame will release their debut full-length record “Young And In Debt” at the Shea Theater Arts Center on Saturday, May 11th, supported by a national/international summer tour. #youngandindebt

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