The circulating thoughts of a moth, repeatedly captured in the light trap of a local moth enthusiast. The insect concludes that it's better than being eaten by a bat. A number of British moth species are mentioned in the lyric.

Written, performed and recorded by Tom Bloor, up in the loft in Stockport, UK, in July and August 2021.

Back In The Light Trap by Tom Bloor

An argument over art and money between a laid-back singer and a furious saint set over a well-used chord sequence.

Written, played, recorded and mixed by Tom Bloor, up in the loft, in Stockport, UK. 2022/23

Instruments include melodica, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, snare drum, percussion, keyboard, and hand clapping.

The Singer And The Saint by Tom Bloor

A song about how cityscapes might be haunted by ghosts of what was there before...

Written, played, recorded and mixed by Tom Bloor, in a loft in Stockport, UK. 2023.

Instruments used include:

Synth 
Keyboard
Bongos
Snare drum
Tambourine
Melodica
Acoustic guitar
Electric guitar
Bass

Walkers' Hill   by Tom Bloor

An expression of considerable uncertainty

Written, played, recorded and mixed by Tom Bloor, up in the loft in Stockport, UK. 2023

Instruments used include:
Melodica
Acoustic guitar
Electric guitar
Snare drum
Keyboard
Tambourine
Bass

Doubts by Tom Bloor

This was among the last songs I performed live, in a small bar in Stockport, at the Heaton Live open mic night, in February 2020. A different world...

I wrote the song a month or so earlier, around the start of the year. For this home-recorded version I added some bass, some lead guitar and a bit of percussion just to flesh it out a bit.

T.B.  June 2020

Release  by Tom Bloor

Aside from being a shameless imitation of Dylan's epic "Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands", the lyrics here are oddly mysterious, even to me (and I wrote them). Why I chose to use the name Ygraine (also the name of the legendary King Arthur's mother) for this character I really don't know...

Also contains a line purloined from my favourite hymn (Hills of the North) from school assembly, when I was a boy.

Ygraine by Tom Bloor

When I wrote this song, in January 2020, the lyric seemed deeply mysterious. Now, after months of Covid 19 lockdown, it just sounds like a description of a stroll through the town centre...

The Empty Streets by Tom Bloor

A new recording of a song inspired by the annoying dead. Their habit of appearing in dreams and claiming not to be dead at all. The way they hang about. Anger: one of the more unsettling stages of grief....

Two Years Gone by Tom Bloor

A blast of anti-nostalgia, written and recorded in January 2021. If you think they were the good old days, it's possible you've forgotten what they were actually like...

Most Unfavoured Year by Tom Bloor

AKA I Was Dead. Originally written and recorded nine years ago. Rewritten to a new tune and recorded in 2020. Both versions employ a small, five-stringed uke-like instrument from, I think, Russia.

The Day I Met You by Tom Bloor

Open Cage; songs by me (Tom Bloor) by Siskin Brace (Tom Bloor and Leeroy Lugg) by Puncture Ground (Tom Bloor and James Dexter) by Wease Eats Cake (Louise Bloor) and by various combinations of the above, along with contributions from Dave Fitzpatrick and Jen Bloor and performance collective Near Run Thing. 

Most of the artwork here is by Jo Bloor

Note - More Siskin Brace recordings can be found posted on the Siskinbrace Soundcloud account.  

Open the cage and let 'em all out....