Rooftops and Chimney Pots

True (1993)

The 7 Signs of Madness (2004)

Some of the vocals are embedded due to track bouncing, but it'll have to do...

Rooftops and Chimney Potts

You Could Come Home (1993)

I was going through some tracks that i mucked around with during lock down, and decided to develop some into an album starting with this one. Needs a few tweaks...

Entropy

Terribly Vogue (2021)

All the Moneys Gone (1993)

Some album filler from the 90s. The vocals are embedded, and the original is lost, so apologies in advance for the poor production...

Electric Deathtrap Circus

Fly With Me (1995)

Written during lock down, I think it needs another Mix.
Another track from this Album is:
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/terribly-vogue-2021

On the Scale of One to Ten (2021)

Orbiting Freakshow Orchestra

Fear Fear (1990)

An old one from the 90s, the vocals are embedded unfortunately....

Where Angels Sing (1999)

Starlove Fusion Blinding

Free Fall (1990)

I wrote this one during lockdown a while back, it needs a bit of work....

From Aunty Joan

An Emperor sits on his throne
Building states from human bones
I heard all this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the telephone

Learn to love your inner beast
She said with fortitude at least
put your best foot forward now
Try not to slay the sacred cow

Welcome to the bottom of the pile
You might be here with us for quite a while
And if you're wondering where the moneys gone
It never stays around for far to long long

Prepare for the worst but hope for the best
Scream and shout, don't let it rest
Let it out, get it off your chest

I heard all of this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the bleeding telephone
She told us all this day would soon arrive
And we should hope and pray for our lives

I'm a little wary and skeptical
To drink or not to drink,  and question all
Try not to fight or cause a public brawl
Its what she said to me  if I recall
Unless I want them to cut off my balls

Prepare for the worst but hope for the best
Scream and shout, don't let it rest
Let it out, get it off your chest

I heard all of this from Aunty Joan
She told me on the bleeding telephone
She told us all that day would soon arrive
And we should hope and pray for our lives

From Aunty Joan (Remixed Demo) 2022

From a rock opera written a long time ago in a mind far far away, still needs some work.

Fallen

Hats off for the People (1998)

The conclusion of my 1990 Pop Operetta.
See the cheap Vid here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G03wrvl1Ses

Falling Down (1990)

Ritch Bitch (1995)

From an old rock opera i wrote at the end of the last millennium.
This concludes act one....needs some tweeks!

Why Cant I See You? (1999)

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A Beautiful Sunset (1994)

Written a while back during lockdown...

Vanishing Borders

Prevarication reigns
Somewhere inside but theres nowhere to hide
From sobriety again
Abstenation is no consolation
I dont know this way
You dont know this way
I see the sands of time
Reversing before me
They will not ignore me
I think ive lost my mind
Vanishing borders of Entropic disorder
I dont know this way
Can I stay with you tonight?
I seldom see the light
I dont want to be this way
I can feel decay
I dont want to be this way
I should not be this way
Oh give me a line of coke
We'll roll some midnight tokes
And line 'em up and get 'em in
We'll knock 'em back and sink or swim
I think im lost in time
I think ive lost my mind

Vanishing Borders (2024) 1st mix

Taken from a Rock Opera that I wrote in the 90's...

Let me come home

I went on journey into outer space
And I never came home
I made my escape from the Human race
Just wanted to be left alone

Couldn't take the nine till five
Sunday dinners with the kids and the wife
A mountain of bills coming through my door
Didn't need the grief from the mother in law
Doctor Doctor Doctor
Whats' wrong with my mind?

For now I want to come home
Let me come home

Let me come home
I want to come home
Return to you and face the storm
Home with you where I belong

Let Me Come Home (1999)

Feel the Love (1994) 1st remix

Listen to another track from 'Gone to the Dogs'....
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/the-narcotic-delights-1992

The Dogs are Out Tonight

The Dogs are out tonight
Take your daughters home and lock your doors
Don't come out till light
Knives and broken bones you know the score

They all come out at night
There'll be no more protection from the law
and dogs will maul and bite
and fight to claim the city streets its war
How much more can the system take before it screams no more

Its happening all across the world
the dogs are tonight

The Dogs are out tonight
sniffing out your scent, they'll always find you
so try to stay out of sight
they love to gnaw a broken bone or two

The Dogs are out for you
Barking out to beat you black and blue
and back in '22
we were told of this don't say they didn't warn you
How much more can the system take before it tears in two

Its happening all across the world
the dogs are tonight





The Dogs are Out Tonight (1992)

I came up with this during lock down a few years back, I thought I'd muck around with it...

From the Orange Tree (2021) remixed demo

Needs a bit of work!

Just Being You

They called you witch, they called you whore
Gave you the cold shoulder, showed you the door
Hacked into your soul, they left it raw
They pierced your ego, right to the core

But I see the light thats surounding you
You only did what you needed to
And they did not approve
But you were just being you

You showed how you just couldnt be the same
and play out their plot lines
Like a pantomime Dame

So they pointed their fingers
And they blackened your name
And now they give you silence
Now aint that a shame

But I see the light.....

And they cant see the light thats surrounding you
Because they're blinded by the darkness
'Cos they're choosing to
And all this time you were sinning
In the eyes of fools
Because life is good when you're winning
Theres' no time for fools

And if you ever get yourself away from here
remove yourself from the madness
and dissapear
And if I ever have the balls to follow you
Release myself from the sadness
And the madness
I'll be following you

Just Being You (2008) remixed demo

Rough version of a new song. Not sure yet if its ripping anything else off!....
The next track on this album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/ten-string-bean-fellows-2016

English Rain (2015) Rough Demo

I'd previously worked in a god forsaken dead- end deathtrap factory in Leicester where the noise was deafening, nobody liked each other and the boss was a complete ****. It inspired this song....
Listen to another track from 'The Sound of the Hoi Poloi'....
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/wild-1996

Monday Morning (1996) 1st remix

The next track on this album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/down-to-the-river-2016

Ten String Bean Fellows

Ten string bean fellows live underground
Moved to save their arses from the mushroom cloud
They built a little empire, of which they were so proud
And no plebs were allowed inside to hide
Years and years just drifted by
Nobody missed them
Nobody cried
We thought they all died

We thought they'd all but gone away
on a sea-side holiday
But now we've found they've been underground
for nearly three decades

Christ you should have seen 'em rising up from the ground
Their eyes could not believe when they saw what they found

Dont you think they look adorable
So many moons ago they left us all

You left us all up here to die
Now you've come back you've seen the light

English Rain

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Ten String Bean Fellows (2016)

The Belly Eye

Pelicans Crossing (2017)

Rough 1st mix...

Listen with Mother

A drop of Mother's ruin
Sends my brain into overdrive

Mother's little helping hand
Bottled and sold across the land

Mother's little helper
Coddles' me and helps me thrive
A drop of Mother's ruin
Helps the soul really feel alive

Mother's little fighting juice
Helping Mother rule the roost

I should have listened to my Mum
Not done the things what I done
Listen with Mother, for she knows best

Listen With Mother (2017)

Seems how the Sun has bothered to come out this bank holiday monday, i thought i'd re-release this oldie...

Sound of the Hoi Poloi

07  Wild (1996)

Daft one from my early days....
Anther from the same album is;
https://soundcloud.com/orbiting-freakshow-orch/help-in-space-1991

Space Fantastic (1990)

Originally recorded on a Tascam in the 90's...

By Design 

He lived by the musket and the drum
And he flourished by the lash, and navy rum
He was her prowd and only son

She knelt down by his grave
felt the love she couldn't save
It was blown away at the Somme

Tell me it wasn't all for nothing
Tell me it wasn't all in vain
Surely a life must count for something
wont you justify this pain

As moral middens build up like moraines
The Ghost of 1918 looms again
By happenstance or by design

And now the scent of blood
Turns the river into floods
Like tears in poppy fields

And those who lived returned to their homes
And the flowers made their homes in the bones
And the years passed by and we put it on the silver screen
And memories are screaming in the wind

Laughing at the Sun

By Design (1997)

Woman in Grey

Waistland (2005) (Short Version)

Purveyors of English Rock, Pop, Psychedelia and Various Other styles since the early 1990's...

Orbiting Freakshow Orch

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