Wow, Paddy. You've successfully brought all of your sensibilities which I have come to love right with you to this more "produced" project. It really, really works!

great tune! all around great tight sound, the proper studio recording is great!

The Sham Rock sessions were something a little different for The Sturmeys. Recorded in a proper studio with Mike Vaughan on Drums and Glen Jevon on bass. They recorded it old style all playing together and then over dubbed later.

https://soundcloud.com/mikevaughanmusic

In ailse 22 there's a smack for a kid
Never did nothing I never did
Lessons are learned and promptly hid
One more beforethe bell

There's a mess of machinery in your garden shed
Chaos and calamity hiding in your head
Might need a remedy before it's time for bed
One more before the bell

The paper's piling up in the one day pile
Gonna put it all in a cardboard file
Throw it on the firemight bring a smile
One more before the bell

This is no epistle
I'm just looking to wet my whistle
Before the final knell
Give me one more before the bell

When I'm dead and gone take me out for a drive
Scatter my ashes on the M25
Nothing like the road to make you feel alive
One more before the bell

One More Before The Bell

'Wry Genius' -Mojo Magazine

Congratulations, you have stumbled across The Sturmey Archers time capsule that has lain buried beneath the Soundcloud sunken garden since the beginning of the 21st century. No doubt you are reading this from a future where music has become just that stuff in the background of funny video clips of dogs and babies. But historians amongst you will probably of heard of a time when music actually meant something to people. 

In the second decade of the 21st century a law was passed that decreed that all lyrics to songs should be about 'this night being the one' and stuff about 'putting your hands in the air'. These were strange times when songs about unique thoughts that sprung into individual's minds were considered retro, but musicians that copied German bands from thirty years previously were thought to still be original.

It was in the context of these times that small groups of renegade songwriters decided to carry on with the virtues of rock and pop's golden age and actually write songs about things, thoughts, feelings and other stuff. These were sometimes profound and and sometimes silly, but the words meant something, the music was playful and adventurous, and the tunes could be whistled by milkmen if they ever got the chance to hear them. They were on a mission to be at the very least, mildly entertaining.

Eminent musicologists of the time scoured the planet to find examples of this music that wasn't rubbish so they could bury it for future generations to enjoy. You now, the lucky archaeologist and future pop picker, have in your grasp the key to a world of wry world play, mad thoughts and old fashioned chord progressions. N.B. If Apes have taken over the planet, sorry for all the trouble we've caused.

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