what a delicious confection this is. I love all parts of it. your arrangement/instrumentation is just perfect!  and what a good song.

this is perfect :) love the vibe of this, it has this strong melancholy in the organ, but guitar and bass bring some optimism. Beatles meet Sparklehorse :)

Yes - difficult to think of anything worse than that really. This is lovely Paddy.

Brilliant lyrics! Love that sparse organ--blends so perfectly with the vocal register!! Perfect build to the track!!

What'll we do when we make it big?
The big hit could come tomorrow
Whatif it all went wrong for me?
What if I ended up like Bono
I won't have time for autographs
I wanna get home for an early bath
What'll we do when we make it big?

What'll we do when we make it big?
You know it can be quite a concern,
You just can't write songs like this
Without success in return
What about the kids in the school,
While I'm beside that hotel pool?
Who'll be doing for the kids?
What'll we do when we make it big.

Let's put in a middle eight
It's what the kids want these days
Shame it's just a matter of time
Until fame and fortune's mine

What'll we do when we make it big?
Don't wanna smash up no hotel room
I wanna wake up Sunday morning
Home in bed with you
I just wasn't made for this kind of thing
Snorting coke off porcelain
Love's the only drug I want to dig
What'll we do when we make it big?

What'll We Do When We Make It Big?

'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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