Falling Down by Presidents Men FKA Head For Texas. Radio Trent session 1984. Recorded through mic on iPad so sound not brilliant. Just taking advantage of being able to listen to it again after having bought secondhand cassette deck

Falling Down

Presidents Men - The Day Before

Ttrack 2 B - Side from 1983 single release

Presidents Men - One In A Million

Presidents Men - Candidate

That Secret

Il pleut

Track 1 from recently refound, extremely poor condition, second demo tape from band Head for Texas that I was bassist in back in th the 80's. It was recorded in the front & back rooms of my house (54 Hemlock Avenue, Long Eaton) using the PST mobile recording service that was based in Toton. The warbling is down to a wet and stretched tape. If memory serves there were four tracks on the tape but thus far I have only been able to recover three.

Head for Texas - Old Before Your Time

Track 2 from recently refound, extremely poor condition, second demo tape from band Head for Texas that I was bassist in back in the 80's. It was recorded in the front & back rooms of my house (54 Hemlock Avenue, Long Eaton) using the PSR mobile recording service that was based in Toton. The warbling is down to a wet and stretched tape. If memory serves there were four tracks on the tape but thus far I have only been able to recover three. Lead guitarist was the late Lisa Keenan

Head for Texas - Falling Down

Track 3 from recently refound, extremely poor condition, second demo tape from band Head for Texas that I was bassist in back in the 80's. It was recorded in the front & back rooms of my house (54 Hemlock Avenue, Long Eaton) using the PST mobile recording service that was based in Toton. The warbling is down to a wet and stretched tape. If memory serves there were four tracks on the tape but thus far I have only been able to recover three. Lead guitarist was the late Lisa Keenan

Head for Texas - So Lucky

Curioser & Curioser

Poe's Ink

Paul  Sands  was  born  in  1962  and raised  close to  the River  Trent  in  Nottingham.  After attending  comprehensive  school in Selston he  worked  from  the  age  of 16 in the  IT  industry,  between playing in noisy  beat  combos, for  twenty-seven years  until  downsized and  outsourced in 2006. After  dallying with  photography  he  now lives and works as a leraning support assistant at a college of further education in Lincolnshire.

He  published his  first  collection of poetry,  Ego...Ergo, in June  2012 and followed that up with a collection entitled Scratch in July 2013. Both are available via most good online retailers (but I get more dough if you purchase via lulu.com)



This is not a begging letter, this is not a plea for validation or soothing words. This is a statement of fact. When I still owned musical instruments and could play a note or too I found it difficult to control. I wanted it to be all encompassing, my raison d'être. In 1999 I realised that I was kidding myself, I was just too ordinary, and that such desire was both unhealthy and damaging and consequently sold every item of equipment and software that I owned. Since then I have never played an instrument. I believe I may have reached another such singularity where the reality of the situation overwhelms the weight of my own expectation. Vanity and ego will take you to the edge of despair where you will then have to decide whether to jump or just toss an offering into the abyss, turn, and quietly trudge away. My offerings have been tipped over.


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