This is the first finished version of Mark and X and folks who are interested can Google Marie Leveaux (not sure on the spelling)for the full rundown. Lots of hoarse voice, big eyeballs and hair sticking up.

Mark An X On My Door

Not sure about the verses these days but I still love the choruses! I definitive version is in the making. I was reading The Virgin Suicides at the time and felt nostalgic for some sort of past I never really knew.

Maybelline Girl

One of my favourites, it never gets played live because our sets need to be kind of high energy but I would love loads of people to hear this.

Rose

This song has been through many iterations and there may be a bunch more but this particular recording has some bits on there that I really enjoy. It actually came about from reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' even though I don't believe there's much of a trace in this version! Well, you take a little inspiration and mix your own life in there. Lots of these songs need to have the drums and the mxing re-done but hey, so it goes! It's an excuse to remake things.

Ruby Says

This song is kind of timely in a 'Hunger Games' kind of way, its a futuristic, menacing thing.

Take The Message

I played this at a horrifying acoustic gig yonks ago and the guy running it said "yeah man, Led Zeppelin, Knebworth man!" Aye. Nevermind, this is meant to be more like a kind of electronic Johnny Cash but each to their own. I mixed it with a mad (and not entirely successful) modulation effect over the entire track and I can't sort it. So sorry about that!

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