First bash at three part harmonies with Candy Parfitt and Chance Kellner

Beeswing Chorus Harmonies (Demo)

You know this place it means the world to me.
Knock it down build flats knock it down.
The first place I really felt home in London.
Now my life is in bags and my heart’s on my sleeve
And there’s so many memories I’d rather not leave.

When I moved here ‘The Four Aces’ club still stood proud
And ‘The Vortex’ on Church Street was in with the crowd.
Now ‘The George‘ is up next and my dear studio
And Vogue says that Hackney’s the in place to go.

Tesco’s are popping up like unwelcome weeds
And they just put a pound on the price of a pide.
The places we used to shoot pool: they’re all gone.
Whilst the prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers look on.

Hackney Gentrification Song

A song about mice, cake and the highland clearances

Mariam's Cake

@rgrey
  
  Recorded with Beth Dariti on guitar and backing vocals 
  
  The fourth track from my recent ep 'I Love Leonard Cohen'
  
  www.modifythevan.com

Shakes And Shudders

I Love Leonard Cohen

Track is now available - let's get it to #1 during the general election week!

itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/f**k-off-back-to-eton-single/id990963507?ls=1
spotify - http://open.spotify.com/album/5lCtMbWJklZFohBOc1jJ9F

If I am lucky enough to make a profit, a share of this will go to the Radical Housing Network and the Land Workers' Alliance

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F**k Off Back To Eton

From The Ground Up

Woodman Spare That Tree

The Ballad Of Hawkwood

John Ball - live recording with Dolly May and Nick Hart

I'll Give You My Heart

A new song inspired by The Staves, Emmy The Great, Bob Dylan and a beautiful lass from Somerset.


How many songs have these worn heart strings still got left?
I awoke this morning off key and quite bereft but well
My pen it is still willing and the paper it receives.
We caught up with the moorhen and we joked about our dreams.

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, dear you'd better stay;
I couldn't care about you any more than I do now today.

Patience is a virtue, good things come to those who wait;
But who will be the judge of when the hour is getting late?
And anyway there is that other one about fish and the sea!
Pick you cliche, start the clock, compare notes over tea.

Spring it turns to summer, just as night it turns to day.
When in the autumn of our years will we opine away about
How foolish and how young we were, how little we all knew.
I love all my mistakes and well this heart it still beats true.

Actions speak louder than words but what about a song?
A most prolific muse you've been, I've toiled here late and 
Long into the night, trying to make sense of all these things and more;
Like why I feel the way I do when you walk through the door.

My pen it has momentum but the day waits for no man.
There are so many things I know I'll never understand
I'll be here in September for the rest I cannot say.
I'm sure of change, death and taxes, sunshine and of rain.


More Than Today

The first time I heard this song of Tim's I was so convinced it was a classic trad folk song that I search the internet for twenty minutes trying to find the lyrics... here is a demo of what it sounds like before I have taught it and arranged it with the band



Ellie by Tim Graham

Underneath The Skin (instrumental)

Ninety Days (instrumental)

Leave It In The Ground (instrumental)

Woodman (instrumental)

More Than Today (instrumental)

The Hackney Gentrification Song (instrumental)

Ghost Around (instrumental)

The Last Time I Saw David (instrumental)

Every Waking Hour (instrumental)

From The Ground Up (instrumental)

These Days (instrumental)

A new recording of the Finchley Waltz done at Abbot Street studios

Accordion, Caitlin Roberts 
Backing vocals, Candy Parfitt
Violin, Basia Bartz

The Finchley Waltz

Eric Clapton has a lovely track called 'Old Love' - this is my take on the matter.

Stuck On You

These Days

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Robin Grey started his music career at the age of 5 with the help of a Fisher-Price cassette recorder and a love of singing Burt Bacharach songs to his grandma. His musical tastes soon branched out, thanks to mix tapes that arrived after collecting tokens from overly sugared breakfast cereal packets.

He has since composed five albums of thoughtful and gently experimental folk music which have been streamed over 4m times on Jamendo, winning him fans as far away as Brazil, Korea and Russia. His music has ended up in a cult Korean gay movie, a French TV comedy series and other suitably random locations.

Robin has graced the boards of Cecil Sharpe House, Hebden Bridge Trade’s Club and The Union Chapel, sharing stages with Kate Tempest, Peggy Seeger, Ed Sheeran and Sam Lee along the way.

With other hats on, Robin devised and performs a show called ‘Three Acres And A Cow‘, teaching people about English radical history through folk songs; has been undertaking musical cycling pilgrimages under the rubric of ‘Pedal Folk‘ and also infamously serenaded David Cameron during the 2015 general election, which won him praise from Ian Hislop and Charlie Brooker plus less flattering attention from Guido Fawkes.

Robin Grey

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