'You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.'

Nelson Algren


Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer

A Pair of Brown Eyes (Written by Shane MacGowan)

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Written by Nick Lowe)

'My past was a poisoned river from which one was fortunate to escape, and by which one feels immediately threatened, years after the events recorded' - William S Burroughs

The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

'You're never rich enough if you can be richer' - Jules Verne


Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer #2

'Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold ?… Much of this will make black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant … This yellow slave will knit and break religions, bless the accursed; make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves and give them title, knee and approbation … Thou common whore of mankind, that put’st odds among the rout of nations'

William Shakespeare, 'Timon of Athens'


The Power of Money

'Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise' - Michel Foucault

Execution

Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer #3

A Criticism of Everything That Exists #2

Bleak Fields #2

Just Like Them

Contact: r-pollard@outlook.com  

All songs written by Ross Pollard unless stated.

These demos were recorded live either at home or by Martyn at Playing Aloud recording studios and rehearsal rooms in Lincoln, UK. 

Ross Pollard

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