What a fine track...lyrics, vocals and incredible soundscape as a backdrop...simply superb Selena and Gordon!

Ahh, her magical mysticalness Lady Luna ~ beautiful music + vocals, captures the feel of moongazy moongazing :) This track would've been perfect to play as I was watching the penumbral eclipse last friday, from a local hillside ~ in fact it's a shame I can't add a photo to this comment 'cos one I took popped into my head as I'm listening to this + 'fits' with it. Fabulous <3 (soz for the long comment!)

Really enjoying the vocals, the hard guitar is sweet, the muted guitar is awesome, it pulls on your ear as you listen, nice touch!

Two very distinct sections, and a change of emphasis.  I found the strangeness and mystery of the first more enchanting.  Although I liked the dramatic shift of emphasis I was hoping the track would finish on an unresolved note.

Beautiful structuring here. Love the guitars backing the vocals this well. Brilliant work!

The production is so pristine here. That acoustic guitar would be so difficult to mix with everything else going on. Well, it would be for me anyway. I love this!!

Ah so good to visit this fantastic epic piece again!

hell yeah

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BRING DOWN THE MOON : Selena Jay & Gordon M

Selena writes : 
I've been fascinated by moonlight  since I was a little girl. The world seemed a different place under the mysterious blue-white light, even radio signals were affected at nightfall.
Somehow, this felt like my time.
When I started to read about the religious & cultural significance of the Moon I repeatedly came across the concept of the Mother Goddess' secret wisdom.  Perhaps we could once more attain a state of natural equality?
This is a very special song for me and I feel like I've won a special prize in getting it this far. 
I can't thank Gordon enough for his efforts on this track.
I hope you all enjoy it too.
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Bring Down The Moon

Queen, clad in silver, on her throne of night
Rules the kingdoms of sleep and death in mystical light

The path that leads to her lies in shadow
And no man dares to tread there, and no man may parteth, parteth the veil

The tides of the ocean obey her, she is calling her daughters now,
She is calling, but in vain, they've forgotten, forgotten her power

The might that she bestows on all those who would bring down the moon
Those who bring down the moon
And look upon, look upon Isis Unveiled.

I tilt my face towards the heavens, bathed in blue reflected solar light
We meet each other's gaze and Eternal Woman's strength, I feel it rushing in my veins

Clothe me in your moonlight, gentle watcher of my dreams, careful keeper of souls
Until the sun's first gleam
Until the sun's first gleam

Queen clad in silver on her throne of night
She rules the kingdoms of sleep and death in mystical light
Clothe me in your moonlight gentle watcher of my dreams
Until the break of day your watchful eye sees over me

Bring down the moon.....

Bring Down The Moon

6. Psychic Driving : November 2016
Track 6 of 8 from the new album "Alpha Omega Man" and the last one we'll be posting this year.
Once we get the final pair of songs working then it's back to basics for a whopper of a remixing, overdubbing & mastering session.
We're looking to release the album in mid-to-late January.
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Psychic Driving
Rushing headlong, senses overload
Helpless now against the undertow

Who was I? Was it all invention?
Who was I? Nothing more than well rehearsed routines
Conditioned not to ask.... What is Truth anyway?

A thousand different scenes from a hundred different dreams
Countless memories recombined, but who knows what they mean?
Illuminate the darkness between disparate points of light
An infant's faltering steps ahead in the blackest, starless night

Can I find out who I am?
Please end this searching
Things that made me who I am
A lifetime returning......returning....returning

Like the weight of air before a storm
I couldn't fight it held me down
This parody was cast adrift
I waved, I drowned

But I learned to say all the things I knew they had to hear
I learned to act, I learned to lie
I learned to hide my fear

Then I found out who I am
No more uncertainty
All that makes me who I am
Embracing Destiny

Proud to show just who I am
Back from Infinity
All that makes me who I am
Revealing Destiny

Returning from The Void
A man outside of time
Welcome Back
Back from the darkness
Bringing hope, bringing light
Behold a whole new way of life

Welcome Back
Back from Oblivion
The Alpha Omega Man
Back where I belong


Listen to me, listen to me
Now I see, no doubt at all as clarity returns
No need to shed a tear for me
I belong

I Belong
For the first time I belong
Life beyond the Stygian Gloom
At last I belong

I am Free  to live my life			 "Just the same as everyone"
I am Free to voice opinions		         "Just the same as everyone"
I am Free to keep my secrets		"Just the same as everyone"
I am Free to love that Special One	 "Just the same as everyone"
To Be Free
To Be Free

6. Psychic Driving

Same Time, Same Place : Bluebottles : December 2016

Hylda from Balham, our No. 1 fan, has set up a "Facebook page" devoted to the band. We'll be contributing new songs, archive photos and, of course, road-tales/philosophical musings from my autobiography.
https://www.facebook.com/Bluebottlesnewwave/

There's always a tendency at this time of year for people to focus on the things they think they need rather than being thankful for what they've already got. 

Swept along by the consumerist tide, it's so easy to lose perspective.
It reminds me of an opportunity which came our way in the late seventies when we'd relocated to the States and were gathering rave reviews from the style, culture and origami magazines. 
In fact, there's a chapter in my autobiography dealing specifically with our ahead-of-its-time TV series

{The book is available for a limited time in a collector's edition complete with genuine gas station receipts and an unused ticket for our 1980 "Tea with the Shah" concert. A must for all true fans}

"The network guy was confident the new serial could make us the next Charlie's Angels. 
A mystery-solving undercover rock band comprising an attorney from Brooklyn, a former Belgian racing driver turned playboy and a hard-bitten ex-cop from Boston, solving crimes in between sell-out stadium gigs. 

As he was fond of saying  : They're gonna love you, baby.

He wanted to get production underway before a rival network launched their new series about a crack commando unit, sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, still wanted by the government and surviving as soldiers as fortune. Judging by that synopsis their plan would never come together.

We cancelled the lucrative Jimmy Carter-Second-Term gig on the advice of the focus groups, all of whom were confident that Gold, Franconchamps & Murphy would be a ratings smash."

A sobering reminder that things don't always turn out how as planned....
Which is why the new Bluebottles personal organiser app makes an ideal present for 2017.
And why not make next year's brand new Bluebottles album your first event-reminder ?
{ Only compatible with MS-DOS ver 3.3 & later}

Guitars & Bass : ELT
Drums : Gary Reeves
Vocals : Gordon M
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Same Time, Same Place

Every TV show and every song I hear speaks to me
Every advert knows my name, every jingle rings a bell
A Christmas movie, two hours that I won't see again
Here's to Capra, Dickens, Crosby, to imaginary 
Friends, friends, friends. 
This silent night

Pass the parcel, rip the wrap, party spirit 1-2-3
Hear the music, when it stops, take a seat they're always free
Drain another glass, smile, a joke I've heard before
Lines are fumbled, not my key, wake me up when wassailing's
Done, done, done
Down, down, down
Have I ever been.... solo

All washed up, the tide rolls in
A kind of Crusoe for today
Empty bottle SOS
Have I missed the postage date?
Guess I've missed the postage date
Yes, I've missed the postage date

Was it one wise king who sang the Lonely Christmas thing?
Or just some other man trapped inside a tribute band

Same time, same place, next year

Same Time, Same Place - {ELT--Gary Reeves--gordon m}

The Sub Hero remix of Heitt's The Great Wheel for their remix project, available right here: https://soundcloud.com/noam-rolik/sets/heitt-remixes-1

You can hear their original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUwYA9lxfME

Big thanks to @noam-rolik for asking me to contribute to this!

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I Will Be There (written by Terry Reeves, 2009)
Arranged, mixed and produced by Gordon M
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Terry Reeves:  Lead Vocal
Gordon Midgley:  All guitars/ bass/ backing vocals
Gary Reeves:  Drums / Percussion

My eldest son had the opportunity to attend a local university and continue living at home. Being a well tuned-in, modern thinking Dad, I thought that not only would this be a financial benefit to him, but he’d also be able to continue his education with home comforts. I was totally wrong because I forgot that this step into his future was about so much more than education. It was about independence, personal choice, making mistakes and growing up, something which became very apparent to him in just a few  short weeks. He didn't want to upset us but did pluck up the courage to tell us he wanted to move out.  No problem with that, so we set about assisting him in finding a place to live and, very pleased to report, all has turned out really well.  He completed his university course, had a life changing experience and hasn’t looked back since.
At the time I wanted him to know that no matter what he chooses to do in life, I will be there and that he’ll always have my support (always hoping of course that he wouldn’t become a serial killer or, even worse, vote Conservative), which is why I wrote this song.
Gordon has arranged and produced some very special music for this track and, as always, it’s been a total pleasure working with such a talented and generous musician.  Gary delivered some top drumming, topped off with great backing vocals from Gord, and I cannot thank them enough. 
Today would have been our Dad's 92nd. Birthday so thought, given the opportunity, a good day to post a Father to Son track. Happy Birthday Dad.  Still miss you.   (Terry Reeves)

If you want me then you know I will be there
It's just a feeling but I think it's time for me to disappear 
But if you want me I will be there.

I don't mind if we start again
Want peace of mind I'd do it all the same
But being stuck in the middle
Makes it hard to share the pain

What we say isn't always bright
And I know you know wrong from right
But being stuck in the middle
I can't always show the light

I know you really need to go
The world to see and lots to show.                   CHORUS
Love the highs avoid the lows
Waiting echoes won't let you know

Another love for you to feel
Your kind heart will make it real
But being stuck in the middle
Won't let me share the deal 

A new home for you to make
Choosing skills what you want to take
But being stuck in the middle
I can't help with some mistakes


I know you really need to go
The world to see and lots to show.                     CHORUS
Love the highs avoid the lows
Waiting echoes won't let you know

Lasting choice is always yours
Sometimes friends say they open doors
But being stuck in the middle
Won't let me change the scores

Question now or another time
Try to avoid standing in a line
But being stuck in the middle
I don't want to change your rhyme

If you want me then I know you will be there 
It's just a feeling but I think it's time for me to disappear 
But if you want me I will be there.

I Will Be There  Cripple Club with Gordon M (please see description)

3. The Doctor's Warning : May 2017
Special Guest : Nathan Jon Tillett as the malevolent medic.

Being the 3rd instalment of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Splendid Music Video : https://youtu.be/6YY6hNQFVn4
Setting aside his doubts and fears the Narrator enters the eerie house-by-the-mere and encounters the recently dismissed family doctor on the stairs.
Well intentioned advice from the 'voice of experience' which is shot-through with scepticism, mockery and envy.

An ideal opportunity for a guest vocalist and who better than my good mate Nath?
He even helped out with the video production.

This is the last complete song I'll be posting for a while. The next trio are going to be tough going and I'm not 100% sure how they'll take shape. Final versions will be a long way off.
I'll switch to posting excerpts & snippets with video trailers for the appropriate sections.
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The Doctor's Warning 

It all had to be a strange kind of dream
Explanations fail me with everything I've seen
The servant met me and showed me through the hall
Faded former glories, old paintings on the wall

We walked in silence, stale musty air, then we met a man as he hurried down the stair
The family doctor, dismissed this very day, he looked relieved, paid in full, pleased to get away
He said : 

**  Dr Nathan **
Don't you see it? Tell me, can't you feel it?
Don't you feel this atmosphere, getting worse as you come in?
I can't discuss it but, I would not trust him, his state of mind disintegrates with each passing day

He was always like this, nothing's changed, troubled child, now a troubled man
A lifetime's doubts and fears, concealed, buried for years
Expensive schooling, extensive reading, could not prepare him for how he lives
How he lives today

The history of this house can't be denied!
The books you've read can't prepare you for what's inside
In this house Roderick lives but just in name
A broken man in a building much the same

** Twin Harmony Guitar Feature **

Such pessimistic words, such a lack of belief, professional detachment, cowardice to me
I've first hand experience of suffocating lows, the failures of medicine, its short-sighted goals

I knew myself and I knew my friend
I knew all that we'd been through we could do it again
Heartbeat was racing at the thought of seeing him
Outside his studio there's music within
**Epilogue**

3. The Doctor's Warning ( feat. Nathan Jon Tillett )

Started work on this the day my brother Frankie died. Finished it nearly 2 weeks later.

Far Brother, Star Brother

Written, arranged, produced & performed by The Arkestar.
Get it here: https://arkestar.bandcamp.com/album/the-metamorphosis-of-the-arkestar-pt-2

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This Is What It Takes : June 2017

The curator of our Facebook fan page, the ever-lovely Hylda from Balham, has had to field a lot of questions concerning our erstwhile manager, Timmy Cagney.
Check out the page and see what you're missing : 
https://www.facebook.com/Bluebottlesnewwave/
After that unsavoury business with the sniffer dogs and the folk jamboree debacle, we parted company and opted for representation courtesy of Hylda - who chairs several important committees and is regarded as one of the movers and shakers of the Women's Institute ( Balham Branch )
She takes a different approach to Timmy, but her enthusiasm can't be faulted.
Why, she was only telling us yesterday of a high profile gig supporting The Jam down at the Arthur Mullard Memorial Hall.
We're really looking forward to seeing our old sparring partners Paul, Bruce and Rick in the city, and swapping tales of our lives in the modern world.
Wait for the pics on Hylda's fan page.
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This Is What It Takes

One more week and one more song, one more chance to write my wrongs
Find a different way, portray, all the things I've said before
I play this part, I act it out, get someone else to voice my doubt
I dress it up, all in plain view, I hide in songs 'bout me and you

Chances, chances, chances running out
Opportunities ungrasped, burning questions never asked

If this is what it takes, The play begins we can't rehearse
If this is what it takes, I cling to hope with broken verse
If this is what it takes, I miss my cue the curtains rise
If this is what it takes, Can I do it right this time?

The only, the only, the only way I know
An open book we read so well
How could it take this long to tell?

Avoid the subject, not tonight, the signs are there in black and white
Devising new ways not to say the same old things, truth gets away
Waiting for the gothic twist, like some book by old man Poe
See the house, the mere, the mist, briefly up then down I go

This is what it takes, left unsaid it says so much
This is what it takes, so near, so far, so out of touch
This is what it takes, I dance the dance, the smokescreen's mine
This is what it takes, song is over see you all next time

This Is What It Takes (ELT - Gary Reeves - Gordon M)

(8) The Storm - w. Gary Reeves - July 2017

https://gordonmidgley.bandcamp.com/album/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher

The 8th instalment and one of the few energetic, uptempo, passages of the album {Roderick's anguished exposition of weltanschauung in (4)being the other notable 'quick section' }
Poe refers on several occasions to life in the House of Usher as being akin to an opiated afterdream, suggesting a slow, inexorable slide into a semi-conscious state of being, incapable of distinguishing between dreams and actuality.
In keeping with the 'self fulfilling prophecy' I mentioned in the notes of (6) 'The Haunted Palace', it seems as if Roderick expects and welcomes the storm, pacing around in an agitated state of delirious hilarity
He regards it as a kind of punishment  - an Old Testament style day of atonement.
Viewing it as 'the beginning of the end' perhaps?

The tempo is exactly double that of the previous track's outro. 
What a strange coincidence.

I'm very familiar with Gary's energetic hard-new-wave drumming capabilities from Bluebottles and I was delighted when he agreed to take on "The Storm".
He drums up a storm in every sense of the phrase. Top job Gary.
I've aimed for a similar Bluebottles 80s gated-reverb, tape saturated sound, albeit in a different setting.

Gear List Notables : 

Tempestuous Drums - Gary Reeves

Fretless Jazz Bass 
Lead Guitar - 1995 US Fender Strat w. BKP Apache pickups
JRAD Archer Boost
Peavey Bravo 1x12 all-tube combo
Lead Synth - Korg MS-20 & Aqua Puss analog delay

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The tempest raged we were helpless, the groaning house about to yield
Then in half-light by the fireside, in a loud voice Usher cried :
"At last it's here"

"Can't you see how it surrounds us? Its fury brings us to our knees
Now I will go and let the storm in, the guilt of generations flooding out.
Here comes the flood"

(8) The Storm {w. Gary Reeves}

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