Various Snippets

You can now order Human Good.
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/human-good

With Human Good we find Johnno in a rich vein of form - rather than wallowing in the depressing Post Brexit, post Trump landscape Human Good strikes an optimistic tone as Johnno takes you on a journey of people rich stories from a wide array of characters – we hear of fraudsters, pimps, prostitutes, drinkers, users and abuser’s and simple everyday folk just trying to make sense of this world. 
Alongside love letters to England and Johnno’s home town of Colchester, Human Good is shot through with a sense of defiance and optimism that everything will work itself out and be alright in the end.

Melodic, passionate and full of sweet surprises - come and find out about Human Good.

Human Good

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 5 February: from midday on Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch271

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 271

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 271 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Chris Ingram - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves271

Fresh Faves: Batch 271

Here Come The Freaks - Out - 1.10.21 from all good online retailers.

But available NOW for supporters as a Bandcamp exclusive,
You can purchase the single and see Jonny Drop's ace video for it too https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-the-freaks

Website - https://www.johnnocasson.co.uk/

Cover art and video by Jonny Drop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3PE84WIxM
Jonny sites
https://www.instagram.com/jonnydrops/
https://www.facebook.com/jonnydrops

Hackney born and Colchester based he returns with a cheeky new single Here Come The Freaks. 

Written, recorded and self-produced by Johnno in the middle of recording a new Snippet album, this song just didn't seem comfortable being sat between two tracks on an album, so it busted out in its own right. 

Here Come The Freaks is in celebration of the picked upon, the bullied and the under-appreciated members of society.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno juggled being in a band with holding down a normal job (playing a packed Astoria at night and washing out s**t stained lifts in the morning).

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-U-Sound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun’s newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s old Highbury stadium and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills whilst getting M.E and becoming a well-respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene by making excellent songs that may come from the borders and margins, but kiss you in the sweet spot as good as more mainstream songs do. 

Oh and Johnno has recorded and toured extensively with all sorts of bands including as lead singer with Deep Joy who were born out of the early 90’s London acid house/club scene - via Shoom nightclub and being named as Danny
Rampling’s favourite band, working with David Harrow and Andrew Weatherall who produced and remixed their debut single on Brainiak Records - onto the early years of trip-hop on James Lavelle’s Mo ‘Wax label and being championed by Gilles Peterson on Kiss FM. 

They dented the charts in New York, Tokyo and London and also worked
with the aforementioned legendary On-U-Sound label founder and producer Adrian Sherwood on their Ray Hayden produced material.

For the last 12 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances and has been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show. 

He also the founder/producer of the Warm and Toasty Club, an innovative  and award winning club that uses delightful live events to make older folk feel cherished and less lonely. Of late the club has kept people connected throughout lockdown with 70 online chat shows with fun features and live singing guests (called Online Memory Afternoons), a monthly Warm and Toasty Newsletter and a daily telephone befriending service to help keep loneliness and isolation at bay and keep people connected.

“I feel about Snippet much like John Peel felt about The Fall - Snippet: A National Indie treasure”
– Tom Robinson

“An East End Brian Wilson on a budget” Americana UK

“Pop genius” – Louder Than War

Web http://johnnocasson.co.uk/
Twitter @Snippetcuts
Instagram @snippetcuts

Here Come The Freaks

Grab it here https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/we-luv-the-sunshine

As featured on The Space Between Movie - http://thespacebetweenfeaturefilm.com/soundtrack/

The Sunshine EP
Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-sunshine-ep-ep/id895766839?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Folkwit Records  http://folkwitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sunshine-ep



Cold days long gone
Summers here, game on
Party with friends, good feelings never end
Some day’s life just feels so incredible
Sweet days we wish would never end

We luv the sunshine
All day
We raise our glasses 
Held high
We live to party
All night
We live for love
All day

Long day in bad job
They pay me but hate boss
Just when my wits end
Here comes the weekend
Some people love to bathe in misery
We choose to lose ourselves in good

We luv the sunshine
All day
We raise our glasses 
Held high
We live to party
All night
We live for love
All day

We luv the sunshine
All day
We raise our glasses 
Held high
We live to party
All night
We live for love
All day

We luv the sunshine
All day
We raise our glasses 
Held high
We live to party
All night
We live for love
All day


This is music to lift your spirits & put a spring in your step. 

Snippet is the work of one man – Johnno Casson. Johnno cut his musical teeth as lead singer of trip hop pioneers Deep Joy, working with the likes of Andrew Weatherall (Primal Scream), James Lavelle (Mo’ Wax/UNKLE) and Adrian Sherwood (On-U-Sound) and touring extensively – including dates with The Farm. Staggeringly prolific, Johnno releases music under a variety of different names, including his own & Old Tramp in addition to Snippet.

London reared & Colchester based Snippet has been forging a wonderfully vibrant path for the past Six years & has released Two Albums & Four EP’s between 2008-2013 which have attracted a world wide following to this very unique brand of wonky pop music from the leftfield; Bouncy with a dash of folk & a splash of funk.

“Snippet: A National Indie Treasure” 
Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

“Dry of humour and lo-fi of sound, the skewed pop of Colchester’s Snippet is reminiscent of early Beck.” 
Q Magazine

“Sound of the summer...Pop Genius-9.5/10” Louder Than War

“Touched a nerve, we love it.” 
Rob da Bank BBC Radio 1

"Snippet is without doubt a musical shape shifter of some talent" Fresh On The Net/Andy Von Pip

“Wow, sounds really great Johnno” Ron Sexsmith


Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/snippet
Website http://snippetcuts.co.uk
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/snippetmusic
Twitter http://twitter.com/snippetcuts

We Luv The Sunshine

English Fables Vol.1 is the follow up to 2022’s Chippa.
Available now on Bandcamp https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1

Recorded at home DIY style with a beaten up old tube mic, a nylon stringed guitar, an assortment of guitar pedals and a set of good intentions. This album is chock full of personality, characters and brimming with life.

On English Fables Vol.1 you’ll find an authentic voice delivering stories of the England he knows, of people and of life – all wrapped in musical grit, bounding knee beats, bouncing guitar refrains and beautiful strings, with some wonderfully oddball songs with hooks to die for (Michael, I Knocked You Off The Ladder, Billy With The Wonky Toe).

And in the tradition of the classic English songbook there are wonderful little original gems to be found like Funny Habits, Tip Of My Tongue, Resting Face and Stop And Enjoy it.
There’s even a guest spot for the velvety tones of Marina Florance.

Behind Johnno’s 'survive life by laughing at life' persona there is a real deeper craftmanship in action here, through his enchanting multi instrumentation and clever lyrical interplay.

There’s also a fearlessness from Johnno in covering his battles with chronic health conditions (The Little Things), toxic masculinity faced growing up on a council estate (Patriarchy Vs A Mothers Love), male violence (Punch), the pollution of our waterways (Pipe Dreams), and mental health challenges (Sometimes Life Is Really).

Track 2 Come On Down was apparently born out of listening sessions with Sleaford Mods, Donald Byrd's New Perspective and Dexy's Midnight Runners, with a splash of 7” inch Northern Soul thrown in for good measure, yet it comes out sounding totally upbeat Snippet, totally Johnno in a top mood.

English Fables – Vol.1 is an album of empathy, compassion and warmth - this is beautiful English outsider art from a thriving DIY cottage industry of really interesting recording artists like Johnno Snippet making special musical moments and new memories to bring joy to people.

Back story - Johnno recorded and toured with bands such as Deep Joy who were born out of the early 90’s London acid house/club scene - working with Andrew Weatherall, David Harrow and onto the early years of trip-hop on James Lavelle’s Mo ‘Wax label and being championed by Gilles Peterson. They dented the charts in New York, Tokyo and London and also worked with legendary On-U-Sound label founder and producer Adrian Sherwood.

“Colchester’s king of hooky ear worms - A National Indie Treasure” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"Often thought provoking, the tracks on his new album are possibly his best work to date, an artist clearly in his ascendancy" Louder Than War

“An East End Brian Wilson on a budget” Americana UK

Web www.johnnocasson.co.uk
Instagram www.instagram.com/snippetcuts/
Facebook (Snippet) www.facebook.com/snippetmusic/
Facebook (Johnno) www.facebook.com/johnnomusic
X/Twitter twitter.com/Snippetcuts

Sometimes Life Is Really Shit

Taken from the  album Future Melancholy Pop Music 
iTunes -
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/bad-man/1456633699?i=1456633702
Bandcamp/CD -
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/bad-man
Web - http://johnnocasson.co.uk


Lyrics

Be it day or be it night, always chipper, always bright
As you wait, you wait for a man to come
You show ‘em in, show ‘em out
Meet the kids then chuck him out
As you wait, you wait for the right man to come
I’m free for a date, oh free for a life
Come elevate all these matters of stress and strife
It’s in front of you nose but you just can’t see
When every road you’re travelling leads you right to me

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can

Made mistakes, paid my dues
the kindest souls can get the blues come on, give this bloke a chance
Patient man, callous hands but a heart that understands
Come on, I won’t be playing you
I can hail at the moon, I can scream at the light
Even tough men want someone to hold at night
I’ve got so much to give and I’m good for my years
Ain’t it just about time that someone dried your tears

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can

Only hope these words of mine are getting to you
Only hope these words of mine are getting through
We’ll be fine, we’ll be cool, we’ll be right, we’ll be true
Girl it’s time we got together now
Girl it’s time we got together now

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
(c) Johnno Casson 2017

Future Melancholy Pop Music

Bad Man

A reworking of an old track. Some sounds changed, vocal re-recorded, remastered. Hopefully it's an improvement!

Tournez À Gauche (Une Fois Encore)

Unicorns & Glitter

Taken from the album Human Good 

You can now order Human Good.
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/human-good

With Human Good we find Johnno in a rich vein of form - rather than wallowing in the depressing Post Brexit, post Trump landscape Human Good strikes an optimistic tone as Johnno takes you on a journey of people rich stories from a wide array of characters – we hear of fraudsters, pimps, prostitutes, drinkers, users and abuser’s and simple everyday folk just trying to make sense of this world. 
Alongside love letters to England and Johnno’s home town of Colchester, Human Good is shot through with a sense of defiance and optimism that everything will work itself out and be alright in the end.

Melodic, passionate and full of sweet surprises - come and find out about Human Good.

Lyrics 
Humour’s bouncing round our brains, please don’t stop
The internet has filled us up, like an outsized gut
Keep our ears close to the ground, for when good is around
Everybody can get down until the beat comes back around

Come over to my place
We’ll put some records on
We’ll just dance under the sun

We won’t give up
We won’t back down
We have faith in human good

Go outside and turn the laptop off a while
Be with older people now
Tell the haters where to stick their nasty minds
It don’t cost nothing to be kind

When you’re laying it down
You can lick the dirt or wear the crown
Take the bull by the horns and live your life

We might play up
But we’re not mashed up
We believe in human good 

We won’t give up
We won’t back down
We have faith in human good

We might play up
But we’re not mashed up
We believe in human good 

People break up
And people make up
There’s always hope with human good

(C) Johnno Casson 2017

Taken from the album Human Good 

You can now order Human Good.
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/human-good

String arrangement by Claire Hollocks 
Cello - Claire Hollocks 
Violin - Sally Merson  
Viola - Penny Snelling 

With Human Good we find Johnno in a rich vein of form - rather than wallowing in the depressing Post Brexit, post Trump landscape Human Good strikes an optimistic tone as Johnno takes you on a journey of people rich stories from a wide array of characters – we hear of fraudsters, pimps, prostitutes, drinkers, users and abuser’s and simple everyday folk just trying to make sense of this world. 
Alongside love letters to England and Johnno’s home town of Colchester, Human Good is shot through with a sense of defiance and optimism that everything will work itself out and be alright in the end.

Melodic, passionate and full of sweet surprises - come and find out about Human Good.

Lyrics

My dearheart I’ve wronged you
Showed your face disdain and turned away
Forgive me, I’ve fallen back in love with thee
The fickle make mistakes
In a world so strange

The good takes on the badness
The joy takes on the pain
The light takes on the darkness
And sends it back again
Sends it back again

Gentle days 
To soothe a troubled soul
Essex skies, contagious
Calming nights
Upon a Roman town
Hallowed ground beneath us

Oh London you shaped me
You gave me the gift of youth then locked away
Echoes down the track to Rectory Road
Across the Downs for love and the eternal code
Of good and family

People doth protest too much
It makes our future itch
People love to bitch too much
We are human, we have frailties
We are striving to be free


Gentle days 
To soothe a troubled soul
Essex skies, contagious
Calming nights
Upon a Roman town
Solid ground beneath us

Can’t give you up, I’ve fallen in love 
I plan to stay
I can’t give you up, I’ve fallen in love
I plan to stay
Stay, for those gentle days
Oh those gentle days


(C) Johnno Casson 2017

Gentle Days

Taken from the album Human Good 

You can now Human Good.
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/human-good

With Human Good we find Johnno in a rich vein of form - rather than wallowing in the depressing Post Brexit, post Trump landscape Human Good strikes an optimistic tone as Johnno takes you on a journey of people rich stories from a wide array of characters – we hear of fraudsters, pimps, prostitutes, drinkers, users and abuser’s and simple everyday folk just trying to make sense of this world. 
Alongside love letters to England and Johnno’s home town of Colchester, Human Good is shot through with a sense of defiance and optimism that everything will work itself out and be alright in the end.

Melodic, passionate and full of sweet surprises - come and find out about Human Good.

Lyrics
I feel pain, I feel loss
They tell me progress comes at a cost
We wait for good, we wait for true
We wait for kindness oh to lead us through

And I’ll hurt for you, I’ll hurt for you
I’ll hurt for you, I hurt for you

Been quite a year, we’ve spilt some tears
We’ve had our backs against the wall but we’re still here
If not for hope than why do we live
But to taste a life and forgive 

And I’ll hurt for you, I’ll hurt for you
I’ll hurt for you, I’ll hurt for you

A troubled world, a daily tear
Of how a foolish man uses fear
But I’ve got faith, it’s understood
That I believe in you and human good

And I’ll hurt with you, I’ll hurt with you
I’ll hurt with you, I’ll hurt with you

(c) Johnno Casson 2017

Hurt For You

Summer rain

feel good

Feel Good

FAST AND FURIOUS - 4 spins on BBC 6 Music!
'There's someone you'll be hearing more from, it's DIDI with Fast and Furious, like a bottle of pop fizzing over!' Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music
'Grrrrl power, punk pop meets Arctic Monkeys with plenty catchy hooks & svelte wordplay'.  Made it into the Fresh Faves as voted by Fresh on the Net 12/2/18!
Two from Tom Robinson in one weekend and two from Chris Hawkins. Also support from Amazing Radio, BBC Introducing and a myriad of wonderful internet and communiity shows.
Links to all platforms: 
hyperurl.co/zweppw

You can find out from her website 
didimusic.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/IamDIDImusic/
twitter.com/IamDIDImusic
www.instagram.com/iamdidimusic/

'Fast and Furious' is a bit different when compared to my previous releases - this one is an out and out soppy love song! It didn't necessarily directly correlate with my life at the time but after all of the serious and ‘in your face’ songs I have written last year, it just seemed like a natural development. There’s only so much social commentary and angst you can take before you need a break! 
I explored more metaphoric lyric concepts but ultimately, when you listen to the track you can see it's pretty basic! The lyrics to the chorus of 'Fast and Furious' came to me when I was sitting in a hammock on a couple of rare days of hols in France, and there was a motorbike parked in front of me with 'Fast and Furious' written on it, so naturally I wrote a song about it that had a nothing to do with the bike! I wrote this song in two parts, one of which was with an amazing London based artist called Russell Swallow. He was the main contributor to the final section of the song, the bit where it slows down and it is written to show the other side of the story. The classic and painfully imbalanced situation where one person is trying to push the relationship harder and faster, and the other person is just wanting to take it as it is, at a slower pace. But ultimately, the song is a bit of fun, soppy, and I simply love playing it live!

Produced by: Lauren Deakin Davies (aka DIDI) & Rhiannon Mair 
Written by:  Lauren Deakin Davies (aka DIDI) & Russell Swallow
All parts* played by: Lauren Deakin Davies (aka DIDI)
*Except drums, Played by: Rhiannon Mair

Lyrics:
Swim with me 
in the shark infested Waters of my 
mind at night 
I can tell that you love me 
but you deny 

oh honey 
you feel it in your veins I feel it too 
oh honey 
I'd be Poseidon in the sky for you 

So make the decision cause I can't make it for the two of us 
oh make the decision make it fast and make it furious 
So make the decision and I'll be by your side 

Fly With Me 
in the satellites inside your eyes 
but don't look down 
or you'll see the world for what it really is 

Oh honey 
I'd be low key inside the sea for you 
oh honey 
because you and me are like Greek mythology 

So make the decision cause I can't make it for the two of us 
oh make the decision make it fast and make it furious 
So make the decision and I'll be by your side 
oh make the decision and make it now 

oh Slow down honey don't too fast 
we need a little more time to make this last 
I'm in love but I need more time x2

Oh honey 
oh darling 
why you do this to me? x2 

oh Slow down honey don't too fast 
we need a little more time to make this last 
I'm in love but I need more time x2

Fast And Furious

Sunlight

Produced by Rich Turvey, Parr St Studios, Liverpool
Mastered by Robin Schmidt, 24-96 Mastering

Give Up

'Sister Sadness' is the new single from Kidsmoke, released 5th Feb 2018.

Written and performed by Kidsmoke. Recorded with Russ Hayes at Orange Studios, Penmaenmawr and mastered by Gethin John at Hafod Mastering, South Wales.

Artwork by Mike Payne and Andy Garside

"Delightfully melancholy" - Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music

Sister Sadness

The second single from Sea Control.

Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/pNjLVASYiD4

Video Nasty

Raise your glasses – drink me a toast,
absent friends are here.

All my love and best wishes to the hosts,
may your dreams never clear.

Light the candle – cut the cake.
Turn failure into fate.
Don’t make the same mistake – cause if you do

then you’ll know what it’s like to be someone they never knew
and you’ll see that I loved you.

I’ll raise a smile – drink you a toast
but it makes me sad.

So raise your glasses and have one on me – 
you always had.

And don’t play songs like you used to do
with meanings that aren’t true,
songs they’ll see right through – cause if you do

then you’ll know what it’s like to be someone they never knew
and you’ll see that I loved you.

I loved you.

Playing With Dolls

Sweet Little Sad Song

Opening track from new ep 'The Notorious J.U.G.'

That's No Way To Make A Living

Grab this song now - https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/lets-talk-about-us

Taken from the DIY album https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/d-i-y

The video is here- http://youtu.be/Wdfjq6WX53I
Grab a Ltd Edition handcrafted CD or Cassette here http://pethaugarw.tumblr.com/

DIY-Snippet delivers a wonderful mini album of sharp & fresh new music that defies easy categorisation,its just great music! But don't take our word for it-have a listen for yourself & let us know what you think.
Unexpected and delightful, Snippet let’s us into his unique world with 12 short stories lovingly bound together like a melodic home crafted mix-tape.
Written.recorded & produced by Snippet(& his kids as you will hear) this album has a special kind of D.I.Y. spirit built into its very core.

These are the Desk Mixes.
The mastered version by Wim Oudijk will come with the Cassette & digital release

http://snippetcuts.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/snippetmusic

Lyrics:-

We set out our stall
But our conversations mental
I’m not unhinged
More totally unique
I might be keen
But I'm not guided by my winkle
Its not obscene if this is all to do with love	

Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
But think about me

Our open arms have gone flying in the wind
I’m not religious but God deliver me a drink
I’ve always charmed the birds out of the trees
So why can’t I just once not practise what I preach

Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
But focus on me

I’ve always been the biggest pain in the arse
I’ll change for you ,ain’t you the lucky one

Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
Let’s talk about us
But think about me

Lyrics by Johnno Casson © 2012

Lets talk about us

Snippet is London reared/Colchester based songwriter, recording artist, Johnno Casson. 
English Fables Vol.1 Out Now - https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1
http://linktr.ee/snippetcuts

The back story

For the last 16 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances, and having been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show, Johnno has continued to release vibrant music with plenty of bounce to the ounce.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and local council relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-USound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s stadium, and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills, whilst getting M.E and becoming a well respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene.

Johnno also runs the award winning community group The Warm and Toasty Club, running special live events for the last 9 years www.facebook.com/thewarmandtoastyclub