Roadhouse

Rishi Sunak has called a snap election, so in reply The Family Grave decided to drop another track from their forthcoming album - titled No Return. 

No Return is based on the experience of living in short-life tenement housing in the East End of London. We wuz poor, but we wuz happy etc. Lyrics below. Roll on the 5th of July. 

This is a full band performance featuring some gorgeous backing vocals from the Gravettes (Lindsey Oliver and Tim Harbridge) and some beautiful trumpet from Matt Ellis Devitt. The track comes from our forthcoming album 'The Family Grave plays songs about Love'.  We think it's lovely.

Lyrics: 

I remember all the times
We struggled to survive
Just waking up in the morning
And trying to open our eyes

There wasn't a penny in our pockets
There weren't any soles in our shoes
I didn't know how to stop it
I don't think we ever got to choose
.

The kitchen with the peeling paint job
And the broken bathroom down the hall
There were artists in the basement
There was music creeping through the walls

I heard robbers in the stairwell
We were drinking spirits to keep us warm
We didn't know what could be better
We were in love and feeling bold 
.

The local girls looked upon us strangely
And we were strange enough that's true
The local boys were kind and kept their distance
Thank god because we weren't that good

We didn't need that much to be happy
Didn't need that much to stay the cold
And life felt there to be discovered
Love was new and we weren't old
.

I'm never going back

The Family Grave Sings Songs About Love (Pre Release)

No Return (single)

No Return

Written by Josh Cole, performed by Sharon Lewis and Rose Polenzani.

Easter Hymn - written by Josh Cole, performed by Sharon Lewis and Rose Polenzani

Track from "Mold the Gold" LP available for free at www.pinknasty.net

BTK Blues (feat. Bonnie Prince Billy)

Over 15 years ago I composed my only dance track. I thought it had been lost to the world but I found an old CD in a drawer and this mp3 was on it. 

The track was created on one of those computer-based music apps using standard samples. An interesting little trifle. Free download here so please take it and keep it. If anyone has any idea to do something with it, knock yourself out...

Summer 2001

Techno Thing

Techno thing (2001)

Cover of the Scott Walker classic off Scott 3. Performed live by Stephen Brett and Paul Pascoe of Beat Hotel.

Songwriter: Scott Engel
© Warner/Chappell Music

It's Raining Today

A quick cover of the Dylan song from Highway 61 Revisited mainly because I was just listening to a version by an early 1970s English folk band called Wild Oats which is extrordinarily beautiful.  

Mine's not. There's a comedy mouth harp section at the end of my version, because Dylan always had a harmonica outro in those days... but it's hard for even that to ruin what is undoubtedly a beautiful song.

One Mic Home Demos 2018

Covers

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues (Bob Dylan cover)

You Ain't The Problem

You Ain't The Problem (Claptone Remix)

It was the 51st anniversary of Nashville Skyline's release, so I thought I'd record a little cover of one of its songs, Tell Me That It Isn't True. Bob Dylan, in his pure and simple phase. 

Also available on the collection 'Under the Cover of Lockdown' via bandcamp - all proceeds in the month of May (2020) go to the #saveourvenues campaign 

https://thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-cover-of-lockdown

One Mic Home Demos 2020

Tell me it isn't true (Dylan cover)

Shipping on out

Hiawatha Telephone Company: "nothing experimental, nothing progressive... The music Jon plays is immaculate and reduced to the necessary core. This is the acme of intimacy in music and that’s the reason I love it" (Common Folk Meadow blog)

Now playing under the name The Family Grave.

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues (Bob Dylan cover)

Hiawatha Telephone Company

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