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Who was it said that we're all immigrants?

Green Card

The Family Business

Taken from 'Younger'.
Listen now: https://ffm.to/kimvenep.oyd

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Arriving in a locked-down UK in 2020, Australia-born Kim Ven makes warm indie pop music, flavoured with folk and americana. Kim is an uplifting and empathic songwriter, writing about self-discovery and the impermanence of youth, influenced by Maggie Rogers, Leon Bridges and Lana Del Rey. 

A modern take on 60s romantic pop, Why Didn’t You Call? tells the familiar experience of being left hanging by the person you like, but still waiting by the phone for their call. “I've realised that I deserve a love better than that, and I hope anyone who listens realises that too” says Kim.

Why Didn't You Call?

linktr.ee/heirtheband

Written by Ste Fisher, Tom Hammond and Sam Perry
Produced by Ste Fisher, Tom Hammond, Samuel Newham, Sam Perry and Harry Vernon
Mixing and additional production by Hugo Meredith-Hardy
Mastering by Kane Whitelam

© 2023 Love vs Fear
℗ 2023 Love vs Fear

Oh America

Cast Away

The River

Chapters

F:K:H

Produced by Robert Smyth
Mixed by Ally Jowett
Produced by Paul Winstanly
Music written and performed by Flip Top Head 
Flute by Fran Larkin

Blitzcat Records © 

Follow Flip Top Head:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/flipt0phead
Bandcamp: https://fliptophead.bandcamp.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flipt0phead

Lyrics:
You see, in my prefacing background
Prefacing back

And with the lick of a flame you entered my mind,
Like the flickering of Alfred Street
But now it’s red
(Now it’s red)
And we’re all equivalent to the gulls of the night,
The foam rolls- a child in a ball pit
And i’m here and you’re there
And we’re thrown down, deep under so i’ll roll with it
And if you were sat on that box,
Steadfast, the opposite of her waves
I’d be there
I’d
Ankles scuffed, fingertips kissed with cold
Kiss me cold, please unfold

Alfred Street

Pressure

No Doubt

Little Tom - Radio Edit

Alec Clegg was Chief Education Officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1945 to 1974. He believed in a liberal arts based education for all and held that such an approach stimulated better outcomes generally. Anyone going to a West Riding school would be encouraged to paint, draw, dance, sing, or learn a foreign language simply because it was the right thing to do. 

No-one today has ever heard of him. 

No child today escapes the grim “if-you-fail-maths-you-will-die” austerity of national curricula, academy chains and ofsted inspectors with bad hair and no dress sense.

This tune, whose first line is taken from an Ian McMillan article about Clegg, is a nostalgic howl for something better for our children.

Alec Clegg Can Still Dream

Download at https://robclarke.bandcamp.com/track/shes-a-mean-2
Bonjour!
Some exciting news from the Cafe Le Wooltone.
Today I release a song from my upcoming solo album ‘Blues, Beats and Brel' - it’s called ‘She's A Mean’ and features a live stripped back acoustic performance with merely a hint of piano (and handclaps). And production by Fran Ashcroft. 
The album splits into three styles (hence the title) based on a 'diet of old blues records, beat poetry and Jacques Brel accordion sandwiches'.
De toute facon this one fits more into the ‘Blues' scheme of things.
Salut!
Rob

Blues Beats and Brel

She's A Mean

Echoes of Our Goodbye

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