Name: Rope and Vine by Stevee Knight
Duration: 3 min 1 s
Description: This is the title track from the album. A song about growing up in the sixties - saturday morning cinema and hollywood musicals and being a wee laddie trying to impress wee lassies. (still doing that!)

In the early sixties my folks applied for the £10 Pom thing and we were all set to go to Australia. However, my mum got cold feet a few weeks before the boat sailed and so we never went. My brothers and I were gutted - we had already given away most of our toys. Had to get them all back again! I did make to Australia in my late twenties for a working holiday and often wondered what life would have been like if we had went - it's all that sliding door stuff. I spent a month driving round the place - it's enormous! What struck me most is how much of it so familiar and alien at the same time. Everything is kinda backwards - Xmas in summertime!

Australia (Xmas in Summertime)

 When I left school I worked in a huge factory for three years doing a job I hated! Later on I worked in one of Dundee's last jute mills on the Dens road. The Mill Lavvies were still on the go. I used to sit and have a fag with a luvly old guy who had worked there since 1929! Honest! The groove emulates the giant machines that used to pound all day doing Feck nose what! There's also a wee nod to the Beatles "Day in the life" in there with the clock and piano chord.   
 

Anything Precious

This is the title track from the album. A song about growing up in the sixties - saturday morning cinema and hollywood musicals and being a wee laddie trying to impress wee lassies. (still doing that!) 

Rope and Vine

Stevee Knight

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