(Music: Hans-Michael Albers, Lyrics: Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves:  Vocals
Hans-Michael Albers: All instruments, Arrangement & Production

Today, 22nd. August 2025, marks 13 years since our dear brother Bri succumbed to the deadly combination of leukaemia and Guillain-Barré syndrome.  Watching him through 2012, unable to do anything for himself and increasingly confined to a hospital bed is something none who loved him will ever forget.  
He has never been (and never will be) forgotten, not only for the music he created but for the force of nature he most certainly was.  In 1964, our Mum & Dad bought him an entry level acoustic guitar as a Christmas present and his progress on the instrument was something to behold.  By the time he was 18, he’d bought himself a Gibson Les Paul on HP (24 payments of five pounds and thirteen shillings per month) from Selmers in Charing Cross Road, London.  He joined a band, somehow co-opting me in as lead singer at the tender age of 15 (still a schoolboy, no less) and over the ensuing ten years, formed bands of whose line-up I was always a part, graduating from singing to percussion and eventually drums.
There being guitars laying around the family home, Tel took to playing and encouraged by Bri, never stopped.  Fast forward another five years and he too started writing songs so that by ’82, the 3 of us decided to form a band (Root Division) to play them.  It’s a truly special thing to be in the same band as your brothers and recording those songs became something Tel and me still remember with an abiding nostalgia.  No wonder we still talk about those days…
This song started life as an instrumental, written by Hans and of course, it’s brilliant as is but Tel liked it so much, he asked if he could write some lyrics and a vocal melody.  Being a generous fellow, our dear friend from Hamburg said he’d love to hear what Tel had in mind.
His basic idea was to incorporate as many references as he could to Cripple Club tracks, in celebration of the firm friendship we have formed in together recording what amounts to over 50 songs.  There may be a few of you who can spot one or two…
So this is for you, Bri.  We love and miss you, sweet brother.
(Gary Reeves)

Last Summer day reasons
Hamburg always shines
Shadows of Superheroes
Another surprise will come in time
Click toward a pension
From birth but never knew
Surprised to find a blackbird
In the flames as the music grew

Touch wood for satisfaction
CC music every day
Root of strong existence 
Step off the world to feed the phrase
Another Titan message
Titanic stories past
Image of a fraying edge
Never thought hang of time would last

It’s the time, it’s the place
It’s the only performance I can show my face

Last chance for singing
Avoid resistant tide
Pleasing distant garage
Remember 4 to 3 to 5
Stars in space that linger
Soaking up the blue
Palette of sunshine yellow
Mix to green for go - but for who?

T,G & H, Two and you!

LAST SUMMER'S DAY BLUES - CRIPPLE CLUB

Using Paul Revere's famous night-time ride alerting people of the coming of the red coats, Light The Lanterns serves as a contemporary warning to light the lanterns again, this time, for the enemy within the US Administration.
Smart people doing wrong always perplexes me.
Religious people supporting wrong raises concerns about faith claims of following truth.
Political parties  and governments oppressing people causes alarms to ring out.

Track 10 from the 2025 Album called Fringe, available at https://www.terrywigmore.com/wigmore-allen-gibbons

Light The Lanterns

V1
In a world that's confusing
When the Sheriffs are the bad guys
When the ones with the masks on
Are putting cuffs on the good guys
When the ones being locked up
May be the ones that we needed

Chorus
If you have a keen mind, then mind how you use it
If you've got a mean spirit, you don't have to use it/ abuse it


V2 
When they tax the poor ones,
And give it back to the rich ones
When the constitution becomes
the  whim of a convicted felon
Maybe it's time for Paul Revere 
to light the lantern ( to light the lanterns)

Chorus
If you have a keen mind, then mind how you use it
If you've got a mean spirit, you don't have to use it/ abuse it

How can something wrong, seem so right, for some 
Right for some (yeah yeah)yeah yeah
How can something wrong, seem so right, for some
Right for some 
Something wrong was right
Something wrong not right
Something wrong but right
Something

Wigmore: Lyrics, Vocals, Music, Production
Allen: Lyrics, Vocals, Guitars, Bass

Wigmore Allen Gibbons - Light The Lanterns

Chiara:  Vocals, Girl on the Photography
Nino Chikviladze:  Violin
Ben Juul:  Drums, Mix & Master at Tone Hill, NY
Dirk Taubenheim:  Guitars, Bass, Synths, Vocals

This song is based on a poem by Tim Cannon who passed away three years ago. 
Thanks so much, Chiara & Nino!

Bright Eyes  ft. CHIARA

Arise for tomorrow (Whisper)

Hazy clouds is about a time in my life when I had hit rock bottom. My marriage had failed and everything had gone to shit. Broken promises and betrayed friendships. There was no light in my darkness and all I could feel was loneliness and pain. 


Hazy clouds drift through the sky
Stolen secrets as they fly
Shades of grey and hints of blue
Painting life in every hue

Colours of life they twist and blend
A vivid story that won’t end
Through the shadows through the light
Every tone feels just so right

Golden beams break through the haze
Softly setting hearts ablaze
Shifting tones in fleeting time
Moments captured so sublime

Oh the storms they bring the rain
Washing out the deepest pain
Every drop a note that sings
Life's a canvas with no strings

Hazy clouds .mp3

Thank you to Will Sanders for playing the Guitar and Drums 

The King's Voice

Friends

I'll be your friend
Good friend of ear
This music sends pure bond of clear
We have woven sound between our brains
Now look we're friends without even names

Fine frequency found neurons of tone
Great honest pounds on divisive lone
We're never alone if we don't pretend
If we feel real
Always real our friend

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Sometimes years they pass us by
Life mutes full presence and eye to eye
Yet still that bond stays true to moments
Befriending unconditional showed us

We may feel dark and down and dull
Some may fly off in new missioned mull
Yet time and life always reminds
True friends transcend any test of time

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Friendship
Flush our fake divides
Tend to us by tone
No cruel confides
The real of real
Brave love we steal
Friends are friends
Give heart a meal

Friends

OK, since you guys are enjoying the guitar (or rather, the guitars) in "Do What You Like" 🎸(https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/do-what-you-like) so much, and since you were also curious to actually see the mess that created this sound, here you go! This is basically the “making of” the song, mainly based on a part that was later discarded, complete with a rather comical little sketch and Mary at some point asking Tom to switch to another effects chain (switch, switch! Well, that’s how she puts it!), plus a bunch of other nonsense we’re deeply ashamed of and really shouldn’t be releasing to the whole world ! Oh well… goodbye decency, and goodbye ears for you all (it’s all in English and the laughs are interplanetary… the only word in Italian is Tom’s “basta!” at the end, which means “enough!”)!😂
Oh, by the way, some of you asked about the effects chain we used. Well, maybe we’ll update this description later (time permitting, with our day jobs and three other songs in the making!), and reveal a bit more! Cheers!🫶

At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud.
Released on September 24, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

🔊Edit
Here's the mess behind the magic🙋🏻‍♀️ (ah… by the way, most of the gear listed here was borrowed/rented… we’re not billionaires! 😝): 

*Central Track (panned 0/±63):
🎸 Jackson Soloist (bridge pickup)
🔧 Dynamics / EQ: Intersound IVP Preamp pedal, API 550A EQ
🎚️ Amp / Cabinet / Modulation: Vox AC15 tube combo, Vox 2x12 Celestion Alnico Blue, Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger
📡 Reverb: FabFilter Pro-R2 preset “Bright Falls” – bright, spacious
*Left Channel (panned -48/±63)
🎸 Jackson Soloist (neck pickup)
🔧 Dynamics / EQ: Universal Audio 1176LN – fast attack compression
🎚️ Effects / Modulation: Boss TR-2 Tremolo, Strymon BigSky modulated grain delay
📡 Reverb: FabFilter Pro-R2 preset “Beautiful Plate” – airy, shimmering
*Right Channel (panned +48/±63)
🎸 Gibson Les Paul Standard (bridge pickup)
🔧 Dynamics / EQ: Klon Centaur overdrive/boost, MXR 10-Band EQ
🎚️ Cabinet / Delay: Marshall 1960 4x12, Strymon Timeline, Eventide H9 modulated delay
📡 Reverb: FabFilter Pro-R2 preset “Darkest Hour” – dark, spacious
*Center-Left Channel (panned -32/±63)
🎸 Jackson Soloist (bridge pickup)
🔧 Dynamics / EQ: Boss NS-2 Noise Gate, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Marshall JCM800 2203 Head, Boss GE-7 EQ
🎚️ Cabinet: Marshall 1960 4x12
📡 Reverb: FabFilter Pro-R2 preset “Lively Medium Room” – bright, lively
*Center-Right Channel (panned +32/±63)
🎸 Gibson Les Paul Standard (bridge pickup)
🔧 Dynamics / EQ: Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Klon Centaur, MXR 10-Band EQ
🎚️ Cabinet / Delay: Marshall 1960 4x12, Strymon Timeline + Eventide H9
📡 Reverb: FabFilter Pro-R2 preset “Late Tail” – spacious, lingering

Do What a Mess You Like (Instrumental)

Colorado Springs (feat. Jazzy P)

Adding Volume to the Fight (Doesn't Really Make You Strong)

I wrote I Tried in August 2023. This song is about grief and depression winning. Made a few versions of this song. This one is with a guitar solo

I Tried (Guitar Solo)

PLEASE NO PROMOTERS or VIDEO PLEASE. I DO MY OWN ! 
All new songs are real vocals and voices are not ai assisted. 
Mairidh Gaol is Ceòl: A well-known Scottish Gaelic proverb that translates to "The world will end, but love and music will endure”
Vocals now real people performing 
Collabs welcome. I’ll provide the lyrics if you would like to provide the music and vocals ? 
Scottish born and bred. Just exploring some ideas spinning round in my head and putting them up here. Various styles of music and trying to find my niche ! Songs are ai assisted. All the songs are written solely by me. All New music uploaded is  real people without any ai assistance on the vocals . Older Music and singers are partly ai assisted

Hazy clouds .mp3

Highlander on the run