This is my song for Máire and for you. It doesn't really need much explanation. So, give it a listen and see what you think.

Written and performed by Stephen Mc Bride 
Produced by Johnny Mc Farlane

The Path

When The Fox Seems Friendly

A spoken word version of a song originally written and performed in 1983 by my old band D.F.A., (Draw Funny Animal)

D.F.A. recorded this song in 1984, it was first released in CD form, along with other material in 2022 by ‘Time to Be Proud’ Records, and was then nominated, and made eligible, for the Northern Ireland Music Awards - Album of the Year 2023. You couldn’t make this sh*t up!
 
Check out D.F.A.’s Bandcamp account for more noise and information 

https://drawfunnyanimal.bandcamp.com

Love and peace to you all 
MOUSE

Written and performed by Stephen McBride  
Produced (under duress) by Johnny McFarlane

When The Fox Seems Friendly

listenings – A series of thoughts gathered over many years and compiled in this piece for your delectation. You might not like them all, or any of them, but I am hoping that, as the name suggests, you give them all a listen to and think about what is being said. Love and peace to you all. MOUSE.

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings

Cold, Dead, Hand… My ultimate quest for world domination, and, like most budding arch-villains they do not become what they are without getting some help from other people. So, this is where you come in.  Share this song with every single person that you know, or do not know, and you just never know, something quite good might come out from of all this!!  Love and peace to you all. MOUSE.

Written and performed by Stephen McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

Sample taken from ‘Ohio’. Traditional arrangement performed by CSN&Y 
Written by Neil Young and selected for Neil Young ‘Decade’ CD, Reprise Records® 9362491545

Cold, Dead, Hand...

A slightly more relaxed look at life and the world in general. NOT!  Love and Peace, MOUSE

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 8

More of the same...take my hand!

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 6

We control our lives until everything changes ...

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 5

More listenings about youth and the various shades of shit going on in the world at the moment. Love and Peace, MOUSE

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 4

More of the same angry... Love and Peace, MOUSE

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 3

This was supposed to be the difficult 2nd album, but I managed to follow through with another 6 of these, so, here you go! Love and Peace, MOUSE

Written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Produced by Johnny McFarlane

listenings 2

My 2nd attempt at world domination. If at first you don't succeed...
❤️ & ☮️  MOUSE 

‘Isgodaman’ taken from the compilation LP ‘Streets’, Beggars Banquet Records®, BEGA1 (1977)
Traditional arrangement written by Arthur Comix 

Sample: ‘The Faith Healer’, taken from the LP ‘Next…’, Vertigo Records®, 6360 103 (1973) by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 
Traditional arrangement written by Alex Harvey/Hugh McKenna – (Eiger Music Ltd)

Additional material written and performed by Stephen ‘MOUSE’ McBride
Production and alchemy by Johnny 'No Killie Fish' McFarlane

Is God A Man?

As I am now at retirement age, (65 in Ireland), there is obviously a few concerns I have about getting old. But through this song, I like to feel that I am young in other ways. Love and Peace, MOUSE

Sample: ‘House of The King’, taken from the LP ‘FOCUS 3’, Polydor Records®, 2659 016 (1972) by FOCUS
Traditional arrangement written by Jan Akkerman for R.T.M. (Radio Tele Music)

Lyrics written and performed by Stephen 'MOUSE' McBride
Magic by Johnny McFarlane

Age Concern

An anti-war spoken word performance with a twist... ❤️&☮️ Mouse

Written and performed by Stephen 'Mouse' McBride
Production and 'magic' by Johnny 'No Killie Fish' McFarlane

Sample: ‘Anthem’, taken from the LP ‘The Impossible Dream’, Vertigo Records®, 6360 112 (1974)
by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 
Traditional arrangement written by Alex Harvey/Hugh McKenna/David Bachelor) with the Pipes and Drums of the ‘London-Scottish T.A.V.R.’ 
(A Mountain Records Production)

if... then... else...

2031 : MOUSE

This ‘listening’ is set in the near future. 

Because governments passed legislation for far too many laws in the past which either ended up being abused by the general public, or completely unenforceable, governments then changed tact and made everything a crime and made every single law enforceable instead. 

As you can imagine, this imposed huge burdens on the existing judicial system, police and prison service. So, to alleviate this, these systems and services were then authorised by the government to go out to private tender instead.  

With a private judicial system, police and prison service firmly in place, supplemented by huge fines, the only growth industry in the country was in construction. That is, in the construction of prisons and detention centres, furthering a total abuse of power perpetrated by these so-called 'private' institutions.

This ‘listening’ is an interpretation of that future and, as with many of my spoken word offerings, comes as a warning.

Don’t have nightmares…



❤️ & ☮️  MOUSE



Sample: ‘Like gold and faceted’, taken from the CD ‘earth 2’, Sub Pop Records®, SPCD 185 
(©℗ 1993) by Earth
Produced by Earth
Engineered by Stuart Hallerman

Additional material written and performed by Stephen ‘MOUSE’ McBride
Production and alchemy by Johnny 'No Killie Fish' McFarlane

2031

Hello. I go under the name of Mouse. I've dabbled in and out music for many years, but I have only now got to the stage where I'm taking it a bit more seriously. I try my best to play music in a tuneful sort of way and sing songs in a hummable sort of way. I hope you like my songs and spoken word 'listenings', and you are always free to comment. I might not like all your comments though, but at this stage of my life, I'm just too old to care. I also have an Instagram account @mousehasspoken, which you may find quite interesting with poems and videos a-plenty for your perusal. Love and Peace to you all. Mouse

MOUSE

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