From The Bee Plus Seven's debut EP Sunlit Songs. Words by Brian Harris. Music by Geoff Glen. Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Marcus Samson Wright at MW Sound. Co-produced by Bee Plus. Bass and drums recorded at Sandy Sweetman's place. Piano recorded at The Music Room, Dumfries. The Bee Plus Seven are Fraser Clark: keyboards / Rod Mackay: bass / Emily Murray: Vocals and percussion / Bee Plus: Vocals / Ben Robins: Vocals and acoustic guitars  / Sandy Sweetman: Drums / Marcus Wright: Electric guitars, nylon string guitar and percussion  

Perfect Sunlit Song for Grant McLennan

20 songs from 26 years comprising nearly 80 minutes, compiled and designed to be listened to, chronologically, as an album. There are quite a few people involved in these recordings, which is not surprising considering the time period covered. I'll get around to crediting them all next week when I return from a weekend away.

Sunlit Songs

Perfect Sunlit Song

Weather Of The Future

Polish The Stone

Liverpool Scene 1979

Dustbin

Bird & Tambourine

Faceholes

Letter From Mr Cluskey

That Mournful Sound

Stuff

Pray The Angels

Naomi Cut My Hair

The Wayward Son (Kills Everyone)

I think this was the first song I wrote with Gary Brady who told me about his childhood memories of bovine eye-dissection, inspiring me to write the lyric and melody for the chord sequence he came up with. This was the short-lived The Brian Harris Band and this particular track features Gary Brady, Paul Brant, Martin Brown, Gus Glen, Bob Gregory, Kirsten Hammond, Ronan Larvor and a conga player I used to buy weed from named Michael, whose surname I regretfully forget. As it was recorded 26 years ago, I'm doing this from memory so apologies to anyone I have forgotten to credit.

Cows' Eyes

The Desirables, a band that started with Gus Glen, Steve Pearson and a drummer whose name I can't remember playing a gig at a venue I can't remember in London in 1988. Melanie Woods replaced the nameless drummer and became the regular one. A few other members came and went until it ended a couple of years later (as referred to in later song, 58 Ashburnham Place). Great bass line by Steve, solid drumming and percussion by Mel, backwards and jangly guitars by Gus Glen, anti-yuppie lyrics by a self-righteous me, ending by XTC (shhh...) I can't recall who played the trumpet solo Gus came up with on the keyboard. Lord knows what's going on with the vocals, which are produced very strangely.

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