"Us And Them" by Palma Louca

Lyrics:
Baby I just want to see you
Just need to find a place and time
Is it crazy that I want to meet you?
Define a saner state of mind

Lately I'm a little inconsiderate
I'm not a fucking idiot
I seen you with that other guy
Baby I just want to feel fine

It didn't even cross my mind
That you would try and waste my time again

Now I'm stuck outside
Stuck outside, in the pouring rain

And you just try to change my mind
But I just want to make you mine again

Now I'm stuck outside
On the other side
And the other side is all I am

It's not what I'm going to be
Alone again
I just need you here with me
It's all I am
It's all I ever want to be
Just us and them

I see you at the bus stop daily 
Watching from the other side
Feels like I'm going crazy 
Last night I saw you stood outside 

Maybe this is more than just suspicion
Missing pictures from my kitchen 
Cupboard doors left open wide 
Leave me, I just want to feel fine 

It didn't even cross my mind
That you would try and waste my time again
Now I'm stuck outside
Stuck outside, in the pouring rain

And you just try to change my mind
But I just want to make you mine again

Now I'm stuck outside
On the other side
And the other side is all I am

It's not what I'm going to be
Alone again
I just need you here with me
It's all I am
It's all I ever want to be
Just us and them

In the city at night
He wonders alone 
She's lost in the lights
He's lost in her glow 

As the city turns bright 
And the lights go out 
The glow lives on 
In the mind of the man 

He hasn't even tried 
But he doesn’t know why 
Now he's stuck outside
On the other side
And the other side is I am

It's not what I'm going to be
Alone again
I just need you here with me
It's all I am
It's all I ever want to be
Just us and them

Us And Them

Palma Louca - Us And Them

Durham-based indie punks Fortitude Valley are delighted to announce that they have signed to Fika Recordings and will release their self-titled debut album on 3rd September 2021.

To celebrate the news, the band have revealed a video for their new single ‘Cassini’, which is released on 6th June 2021.   The follow-up to their 2019 debut single ‘Wreck’, new track ‘Cassini’ is a scorching 2 and a half minutes of slacker-rock and power-pop, recalling the eponymous satellite’s lonely final days and fiery self-sacrifice.   NASA’s Cassini–Huygens was launched on October 15, 1997. It took 7 years to get to Saturn, which it began orbiting in 2004, and where it remained until its end in 2017. Staying in orbit meant that it risked one day colliding one of Saturn’s moons, namely Titan and Enceladus (which researchers believe have the potential to harbour life), and contaminating them with Earth microbes.   Cassini Project Scientist, Linder Spilker, described the end of Cassini’s mission as “like losing a friend”, something that Fortitude Valley’s vocalist and songwriter Laura Kovic can clearly empathise with, as she elaborates: “In September 2017, National Geographic published the article ‘How NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Met Its Fiery End’. I thought it was so heart-breaking that this spacecraft that NASA had been following for almost 20 years had to be destroyed.”   “In the song, I’ve anthropomorphised the spacecraft and personalised the story a bit, so it’s just between me and Cassini. Cassini is venturing out on a long, lonely journey that will inevitably end in its destruction just so I can see what it’s ‘like out there’. And even though I know how it’s going to end, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye.”

Fortitude Valley is the new outlet for the songwriting talents of Durham-based Brisbanite Laura Kovic. Having spent the majority of her musical career playing keyboards in other people’s bands, bringing their songs to life with a melodic flourish, it was about time for Kovic to find an outlet for her songs: awkward power-pop that’s bound to appeal to fans of The Beths, Weezer or The Pixies.   She assembled quite the band, too, teaming up with Martha’s Daniel Ellis (lead guitar) and Nathan Stephens Griffin (drums), and Night Flowers’ Greg Ullyart on bass.

The quartet take their name from Brisbane suburb Fortitude Valley—or just “The Valley” if you’re from Brisbane—the heart of the city’s music scene, and also where Kovic first started playing in bands, before moving to the UK in 2010.   “It was a place that objectively felt mythical, a suburb with a special meaning, looking back from the other side of the world and many years later,” she reflects. Completing the circle, Fortitude Valley is also named-checked in the Martha song ‘Brutalism by the River (Arrhythmia)’.

The band will be revealing further details of the album, live dates, and new music over the coming months.

 Fortitude Valley’s debut self-titled album is released 3rd September 2021.

Fortitude Valley are:

Laura Kovic - guitar and vocals Daniel Ellis - lead guitar
Nathan Stephens Griffin - drums
Greg Ullyart - bass

Fortitude Valley online:

http://www.twitter.com/valleyfortitude  https://www.facebook.com/valleyfortitude  https://www.instagram.com/valleyfortitude/ 
https://fikarecordings.com/artists/fortitude-valley

Cassini

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Amy Fitz Doyley is back releasing brand-new music on International Women's Day 2022, with her third single release, Eye Of The Needle. 

With deep, heartfelt music produced by Stew Jackson (Massive Attack), drenched in emotion and heavy guitars, this track takes her completely out of her comfort zone. 

The song plays on the light and dark of our universe, and her vocals are guaranteed to put you in a spell!
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LYRICS
Cracked skin within black ice
Stoney eyes he's a killer done it twice
Rope round my throat
Bodies on the floor
Pale skin dressed up for war

Gaps in my mind bring me back to you
Empty shell stark reality

There's no light and no love
No end

Times may change you gotta free your mind
A needle through my eye just to clear the skies
Broken bones dusty meadow
Carpet burns we've lost the battle

Open your eyes you gotta get with it
Blinded by faith you gotta move quick
Kick to the heart
You know you've fallen

There's no light and no love
No end
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CREDITS
Producer:
Stew Jackson

Radio Edit by: 
Francine Perry

Mastering:
Katie Tavini

Writers: 
Amy Fitz Doyley
Ben Denny Mo
Dan Stern

Photography:
Regi Martadisastra
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Written and recorded in Bettie's Boudoir - Superior double - Hotel Pelirocco Brighton
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Now available on all platforms!
#IWD #EyeOfTheNeedle #AmyFitzDoyley #March #2022

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