please dont go

'No Cages' is my third album, and my first in seven years. 

It features the singles 'Simple Life' and 'Incomplete'.

It is my first collection of predominantly animal rights songs and covers topics such as intensive chicken farming, toxic masculinity, humane-washing / greenwashing, and the perception of vegans by a non-vegan world. The project also covers other themes such as loss and loneliness, how technology is disconnecting us from the real world, escaping from the human race, and the beauty of the ground beneath our feet.

It has been a labour of love, taking over two years to complete, delayed by various set-backs, most noticeably damage to my vocal chords. 

The album features over 40 contributors from across the world, including Vegan Queen V, Liz Mitchell (Terrorvision), Ian Haywood, Giles Bryant, and Chaos Collective (Blur). It was recorded at Half-ton Studios in Milton by Neil Rogers, mastered by Pete Maher (U2, Pixies), and features artwork by Tom Jones. 

No Cages

New Day

Heads Down

Out in Space (featuring Vegan Queen V)

Music For Everyone Vol .2

Fight With Love

Anthem

Music For Everyone Vol. 2

Endless

Room of Hate

Will I Ever See You Again

Real Enough

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#1

*LYRICS*

Can't bring myself
to get it done

I've grabbed my head
to keep it on

I ripped myself
just to see it all

I'm broken up
but forgot

I fought back dear
just to have you back
(you) gave me more and I gave you less


Lord, I want
all that you want
if wanting more is empty
then why give more?


You shared your games
well I cheat on

You better pay
before I'm gone

I find your feels 
extremely poisonous


Ask all you want
you won't get none

And so goes round and round
till you're so blind it makes you see


I'd say goodbye
in your place
I fantasise
with you here, where you stand
that you've gone, and all that's gone
is all that left


Can't bring myself
to get it done

I've held my breath
and now it's gone


Round and Round

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#3

*LYRICS*

They're coming today
you're old and gray now
your ass is on the fire
it's time you walk in line

You came back
saying that you're sorry well alright

You don't wait
you said enough
making yourself clear, clean and loud
say we're here forever
just leave me some to talk about

You came back
saying that you're sorry well alright

You came back sayin' that you're sorry

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#2

*LYRICS*

Come to me!
a letter shorn of grief 
it's forty-two days
and I am high


Oh no I'm fine 
you'll never ask me twice
and i can't conceal the way I feel


In your mind you still
can't tune up with me
wounds still make it hard
such a waste of time


And forever
I'll miss your words and mess things worse


Letters fill this house
climb your aching mind
emptyness inside


Come!
down
set me free!

Come on
Honey slave
long as there's to drift

I owe you 
a concert on the sea

Oh would you
set (me) free...


Candy tides I want
Lonely nights I want 
Lost desire I want 
No goodbyes I want

Honey Slave

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#4

*LYRICS*

I got dreams that surfed the sky
and no ease with people's mind
I got slumbers too, and a place where I knew
could have missed my fears along the view


I had pals, but not a friend
with a smile, a helping hand
and behind this smile I was weird and-all-the while
tempered by my soul I melt in blue


What a day, I feel so fine
flying like an aeroplane tonight
up and down thru summer skies
just like a memory to find


I'd been wrong and down before
but I didn't have really find what i looked for 
then my fate capsized, left me stranded for a while
couldn't keep myself from that lonesome view 


What a day, I feel so fine
flying like an aeroplane tonight
I just want to cross the skies
gone, like a memory to find

Aeroplane

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#7

*LYRICS*

Sometimes the water gets calmed
seems i'm not falling anymore
your time is coming to find the words of change
(it's a) long time they're coming at world


If I should stay then what you'd say
love's over
love moves 

You found yourself a better place
I left you here to stand
just hanging round
I sank

 
Everything
is now on the floor
I couldn't love you
any more

Sometimes we're falling in a hole
Sometimes the others have it all


Laws have changed, burn the world
many more still float 
oh world, only a moan
It's I can't chain
things I would let go

More and more
only words could tame it
nothing more than change

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#8

*LYRICS*

Bright stars, real soon
you'll know it's today

Young hearts all ready for 
fading away

I know it's just too late 
to unsay you're sorry 
just like the feel of those summer days

And there someday
We'll feel the same


Oh darling, shallow moon
when will you turn out blue
this town needs more like you

And when you turn me down
you'll hear a hollow sound
just brace yourself and drown your ego down 


Now every day
I'll feel the same

Your Gods...

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#9

*LYRICS*

I miss the easy days oh boy
when all the world was your worst enemy
and down the boulevard
was your loving place

And by the shore where the sea foams
my mind goes by your portrait 
it never was and will be not
but may your love just lay with me

Remnants of Love

from the Album "Blue Nihiil: The Original Unpublished Recordings" (2025),#6

*LYRICS*

(oooh...) Don't fool yourself
the friends you made
won't need you anymore

(years...) they came and went
like silk nets, now
don't need you anymore

(you're...) You're far away
but here I am
(now) don't need you anymore

(Hell...) A cell that was made
to keep me away
(I...) don't dream you anymore


Hikikomori

Gavin's third album 'No Cages' is available now. 'Milkshake', the first release from his new musical project, is available from Soundcloud as a free download.

Gavin Chappell-Bates is a vegan indie-alternative-pop-rocker from Cambridgeshire, England. His music has featured on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2. He released his debut album ‘We Are The Ones’ in 2016, on R*E*P*E*A*T Records, followed up by his second album 'The Last One' in 2018. 

Gavin also co-founded Peace On Your Plate, a vegan musical collective, who made it to number 40 in the UK downloads chart in Xmas 2019 with a song of the same name. The collective followed this up with a full album ‘The Forest Garden’. He was also part of an electro-grunge duo, Star Pixel, who released the album ‘Hadron Kaleidoscope’ in 2022.

Raised by Billy Corgan and John Lennon.

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EQUIPMENT

~Guitars~
• 2002 Gibson Les Paul Standard
• 2004 Fender Stratocaster Highway
• 2020 Martin D28 Standard
• Ibanez PF15ECE

~Amp~
• Marshall AVT 100

~Piano~
• Yamaha Arius YDP-140

~FXs~
• Electro Harmonix Big Muff
• Boss DS-2
• Boss SD-1
• MXR Phase 90
• Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress

~Mic~
• Audio Technica AT2020

~Recording~
• Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
• Acer Aspire 5920G
• Ipad 2

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