This track is a collaboration between The Sighs of Monsters and poet David Chislett. The poem "More Than Blue" appears in his new collection of poetry "With All Of You" and we were tasked with setting it to music, along with other artists who chose other works. The poem references the cultural impact of New Order's "Blue Monday" as it pounded out of the loudspeakers of the clubs in the 1980s, as the author "found his tribe". We've made some cheeky references to it in our musical treatment.

Lyrics:

I dance and twitch in a moment
Eyes fixed on a point
'Blue Monday' in my ears
Nineteen eighty-five
Heart is exploding
Not because of some girl
Something bigger than myself
Something I recognise

Found my tribe in that moment
A place I would call home
Nineteen eighty-five 
would last a long time
But my colours are no longer 
nailed to that mast
They are now my own
Now they are my own

From "With All Of You" by David Chislett
https://books2read.com/u/me9JrY

More Than Blue [Single]

More Than Blue

The 'More Than Blue collab is a musical work featuring words from the poem, More Than Blue and music/vocals from the Band Sighs Of Monsters

The poem 'More Than Blue' references the New Order track Blue Monday... so for this collab, London-based band, Sighs Of Monsters, created a New Order inspired musical bed for the poem, with a unique vocal melody and performance.

The Sighs of Monsters is a band from London, though none have the same passport, so the absolute truth is more complicated than that. They are all travellers and migrants, or the children of travellers and migrants, and consequently, they share the sounds and rhythms of “all over the place”. But they have found themselves in London and in London they make their stand.

Find Sighs of Monsters here:
http://thesighsofmonsters.com/
I hope you enjoy this collab and the video.

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These 10 songs are musical versions of poems from my collection, 'For You Or Someone Like You', published in 2012.

The eBook is still available from Amazon Kindle Direct
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For You Or Someone Like You

These 10 songs are musical versions of poems from my collection, 'For You Or Someone Like You', published in 2012.

The eBook is still available from Amazon Kindle Direct
https://www.amazon.com/David-Chislett/e/B092VQ23YV?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1640073094&sr=8-1

Collaborators:
Daylight – Shannon Hope
For Your Or Someone Like You – Matthew van der Want
Being here - Trenton and Free Radical
Drinking Lager – Paul Riekert (Battery 9)
Older, Faster, Wiser – David Chislett
Who Gets To Have Their Own Way – Anton Marshall (Eracode)
Any Old Fool Could Tell – Jon-Pat Myers (Psykotix)
Smog – Rob Mclennan (No Friends Of Harry)
Pieces of Me – Jay Bones (Fuzigish, Rambling’ Jay Bones)
The Bright Light – Shotgun Tori

Daylight

lawyer's  love letter

Nightmare-a-Gogo

off "casual killing" - title track (2006)

Casual Killing

First Of October

Immigrant song.
Warrick Sony Bass and  Production
Kevin Jarvis Drums
Josh Sklair Lead Guitar
Martin Pell Keyboard
Ivan Kadey Guitar and Vocal

Lyric

Chief Joseph / Trouble Song

Chief Joseph please understand
I had to leave my homeland
start a new line, leave my bones behind
Come to California, yeah my fortune to find
Come to California, leave my troubles behind
and what did I find?
wherever I go
find me trouble and woe

Chief Joseph I understand
Not all came of their own plan
sold into slavery took hundreds of years to be free
come to the land of Dixie, come in shackle and chain
come down the Mississippi yeah well, could not keep your own name
it will drive you insane
beyond belief
so much trouble and grief

New day rise
Keep hope alive
Hold on

Woe mama yeah!

come to the land of Liberty  yeah
brother and sister and me
come to the land of equality
come pilgrim, refugee
we all come to be free
its a long road to run
yeah there’s much to be won 
and race is not done
but I believe we shall overcome!

said a new day surely rise
keep your eye on the prize
hold on, hold on
ain’t no time, sing good trouble
ain’t no time, sing good trouble
ain’t no time, sing good trouble
trouble song.

Yeah!

Chief Joseph

The Sighs of Monsters is a band from the UK. 

The easy answer to "What sort of music do they play?" is ‘art rock’, but in truth they do what they think the song needs. 

"Three quarters of a century into rock ‘n’ roll, the musical vocabulary is so huge that restricting oneself to a particular style seems pointless and needless," says vocalist/guitarist Dean Sobers.

"The ‘The Sighs of Monsters’ sound comes from the way we play and the personality of Dean’s voice, but we don’t mind pulling in elements of folk, jazz, punk, ska, avant garde, or straight-down-the line rock. There comes a point in the life of a song where it is almost able to tell you what it needs, " adds percussionist Chris Houston.

The band started recording 'GROUND' with no fixed agenda, "but we knew from the start that we wanted to create an album that felt like one of those classic albums we grew up with," says bassist Brett Lock. "The ‘album’ as an artistic statement has lost a lot of ground over the last decade because iTunes culture has emphasised random individual tracks compiled into personal playlists. We wanted to create something for the type of music fan that enjoys sitting back and listening to an album as a cohesive work: someone with patience and who remembers why they loved music."