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Who was it said that we're all immigrants?

Green Card

My Left Eye

No Doubt

Little Tom - Radio Edit

Alec Clegg was Chief Education Officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1945 to 1974. He believed in a liberal arts based education for all and held that such an approach stimulated better outcomes generally. Anyone going to a West Riding school would be encouraged to paint, draw, dance, sing, or learn a foreign language simply because it was the right thing to do. 

No-one today has ever heard of him. 

No child today escapes the grim “if-you-fail-maths-you-will-die” austerity of national curricula, academy chains and ofsted inspectors with bad hair and no dress sense.

This tune, whose first line is taken from an Ian McMillan article about Clegg, is a nostalgic howl for something better for our children.

Alec Clegg Can Still Dream

Download at https://robclarke.bandcamp.com/track/shes-a-mean-2
Bonjour!
Some exciting news from the Cafe Le Wooltone.
Today I release a song from my upcoming solo album ‘Blues, Beats and Brel' - it’s called ‘She's A Mean’ and features a live stripped back acoustic performance with merely a hint of piano (and handclaps). And production by Fran Ashcroft. 
The album splits into three styles (hence the title) based on a 'diet of old blues records, beat poetry and Jacques Brel accordion sandwiches'.
De toute facon this one fits more into the ‘Blues' scheme of things.
Salut!
Rob

Blues Beats and Brel

She's A Mean

Before it was a song, Snake Groove was a poem. David: 'I was listening to a lot of David Keenan and wanted to try and emulate his use of imagery. The song depicts a soldier in foreign lands, trying to find his way while battling the hyenas that plague his thoughts. The finale channels the dying words of the soldier fallen in battle.'

Snake Groove is the first single borne of a new partnership with producer Steve Grainger (Lizzie Esau, Chloe and the Brainwaves). The track, written in a barn in deep Cambridgeshire and recorded in a castle in Lincolnshire, shows off their novel, evolved sound, which combines the intensity of the band's live energy, the vast breadth of their influences and the depth of their songwriting experience built up over a decade of working together.

Produced and Mixed by Steve Grainger
Engineered by Oli Porter
Recorded at Somerton Castle Studios
Mastered by Nick Watson of Fluid Mastering
Artwork by Sarah Milton

Snake Groove

Show Me Love

Our 6th single Burning the Candle at Both Ends scheduled for release on 14th June 2024. 

Let's go

Burning the Candle at Both Ends

#grwm is the song about unhiding the girl trapped inside by what we think others want to see.  Hailey Rae's raw lyrics reach the girls behind the masks of filters with vocals that captivate the heart and draws the listener in.  Hailey reminds us all that the cover is not necessarily representative of what lies beneath.

#grwm

Talking With Your Eyes

Inside The Capital

endless feeling

Subliminal

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