Sitting down to my fifth pie and pint of the week, I realised that something must change.
There’s an unnerving feeling that you get when you know that you are digging your own grave.
Deep down in the dirt, covered in the muck. Always up to something, never up to much.
They know my name there, you know? There’s no shame in there, you know?

Is this the time to discard bases?
Lose ourselves in separate places?
Drown in seas of strangers faces?
All these changes.

And as the old gents left and they drew the curtains, suds fell flatter and I flatter still.
Past pride and dignity, there is just, still, one more bitter pill.
Deep down in the depths, I stop to catch my breath. I jump up on my feet. It is never safe to rest.
They’ve seen it all in there, you know? From brown to blue, to green to blow.

And down South’s a million miles away, from pot banks and pits and men of clay.
I fear it’s true, what they all say, “you are free to leave but you will always stay.”

Between the Oak and the Oatcake Shop, is where I stop to cut my cloth.
They say it’s true, we know it’s not, you can always twist on what you’ve got.

Gaze at moon and start to trot, to chippy’s fryers, spitting hot.
To poultry packaged perfectly, I drift across an endless sea.

Patio Gas are:
Jack Melvin: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizers, Drum Machines, Orchestral Arrangement
Lewis Fernyhough: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Synthesizers, Backing Vocals
Adam Heath: Drums, Tambourine, Cowbell, Shakers, Backing Vocals
Accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Produced by Jack Howorth
Additional Production & Mixing by Sam Carrick
All songs Written by Jack Melvin
Engineers: Jack Howorth, Sam Carrick
Mastered by Jack Howorth at The Warren Studio, Sheffield

Sleeve Concept, Design, & Art Direction by Jack Melvin
Photography by Jack Melvin

© 2023 Patio Gas

Digging Your Own Grave

Something About This Place

Winlaton (win-lay-ton) is the third single released by the Ilfords since their 2022 rebirth.

Our David on Winlaton: 'Winlaton was written during deep lockdown. Nothing was open and late night running was the only space I had to myself. I suppose it reflects on what methods you can try to use when you feel lost. On one late night trek however, I realised I wasn’t just lost mentally at that time but geographically as I’d managed to run all the way to Winlaton.'

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Ady Hall and Lee McCarthy of Sugar House Productions
Recorded at Catalyst Studios, St Helens
Mastered by Nick Watson of Fluid Mastering

Winlaton

Alison Eales - Ever Forward

I Like It

"Immediacy" by Echo Machine, released March 29th 2023. 

From the band's ALMOST finished 2nd album. 

A song about overstimulation and the effects it has on our wee monkey brains.

Immediacy

Like Caroline

The Marra's debut single, 'That's Just The Way'.

Recorded at Blast Furnace Studio, Creggan, Derry
Mixed by Gordon Raphael
Mastered by Frida Claeson Johansson

That's Just The Way

New single by Geordie punk group Swine Tax, featuring guest vocals by Robyn of bigfatbig fame.

Words & music by Swine Tax.
Artwork by Vince L.

Swine Tax - Annual Leave

Produced by Robert Smyth
Mixed by Ally Jowett
Produced by Paul Winstanly
Music written and performed by Flip Top Head 
Flute by Fran Larkin

Blitzcat Records © 

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Lyrics:
You see, in my prefacing background
Prefacing back

And with the lick of a flame you entered my mind,
Like the flickering of Alfred Street
But now it’s red
(Now it’s red)
And we’re all equivalent to the gulls of the night,
The foam rolls- a child in a ball pit
And i’m here and you’re there
And we’re thrown down, deep under so i’ll roll with it
And if you were sat on that box,
Steadfast, the opposite of her waves
I’d be there
I’d
Ankles scuffed, fingertips kissed with cold
Kiss me cold, please unfold

Alfred Street

Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead

You, you are so kind
You, you are so fine
You, you will shine, tonight
You, you will find

The love you needed
The love you sought
The love meant for you
Your love is not lost

I know you still hurt
I know you still love
I know you still believe
I promise, you will be loved

For the selfish you met
For the selfish, who didn't care
For the selfish, who took you for granted
For the selfish, who were not there

They will soon learn
They will soon be fair
They will soon become
They will soon care

Because there are

Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead

You, you are so kind
You, you are so fine
You, you will shine, tonight, tonight
You will find

The love you needed
The love you sought
The love meant for you
Your love is not lost

The hurt
You once lived
The hurt
You could not forgive

The hurt
Will end
The hurt
Will end

Because there are

Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead
Better times ahead

You, you are so kind
You, you are so fine
You, you will shine, tonight, tonight
You will find

The love you needed
The love you sought
The love meant for you
Your love is not lost

Better Times Ahead

Hard alt/indie rock out of Ilford Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

Management: hello@yinyangmedia.co.uk

Winlaton

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