Is This Your First Time?

TJS 2021

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Music & Lyrics © 2022 The Julia Set
Produced by Cerian Studios
Featuring Baz Francis on Guitars

Sunday

When you really need to say NO - the new single from The Julia Set

Available wherever you stream music 🎸

Turn Up, Lay Down, Roll Over And Die

A story about an affair and the choices one must live with.

From the album Gliding Towards Oblivion. Produced by Dusty Wright. Recorded & mixed by Dusty Wright & Martin John Butler at Strauss Park & Two Dog Studios, NYC. Final Mixes by Brandon Wilde at Studio 76, Brooklyn. Mastered by Alan Douches for West West Side Music.

Dusty Wright - vocals, acoustic & fuzz guitars, drums, percussion and handclaps
Brandon Wilde - bass and vocals
Jonathan K. Bendis - electric spring guitar
Martin John Butler - handclaps
Howie Halpern - congas & percussion

©2018 PetRock/BMI. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

Gliding Towards Oblivion

Silence of the Knowing

"Silence of The Knowing"

This song inspires me to create and not be afraid. We record it back in December at Abbey Road Studio in London with Agustin Kafka.

Keep in touch throughout my IG on www.jackwish.co.uk

Love,
Jack

Hallelujah (Cover)

Is This Your First Time? Instrumental Version

Is This Your First Time? (Instrumental)

why? taken from sunflowers and rainy days
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lyrics:

i don’t really think i understand
when you fall in love you have to compromise that shit
but you don’t even wanna hold my had (no more)
when i met you i was thinking oh my (this is it)

and my heads still aching
my hand’s still shaking
i hoped you would come 
through

why did i fall in love with you?
fabricate in my head bout the way that we’re still cool
wishing that we could be the two
to fall in love forever till our blood starts running cold

(whoo!)

heaven knows i want this all to stop (and it knows that)
my mind’s been spinning round non-stop
but i’m stuck here scrolling
and i checking on, checking on, 
checking on photographs (sh, huh)
checking if your mind just switched me off

so my heads still aching
my hand’s still shaking
i knew your love had moved
on

why did i fall in love with you?
fabricate in my head bout the way that we’re still cool
wishing that we could be the two
to fall in love forever till our blood starts running cold

i’m glad this thing worked out for you
but what am i supposed to do?
when all i think of all the while
is how you have a lovely frown

Sunflowers and Rainy Days

Why?

Performed by Caswell

Writers:
Kristin Caswell-Robinson
David E. Sugar

Contributors:
David E. Sugar (Producer)
Hugh Fothergill (Co-Producer)
Cenzo Townshend (Mixing)
Frank Arkwright (Master)

Surface

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SUNNY

Our man has fallen for a lady of the night named Sunny and he thinks he can take care of her, save her from men who puzzle her existence and all the rest of that Roxanne bullshit. However as the song goes on our boy's initial confidence and certitude begins to wane and he can't save himself from the very crime he wants to save her from. His care turns into lust, his lust turns into naivety and his naivety is used in question against her on whether she actually wants to be saved. Questions of love, questions of time; he then looks at his own place in the world. This is Sunny.

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Lyrics:

Put on something different for me
Lying with your mind disarms, but won’t make me leave
Your wondrous eyes tell me the things that you hold so deep 
I’ll tell you where the sun looks better
I can’t believe we’re wasting it
Put on something different for me
Tell your boy I’ll pay the fifteen

I know the games of chance that you play at night
Your fingertips amidst the moonlight
Does a man go make you feel, Sun?
What makes you think you gotta be like that?
Why you on the floor?
I was talking to myself
Ways that I imagine you
Oh I’m such a little boy
Telling you I’m the man 
Makes me stay up late at night

Would you want somebody to love you?
Would you want somebody to dare?
Would you want somebody to hurt you?
Do you even think that you’d care?
Would you want somebody to be the man
Would you want somebody who could tell you how this ends?
Would you pretend?

Take me, take me baby boy
Put on something different for me
I’ll tell you what to do babe, baby
Worry no more, no more

Do you ever feel like you’re the fool?
Pantomiming as your mind disowns you
As you undress yourself in the corner of a hotel room
I’m mumbling words that I could say to you
About where you are in all your dreams
(He likes to tell you it’s real)
Or your curves beneath those midnight seams
(He longs to know what to do)
As the sun shines upon yesterday
(He wonders how he should feel)
I’ve lost myself somewhere in between

Millions of miles above
Visions of days now gone
My baby, are we lost forever or here right now?
Minds unborn or fated somehow?
Am I supposed to bare you my heart
Sure as sun lights up the day?

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'DIY, R&B music infused with Folk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and whatever sound that seems appropriate at the time to tell tales of the human condition. Once a purist of seventies singer-songwriter soul searching, and now a stranger in a dark room writing, producing and making weird noises on a laptop. Formerly the lead man of ‘Wild Rossa And The ’88’, LAPP is now attempting to do a Zayn, form his very own one man wolf pack and see how many fellow weirdos he can find along the way who, hopefully, might dig the tunes as well.'

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SUNNY © - LAPP
Song written, recorded, produced and performed by LAPP
Song mastered by Andy Fernihough in Crash Studios, Liverpool
Bass Guitar: Sam Weston
Saxophone: Luke Ledger

lappxmusic@gmail.com
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Sunny (Single)

Sunny

Running Through My Head

The band was formed in 2007 by a guitarist and a bass player who wanted to play "proper" rock, and so The Julia Set was born. That lasted all of five minutes, as the guitarist promptly landed a decent job and vanished into the setting sun.

The bassman, however, carried on with the concept and pulled together the indie rock band that we've got today, based in and around the West London area. Gigs have included such prestigious venues as The 12 Bar Club, The Alleycat, Fiddlers Elbow and The Water Rats, amongst others.

We gathered a few original songs together and released the "Skyline" EP (now free on BandCamp). Recent releases have been singles such as "Wild Wood" and "Love & Hate (A Story Of)", "Is This Your First Time?" and "Finding Out" and more.

We would just describe ourselves, if anything, as an Indie Rock band seasoned with a hint of retro. We love the big, overlaid guitar sound.

The line-up is Mickey Berry on lead vocals, Mendel and Simon Goode on guitars, Tom Smith on drums and Mike Atkinson on bass.