Name: Our Dark Age (aka Hell in a Hand basket) by tim mcginn
Duration: 4 min 33 s
Description: a commentary on 3 areas of decay in our world: Ukraine, Middle East and USA

This song got Bob an academy award as a track on Wonderboys

Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan cover)

After the Hole - Lyrics

All I seen is what I thought I would have seen
At the end all I found were other ends

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

On the screech of the city brakes I heard your name
Feel as though we're living in a recurrent dream

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

And the life is after the hole

And the life is after the hole

Strange Part of the Country

After the Hole

Bandcamp

Round Midnight - Lyrics 

Round midnight when the engine’s on
Lose my head from the rolling throng
Get my house out of the fire
Get my car out of the wreckage pile
Straight out of lullaby land 
Straight out of Birdland
Like waking up in the morning without my head in my hands

And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And I woke up around midnight to see Charlie Parker fly in a saxophone
Well there's gold on the road

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Charles Mingus
That’s so like Philly Joe Jones
Miles she likes your Miles Davis shit
Miles Davis shit 
Miles Davis shit 

Gone midnight and I'm just moving on 
With a couple of fellas with sticks and songs
Got my head into a St. Louis fire
Haven’t seen daylight for a couple of nights
Straight out of lullaby land
Straight out of Thelonious land
Like waking up without feeling like my head’s been up my ass

And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And if I’m not home before midnight I'll be playing here with this whiskey and these songs
From somewhere out of the earth

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Second cousin of the Dizzy man
And the nephew of the devil
A girl sent to me by the devil

I'm getting it on and I can’t do me wrong
Got jazz inside my vein now and the blues even comes out of my asshole
It's the door to my soul

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Round Midnight

Woke Up Around Midnight

Old Irish Drunks - Lyrics

Well he left home one Sligo day and he kept on going until he came to a halt
And they heard nothing of their lost son since London had swallowed him up
Each night he drank himself to sleep in a town where he lived but did not belong
These streets were built by men who came from the earth then covered it up

They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good

Living on the far edge he broke his toes in the High Road cold
His last days he told me how much he loved all he said he hated most

They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good

And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain

Built them good
Built them good
Built them good
Built them good

Old Irish Drunks

Satellite

Thanks to Sleepy John and the gang at KPIG who had us live, acoustic, on-air on "Please Stand By" - the iconic radio show.  Guest percussion from Jen Bruno.  Very funny patter after the playing.

Lost in California on KPIG

"Rules In This Town" is the opening track of Bludgers album Better Off At Home (1996). Prior to the album’s release, Hammerhead Records brought in Eric ‘Roscoe’ Ambel to remix the track. This version is the previously unreleased original mix by the famed Mark Rubel of Pogo Studios where the track was recorded. With both versions to compare 26 years after the fact, we’re hearing harmonies and other little moments we’d forgotten we even recorded. The album version of "Rules In This Town" is on Spotify, Bandcamp, Apple Music, and wherever you buy and listen to your music.

Pogo Sessions

Rules in this Town

Ecco the Dolphin Days

Out On The Weekend (Neil Young)

Bubblemen circa 2012
Guitar and vox - Mike Arthur
Bass - Dwayne Bennet
Drums - Simon Nunn

Recorded on Saturday 9th December 2012 at the Phoenix bar in Papanui, Christchurch, New Zealand

horse with no name phoenix bubblemen 2012 dwayne mike simon

a commentary on 3 areas of decay in our world: Ukraine, Middle East and USA

Our Dark Age (aka Hell in a Hand basket)

tim mcginn

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