Artist Spotlight 2014

Under A Banner

MUSICA

anki

under a banner

"There's A Bluebird In My Heart" is our first full-length album as well as our first self-produced record to date. It will be released 01/14/14 independently. The first single "Mulberry Love" launched Sept. 3rd, 2013 to radio and to generous love/acclaim online and kicked off our "Greatest Adventure in History Tour" across western Canada and US throughout September.
Please visit us @ runningredlights.com for more info and to stay in touch through email, Facebook, or twitter! 

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LYRICS:

Somewhere in New York City you are lying with new lovers 
And I'll be sleeping on that thought tonight 
Somewhere the moon is leaning into your open window
Illuminating her in perfect light

Tonight I'm drowning in a sea
Of crumpled paper memories
And my tears, like sour milk, are spilling thick upon these pages of lies of love you wrote and I believed

So I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Torn paper love letter airplanes tonight
I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Heartbreakin' love letter airplanes tonight

6 months in New York City and I am heavy with contrition
And as loveless as the night stand by my bed
Down here your stars are dropping like brilliant diamond boulders
Unloading all your wishes on my head

Tonight I'm drowning in a sea
Of blank paper apologies
And my words, like dried up milk, are reading stale upon these pages
Cause there's nothing I can say that you'll believe

So I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Torn paper love letter airplanes tonight
I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Heartbreaking love letter airplanes tonight

"Your beauty is enduring like the bed beneath the river. 
Oh, to be a stone along your water's edge."
Such sweet words on these pages for my pain to empty over and wonder which of them were truly meant

So I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Torn paper love letter airplanes tonight
I'm flyin' love letter airplanes tonight
Heartbreaking love letter airplanes tonight 

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ALBUM CREDITS:
Written/performed by Running Red Lights - S. Flynn/K. Howley/D. Puzak/J. Carter
Produced by Kevin Howley/RRL with loving co-production by Joshua Van Tassel and Mike McKyes
Recorded by Brian Moncarz (drums & piano) @ Rattlebox North - Vaughn Ontario, Mike McKyes (drums) @ The Grove Productions - Bright's Grove Ontario, Vezi Tayyeb (wurlitzer) @ Kensington Sound - Toronto Ontario, and Kevin Howley (vocals) @ The Jamnasium II - Toronto Ontario
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel - www.joshuavt.com
Mastered by Reuben Ghose @ Mojito Mastering - mojitomastering.com

Love Letter Airplanes

"There's A Bluebird In My Heart" is our first full-length album as well as our first self-produced record to date. It will be released 01/14/14 independently. The first single "Mulberry Love" launched Sept. 3rd, 2013 to radio and to generous love/acclaim online and kicked off our "Greatest Adventure in History Tour" across western Canada and US throughout September.
Please visit us @ runningredlights.com for more info and to stay in touch through email, Facebook, or twitter! 

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LYRICS:

Warm in this narrow car I lie
Spinnin' wheels move me further into night  
Cold train is rollin' me along 
Back to the old Queen, 3 times her weight in stone
And I don't want to go 

Back to my city bed to lie
Through window square watching bodies speeding by 
To the poet stirring rackets in my mind
Where days empty into winter whiskey nights 
And I don't want to go, no I don't wanna go
 
So leave me in Yukon mountains to rest my hurried bones 
Silver Springs wash the fuel of youth that drives me home 
Cause I don't wanna go
No I don't wanna go 
Home
 
Back far from BC timber lines
To inner voices and disapproving eyes
From a sea of summer backroad country miles
To a grave of unborn concrete piles
And I don't wanna go, no I don't wanna go  
 
So leave me in Yukon mountains to rest my hurried bones 
Silver Springs wash the fuel of youth that drives me home 
Cause I don't wanna go
No I don't wanna go 
                                                                                                                   
The night comes black and forest falls to ash and stone                
Over iron hills the train begins to slow and I am back once more, 
Back where I belong
But I don't wanna go 
Home

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ALBUM CREDITS:
Written/performed by Running Red Lights - S. Flynn/K. Howley/D. Puzak/J. Carter
Produced by Kevin Howley/RRL with loving co-production by Joshua Van Tassel and Mike McKyes
Recorded @ Grove Productions by Mike McKyes in Bright's Grove, Ontario and @ The Jamnasium II by Kevin Howley in Toronto, Ontario
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel - www.joshuavt.com
Mastered by Reuben Ghose @ Mojito Mastering - mojitomastering.com

Boxcar Telegrams

"There's A Bluebird In My Heart" is our first full-length album as well as our first self-produced record to date. It will be released 01/14/14 independently. The first single "Mulberry Love" launched Sept. 3rd, 2013 to radio and to generous love/acclaim online and kicked off our "Greatest Adventure in History Tour" across western Canada and US throughout September.
Please visit us @ runningredlights.com for more info and to stay in touch through email, Facebook, or twitter! 

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LYRICS:

As I watch the snow fall over Boston, a silver white and blue
I drink myself back to my youth and try to summon you
And as the radiator hums a grown-up tune
A memory, like a radio, is coming through 
A rose-colored window with a 
sentimental view
You and me high in the burning cold 
Bottle rockets fired up and ready to go
I remember we were paranoid the whole damn world would blow 

Now every winter sky has tales to tell
Every stormy night rings a memory bell
Every snow drop soaking through my shoes
The memory bells start ringin' and I'm back to you

Tonight the sky is black as carbon and the stars are shinin' through
The full moon smiles bright 
polyester, insinuating June 
And while the radiator hums a grown-up tune
A memory, like a radio, is coming through
A rose-colored window with a sentimental view
Rollin' on a blanket on a hot roof top 
Drinkin' whiskey out of empty cans of pop
Drownin' out the world with your tape deck stereo 

Now every summer sky has tales to tell
Every starry night rings a memory bell
Sun kissed sidewalks burnin' through my shoes 
The memory bells start ringin' and I'm back to

First moves and fixed eyes,
and drawn-out goodbyes
Back to the burn of longing bones
When hearts stopped and lungs filled 
Under half moons on Summer hills
Aching bodies and nothing in between
Back to suitcase dreams and Friday plans
To falling lace in nervous hands
My sleeveless flowered dress on canyon floors
Back before time turned on us
And changed our minds and love to dust
Before our wounds were too grown-up to mend   
Back before the scent of rain
and startled memories in my brain
Of last goodbyes and looks of soft regret 
Back before

Every teary sky had tales to tell
Every lonely night rang a memory bell
Every raindrop kindled thoughts of you  
Before I needed memories to get back, I go back  
When July summer skies have tales to tell
When ocean melodies rang a memory bell
Every lazy Sunday afternoon
Those memory bells start ringin' and I'm back to you

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ALBUM CREDITS:
Written/performed by Running Red Lights - S. Flynn/K. Howley/D. Puzak/J. Carter
Produced by Kevin Howley/RRL with loving co-production by Joshua Van Tassel and Mike McKyes
Recorded @ Grove Productions by Mike McKyes in Bright's Grove, Ontario and @ The Jamnasium II by Kevin Howley in Toronto, Ontario
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel - www.joshuavt.com
Mastered by Reuben Ghose @ Mojito Mastering - mojitomastering.com

Memory Bells

"There's A Bluebird In My Heart" is our first full-length album as well as our first self-produced record to date. It will be released 01/14/14 independently. The first single "Mulberry Love" launched Sept. 3rd, 2013 to radio and to generous love/acclaim online and kicked off our "Greatest Adventure in History Tour" across western Canada and US throughout September.
Please visit us @ runningredlights.com for more info and to stay in touch through email, Facebook, or twitter! 

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LYRICS:

It's a cold turn when youth decays into a broken rhythm and time is 
spinning
And nothing is racing faster than a clock that's running down
So take on your twilight in the 
distance with resistance  
And go chasing shadows in the 
moonlight tonight and 

Count the stars, steal her heart
It's a damn good way to go 
Dare to dance, take a chance 
It's a damn good way to go
Kiss her porcelain skin down down down down to the bone 
Throw your cares to the wind 
It's a damn good way to go

I was a man of song too long inside my own head, just dreaming
And waiting, I was bottled like a firefly and burning out
But too many losses I have carried and buried  
And out of the dust with cold 
precision, came the wisdom that
 
Counting stars, stealing hearts 
It's a damn good way to go
Dare to dance, take a chance 
It's a damn good way to go
Kiss her porcelain skin down down down down to the bone 
Throw your cares to the wind 
It's a damn good way to go

Give it up and let it go 
All your heart and all your soul
Used up and wrung out from the road
Its the only way
Its a damn good way to go 

Its a cold turn when life decays into a broken rhythm and time is running out 

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ALBUM CREDITS:
Written/performed by Running Red Lights - S. Flynn/K. Howley/D. Puzak/J. Carter
Produced by Kevin Howley/RRL with loving co-production by Joshua Van Tassel and Mike McKyes
Recorded @ Grove Productions by Mike McKyes in Bright's Grove, Ontario and @ The Jamnasium II by Kevin Howley in Toronto, Ontario
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel - www.joshuavt.com
Mastered by Reuben Ghose @ Mojito Mastering - mojitomastering.com

A Damn Good Way To Go

"There's A Bluebird In My Heart" is our first full-length album as well as our first self-produced record to date. It will be released 01/14/14 independently. The first single "Mulberry Love" launched Sept. 3rd, 2013 to radio and to generous love/acclaim online and kicked off our "Greatest Adventure in History Tour" across western Canada and US throughout September.
Please visit us @ runningredlights.com for more info and to stay in touch through email, Facebook, or twitter!

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LYRICS:
I thought my heart had seen its last days
I gave up on giving it away
'Cause I was walking down a jilted lover’s road
And there was no turning back…so I was told

No, there was no going back so I was told
Once the grip of hurting had its hold
Those cold, shiver girls of stone
They crushed my heart and chilled my bones
It was burnt ash, black as coal
In my broken, high-heel-trampled soul
'Til there you were, like a river, babe
You carried all my blues away

Oh, your love came in under the wire

Drowned in a river of tears
I was played out beyond my years
The needle moved the record 'round the same old song
My body buried in the mud
I was almost dead, the trench was dug
I was waiting for the darkness to 
descend on me

But, while I was waiting on that goodbye train
Umbrella up, you fought the rain
You ushered me out of the cold
Baby, you saved my soul
You know

Oh, your love came in under the wire

Your love, your love, your love, your love, your love came in under the wire

Oh, your love came in under the wire

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ALBUM CREDITS:
Written/performed by Running Red Lights - S. Flynn/K. Howley/D. Puzak/J. Carter
Produced by Kevin Howley/RRL with loving co-production by Joshua Van Tassel and Mike McKyes
Recorded @ Grove Productions by Mike McKyes in Bright's Grove, Ontario and @ The Jamnasium II by Kevin Howley in Toronto, Ontario
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel - www.joshuavt.com
Mastered by Reuben Ghose @ Mojito Mastering - mojitomastering.com

Under The Wire

"Insurgent" by Andru Greenwood

Website: www.andrugreenwood.com/

Track from my upcoming EP.

If you like what you hear, let me know by following me on...

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You can visit my website's music download page here:

www.andrugreenwood.com/free-music-downloads/

Insurgent

Title track from our upcoming album which you can  buy here: https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Close To The Clouds

'Numbers' from our  album 'Close to the Clouds' which you can download in full here https://underabanner.bandcamp.com/

Numbers

English Soul taken from Under A Banner's second album 'Close to the Clouds'.

English Soul

City Alone from our album 'Close to the Clouds' played on BBC Radio

Under a Banner - City Alone

Here is the exclusive song we gave to a number of people who pledged to help release our second album 'Close to the Clouds' It is a song about existential doubts arising from a contemplation of the vast and cloudless expanse of Mediterranean skies. This song features the 10 stringed cittern and acoustic guitar.

Forever's Face

Celtic Rain is an original song by Andru Greenwood. Enjoy!

Celtic Rain

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Fickle Friends - For You (Ghost Beach Remix)

'The Scream' - a rallying call against oppression - as used by the not-for-profit organisation Safe World For Women in one of their campaign videos.

Featuring darkly insistent piano  played by Alex Vann.

The Scream

Our album track 'Steam' about our past, present and future; industry and progress and human existence in general.  'Like Steam we power on through, we're never quite sure of the place to which we're going'

Steam

The Weight of You

The One

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What follows is a review by an online music blogger who, at the time of writing, did not know the band personally:

 Under A Banner  Jan 14
 by Themistocles 
Under A Banner are a wonderful discovery. The dream of traditional England flows through the work of this Midlands outfit, blending folk-styled music with the ideals of punk – a haunting, ethereal throwback to real English folk traditions mixed with the revolutionary fight and inspiration of bands like New Model Army.

The themes differ – from the evocative and powerful “Inseperable”, gentle melodies of the guitar subtly underscored with the sombre interludes of the violin and all topped with soaring, mysterious vocals in a tale of love and loss – to the passionate and idealistic self-proclaimed drinking song: “First Light” – ‘Into the city we go, Straight through ’til we see the first light of tomorrow’. In this case, the words assisted with clanging electric guitars tinging the idealism with aggression, a call to arms, almost.

However, the real joy for me lay in “The Scream”, an impassioned cry for freedom, to break loose and live: “Now raise your head from the shadows and scream, just scream; They kept you so quiet for so long… The sound of your beautiful scream” – primacy, anger and fascination with the fundamental elements of human nature, finding joy in simplicity and the release. Combined with the rapid acoustic guitars and pulsing rhythm of the drums, along with the dark natural imagery (“the storm” and “the noise”), the song becomes an insistent repeat, a rallying cry against stagnation and repression:“We love to create to destroy” – our freedom is most important.

Under A Banner are a breath of fresh air in a music scene stagnating and dying with manufactured pop, here is a band calling back to the earliest days of musical expression and bringing it back   in a whirlwind of acoustic guitars, poeticism and passion. A band you can stomp your foot and sing along to, and to whom you want to follow forward, as they so wisely put it, with “beer, wine and song” – an admirable sentiment indeed.