Excellent as always 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

cheerful song... thank you for sharing💜

Just love this ......as Simon (& Doug ) says...you are ripping it up ....so clap your hands ....feel the beat ...tap away 👞👞😀👏👏

If you're happy and you know it, certainly put a smile on my face :-)

To the dry plodding march of a funeral dirge our ironic baritone laments the vicissitudes of outrageous fortune before segueing into happy joyfulness of Counteract anthemic mantra. We love our quirky creative amigos, our musical-poetical-humorous entertainers who always enlighten us with their clever compositions. A gently rollicking riot of nostalgic celebration, bravo!

It is wonderful when a previously released song has enough potential energy to be released as a new song in a different genre.  So it is with this song first inspired by Thommo last spring in a collaboration with him and Ren Faye called "Dream Catching".  I liked the initial soundscape and guitar parts enough that I wanted to do a separate acoustic release under a different title.  Debra Buesking's definitive artistry entered the picture when we were teasing ideas for another collaboration.  I submitted this to her, she loved it, and now graces it with her superb playing, actually re-inventing the song.  More of her fine music can be heard @debra_buesking 
Imagine a windswept veranda. a couple dancing to distant thunder, passions building and breaking as the storm approaches.  The original is much different, more Celtic and ethereal and can be heard here as well as Thommo's other amazing productions: soundcloud.com/thommo_tunes/dream-catching-feat-david-dunham-and-ren-faye

Dancing On The Veranda (Thommo, Debra Buesking, David Dunham)

Written for February 2022 monthly online songwriters meet-up  with 'Drunks In A Midnight Choir'. Prompt was to find one of the many (many, many) 6 word stories available out there on the internet and write a song. I used Apple loops and a midi keyboard to create the melody. (Headphones recommended to appreciate the juicy bass loop 😎) 

Kudos and thank you to Finley Parkinson from Longcroft School in Beverley for the six word story: 'Found her shoes on the roof.' (Read article about the 2019 competition here: https://firststory.org.uk/six-word-story-2019-shortlist-and-winner/)

Found her shoes
Up on the roof
But did she jump 
Or was she pushed?
Found her things
In a neat little pile
And when I asked around no one had seen her in a while

Found her shoes  
But did she jump or was she…
Pushed?

(She really loved those shoes)

They packed her room up
Parcelled it all away
Why she did it
No one ever would say
Glossed it over
Nothing happened that day
And when I asked her mum, she just looked the other way

Found her shoes 
But did she jump or was she…
Pushed?

(‘Cos she really loved those shoes
Man, I miss her and her shoes)

Did she jump, or was she…
Pushed?

Did She Jump (Or Was She...) - DIAMC Demo

WalkingSteps

Beautiful Girl

Time passes like in high school, very fast in the good moments and very slow in the ones when I don't have to remember.

BACKWARD

The Funeral. Band Of Horses Cover.

Track name: “POTIONZ”
Contest #3GC2023 
KORG Gadget
3 Gadgets only: 
7 Darwin, 2 Kiev, 1 Alexandria

I knew that Darwin had a lot of instruments so it was a bit easier for that gadget, but I definitely need to use Kiev more often. I loved using Kiev’s sparkling instruments! 
For Alexandria, I’m not sure if I will ever use it because I don’t really ever use those kinds of organs. In this tune, I used Alexandria for distortion purposes (aka I used it as a sound effect 😂). I hope you enjoy this short, badly mixed song… 😅

POTIONZ #3GC2023

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

chronicle - 2:3:23, 7.30 PM

O-Miss Fabulous

Taken from my album "An Idea Of Almost Nothing".

https://soundbymark.bandcamp.com/album/an-idea-of-almost-nothing

An Idea Of Almost Nothing

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Drifting

Life Will Pass You By

The Counteracts are Simon J Biscoe and Doug Smith.
"Wonderfully uplifting and fun, filled with quirky Brit pop"

Life Will Pass You By © The Counteracts

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