Collage of four pre-show sound checks before Lula del Ray in Edinburgh.  
 
Featuring- our resident puppet cutter and whoever walked by my microphone during stage set up.

Michael Hilger, Eric Streichert and Alex Ellsworth on the instruments.
Cast/crew of Manual Cinema on the background commentary.

Lula Tapes - full

Raw take from sound check on August 27th, 2017.
Pre-show for Lula del Ray at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest.

Michael Hilger, Eric Streichert, Alex Ellsworth

Lula Tapes - part 4

The Silver Hour (Recorded in winter 2018 with Michael Hilger)
lyrics:

Take me to the silver hour,
Where moonlight pours her gilding showers,
Falling high through glowing towers.
If I could love, it would be there. 

(There), you'd see, 
My words make sense to her, but here they'd be,
Just pawns to find the silver hour's key.

Five o'clock after music lost it's stock,
Bathe in silence, feel her heartbeat knock, 
At the windowpane where moonbeams flock,
See her face reflect with harbor docks,
Like rows of teeth for grinning fools, 
The cities pools that lightly mock, 
Naive young love while kissing caught,
If a dream, the dreamer I am not.

Take me to the silver hour, 
Where moonlight pours her gilding showers,
Falling hight through glowing towers, 
If I could love, it would be there.

There you'd see, 
My words make sense to her but here they'd be,
Just pawns to find the silver hour's key.
If I could love, it would be there.

Take me to the silver hour.
If you ask she knows how long the dream will last,
Before she sends you back.
Should I stay if she sends me back.

The Silver Hour - Demo

I'll Dug It (Recorded in winter 2018 with Michael Hilger)
lyrics:

It all started mid September, with trees back fiercely blown,
The kid's first day in the city, for which such wind is known. 
The tallest mountains in Chicago, made by boxes that he stacked,
Thick roots grew round the fencing, outside his Uptown flat.
Just hours after landing, not yet to start unpack, 
He set out to a music house, he passed on Broadway Ave.

And the band played:
"my lip up, skip it all by, 
I'll dug it," 
And the band played:
"I'll skip it all by, the by, the by, the by, the by, the by..."
The band played.

Oh how she stood there glowing,
Under the neon lights,
A gold relief crept round her shoulder,
A second drink well in her sights,
With her ears on the music and her eyes on the crowd,
Her mouth spoke soft, but her clothes she wore loud.

And the band played:
"my lip up, skip it all by,
I'll dug it,"
And the band played:
"I'll skip it all by, the by, the by, the by, 
the by, the by, the by, the by, the by..."
The band played.

The night before her friends had left,
Just two days before she. 
They all had jobs in another town,
A year there they would be.
After a week back west, her last night to have,
She spent it at a music house,
She passed on Broadway Ave.

And they dance and they danced,
The walls shook and the floor drank,
The crowd collapsed like the music in their heads, 
Her back seat became an eager bed.

The next day they both left,
A year till she'd be back,
He was left unpacking,
His mind on last nights track,

And the band played, 
The band played,
And the band played, 
And the band played.

alexander ellsworth

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