Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’ (1896) A.E. Housman

The Cherry Now

Uploaded purely to avoid the no-swearing rule for @freshonthenet and BBC Introducing. 

Original found at https://soundcloud.com/invisible-squirrel/nicholas-bloody-parsons

Absurd video of this track found at https://youtu.be/RUaBxqbsPFQ

Lyric

I’m off to play cribbage with Gandalf
He can sell his  glitter with glee
Wiping off a lyric with a hardwired spoon
It’s never too soon to bitch about the cheesecake smiles

So we crowdfunded his lasers
Which apparently were   cold
This condimental paradox ties us up in knots in every weather
Call off your gibbon platoon

We got robotic mice in the pantry
Stabbing our pickles with Jive / Chives
This echo dot  sale of the century
When Nicholas Bloody Parsons arrives

I’m not saying you ain’t funky
Your gargantuan crocodile smile
But your wah-wah pedal sure is sounding clunky
Fundamental Ornamental never too late to celebrate the cheese we H I D E

•Nicholas Bl#*dy Parsons (Radio Edit)•

NATIVE TONGUE - TOO LATE 
RECORDED AT PROPAGANDA HOUSE 
MIXED AND MASTERED BY JAMES BRAGG 
2022

TOO LATE

Dont Stand Up (or Your Nose is Gonna Bleed)

From my solo debut Abundance, Bist du bei mir is a boundary-traversing, gospel-infused reworking of a baroque aria from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach.  With ECM artist Fred Thomas https://fred-thomas.co.uk/

Bist Du Bei Mir

Alternative / Indie Rock , recently featured on BBC Introducing.

Juice Break

Go Faster EP written and recorded in may as part of the Lights and Lines Album Writing Club.

Seoul Sister

Billy doesn't like to go to sleep. There are things that lurk, just on the edges of her dreams. But she knows she has to dream every night to bring the universe into existence or there will be none of us left.

The Tale of Billy Dreamer

Bought and Sold is a climate protest song about humanity’s bizarre addiction to destroying the earth for temporary profit. The song is both heavily influenced by folk rock pioneers The Byrds and the sounds of dreamy psychedelia of bands like Spiritualized, JAMC and Deerhunter. Vic Galloway of BBC Scotland calls Auld Spells “my kind of soundtrack”. Ian Corbridge of Louder Than War says Auld Spells are “definitely one of the most exciting new bands I have come across for some time”.

Bought And Sold

The Happiness Patrol

Ever had noodles stuck in your beard?
Dark, atmospheric and ambient.

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