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WAITING FOR THE RAIN

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill

The hidden lines and lives
Walk their natural time above the plain
From hill fort to the bunkers underground 
The hill can quicken up your pulse
Standing on Dryhill
You can taste it on your breath
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain 
Waiting for the rain

Aeons old and yesterday
In a scintillation (Standing on Dryhill)
A breathless moment under 
The curious twinkling stars (Standing on Dryhill)
The water moves beneath us
It moves below the ice

(below, be-low)

A long-gone, summer swift scream
The hill is not dry
The vines do not wither
Rippling the waters of our many lives
The heart of the hill 
Beats on
Pushing the sleeping rabbit to awake and run (run, run, run)
Seize the seasons
Hang the reasons
In a thousand years the hill will not remember us or its many names…
Our heads boiled, eaten down to the white bone

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
Standing on Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Waiting for the rain

Standing on Dryhill…

Phil McWalter Jan 2023
Recorded at Dryhill, Upper Rissington, Coventry and California
Art: My own manipulated image from the top of the hill...

Waiting For The Rain

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2023-08-14

the Path To Knowledge

Done around 1980, recorded in the front room, the music all recorded to two tracks on a Fostex 4 track cassette deck, which I still have. The drums were in the downstairs bathroom, behind the front room, surrounded by microphones. The vocals were added later but are only rough. Never got round to recording them properly; when I find the original music I will record them properly. The tape this recording is taken from is damaged, so it is cutting out, but I do still have the original Fostex recording.
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The band was called TALKING ABOUT LIFE, Mark Harrington and I shared lead vocals, and I played keyboard; if we had been based in Manchester rather than a nothing town like Crewe, it would have been a different story, we might well have broken through, instead, the band disintegrated, although Mark, myself and Steve Lomas continued to do stuff together. 
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Steve wanted me in a later band of his called Sensibility, because he wanted to bring in more variation, but the lead in the band didn't--that band didn't last long either--a pity, it had real potential, but stuck the same style, which wasn't at all good for Steve, a brilliant guitarist playing in a limited style that, in truth, wasn't him, was beneath him, tantamount to putting handcuffs on him.
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Tragic that Steve died at such a young age, and I was told Mark committed suicide, but I still haven't been able to confirm that--I continue to pray the information was wrong, but have a feeling it was true. If Steve was still living today that's who I would be in a band with. And what a pity the drummer quit drumming, which is the main reason why the band came to an end!

AT THE NECROPOLIS (Swing Shift City Of The Dead) inst

McCartney Hotel California House

An original song in session in Much Wenlock in 2021.

Greek Meats (with a coda from Acapulco)

Lyrics written by Dan , Composed and performed by Richard

Warning : For all the Miners out there - this contains explicit words and rude references.  You will like it. Not sure about the Minors though.

like Milk

I was up both earlier and later than you
I’d like to go through your things

All of the elbow
I’ve had quite a few 
Wake up and look at the shit that I bring

I’ll take everything 
Everything in the window 
If you would cater the carnival
I’ll read everything, every page of the manual, if you’d put the fun in the funeral 

Crafted and gifted
Nothing good can come of this 
April May be out
Grafted and grifted
No one should come in for a bit
It’s Jonny Jonny Woo Woo from Ha-ha hoo hoo house

Steve and Sue and Steve and Sarah, Joan and Jane and Pru
Balled out of Roach court cos they jumped the Barbie queue 
Caught out and bought out and groaning grating grew
If you knew what they put in that sausage 
you might think it through 

You shall go out with Joy
And be led forth by Pete 
And the fountains and the bills shall spray forth before you 
Some of the sour
Won’t come off in the shower 
And the joke has aged like milk


I summoned a rubbish daemon
I touched a dog’s pussy once 
I hummed on varnished ceilings
Butchered hogs in St Paul de Vence  
All of the elbow the fit that you threw 
The sum of the done thing 
It’s on you

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TEARJERKER - THE GAY SILHOUETTES inst

Written by Kim Green. 
Kim on guitar and lead vox.
Me on backing vocals, piano.
Sea recorded on holiday on Corfu in 1998.

Please Yourself

One Perfect Moment

It's my own song about the important things for me

Vocal, lyrics- Havas Eszter
Studio- Wéber Gábor

Sunlight - Őrzöm

Another recording from my acoustically-great flat in Bangkok, 2005. I really like this recording - my young voice! Not keen on the bridge, but I like the parts before that. I'd been listening to Bristol's Jane Taylor a lot when I wrote this song, and it REALLY shows!

Until it Happens to You

Based in Shropshire, UK.

Influences
RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY & RICK ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, B52’s, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Neil Diamond, The Travelling Wilburys, Jimmy Nail, R Kelly (#/), Chris Chan.

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