A party invite is received by someone significantly junior to the narrator, who goes along to witness general social ineptitude.  He meets a young and very beautiful woman who is socially unfulfilled by her peers.  He chances his arm.

Tunage and lyrics by Sad Cat with additional tunage and beats by Mustapha Nigel Ali Firth.


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Model Behaviour - Sad Cat

Dark and disturbing dystopian falsetto fantasy dance din

Cansa Megadrive - early edit with production and composition from Nigel Firth

It started with cutting and power hungry rutting
as They stripped the country to the bone and conjured witches spirit
went further state murder a bloody minded formula
they stuffed their digits in the holes to asphyxiate the poorest 
apparently we needed austerity
the poor they needed more poverty

with little foundation they scary faced the nation
as they followed the tradition - simply blame the opposition
the bill for the shortfall was forwarded to the unborn 
a curse on all your houses courtesy of Eton’s Osborne
the 1 percent and billionaires agreed 
the non doms said it was not greed

made hostile environment but ignored the boiling climate
dog whistling lies so they could find sufficient racist voters
their stories so porous, the gap ‘tween rich and poorest 
it rarely reached the conscious mind of tech contrived new tories
with investment in new technology
they grew some new hostility


they wrecked it with  (hard) brexit the insular blind fuck(dim)wits 
they pushed their party to the right and took the country with it
all poorer for sure a zombie group of off-shorers  
a self-determined trading state with complicated borders
at least they had a magic money tree
from control the penniless were free

the dregs left for the next steps trying to make a new pearl necklace
the bottom trawling molluscs bollocks talking reckless feckless
the bare bones were boning, incestuous monstrous cloning
yes thatchers ghost born to new hosts in conference hotel moaning

the pupils of small state dilated as they mated
the stupid institute of economic affairs
one think tank they think tanks, tudthumping members give thanks
for photographs of power stance-ing idiotic new crank

a plan hatched a hatchet that all would say was bat shit
no outside eye to criticise or offer any feedback
a monster a monster - a frankensteininan Johnson
they decided that they would try some new backwards enterprising

The horror the horror, they didn't even bother 
to corroborate their offer with the budgetary body
The optics were spotted but not by those who'd frotted 
‘ cause they were busy plotting their myopic economics 
  and they thought they would drop it on Halloween they released the beast on halloween
Halloween
Halloween

Halloween rough cut early edit

Delilah rewritten for 21st Century sensibilities so that Welsh people don't have to sing happily about misogynistic jealous murder before their beloved egg-chasing sessions.

May contain good cooking advice.

Written in a hurry and performed at Catweazle Club.

Delilah Delicata - Steve Larkin

Man is but a parasite on the face of the globe and the end of his so-called dominion approaches rapidly - at 180bpm with aggressive melodic synths and pounding timps.

one by one - here they come
to spark the match for a big bang romance 
with their pseudo-independence
on their own but with their parents      

looking for a bonding - like a mother to a child
a state of nature - going back to the wild
the first moment that they feel a bite
they are once bitten and then twice shy
guarded, defensive fighting to get it right
terms and conditions - get the contract signed
framed with best intentions and conventions they have
finding they’ve become their own photographs 
hollow (ego) husk they habitually serve
time to give it back to the universe

two by two with polar ice view
chimpanzees with power tools
 sociopathic characteristics 
prone to infant mystical instincts

the prefab is cemented for the breeding pair
who claim the right to territory then laisser faire
the market isn’t selling new intelligent design
they set up on the land and mine mine mine
then wonder why their plunder builds up in their face
th e hard drive of technology runs out of space
deluded, refusing to save them selves
the finite looks to infinite for magic spells 
 pinning vein hope on a virgin birth
time to give it back to the universe

side by side - they decline      
imbed divide left to right
carrion a food chain flying mile high
club the seven seals bye bye 

sucking out the marrow from your dry bones
guarded by a watchmen who controls the drones
cacophonous whirs hail the end of time
nowhere to run nowhere to hide
venture aspirations sell adventure to the stars
empty TV fantasy of Life on  Mars
Big wig in big apple  knows the score
promises the earth and unearths the core
the mantle is cracked and your species is cursed
time to give it back to the universe


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My Definition Of A Bomb-Practiced Man's Trial (Give It Back To The Universe) - rough cut early edit

Necessary Evils

Written by Frank Gambino and Layla Mohamed
Recorded at Playdeep Studios, Kings' Cross on 24.02.24
Engineer: Luke Gomm
Guitar: Frank Gambino
Bass + Guitar: Peter Anderson
Drums: Mick Anderson
Piano + Trumpet: Dave Mathers
Vocals: Layla Mohamed

THE GRAM

Fade Away

Recorded, produced, and arranged by Steve Larkin with assistance from George Boxall on the European Languages Day 2024 at St John’s Smith Square Hall, Westminster, London, UK. With thanks for the contributions from 300+ adults and young people on the day and to poets and workshop facilitators Bohdan Piasecki, Becky Bee, and Michaël Vidon

"Embracing Me Without Borders" - Multilingual Poem for European Languages Day - Steve Larkin

Image credit:
city-transportation-storm
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/city-transportation-storm-3253414/

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