Bleak St started as a poem and was written about a typical suburban high street. During lockdown I was forced to stay within the confines of my West London hometown and as such I couldn't escape the sheer boredom and lack of opportunity that seems to pervade small provincial English towns. It's that street where people hold Starbucks cups like they are a badge of honour sipping on sugary sweet concoctions mislabelled as coffee. Young kids dismantle tennis nets and deface local amenities while boy racers seem to be eternal Peter Pan's riding around in Ford escorts. Their world revolves around the invisible walls that keeps them chained to innocuous concerns and baseless gossip. It's an incestuous pit where dreams are stifled and creativity has strict limits and conventions. The weather is a hot topic and the pubs are fiercely territorial. This is Bleak St.

Bleak St

Temping Bowling was written about the monotony of a previous job. I think a lot of the time people think hard work and rewards go hand in hand but quite often that’s not the case. I was playing in bands, working 9-6 and had a pretty dismal boss. I started as a temp and before I knew it I’d been there for over a year. Ultimately most employers look at their staff as expendable and that was evident to me when Covid hit. I wrote this song as an angry riposte and to poke fun at the hierarchal systems people try to exist within. In a job full of daft training sessions, false promises and countless ego’s it’s hard not to be cynical and go full Bukowski ‘post office’ style.

Temping Bowling

New Builds is a track which takes aim at the grossly overpriced properties that lead areas to become gentrified whilst seeing an influx of wealthy buyers who then proceed to inflate the renting market.

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