Many thanks to https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein and https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter for their invaluable feedback on earlier versions of this track (years ago now) The line 'and the rain shall make a door for me...' is nicked from the writer Susanna Clarke. The idea for the lyric 'sitting in a British car park...' was inspired by an SC comment exchange with https://soundcloud.com/steph-sweet about rain (also years ago). The field recording used in the middle and at the end is https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/midnight-summer-rain-in-chelsea

And mum said do you hear that sound
It means the swifts are here from Africa
And I don't know why they fly that far
Just to be hear with us in the pouring rain

And it was British Summer Time
Yes it was British Sumer Time
With ice-cream in the rain
Coz it might just turn out nice again

And we’re on the beach and it’s a cold grey day
But at breakfast dad said well let’s go anyway
Coz with a bit of luck it’ll brighten up
But we got wet through and my hands went blue

But it was British summer time
I remember British Summer Time yeah
With ice-cream in the rain
Coz it might just turn out nice again

And on that last day when I held your hand
And you weren’t quite sure where you were
And we turned you round so you could see the sun
And you said well at least it’s turned out nice again

And it was British Summer Time
And now I’m listening to the rain
And I know all things must pass
But you can’t escape the pain
And there’s this seaside photograph
Of that day I cried and cried
Then we had ice-cream in the rain
And it was all alright again
And the rain shall make a door for me
And I shall walk through it

Sitting in a British car-park waiting for the rain to stop
And if the rain don’t stop then we’ll just get wet

[Shipping Forecast]

[Repeat chorus]

You get accustomed to the rain
You get accustomed to the rain

[Shipping Forecast continues]

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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.

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British Summer Time

Here's one of my first recordings. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did recording it.
For those who may drift into a daydream now and then, you may enjoy my composition Mystical Dream.
Inspired by once having seen and being mesmerized by the Northern Lights.  
It has a Floyd meets Satriani vibe.

Mystical Dream (guitar instrumental)

Like a lot of us these days, I have some extra hours on my hands. While looking to amuse myself at this most unamusing time, I made this. I hope it cheers you, too, and provides a few minutes pleasure. That is all it is for.

This music is also my version of whistling past the graveyard. One of many versions.

Please stay healthy. And let us be strong, and pick each other up when one of us is down.

Lockdown Cocktail

you on my mind

Old tune from 2014. Wrote it while driving 6000 miles alone across the country, taking time lapse photos of the milky way and some landscapes in the day while living out of a tent. A whiskey and guitar were always in hand.


Whole Wild World

I've been beat up
I've been bruised
Wasn't born to lose
I've been on the run for way too long

I need a partner in crime
Someone to keep me in line
A beautiful muse for my next song

--Harmonica

Maybe I'll find her in the mountains
Where the water flows free
Wonder if she's even ready for me
With my guitar by my side
And a bottle of rye
What's the future supposed to be?

--Chorus
I will search around this whole wild world for you

I've spent most of my years defeated in love
I've failed too many times to speak of
It's just so hard to forget
I don't have one regret
This emptiness fits my soul like a glove

--Chorus x 2
--Harmonic again!
--Chorus x 2

Wander

Whole Wild World

Round and round the endless road, repetition overload, 
The circus of life
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Blinkered and bound
More lost than found
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
Perpetual game, conceptual shame
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Collective mass amnesia, wilful anaesthesia
Fire and furious reaction
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
The actors and the faces change, storylines remain the same
Blame it on the scapegoat faction
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

Blinkered and bound
More lost than found
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?
Perpetual game, conceptual shame
Why don’t they see, why do they refuse to see?

None So Blind

Inner Peace

Black Cockatoo

This is another old one from the early 90s remade on the Tascam DP24. The theme is fitting for the coming start of a new year. Hope you enjoy this one and have a good, new start to 2021. Morry & Sam

New Start

[Don't look back] I'm not proud but its real
[Don't look back] Touch my heart, its surreal
[Don't look back] I pulled something in my neck
[Don't look back] Its not important but I'll check

CHORUS
The year ahead will be all that you can make
It tastes of candy and cake
[Don't look back] Don't look over your shoulder
[Don't look back] I'm another year older
[Don't look back] Because the past it disgusts me
[Don't look back] Though I coped so ably
[Don't look back] Its an absolute horror
[Don't look back] Its a new tomorrow
[Don't look back] Because the past is s(t)inking
[Don't look back] Start some positive thinking

[Don't look back] I'm blinded by light
[Don't look back] I gave up the fight
[Don't look back] Bring the next conquest forth
[Don't look back] Is this all I am worth?

CHORUS

Don’t Look Back

Bleak Sense

Music's got a hold of me.
I am also half of Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com

I have a soundcloud manifesto too (I know almost no one cares):
(1) I do not want to win at soundcloud
(2) I respect people who listen by trying to do work that is as good as I can make it but I may attempt (and possibly fail badly at) different kinds of music so you will probably find some of my tracks suck quite badly even if you like others
(3) If I follow you please feel no obligation to follow me back or to listen to my tracks because I know different people like different things
(4) If you follow me please don’t expect me automatically to follow you back because as I said different people like different things. I try to listen to most new uploads of the people I do follow, so there are only so many people I can meaningfully follow (and only so many reposts I can cope with) at any one time before it all gets a bit overwhelming
(5) If I add a track of yours to my likes that means I particularly like it and if I comment on a track that means I really did want to communicate something. I do not do these things expecting or wanting anything in return or fishing for listeners/followers etc.
(6) Soundcloud (still) can be wonderful and has wonderful people in its universe but some aspects of it do my head in and so I am putting this out here so everyone knows where I am coming from. This is not intended as criticism of anyone else, it is just what works for me

British Summer Time

Michael Wheelwright