Album Update
The album is taking a bit longer than I’d imagined, mainly because earning money is intruding more than I’d hoped. But there are plenty of tracks in varying states of completion, and I’m hoping we can do something called an enhanced CD, which should have space for videos, text etc…
I’ve spoken variously to Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Nic Bullen (Napalm Death) and Jeremy Cunningham (Levellers) about them making contributions, all of which could be interesting.
All the album is being recorded lo-fi on my laptop and sessions have so far taken place in London, Brighton, Paris and Lodz .
So anyway, here’s the track listing as it stands:
I Love The Sunshine
Happy, poppy, beautiful day song!
International Anthem
Named after Gee Vaucher’s old magazine, this is all African beats and gestures of defiance
Pagan Uprising
Punky state of the nation number – fuzzy guitars like you’ve never heard on a FITD song
Wild At Heart
Love lost grows cynical and sad, Van Morrison style
2.2
…kids and a mortgage to pay / so you better go and work very hard today. Pure punk rock c/o Steve Steroid
Normals On The Rampage
More punk rock, this time c/o Chas
Porton Down
One of the earliest FITD songs, when it was just me & Chas in a bedroom. About a place that the shame of Britain (Google it)
Abort The System
Old Poison Girls lyric with new tune – it’s on this site if you do a search
Egypt
In defence of the tombs and against the raiders who see everything simply as theirs to plunder
It’s So Easy For You
Old Flowers song where the self-pity flows like sick
Paris You & Me
Written especially for my wedding (next week as I write!), where it will be premiered.
Jimmy Newman
Anti-war song. Tom Paxton cover.
Fellow Traveller
Song of respect to an old friend, born under a wanderin’ star
Claire’s Poem
Lots of old Flowers contribute to this spoken word poem.
I Hate Punk
Avant-garde adventure in weirdness
You Can’t Eat Money
Celtic folk instrumental
Lots Of Love
It’s a love song baby!
Something Special Perhaps, Kevin
“Mortgaged up families looked at first too mundane / but it’s funny how with help all the lucky ones changed / some of them couldn’t, there had to be more / music, i dunno, films, something special perhaps” – Kevin Rowland. My tribute to these fine words.
Goodbye Rock N Roll
FITD go to the disco, again
Farmer Karma
Urban alliance techno anthem
Anarchy Panky
The live version
Ex-Vegetarian
Self-explanatory!
She Knows Her Dreams Have Died
Bitter reflections on an ex
Gare Du Nord Passport Cafe
Ambient weirdness recorded at the title
Flying Tonight
More ambient weirdness recorded on a plane!
More news to follow.