Sample songs updated 22nd April 2008
From the latest album, The Health of the People : Working on the Problem / Are You Now (Or Have You Ever Been?)
Other tasters (album titles link to the page for that CD; song titles link to the MP3):
- from Play : People Rose / Boychild
- from Come Aboard : Hitchhiker’s Guide / Thank You, Henry / Before You Fall
- from Rockingham Street : Going Out / Let’s Leave Them There
- from Love Walk : Paradise Behind Barbed Wire / Moment Ago
- from Equals : The Base / The Rest Is History
- from The Mind Shop : What Waits for Me / Bonie Bell
Songs from the Red Notebook:
Released
21 March 2007
The Health of the People
… is the highest law
10 new songs:
Heart of the World, Democracy, Flag with a Hole, Western Civilisation, Poison Ball, Hope Yet, Appetite Culture, Are You Now (Or Have You Ever Been)?, The Dog, Working on the Problem
Released
22 December 2006
Equals
… in the eyes
10 new songs:
Mother and Child, Tribulation, Sea People, National Omelette, The Base, So Long Babylon, Ructions, Silence is Golden, The Rest is History, Not the End of the World
Still waters run deep…
Love Walk (revised)
Fifteen songs adorned with piano by Olivia Chaney, double bass by Jasper Høiby, saxophone by Charles A. Fagan and cello by Becky Truscott.
Play
The debut CD by The Children, released in October 1999.
Come Aboard
A
mix of Thames delta blues and metropolitan folksongs. Conceived in 2002,
revised edition achieved in February 2005.
Rockingham Street
New Sounds in City and Western. The third album, vintage of 2002, blended and bottled in June 2005.
Songs from the Red Notebook I
There was a red notebook, and these songs were written in it, about 20 years before they were recorded in 2003.
Songs from the Red Notebook II
Another set of 14 from the same manuscript. The dry bones joined together and the heart began to beat. Released August 2003.
The Mind Shop
The debut CD of poetry and improvised music by The Mind Shop, recorded in December 2002. One dose of hypnosis on a silvery platter.
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