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Halloween Jack From the EP Demo One by Demon Groove Lizards. Demon Groove Lizards were a fantastic funk rock band from Devon. They formed in 1993. Demon Groove Lizards' high energy performances were notable for the band's outstanding musicianship. Virtuosity was a virtue which they continued to value over the course of several lineup changes. Performers: Ben - lead vocals James Shipway - lead guit...

Lizard From the EP Demo One by Demon Groove Lizards Demon Groove Lizards were a fantastic funk rock band from Devon. They formed in 1993. Demon Groove Lizards' high energy performances were notable for the band's outstanding musicianship. Virtuosity was a virtue which they continued to value over the course of several lineup changes. Performers: Ben - lead vocals James Shipway - lead guitar, backi...

Sleepwalking From the EP Demo One by Demon Groove Lizards Demon Groove Lizards were a fantastic funk rock band from Devon. They formed in 1993. Demon Groove Lizards' high energy performances were notable for the band's outstanding musicianship. Virtuosity was a virtue which they continued to value over the course of several lineup changes. Performers: Ben - lead vocals James Shipway - lead guitar,...

Come In Out Of The Rain by The Acolytes. From the EP "Three Versions" by Critical Error and Friends. Come In Out Of The Rain was resurrected in 2016 when Rosie and her husband Midge formed The Acolytes with Mike Gilpin and Jo Hooper. COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN Mirrors on the wall Reflect all of her lies When she looks at his face She knows what she's hiding inside This is her new horizon Too young to...

Come In Out Of The Rain by City Man Panics. From the EP "Three Versions" by Critical Error and Friends. This is the last recording of Rosie, Steve and Jo performing Come In Out Of The Rain before Steve sadly passed away in 1999. COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN Mirrors on the wall Reflect all of her lies When she looks at his face She knows what she's hiding inside This is her new horizon Too young to be s...

Come In Out Of The Rain by Headzoo. From the EP "Three Versions" by Critical Error and Friends. Come In Out Of The Rain was performed by Headzoo in the early nineties and features on the band's one and only demo. COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN Mirrors on the wall Reflect all of her lies When she looks at his face She knows what she's hiding inside This is her new horizon Too young to be so wise Forsaken...

The Winged Man by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * The Winged Man is in the key of A major. * This is the version with the new ending. * The Winged Man is an Alchemeon exclusive. * It was never performed by any of the Masters of Drone bands such as Laughing Sun or Now, nor by the Spacegoats. THE WINGED MAN Heaven knows why but he saved us from the furnace We mistreated his...

Crazy Mandy by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * Crazy Mandy is in the key of D minor. * It was originally performed by Laughing Sun in 1985. * When this was recorded it was still a new song for Alchemeon. * Pok had the idea for this song after meeting one of George's girlfriends, whose name was not actually Mandy. * A new development in the Alchemeon version was that Jim an...

The Centre of the Cyclone by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * The Centre of the Cyclone is more-or-less in the key of A major. * The rhythm and noises at the start and then in the instrumental section are in the key of E. * There is a classic chord progression in the first verses, which is A - Em - G - Bm - D. * This mutates into C - G - D - Am - Em - G. * The final chord o...

Celestine by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * Celestine is a song of several parts. * Sometimes it seems to be in the key of B minor, other times G major. * In the end it resolves to D major. * Celestine is an Alchemeon exclusive, having not been performed by the Spacegoats, nor any of the Masters of Drone bands such as Now or Laughing Sun. CELESTINE Celestine they make the...

It's a Blue Sky Don't Hold No Rain by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. Jim takes the lead vocal at the start of this song. A little later on, there is a moment of comedy. At about 5.20, when the vocals come back in again, Jim's lyric sheet makes a sudden leap for freedom. He manages to grab it in mid-air before it escapes. You can hear the "glorch!" of the keys as some part o...

Castrol GTX a Go-Go by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. This song was composed by Pok in 1992 at George's flat, opposite the Heavitree swimming baths and just a couple of doors downhill from The Emporium, a fabulous old traditional second-hand hi-fi and vinyl shop in Exeter run by John John, who still to this day DJs a fabulous weekly progressive rock radio show on Phonic FM....

Born of Stars by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. This was recorded right at the end of a session. At the start you hear George saying that there's about 16 minutes left (until they have to start to pack up and leave). "Let's make it a good one," he says. The whole session should have been filmed by a friend of Pok's who was allegedly something of a whizz where it came to vid...

The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) is a glorious rock n roll anthem and call to action in the key of G major. It was performed by the Spacegoats before Alchemeon started playing it. The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) would have been the final song in an Alchemeon set, with Orb and Finale as encores....

Orb by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * There are some songs that give the listener goosebumps as soon as they hear and recognise the first couple of notes and realise they are about to hear something truly extraordinary. * Orb is one of those special songs. * There are several distinct sections to the song with classic riffs and earworm la-la-la vocals. * It was performed...

Finale by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. * Finale is a song in the key of E. * It would have been the final encore of an Alchemeon live show. * Finale was originally performed as the closing track for the play Chameleon, which Pok wrote in the mid 1980s. * A version of this song is in the works for Pok’s growing Anthology album. * Finale was also performed live by the Space...

The Furniture (part 9: epilogue) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region. It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences. Linguistically challenged means, in th...

The Furniture (part 8: finale) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region. It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences. Linguistically challenged means, in this...

The Furniture (part 7: the bureau) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region. It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences. Linguistically challenged means, in...

Good Times by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. Good Times was one of the earliest Bastard Sons of Dennis songs, first coming to light in their sand dune sessions on Exmouth beach in the summer of 1994. Sometimes was first performed live by the duo at The Cavern in Exeter that same summer. It also featured in their spontaneous one-off reunion in 1998. Mr Lijkkes com...

The Furniture (part 1: overture) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region. It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences. Linguistically challenged means, in th...

Pieces of Me by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. This song was written on Sunday 24th October 1993. It was first played by The Bastard Sons of Dennis on Exmouth beach in the early summer of 1994. It has never been performed live by our gruesome twosome as it has a slow tempo and a sensitive feel, which would be incongruous in one of their high-energy live performan...

Horsemon by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. In the summer of 1992, The Bastard Sons of Dennis convened and fooled around in a recording studio. Q plucked the strings of Nicodemus and Yuri operated the sequencer. This is the result. It's a curious piece of music as everything is improvised. Q came up with the main guitar theme as Yuri added new parts to the sequenc...

Ten Years Later by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire. Ten Years Later is an original song from the pen of Andy and was written many years ago, with the duo first performing it back in 1994. Is this track about uncertainty? Is God an atheist? Are your flies still undone? During the recording of Ten Years Later, our engineers and the band together felt that the nature...

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