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"It's a shame we still misuse the fields outside of Bude
With concrete villas and modernism I swear it could be improved"
The Town Clerk carried on with a blueprint for Devon
"Some may call this urban sprawl - I call it housing for everyone"
I asked about the north "try living near Hemsworth
Eventually they'll follow money and come to love the south"
The Town Clerk then explained Shires learning from LA
With lanes of cars, lights at all hours, it's a choice that only he made
And if we listened to him
We would all live in
A great blight of dullness
I asked about the north
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They Reformed The Band
03:50
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I'm stood in this massive room there are few people here
Ten years ago was small and cramped
They're playing new material and I'm swaying, somewhat
Ten years ago we full on danced
They reformed the band, I felt duty bound, but now that I'm here I wish I'd gone to see a new band with new thoughts
They're selling these brand new t-shirts at twenty pounds a pop
Ten years ago we made our own
I nearly missed the ad at first (the advert for the gig)
The new logo is type set gothic
They reformed the band, I felt duty bound, but now that I'm here I wish I'd gone to see a new band with old shoes
We stumbled back out of the venue into the cold, aggressive, Shoreditch night
Conflicting points of view fly round and I don't want another pint
And as we walked back to our hotel we tore the night apart
And turned it into something else because at least we got to see them when we did
Because when they formed the band we were so young
When they formed the band we learnt a lot
And when they formed a band is when we formed our band
So if they'd not formed a band we might not be here
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Field Notes
02:40
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One scientist was racing
Because to start, things have to begin in field notes
Someone has to fill those basement library shelves with field notes
Weird butterflies with fragile wings; these journals contain your writings
Oh Hugh de Haven, we read your dimly lit case series
It's good that they reprint your stuff
There are things that are not seminal enough in field notes
So we construct a different view of what was said from field notes
When you read about the atomic bomb it's clear how global policy went wrong
Oh William Haddon, they missed your point and dug it out of the ground
Or Richard Holcomb, you should have kickstarted a love of all case-control
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Two Days On Svalbard
04:38
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We should really have the right
To make our way from here
As valid questions are swept aside about the world in which we live
I pine for somewhere else
Somewhere further north
These Arctic dreams may seem bleak and cold but that's so far from the truth
As all resolves and reverts back to type and cliché
These Svalbard Islands seem a small world far away
It's easy to see how myths
And legends are formed
In landscapes like this there's little else and that's part of it too
That's not to abandon
What we hold so carefully
The things we do should make it better for those who choose to stay
As all resolves and reverts back to type and cliché
These Svalbard Islands seem a small world far away
Two days on Svalbard is not enough days on Svalbard
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Falling and Laughing Birmingham, UK
Falling and Laughing are a Birmingham-ish based two piece. Over the last 15 years their still recognisable jangly indiepop
heritage has increasingly leaned heavily on postrock ideas and alternative tunings.
Email on duncan_vernon@hotmail.com
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