• 01

  1

  Day 8 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  Now here’s a dream I think I once fortold
  of a spirit made of solid gold
  a future son a chosen one
  who could never grow old
  who could never grow old

  it’s not the twa twa twats that live next door
  it’s not the ones who don’t live here no more
  it’s just that you can’t live without a core
  and we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for
  yeah we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for

  or the judge and jury cop and crim
  the search for no specific binge
  dodging out of monday rain
  beloved by the sun god of spain

  it’s not the libertine the peachy keen
  the underwhelmed and the plasticine
  all the great people who’ve gone before
  are picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore

  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore

  lala lala lala lala lala

  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore
  We’re just picking up driftwood that’s blown ashore

  we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for
  we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for
  we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for
  we’ve all forgotten what where fighting for

• 02

  2

  Day 10 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  No light and shade no quarter took
  you ripped the last page from my book
  No light and shade no quarter took
  you ripped the last page from my book
  No light and shade no quarter took
  you ripped the last page from my book
  No light and shade no quarter took
  you ripped the last page from my book

  This house is empty without you
  it’s emptiness seems harsh and cruel

• 03

  3

  Day 13 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  I stand alone
  Alone in my home
  alone where I roam
  I stand alone

  No-one understands and no one can save me
  drowning frowning Sunday Gravy
  Your advice is nice
  but everything comes at a price!

  I stand alone
  Alone in my home
  alone where I roam
  I stand alone

  A struggle to find
  the london buzz
  I should quit this town
  and forget all that I was

  I stand alone
  Alone in my home
  alone where I roam
  I stand alone

  drowning frowning Sunday Gravy

• 04

  4

  Day 310 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  there’s no test to an mp3
  makes the experience too easy
  there’s no test to an mp3
  makes the experience too easy

  and by the bubble of adult the sky I’ll lie
  for the arms of the past I cannot cry

  there’s no test to an mp3
  makes the experience too easy
  there’s no test to an mp3
  makes the experience too easy

  A new decade
  the planned charade
  let lives burn hard
  and never fades
  never fades

• 05

  5

  Day 336 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  I’m the last man standing
  in a crator caused by pain

  I can sense my friends beside me
  but all I feel are my boots filled up with rain

  I nailed my faded colours
  resolutely to the mast
  but like white lillies at a wake
  theyve faded oh so fast

  I nailed my faded colours
  resolutely to the mast

  So much upheaval
  so much change
  I really thought
  we’d pull through
  but it’s so clear that ...
  it's not the same for you

• 06

  6

  337 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  In my head I ride to battle
  everyday the dawn does rise
  everyday I climb the hill
  clad head to toe in a guise of lies

  Everyday I smile through the sorrow
  everyday I choke back the tears
  nobody can see tomorrow
  and nobody can quell my fears

  nobody can see tomorrow
  and nobody can quell my fears

  Everyday I smile through the sorrow
  everyday I choke back the tears

  In my head I ride to battle
  everyday the dawn does rise
  everyday I climb the hill
  clad head to toe in a guise of lies

• 07

  7

  343 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  I'm the caption
  under todays bad cartoon
  a hot air powered rocket
  from the dark side of the moon

  we Shouldn’t judge
  we Shouldn’t judge
  people in glass houses

  I'm the caption
  under todays bad cartoon
  a hot air powered rocket
  from the dark side of the moon

  then life gets in the way
  then life gets in the way
  then life gets in the way
  of all the good times

  I'm the caption
  under todays bad cartoon
  a hot air powered rocket
  from the dark side of the moon

  bad cartoon

• 08

  8

  344 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  Could you still believe or are you doing it just for me
  Could you still believe or are you doing it just for me

  There’s no-one in this world
  to compare to my little girl

  Could you still believe or are you doing it just for me
  Could you still believe or are you doing it just for me

  There’s no-one in this world
  to compare to my little girl
  There’s no-one in this world
  to compare to my little girl

• 09

  9

  356 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  So I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  which I toasted with a cup of
  english tea
  But by the afternoon
  in my
  very lonely room
  it consumed me
  in it’s apathy

  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction B

  To citizens advice
  I placed a call
  to plead for some direction
  but they said we can’t advise
  we’re not here to save lives
  that’s for spies with cats eyes
  who can administer
  appropriate conceptions

  that’s for spies with cats eyes

  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction

  but then I’m wondering what happened to good old talking
  so placed another call to citizens advice, but they said we can’t advise
  that’s for spies with cats eyes haha

  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption
  to aid my social interaction
  I built a new contraption

  It didn’t get many likes!

• 10

  10

  365 Reverse Family

  Lyrics

  The breathy graffiti on a car window
  doesn’t linger long and then it’s gone for good
  some memories will stay here longer
  like the ones of you, I knew would

  and all the sleep and talking in the world
  help to build a new facade
  but that’s all it is when I’m alone
  ‘cos life is hard

  Like breathy graffiti
  Like breathy graffiti
  Like breathy graffiti
  Like breathy graffiti

It’s hard to define what it is that I’ve actually done… which is where you come in… here is the basic idea/premise of 365

All of the songs were recorded between Jan 1st 2015 and Dec 31st 2015. They were recorded at home in a DIY style on my computer, I played all the instruments and did all of the vocals… I am not saying there are any virtuoso performances to be found anywhere within these tracks… but that’s not the point… they were all recorded in a spontaneous way and once recorded were not tweaked or edited… like what a day does, you get what’s next, pretty much whether you like it or not and you deal with it, sometimes well, sometimes not… life in the now. This was a test/ an experiment… an exploration employing a semi/surrealist/steam of consciousness, let’s call it a bit Jackson Pollocks… (use the mockney rhyme if you see fit)… It was an attempt at a reactionary style of creating songs… I wrote the words not for any specific song… I wrote the music and then forgot about it and then on any given day I made the next set of words fit the next number on the list…

But what was the catalyst for such an adventure… It was a direct result/reaction to the death of one of my best friends, I decided life was too short… Terry was the drummer and heartbeat of our band (The Tuesday Club)… after 3 years we were just building the necessary momentum to actually start getting noticed… we’d just supported Toyah at The 02 Islington, had just released our most critically acclaimed ep and had a real plan… that stopped on 17 Dec in it’s tracks… so too could’ve the band… my world was already collapsing under divorce, serious illness of my parents (one Bi-Polar and one Parkinsons disease) and struggling with being self employed and thrust back to the ‘family home’ at 47 while trying to keep alive a fledgling romance was all getting too much…

I could’ve cracked up, some say I did and maybe they are right… but the way I reacted, instead of crawling into a corner, or flinging the toe rope of my car over the nearest tree, was to attack my hurt and bury myself alive within my music… What could I do, how could I make a statement for me and to other people that you don’t need to buckle, there is a way to channel the pain, this I did in the year 2015 a year in my life, just an average man from St.Albans, Herts, (once an ordinary city in England, (but now haven of the wealthy and bearded). My style was spontaneous – I approached it, how Terry’s death had approached me, by shocking me into action…

Before I scare you away without even hearing a note, this document is not written/performed as a sob story though I won’t deny it’s probably not the cheeriest thing you’ll ever be exposed too. There is a large degree of black humour amid the despair, with a lot of ‘pinch of salt’ observation here within too. You have to laugh or you will cry… The only edits relate to some of the names, which I have changed but only for the sake of the innocent who I had to include and write about as they are/were part of my life.

The songs will be released as 7 track eps, 1 per week for a year from 2nd October 2015 until the first week of October 2018. Each ep will be accompanied by the diary entry of that day from 2015 by way of  ‘sleeve notes”. Due to the cost, these will be initially released digitally only… but I am looking at all possibilities for a physical release too.

As David Bowie put it… In Quicksand (an apt title for this project too!)

“I’m not a prophet or a stone age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I’m living on
I’m tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith”

If you have any questions or need any more info please let me know. I want to try and get press interest during late August/September

thanks in advance for your support.

Dermot Illogical

other resources:

www.reversefamily.co.uk

www.facebook.com/reversefamily