TIRED

We have our breakfast with the morning news … and then what? Each day begins with a tragedy: how do we cope with that? Tired is a snapshot of our contemporary condition. A woeful recognition of this end-of-cycle, geo-political state in which we are immersed. A lament to the corruption and violence shaping that world […]

WHEN SIRENS CALL

This song can be interpreted different ways. It bears the same title as Paul Adkin’s novel, but it is not simply a song about the novel, and, on a narrative level, the song doesn’t seem to bear any relationship to the plot of the book; to find the connection we need to examine the text […]

Noone’s gonna help you

Music for the revolution … “The good man said he could make it better … but when you voted he sent your kids to war. The rich man said he could make you richer … you applauded, now you’re oh so poor! The tax man said the country needs your money … so you paid […]

Change Things

The fifth track on the Talking to the Train album. Day after day we do the same things. Happiness is a promise that’s growing thin. And yet … to dream of a better future feels like a sin. How can that be? We need to change things. Why are we here? Why can’t we do […]

The Poet is Dead (for Leonard)

“And the poet is dead And what is left For those of us outside the mine His verses live on Whilst we remain strong But die, if we fall in the slime.” P.D.Adkin, The Poet is Dead, November 2016 The artist, as any creator of great works, never dies until his or her work disappears. […]

Progress happens … if only.

The second track on the ‘Talking to the Train’ album is ‘Progress Happens’. This is a song with a philosophical attitude, describing the evolution of humanity from the first ape, that first funky monkey that walked erect, to the victims of our current economy, the once happy family evicted from their home and forced back into […]

The Poet is Dead (for Leonard)