Will Carruthers.
Kevin Cowen .
Jonny Mattock.
Mark Refoy .
Adam Fearney.
Fiona Mcreath
Danny Payne and Jon Wald
are the players involved in this album
Influences
condemned buildings ,John Clare ,William Blake ,Annie Dillard
large expanses of water ,Charlie Mingus , Billie Holiday ,
broken flowers, Charles Bukowski ,Fred Neil ,Leadbelly
the little patch of sunlight that breaks through drawn blinds ,
mississipi John Hurt ,
Jackie Mittoo,
James Jamerson ,
wild flowers ,
ducks,
the seasons ,
To be honest , calling us a band would be stretching it a bit .
Like most bands, we hate the fucking sight of each other and we can only remain in the same room for short periods of time because the music we make is so special that all personal animosity is forgotten for the time we are playing it.
If we stop playing , even for a moment , our thoughts turn to violence and grudgeful behaviour .
Anyway ...I digress .
Please allow me to introduce myself ...I am a man of no wealth and dubious taste.
My name is William B Carruthers. Among other things I played bass on four spacemen 3 albums and the first spiritualized one .
You may be pleased to hear that I have now almost completely recovered .
This is my little vanity project,where I pretend I can sing and stride purposefully into the spotlight to claim the adoration so cruelly denied me as a bass player .
I have slept in these places .
In fields
and on beaches
up mountains
by rivers
in hope
and despair
On coalsacks
with strangers and friends
in churches and graveyards
with some that i loved
Over fat miles of hot tar
through storms and and through sun
beneath the old stars
in sweetness and dreams
haunted houses
on brooms
through the nightshift
in rooms that i hated
standing
and
sitting
kneeling
in tears
with laughter
in loss
in a doss bag for years
in plenty
in gardens
on couchs and floors
in bushes
on barges
on busses
in vans
on trains
over rivers
tree houses
in winter
In rented rooms with empty bottles.
In hotels and motels
In new york
in washington
in philadelphia
In detroit
in cincinnatti
in minneapolis
in chicago
in New orleans
in Baltimore
in Jacksonville
in houston
in Austin
in Dallas
in phoenix
in tucson
in Los Angeles
in San francisco
in Portland
in Seattle
in Denver
in Oklahoma city
in derby
In toronto
in vancouver
in sioux falls
in london
in cardiff
in swansea
in bristol
in coventry
in newcastle
in glasgow
in edingburgh
in aberdeen
in middlesborough
in birmingham
in manchester
in liverpool
in portsmouth
in brighton
in colchester
in cambridge
in oxford
in northampton
in carlisle
in northampton
in chester
in ostend
in leicester
in nottingham
in paris
in wigan
in Brussels
in Bruge
in Amsterdam
in the hague
in stokholm
in copenhagen
in hamburg
in berlin
in Ravensburg
in munich
in kassel
in Rennes
in Lyons
in vienna
in Milan
in madrid
in valencia
in Bilbao
in Budapest
in dublin
in sellafield
in geneva
In Bandung
In sheffield
in Jakarta
In Sliema
in Rugby
In places I forget
In the middle of nowhere
lonely
in a crowd
Safe in my lovers arms .
lost in my lovers arms .
hope
less in my lovers arms .
i hope we are going to do some cooking when i get back next month.i'll buy.also,i want to see if you can show me some stuff so i can do some demo/writing on the laptops..
"Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that everything is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living."
