The thing about instrumentals is, you can call them anything you want really.  The endless choice can be overwhelming.  If you’re not careful, you may end up not choosing anything at all. Written after seeing Kusturica’s wonderful film “Underground”, with its exuberant, joyous soundtrack, this one travelled for years under the nom de guerre “Circus Girls” because that’s what it… Read more →

“To Find Jerusalem” is taken from forthcoming album “Operation Internation” and features special guests stars the Glasgow School of Art Choir, led by Jamie Sansbury.  Our warmest thanks to all in the choir for your beautiful voices and being such a joy to work with. Video directed by Daryl Cockburn.  A big thank you from us to Daryl. Song #19… Read more →

Coming tomorrow – new single – To Find Jerusalem. Tomorrow is also the day we launch pre-orders of Operation Internation on Bandcamp (CD or digital) – you’ll get a download of To Find Jerusalem straight away with your pre-order.  All being well, we’ll start mailing CDs in the middle of next week ahead of our early Bandcamp album release next… Read more →

In the wonderful Speelklok Museum in Utrecht there is a room dedicated entirely to barrel organs.  I once wandered in there as a group of pensioners were being given a guided tour.  When the barrel organs began to play, couples formed to waltz around the room in a little impromptu ball. Only written this year, Santa Lucia is the baby… Read more →

“We don’t live with angels; we have to put up with human nature and forgive it.” -Madeleine Sophie Barat (image-The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper) bx Read more →

“They say that he betrayed his country – yes, perhaps he did, but who among us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country?” -Graham Greene One for Codename “Sonny”. To be continued at Song#13. bx Read more →

More jolly sedition, inspired, in part, by Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Musically, I was imagining something like The Move’s “Goodbye Blackberry Way” meets the Baader-Meinhof gang; lyrics/lead vocals by Guy Fawkes and sung from his side of the fire.  I’d no idea what that might sound like in reality but, with all due respect to reality,… Read more →

Written and released around the time of the MP’s expenses scandal, back when all we had to worry about was the honourable member for Witney claiming tax payer’s money for the removal of wisteria from his stately home.  It all seems like a more innocent time now, what with all the carnage that has ensued since then.   The original… Read more →

Tango is big in Helsinki.  This is one of the most delightful things I have ever heard.  Music is a moveable feast and, in travelling, liberates itself.  Tango was looked down upon by the polite classes of Buenos Aires as a music of the gutter, until it suddenly became a big hit in Paris.  Then of course, it was very… Read more →

We are thrilled to announce that opening the night for us all at the Piping Centre on 8th November, with much gorgeous folk/country heartbreak will be friends and fellow travellers Tenement and Temple! Read more below. Highly recommended, mon doon bx Tickets here- https://wegottickets.com/sct/7kMpW9NWpC Folk duo Tenement & Temple (Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie) are known for their haunting harmonies… Read more →