CD of Breaking News in a four-panel wallet with a 6-page booklet of song descriptions written by band members Glenn Dallender and Martin O'Keefe-Liddard.
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Cassette + Digital Album
Normal-bias cassette recorded in real time by Floating Mill Records. Includes a 4-panel j-card and booklet of song descriptions written by band members Glenn Dallender and Martin O'Keefe-Liddard.
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Cassette + Digital Album
High-bias cassette recorded in real time by Floating Mill Records. Includes a 4-panel j-card and booklet of song descriptions written by band members Glenn Dallender and Martin O'Keefe-Liddard.
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Original Press "Prisoners / Hour of Light" 7" w/ Modern Jacket
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Original 1981 pressing of "Prisoners / Hour of Light" 7" with a freshly printed jacket assembled by FMR. Also includes a lyric insert that wasn't a part of the initial release.
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"Inspired musically by XTC, the lyrics are about the Cold War. Books like ‘London After the Bomb,’ where everyone was so focused on Armageddon they forgot to think about what they would do if it didn’t happen. The fear of war was keeping society oppressed. It felt like so much in the way of the plight of the people was being forgotten —'What will you do if the bomb doesn’t drop?' CND seemed to me to be an ostensibly ‘middle ground’ political organisation, rather that a progressive movement. More focused on ‘stop the bomb’ as an attitude, rather than stopping Thatcher’s advance of radical capitalism. In the meantime, she snuck the dismantling of the working classes under the radar. Tilly’s harmony vocals, as always, complemented mine perfectly and lifted the song. On arriving at the studio we discovered a twelve string acoustic, which I used to make it sound so much bigger."
-Glenn
lyrics
[chorus]
You’re full of sounds of no tomorrow
You’re saying you feel no sorrow,
With the pleasure of saying you knew.
Tell us there’s no tomorrow –
Stand up and say you feel no sorrow,
You can say you told me so.
Lending an ear to the buzz in the air,
Standing proud the wind in your hair,
Being a prophet in a jumble sale,
Trying to find a donkey for your tale.
Telling your friends how we’re destined to die,
Singing second hand songs as time passes by,
Your mouth is a mirror for the nine-o’clock news
And you’ve borrowed a few of Panorama’s views.
[chorus]
You’re proud of your nightmares and your proud of your stance -
You’ve a hydrogen walk and an atomic dance.
You say it’s too late, there is nothing we can do,
The story is told, we must follow it through.
So we are never gonna ‘Protect And Survive’,
You say we are not gonna be alive.
The future is planned, so all life will stop,
But what will you do if the bomb doesn’t drop?
[chorus]
credits
from Breaking News,
released November 5, 2021
Written by: Glenn Dallender
Glenn Dallender - Guitar, Vocals
Martin O’Keefe-Liddard - Bass
Steve Empson - Lead Guitar
Tilly Vosburgh - Backing Vocals
Vince Brown - Drums
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