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Wedding Song and Latitude

Well this song obviously means a lot to me – I wrote it when me and Carol were getting married. It has these lines in it:

β€˜I can imagine,
All the Happiness that we can share,
til we look up from rocking-chairs, 
At grown up children on the beach,
and swapping smiles
from each to each.’

It’s was strange and lovely looking back down from the other end of the telescope to re-record the song, now that we do have those grown up children, and knowing that it all kind of came true.

It’s out on Spotify and all the other Platforms as well as Bandcamp.

Beautiful playing from the band too let me know what you think πŸ™‚

Latitude Festival!

So happy to be asked back!

We did 2 things: 

First on Thursday night the Scorechestra.

This was me, Carol and a load of Orchestral players creating a spontaneous sound track to the Truffaut Film β€˜Shoot the Piano Player.’

We were led by some amazing players including Soweto Kinch here’s he is with Carol and Max.

Doing the Show…

…and After

That was Thursday Night.

On Sunday I got the chance to do my Set πŸ™‚

Loading up the Stuff for a Buggy Ride to Back Stage..

Doing the Show…

Such a great Crowd – it was lovely to play for you!

…Action Shots πŸ˜‰

So yes, Fantastic time,

Thanks so much to Fran, Bob and Gareth for learning the Music and to everyone there, we felt we gave you a good time!

The Good news now is that because we went down so well they’re looking at Booking us again next Year – so Maybe see you there! πŸ™‚

New Single: Ice Cream Parlours

https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/ice-cream-parlours-2?from=fanpub_fnb_trk

That’s the Link up there if you want to hear it – course you do!

This song is about the shy 14 year old me cycling down a hill in Plymouth one Sunday morning and meeting this girl, who said we should go out; and then what happened after that…

I think it has some lovely playing on it – particularly that middle bit.

https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/ice-cream-parlours-2?from=fanpub_fnb_trk

and Here are words in case you want to sing along.

Ice Cream Parlours

it was a break in the cloud,
it was the first day of Summer
I was just standing around
what did I do?
I did nothing
and suddenly you were there
and you were looking like Summer
you had the sun in your hair
and we were stood on the corner
you had your hand on your hip
and all the sky was an ocean
and all the awkwardness gone
and I was falling like ice cream parlours 
blue and golden

and when I got to your house
I said hello to your sister
because your parents were out
so we went up to your bedroom
like it was always allowed
and we were sat on your bed
and all the bed was like flowers
and I was talking to you 
and we were kissing for hours
and all the rubbish was gone
and we were covered in sunlight
and we were falling like ice cream parlours 
blue and golden

lightening strike me down if I’m not good enough
lightening strike me down if I’m not good enough
God can strike me down if I’m not good enough

now when I’m passing your house
it’s kind of odd to remember
like how we even went out 
beneath a golfing umbrella
‘cos when I went back to school
well I forgot to remember
so when I saw you with him
I had to treat it like nothing
how we were sat on your bed
how we were covered in sunlight
how all the rubbish was gone
and we were falling like ice cream parlours 
blue and golden

lightening strike me down if I’m not good enough
lightening strike me down if I’m not good enough
God can strike me down if I’m not good enough…

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released February 27, 2024

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Once Again Video

We filmed this video for ‘Once again’ early last October. The first trick was to convincing Carol and Laurie they wanted to come on a bit of a Sunday afternoon road trip. 

I’d looked on Google Maps for a place close enough that might work for a bit of seclusion and found a pull-in by some scrub off Mitcham Common.  Laurie filmed from the back seat and Carol was pursuaded to do a bit of the acting in the front seat. 

We had been messing around on the Common for a long time filming but really we were waiting for dusk. I wanted to get a sense of journeying into excitement and jeopardy and that needed a bit of darkness. 

I had my pad of paper with shots to tick off which I was hoping would give me much more footage than I needed. Then later when I got home I moved things around to see what fitted with each line of music.  

Each time I do this I’m trying to make it visually interesting without ecclipsing the song.  The challenge for a narrative song  like this one is to suggest things without over explaining it. So there were a lot of shots I left out, shoes getting pulled off and thrown on to the back seat, that sort of thing, because they were too on the nose.  Instead of that stuff, I edited together lots of clips with ‘red for danger’ like the tail-lights; and that parked red car like a dangerous red heart.  Other bits came by with a bit of luck; I really like that fox scuttling away at 0.55 – moody πŸ˜‰

Anyhow as you won’t be able to tell from the video we had a laugh running around on the Common and squashed into the car. Hope you like the song! Thanks Laurie, Thanks Carol πŸ™‚ 

Blog: I have not been sleeping…

working hard for your pleasure…

…It’s probably not obvious because I don’t do a lot of Social Media stuff but pretty much everyday for about a year and a half I’ve been quietly tinkering away at a new collection of songs. There are 3 of us on it, that’s me Hana and Paul so it’s much more like you might have heard us at gigs. Honestly parts of it still give me a big emotional punch every time I hear them. I just need to finish the cover and do some technical stuff, but I’ll let you know when it’s sorted because now it’s finally done I can’t wait to let you hear it.

In the mean time me and Paul have been doing occasional gigs, and this month it’s the Streatham Strut on Oct 14th which was a lot of fun last year, I played and stayed for pretty much all of it.

I also recently wrote the Music for a great Digital Works film called ‘Hello Campers!’ If you ever went to a Holiday Camp it’ll bring it all flooding back. Here’s a link to it:

So, I’ll be in touch about the Album Launch and all that. See you soon!

Vincent

Our First Basement Session!

Thanks everyone – it was great to see all your smiling faces and I really felt like we’d created something special. Thanks again to Gabriel Moreno for such a great set; if anyone took any footage it would be great to have it for the Archive, for the moment though just this photo of all of us :

Carol did get some of me Paul and Hana on her phone though so here’s a bit of that.

and here’s Hana’s amazing solo at the end (I think you all know the tune right?)

The Hamlet want us there every week but once a month I think is plenty, looking like the next one will be the beginning of July – I’ll keep you posted – I’m looking to get another fabulous Act down to play a set. would be great to see you all there!

Ps The new Album is also now Available on iTunes/ AppleMusic if you listen that way it’s here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-conversation-with-fate/1617715091

Happy New Year :-)

Hope you’re feeling OK so far…

The Main thing I want to tell you is the Opening Track from ‘A Conversation with Fate’ is now on Spotify. Just look up ‘Vincent Burke’ on Spotify and there I am looking like I know what I’m doing πŸ™‚

It’s called ‘All good things will come to me’ and it’s next to a picture of this guy from the Video πŸ™‚

… by the way did you see it? J. Buckley said it was “Strangely and uniquely brilliant” and he should know πŸ™‚

here’s the Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/HvDDCCDB0mo

The whole Album will be on Spotify in a few Weeks – I’ll let you know when I do.

That’ll do for now – keep that rotation around the Sun going and I’ll see you soon.

oh and please tell your friends if you think they’ll like what I do …now that I’ve finally got round to doing stuff I’m proud of I want that little light to shine πŸ™‚ Anyone can sign up via the Website and I’m always here at vncntburke@yahoo.co.uk

See you soon!

Vincent

Happy Xmas and Thanks For Sticking Around :-)

Just wanted to say thanks for being here through another weird year on planet earth.

I was really happy to get the second Album out and really pleased with the reaction. Thanks to everyone who listened to it, I hope it felt like a gift to you – that’s certainly how it was meant.

Last week I re-worked my Christmas Song so here it is for you with Seasons Greetings – put your feet up!

The Album Launch for “a conversation with fate”

“…they sound like classics to me” Max Reinhardt

a sweet and sour Masterpiece” JP Buckley

It was a great night! –

Thanks so much to everyone who came down. I just heard the playback and can hear your voices!

Thanks also to Max Reinhardt for giving over a massive part of the show to us. Hana and Paul sounded just great. Here’s the link which Morley have just released. You can hear us live about half an hour in.

After that there’s me and Max chatting which might be a bit toe curling for me to hear (I wonder what I said?) but he does play an awful lot of the Album, seven tracks including the long one at the end ‘totally curtains’ , and ‘Salad days’ which I’d kind of forgotten about but a lot of you commented on (in a good way).

The one he wanted to play but didn’t get around to was ‘Thank you,’ but then, it’s there on the Album if you want to hear it – (I’m cutting out smiley faces so you’ll have to guess when I’m joking)

After that we went to the pub, so the whole thing felt like a proper post-Covid night out.

Well, as you probably know that was the fun bit now lets see if I can flog a few copies πŸ˜‰

New Video: ‘all good things will come to me ‘ :-)

Thought I’d let you know about the song and video ‘all good things will come to me.’

Tom Robinson at BBC 6Music played it last week, (thanks Tom!),

…so I thought I’d do a Video to keep it company.

It’s the opening track off the Album so kind of a sneak preview too.

I suppose the song sounds a bit like a mantra, which isn’t really something I do;

maybe the night I wrote it my subconscious was asking if I could make something happen I wasn’t really concentrating it just came out this way, anyhow

at the very least I got this song πŸ™‚

These are the Words:

wanted to stand for something,

something as certain as a

stone

wanted a sure position,

sure as a king upon a

throne

wanted to see direction,

sure as a feather down the

stream,

I wanted to fast and free,

but only do it by degrees,

and everyday the signal shifts…

uh oh,

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me.

wanted to stand for something,

more than a window and a

fly

wanted to be forgotten,

wanted to slip beneath the

tide

wanted a celebration,

wanted to sing forever

more

I wanted to be fleet of foot,

but in a way my feet got stuck,

and everyday the signals change…

uh oh

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me

all good things will come to me.

Thanks to Pete Flood for the drums!

The footage was taken largely from an animation reel called “Thin Lear – Second Nature” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNuT…

and to a lesser extent the Film “Double King” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MSF…

with some other bits and pieces all of which was allowed by a Creative Commons Search.

Any how as usual the Video takes it to a slightly different place but I can live with it

– see you soon πŸ™‚ Vince