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New Single: Ice Cream Parlours

from the Album '10 by 3', , 
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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			The Album Launch for “a conversation with fate”
		

		
		

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“…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 😉





 


	

	
	


							


	

		
				

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

		
		

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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 🙂





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 🙂 Vince


	

	
	


							

							


	

		
				

			Call your Mother!
		

		
		

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Something’s coming?   Something’s here!


I recorded this last Friday. Without over explaining the song is about uncovering good stuff when things break down. I just typed it out and right now despite some inaccurate Morse Code at the end I think it’s my best lyric.  It goes like this:


call your mother


 


if you took,


all the darkness in me


you could whittle it down to the shape of a key


it would fit,


in the red of the rock


and release all the lava  and stop all the clocks.


 


something’s coming,


distant drum, drum, drumming


earthquakes,


thunder,


call your mother.


 


If I swam,


to the depths of the sea


I would pull out the plug


just to see what I see


and the coral,


would rise up just like trees


as we struggled for breath


on our blistering knees,


 


something’s coming,


distant drum, drum, drumming


earthquakes,


thunder,


call your mother.


 


When the walls,


have all crashed to the ground,


When the trumpets have blown


When the sky has come down


I will stand,


and applaud to the sun


for the end of the world


could be something begun,


 


something’s coming,


distant drum, drum, drumming


earthquakes,


thunder,


call your mother.


dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit, dit dit dit dit, etc


dot dot dot dit dit dit dash dash.


 


For the film I was lucky to find a great film on Creative Commons to chop up for my own ends.  If you’d like to see the original here it is (smile) https://youtu.be/QieZx_Elbb4


Please Share it if you like it!


Stay Well and speak very soon!


 

	

	
	


							


	

		
				

			March Already?
		

		
		

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How are you ? It’s been a while again but I’ve been busy honest.


There are a few things been going on, January we were in a theatre with the  Dance Company ‘Moving Stories,’ great to be asked and nice to be away from pubs for a while.  I know it was filmed so if I get the footage I’ll share it. Here we are nicely composed for the Show.


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The rest of the band can pretty much play anything so in February we took a side-step and   played Jazz, backing Lido Len on trumpet, I got to put down the guitar and croon those songs my Mum and Dad used to play – nice.  Here’s Len:


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Mainly I’ve been recording the Second Album “Greatest Hits Vol. 2” which should be ready by the Summer, I’m one track away from having it all recorded, and I like it!!


Last for now our percussionist Jawad (above second from right) runs a Mens Mindfulness session at Balham Bowls Club (Monday nights if you fancy it) and asked for a jingle for his Upcoming Podcast so in lieu of a proper song here’s some nonsense for you until next time.  Stay well! Love


Vince




 

	

	
	


							


	

		
				

			1,2,3,4!
		

		
		

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Autobiograpical innit?


Wrote this in Nathaniel’s bedroom which may be why it become something about the 4 of us.


Last week in wet October me and Laurie, (or possibly Laurie and I) did the video, having gone through one phone and 2 cameras I finally figured out we could yank the computer about  on extension lead and do the stop motion like that. A lot of it worked pretty well and some of it didn’t but that all got cut!


it’s available at https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/1234


and here are the words for the hard of hearing:


1,2,3,4!


I’m

just no good

I can’t sing

I can’t chop wood

friends cast me out

but I’ve got1,2,3,4

something to be sure about

early combinations led me to a cold war

I’m in

I’m ready to begin

something to be sure about


I

can’t be found

all my hits

go underground

file them away

because I got


1,2,3,4

something to be sure about

early combinations led me to a cold war

I’m in

I’m ready to begin

something to be sure about


I didn’t know too much about the world before

I used to sit at home and observe the floor

I want more


so here I am

here’s my wife

here’s my pram

time slips away


but I got

1,2,3,4

something to be sure about

early combinations led me to a cold war

I’m in

I’m ready to begin

something to be sure about.




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released October 29, 2019

	

	
	


							


	

		
				

			the truth about a woman and a man
		

		
		

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Well! – this one happened the way I like it – no messing about


    

  1. Wrote the tune –  the words took a few days.
    2. 



Originally after the Adam and Eve verse I had one for Samson and Delilah, and another one for Oedipus and his Mum, but I dropped the obvious humour, and kept it as ironic advice for a young man.


2. Figured out how to play it – Recorded it, and well I was walking around in time listening to the play-back I saw my feet in the mirror and had the idea for the video, so,


3. first sunny day Carol and I worked on the dance routine (and painted our toenails) and when the kids came home we recorded it, the memory was full on her phone so we only had one go at it. (I cut out the bits where I was out of time).


I think it looks nice and sunny, hey! have a good Summer!


 


you can download it here if you like it 🙂


https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/the-truth-about-a-woman-and-a-man


and the videos here!



	

	
	


							


	

		
				

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nice photo hu? (thanks Jonathan)


After the optimism of the previous ‘wedding’ song comes this,


a marriage gone sour.


It’s not my most popular, but it is one of my best –  both the lyric and the melody hit the spot for me and Late Junction on Radio 3 played it last year


(they’re in the process of being cut by the way, so sign the petition here if like me you want a place for adventure and experiment on the radio).


https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-late-junction


About the song though, I wanted to write something that used the things people really say as opposed to what gets said in songs. To that extent it’s kind of kitchen sink drama –  half a conversation, the male half, explaining  how his cheating was partly her fault – there is a level of irony 😉


I’m not talking about my marriage by the way (we’re still all good, honest!), but the fact this guy’s talking like an idiot doesn’t mean I don’t feel it when I sing it.


song and lyrics here!:   https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/can-i-just-explain-2


 

	

	
	


							


	

		
				

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I wrote this one for our wedding,


…or more probably, the words slipped in when that was filling my head; anyhow it was all finished for the day (which was by the way great).


In a way the song felt part of a new beginning too.  Having said goodbye to the band and the vague ambition of being on top of the pops a few years before, I realised I was still  writing music without any audience and I quite liked that; some people tinker around in sheds I was still messing about with songs, and when friends did finally start to hear them they tended to say they sounded more genuinely like me.    For a long time I couldn’t sing the lines,


‘…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.’


without filling up a bit,


fortunately after a few listens Carol liked it too, even though, like nearly everything I make up, you can’t dance to it….


…well enjoy the picture of our feet anyway, here’s a link 🙂


https://vincentburke.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-event-of