THE SHED SESSIONS

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On Monday 6th February 2017 Michael Lee Toas of MLT Productions set up his camera and lighting in t’shed and pressed record. I rattled through 23 songs and poems which are collected here for posterity.

Here’s the first. From 2011’s ‘IF PEEL STREET COULD TALK‘, here’s ‘Ain’t Gonna Be A Pawn No More‘.

and from the album of the same name, here’s ‘A Revolution In An Empty Room’.

……from the same album, ‘Beneath Your Flags’….

……‘Blood Runs Red’ from ‘NO PASARAN!’

…..’Blue Town’ from ‘THE FUTURE NEEDS US NOW’….

…..‘Business Is Good’ from 2010’s ‘FORWARDS IS JUST BACKWARDS IN REVERSE’…

…..’English Dreamer, American Dream’ from 2008’s ‘Me & Billy The Kid’….

….the first of four poems, this one unreleased, ‘I Sat With Sara’….

……‘Halo’ from ‘THE FUTURE NEEDS US NOW’…..

….brand new song ‘JFK (1/28/17)…….

…..of course, ‘NO PASARAN!’ from the album of the same name….

……brand new song ‘Not On Our Watch’…..

…..from 2015’s ‘NEVER BE DEFEATED’, ‘Last Man Standing (The Ballad of Tony Clegg)’

…….from 2017’s ‘THE FUTURE NEEDS US NOW’, here’s ‘One Life At A Time’

……‘November The 12th’…..from ‘Me & Billy The Kid’ and ‘Music From Potter’s Field’ in 2008 and 2009 respectively…..

……new song written for 2018’s ‘NOT ON OUR WATCH’……‘Some Of Us’….

……and THAT poem up close and personal…..‘Why Are You So Angry?’…..

…..‘Post-Psychosis Blues’ from ‘A Revolution In An Empty Room’….

……the poem ‘When I Was 14’ from ‘THE FUTURE NEEDS US NOW’….

…..and also from that album ‘The Clash Didn’t Smash The Town Hall’…..

…..from ‘NO PASARAN!’ here’s ‘Our Open Eyes’….

….from ‘NEVER BE DEFEATED’…..‘Starve Us Back To Work’…..

….and finally, the poem which closes ‘THE FUTURE NEEDS US NOW’ also closes The Shed Sessions…..‘We SHALL Overcome’….