Explore the new album: This is my book
Listen to or purchase the album, (or individual songs) & find out more about them - lyrics, song background,
instruments used and the friends that helped bring them to life.
Select from the song titles below:
Dig deeper into This is my book:
1. Blue
2. Bright Side Of Town
3. Mona Lisa
4. How Brave Am I?
5. Valentine's Day
6. The Song Lives On
7. Rumour Mill
8. This Old Town
9. You're Never Alone
2/ Bright Side Of Town.
Romanticising and lamenting the recent history of my hometown, (turned City) of Newport, in South Wales.
This was the 1st song I wrote for this project. It prompted a passion to write and record a full album of my own material. Musically, it also reminded me of my early days of enjoying the simplicity of a 3-peice band, (Red Forest) so it had to be Andy Morgan on the drums.
Lyrics: Bright Side of Town.
Let us get so close I feel you breathe
I really love to hear your dirty history
We’re gonna head off to the bright side of town
We’re gonna move up to the bright side of town
Let me hear your songs of glory-days
I really hate to see you throw those lives away
We’re gonna head off to the bright side of town
We’re gonna move up to the bright side of town
You bring it home to me
Just how strong we can be
Just how the other half lived, we’re moving so fast
How can we keep up with the past?
You bring it home to me
Just how strong we can be
Just how the other half lived
We’re gonna get off to the bright, Move on to the bright,
Head off for the bright side of town, side of town...
From the album This is my book.
Beatnick, Nick Fowler: Vocals, guitars and bass.
Andy Morgan: Drums.
Recorded & mixed by Phil Smith at One Louder Studio
