Track of the Week Heavy Metal Ballad Week 15 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. We’re coming towards the end of this run of free downloadable goodies. Whilst there is more Deserters music in the archives, it’s not yet in a form suitable for the web. I’ve probably got enough for another two weeks,...
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Track of the Week The Complete 1978 Song Week 14 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. This song has a similar feel to ‘The Woman In Red’, however this is certainly no love story, but a very sparsely arranged murder ballad, inspired by the story of Lizzie Borden. Music and Lyrics are by Lee...
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Track of the Week Drevulon Poseiden Week 12 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. Another track featuring the Newe/Bordet – lyrics/music writing combination, this track deals with urban alienation and the suppression of the man in the street. Guest stars Andy on guitar – a pretty nice solo – and features yours truly on...
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Track of the Week Brain Drain Rap Week 9 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. OK, I missed a couple of weeks. Here’s a concerted effort to fill the gap… This song was written by Lee, and deals with the general user-unfriendliness of computers. This was written in a time before Windows, when the...
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Track of the Week The Woman In Red Week 4 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. Both Lee and I have written ‘Mysterious Woman in Colour X’ songs for some reason. Mine was called ‘White Silk’, and may make its way here eventually. Lee’s song was called ‘The Woman In Red’ and is probably...
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I’ve had a dig around the Deserters archives recently, and have decided that the time has come to open them up and share the goodies within. Track of the Week One Night in the Back of a Fire Engine The aim is to make a song available every week until the well runs dry,...
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I came across a cache of old half-written songs over the weekend, which brought back lots of memories – it’s amazing how many of the tunes (most of which are still unrecorded) came back to me. I guess that’s a sign of a good melody. Pity the same can’t be said of the lyrics....
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One of the self-built instruments used by the Deserters in our earlier days was an electronic gadget called the Slydee. It grew from a physics project about transistors where we had to make a circuit to flick between two bulbs. Lee (Newe) and I figured that if we linked this to a speaker instead...
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