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Don’t Stop… Thinking About Tomorrow

The Tregony Teachers

Just because we are isolated, we don’t have to stop planning, creating and making music. At Live Bands Cornwall we are loving all the fantastic examples of people playing and singing together – keeping the music going despite everything!

How about this brilliant collaborative video from The Tregony Teachers AKA Andy and Jon who got together with a few friends to pass on a message of hope and love for the future. They said “Remember isolating doesn’t have to mean you stop having fun or stop creating. Every day we’re one day closer to us all getting back together again for a boogie! Stay safe everyone”

What other good examples do you know of? Well add more to this article as we find them 🙂

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Trodhydhyek

Brother Sea

Watch out for the new single by Brother Sea due to be released this April. Trodhydhyek is Cornish for Circadian. and this was Brother Sea’s entry into the Song For Cornwall this year.

The song was written by Kris Lannen then translated into Cornish by Mark Elton. It’s about nature’s Circadian rhythms: the moon’s cycle and the way it’s pull deeply effects us all. Here’s the original lyrics:

Let hurts go, take your lover’s hand
Lie with her upon the sand
Breathe like the tides that rise and fall
In stillness hear her tender call

Meet her in the shadowlands
Where all this it greed cannot stand
She carves a shimmering path of light
Through a deep and dark ocean’s night

Yours is the day, yours also the night
Embraced by the earth, her mystery white
Snowfalls in a forest, flash of fire, gather round
Dreams beckon seaward, our hope is found

As winter comes, let the summer go
Circadian is all she knows
May our sails be filled with grace
As the swallow sets the pace

Colours emerge from the dark
Don’t lick your wounds this morning
They’ll heal with every step
To dance again without thinking

His was spilt and her blood flows
But, as one dies another grows

“A brilliant, thought-provoking single from Brother Sea. The story-telling is compelling, the harmonies hypnotic and is, overall, a beautiful song from one of Cornwall’s Celtic gems”

Daniel Pascoe / BBC Radio Cornwall
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One And All

One and All Coronavirus Fundraiser

~ This fabulous fundraiser features 27 tracks from our favourite Southwest musicians.

All money raised from this digital album will go to the Cornwall Community Foundation and their urgent coronavirus appeal. Here is a list of the incredible people that have donated a track to help:  Pattern Pusher,Josh Curnow, Hypophora, Liam Jordan, Sam Sweeney, Fisherman’s Friends, Daisy Clark, Joe Hurworth Music, WAXX, Even Nine, NANA, Sam Casey, O’Deus,Bryn Oldfield, Sadie Horler, Fatlantic, Si Spex, Bache, Joanna Cooke, 3 Daft Monkeys, SUNSOAK, Kaboli, Will Keating, Ben Thorpe and Mog Jones!

Kudos to Jordan Jane Music and Tom Briggs for organising this!

ONE AND ALL is out now and is available to download / stream on all major platforms including:

Apple Music:
http://tiny.cc/lcxzlz

Spotify:
http://tiny.cc/kexzlz

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This Feeling – The Velvet Hands

The Velvet Hands

Falmouth’s fabulous four The Velvet Hands had an epic summer in 2019, supporting Liam Gallagher, Fontaines D.C., and Paul Weller, and showcasing their explosive blend of punk-infused garage rock on some of the biggest stages in the country. They had air play on BBC 6 Music, Radio X, BBC Radio 1 and even had one of their singles featured on the hit TV show “This is Chelsea”.

“full of bolshy spirit”

~ NME

And now they’ve launched the next chapter of their exciting story with their new single ‘This Feeling’. This is an undeniably infectious song with brilliantly catchy choruses and no-nonsense, sing-along verses. Fearless, energetic and just bursting with attitude it not only encapsulates just what the band are all about, but could easily provide a voice for their generation. The lines “You know that I’ll be ok, I’ll be ok – I will be fine…” are certainly very cathartic to belt out at full volume! Combined with a stunning visual video created by KernowDesign, this single could definitely be a winner!

“So good!”

~ Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1