Hello!
Like so many others our life has been turned upside by the Covid 19 pandemic.
After living in the UK for just over 10 months, we were just about to move to Bristol when the 2nd lockdown began. Seeing this as not the ideal time to find a house and work etc we decided to leave and see out the whole virus situation on the island of Tenerife. We hope to return in the new year.
Creativity is always key to our lives, and essentially over the past year after being starved of gigs and with all of our electronic gear in the UK, we are left here on the island with tap shoes, a guitar our voices, bodies for body percussion & a video camera.
So we have decided to take this pandemic as a positive creative opportunity and that these things we have with us and these things alone will make up the premise for a project titled 'Soapbox 21'.
With so many months of introspection across the lockdown period, we have both found ideas and words have flowed with many lyrics taking on a darkly humourous and at times nostalgic look at the political and societal situation in the here and now.
We aim to mix the songs with documentary shorts which explore some of the themes the songs take on.

As the project is very much in the seed stage we thought it would be interesting to share in a blog format how songs and ideas grow, evolve or not as it could it be! Sign Up to our mailing list for monthly updates or go one better and get involved with the Forum where we will be exploring the themes of the songs further.
Here we go - Soapbox 21!

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Work in progress for the Soapbox 21 Series.
A song written from the perspective of an astronaut looking back at the earth as he travels off into space in search of new a world.
This is the first in our new campervan 'Jupiter' with which will aim to have many musical adventures soon!

Higher than the Mountains

Travelling through space, a reflection in time
In the wing mirror a blue dot in the sky
I'm not in orbit, docking or going home
Just heading out somewhere , the beyond, alone
I've seen broken faces, twisted places, blind leading the blind
Weightless as I am, My concious is my gravity
My dreams distant, planetary
There must be something more than all than I have witnessed
A world in which to believe
Can we live that wonder?
Live that difference?  A common humanity. Where we go…
Higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea
Flowing down the river, blowing through the breeze, blowing through the breeze

Through the stars I see yesterday’s rain
If I could reach , I would live it all again
My imagination is drawn to brighter suns
In the radio silence, my heart is caught
I've seen war and sadness , walked the ravines of madness
Where wisdom is left in the dark
Like a boat out at sea, towards a zenith of mystery deep space envelopes me

There must be something more than all thant I have witnessed
A world in which to believe
Can we live that wonder?
Live that difference?  A common humanity,. Where we go…
Higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea
Flowing down the river, blowing through the breeze, blowing through the breeze

In a little deviation from 'Soapbox 21' and to provide some pandemic light relief we have produced this mini 'Caped Music' series. It might reappear who knows?

No.1: A stunning intervention in American society sending the president packing to boot camp.
Song featured 'Smoke out the Cowboy' From Album 'B Side Fantasy’.