Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views http://dantindall.com/news.html Dan Tindall: News and Views Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:34:21 -0800 New album - Pocket Full Of Changes http://dantindall.com/news.html#194 New 15 song album now available from Bandcamp - 'Pocket Full Of Changes'


]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#194 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views Changes... http://dantindall.com/news.html#193 New release 'Pocket Full Of Changes' will be available soon - some new photos and cover art for you as well as the previews in the 'new tunes' section...stay tuned!

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#193 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views More lyrics... http://dantindall.com/news.html#192 Blondes


 


Blondes are meeting on the stairs

Lord, some trouble must be brewing

Something bubbling in the pot

I guess it will be some guy's undoing

Be prepared for stormy weather

Be prepared for death by chatter

The blondes are meeting on the stairs

To discuss some very urgent matter



The world is full of deadly hate

Wars are fought with gay abandon

The innocent are tortured, left to die

Crimes our leaders have a hand in

But all of that is quite forgotten

When there is reputation left to batter

The blondes are meeting on the stairs

To discuss some very urgent matter



Life they say is full of wonder

I wonder who it was who said it first

And would they wonder at the sight

Of these peroxide gossip merchants fit to burst

With information built for vengeance

Against those who will not seek to flatter

The blondes who are meeting on the stairs

To discuss this very urgent matter

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#192 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views lyrics http://dantindall.com/news.html#191 Added lyrics to 'Theory'


 


There's a loser with an attitude calling on the phone
He wants to sell me something that will beautify my home
His voice is mostly sinew stripped from someone else's bone
He's eager to impress me but I don't care for his tone

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

So I open up a window over next door's garden fence
Which was erected by a team of fools at very great expense
But now is broken, battered, has no future perfect tense
Just a dirty laughing crow crushing beetles with her toes

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

It's back inside and hide away from all the wretched noise
That all the stupid modern world so gleefully employs
To block out all the natural sounds that some of us enjoy
Never mind the futile dead, have some stupid fun instead

I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong
I'm working on a theory which is wrong

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#191 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views More new songs... http://dantindall.com/news.html#190 Two more new tunes added - 'Man I Don't Feel Too Good' and 'Beauty Queen'...

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#190 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views New tunes... http://dantindall.com/news.html#189 I've added a new page 'New Tunes' to preview some of these new songs I keep going on about - the older songs are all still listed under 'music' - just a couple to begin with 'Theory' and 'Blondes'. Keen listeners will detect the sweet sounds of a concert ukulele (see also previous posts!)...


 


 

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#189 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views ezFolk http://dantindall.com/news.html#188 With a heavy heart I have been updating my links to take into account the recent collapse over at ezFolk - basically, all the tens of thousands of MP3s by thousands of folk artists are now history. You can read all about it over at ezFolk - Richard (the site owner) has retained the core information services and resources (which are still of immense worth), and you can still join us on Facebook...but, still, what a f**king bummer!

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#188 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views New tunes...etc... http://dantindall.com/news.html#187 I freely confess that these days I am shamefully slow when it comes to updating and renewing this website - but rest assured, this reflects how busy I have been (musically and otherwise) rather than any diminishing enthusiasm on my part!


Anyway, a lot of new tunes in the works, new Prosity projects, and more Lo-Fi fun to look forward to - stay tuned for updates and previews over the next few weeks!

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#187 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views Where is the Civil Society? http://dantindall.com/news.html#186 Seeing the typical rush to blame everyone but themselves which has overtaken the ineffective executive and law-enforcement in London (and elsewhere) makes me consider how complex the causes of the recent riots have been, and looking beyond the misery it has caused communities, one has to ask; how significant is the role of the consumer society in assisting the development of selfish and sociopathic behaviour? Has civil society ceased to arm itself against thuggery, or is it just that the repeated battering it has taken from the twin attacks of overly-zealous security services (obsessed with terror from within and without) and rampant consumer-led capitalism has rendered it unwanted and ineffective? Certainly, the present government and various leaders of UK society seem to be drawn from home-grown elites or multi-national corporations. Is it surprising that those at the other end of society feel detached?


We hear a lot about the 'squeezed middle' in the economic sense, but no-one seems to have considered how culturally significant the loss of an informed consent from the vast majority of citizens might actually be. The lessons of history point to the rise of new and often unsavoury political systems, or at least the collapse of meaningful government. It is a matter of some concern that the folks at the top of the pile seem to have skipped those classes...

]]> http://dantindall.com/news.html#186 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - News and Views Justice? http://dantindall.com/news.html#185 The current growing scandal over the News Of The World and its activities just demonstrates once again how there is a different set of rules for the rich and powerful - much like the bankers, once can only assume that the cohorts of Murdoch believe themselves to be untouchable and capable of generating their own morality. The fact that there is such a disparity between the mock concern of their various journalistic crusades and the reality of their own activities (deleting the phone messages of a missing child during a police investigation - seriously, how can anyone defend that?) just invites one to think that there is more than a whiff of sulphur about these people.


The vague and almost Clouseau-esque police investigations, along with the ineffective meanderings of parliament haven't helped produce anything other than a real expectation that there is so much more to all of this than meets the eye - but you are left to wonder if, as with the financiers and bankers who shafted us all so very recently, these crimes will go unpunished.

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