RUINS (Vienna Ditto/The May collab) - coming this month

Helloooooo Patrons,

I can't believe we've hit September already. I'm loving the last of the summer sun, I've still been going up the downs nearly every morning, mushroom picking and foraging my way through the month.

It's still feeling all a-bit-too-quiet and I'm getting itchy for a gig. It's looking likely that BEB will do another, much heavier webcast before the end of the year from a big venue (just with no crowd), so more news on that when it's organised.

Till then I'll just keep you entertained with some more mushroom pics 😉🍄

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This month's "official thing" comes in the form of a new song. It's a collaboration between us and Vienna Ditto, a brilliant electro-fuzz duo from Oxford. Nigel also has a solo project called The May. 

As a duo they sometimes look like this:

or this:

Here's one of my favourite tunes, "Oh Josephine" to give you an idea of what's to come.

We've played with these guys on numerous occasions and it's always been spectacular, you never know what will happen - Nigel likes to improvise a lot of the electronic noises and Hatty's dancing is contagious. Every gig for me has been like a spiritual experience that leaves me inspired and song-writing for weeks after. 

It's been a dream of mine to collaborate with them... and now it's happening! 

Thank you universe. 🌍

They are on PATREON and BANDCAMP here if you'd like to delve a little further. My favourite track of theirs is a song called "I Know His Blood". I highly recommend.

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The lyrics to the track are as follows... all I can tell you know is it will be electronic, dark, trippy, jazzy, strange and unexpected.

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RUINS

Step into the ruins

Where spiders weave their threads

We can’t wake the living

Or suffocate the dead

If you believe in this

This spinning of the truth

Words become the knowledge

Do you dare to?

The crawling through

In spite of you

I guess that’s just what neglect will do

The sky is my father

The sea is my son

Our ship has been sinking

Since 9:31

These currents are pulling

Cracks upon the shell

Keep the fires consuming

Poison in our well 

We are ruins

And you’ll be fine

And you’ll get through

I guess that’s what privilege will do

And it belongs to you

Step into this ice house

Kiss the lips of glass 

Drown us in the melting

voices of all thing that pass

Keep us in denial

Spite the ones who stray

We will ruin anything that gets in father’s way

We are ruins 

And it belongs to you

I guess that’s what privilege will do

And it belongs to you

I guess that’s what privilege will do

Love & Feathers,

Mishkin & co. xxxx