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All song lyrics and poetry are the sole copyright of Warren Kemp unless stated.
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News ... Soon to launch...... a lyrics, songs and musings site for people wishing to get their songs etc noticed and for those artists wishing to get a bit of inspiration eg the all important second album or the 1st big break when you lack that critical extra song and not a filler. Look out for 'shortbread taxi' on youtube and other genre places.

If you like your music as much as Warren does then recent albums for you to buy could include :

Laura Marling - A creature I dont know - depeer , richer and more wide ranging than previously - 5 stars
James Blake - self titled - its not been off the cd player -whoooosh - try this for starters. (not on the album)
The Kooks - Junk of the heart - not quite a comeback album but back after being quiet for sure - a few fillers but a few instant classics
Everything Everthing - self titled - friendly fires on heat ! - just brilliant in places
The Airborne Toxic Event - All at one - more mature than their 1st - 5 stars - really full sound that you can pick out everything on
Miles Kane - Colour of the trap - smooth - a young Nick Lowe (as he sounds now) in the making
Friendly Fires - Pala - some of the music seems to float around the rest of the song

Some less recent

Glasvegas - (The Freedom of ) Euphoric Heartbreak - welcome back to this world Mr Allan
The View - Bread & Circuses - a REAL good POP album - instant hooks and smiles
The Kills - Blood Pressures - less dirty and more cultured than previous ones - a huge 2 piece sound.. Pots & Pans is 100% class
The Strokes ...Angles - a good way to come back after a wee while away. Builds nicely after every listen
Elbow - "Build a rocket boys!" - some songs are too big for my living room or study - a summer festivals must see band
The Vaccines - self titled - short sharp todays's punk pop with a girl boy feel - 1st song is so Ramones its untrue and 1min 28 secs !
Noah & The Whale - Last night on Earth - Some instant pop sing a long classics - big change after Noahs/Laura breakup album
Cold War Kids - Mine is Yours - A lot lighter (than 1st 2) but non the worse for it ... Royal Blue is infectious
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall - its a concept album really from punky anthems onto sooo smooth
Sleigh Bells - Treat ....Oooofff... 2 piece with so much energy - ting tings with dirty grimey balls ...messy genius
Adele 21 - Follow up to 19 - shes been dumped and is sorry and singing about it - but oh so so well...someone like you is sublime
Not new far from it (but I just bought it) but The Velvet Underground & Nico -(1967 )- I dare you to buy it and put an age on it
Grinderman 2 - Nick Cave in his smaller, more loose and guitar dirty band - "Of Ali McGraw & Steve McQueeen I give it to you"
The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards - Alison Mosshart (The Kills...new album april 2011 ) & Jack White -'super group' (also check out the previous one - horehound)
Elvis Costello - National Ransom - plays old guitars c.1930's - 1950's and has a trad feel to it - grown into a great voice...honey on toast
(THE) Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown - not as instant as some others but sheer quality
The Hold Steady -Heaven is Whenever - Toured UK early 2011 - Birmingham gig was 5 star ! Got to break into mainstream news soon
Magnetic Man - (Self titled) - good intro to DubStep.... mainstream champions of the genre
Linkin Park - A thousand suns - pop from the metal boys ! Change of pace - good to see they take a chance
Belle and Sebastian - Write about love - hippy love stuff (c. Mamas & Papas) - mixed - top songs are quality
Eels- Tomorrow Morning - How many albums in one year ! - Break up/never make up angst with clever riffs and beats
Hello! I'm Tommy Reilly - 'Finding his feet' album after his Orange unsigned artist winning one -not there yet but will be (album 3?)
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang - The Clash meets The Boss - and do it their own way anyway. was the 2010 summers sound
also ....
Plan B - Strickland Banks - whoo! - white soul boy who rapps and reinvented himself - movie to follow
The Courteeners - Falcon - takes a few listens to get past some simple tunes/tuning and appreciate the overall mood
Ian Dury - reasons to be cheerful the best of - Got his hard to get Kilburn & The Highroads stuff on - funk on!
Cliffy and their Byro - Only Revolutions - strange band - write music in a non song way - but if its anthems you want - wey hey

previous ones>>>>
Ellie Goulding - Lights ...wondered what the hype was..no hype needed - class..(if over auto produced in parts)... Laura Marling meets Lilly Allen with manners
Thirty Seconds to Mars (30STM)- This is War. Emo & orchestra & childish choir...and shock..it works! Zeros to heroes in 2 years not 30 secs
Yeasayer -Odd blood. 2nd album . Experimental synth band - pop tunes are ace ..some others are not..buy it & watch for their 3rd album
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea... If no-one knew about her husband dying this would still be awesome -so just listen anyway (5 stars
Vampire Weekend - Contra .... Paul Simons Graceland via Talking Heads meets Ska -media favourites- don't let that put you off
Mumford & Sons- Sigh no more .... Stunning Kings of Leon feel to English folk music 5+ stars - one kick drum & lots of jangling
Flo & her Machine - go on everyone should have a copy of .... Lungs ...revamped with extras xmas version out too
Paramore- Brand new eyes .... this will grow and grow as you listen ...becoming a huge band..try RIOT! too
The Big Pink - A brief history of love ( May be the band for 2011 if they stick to the right sounds- domino etc.)
The Enemy - Music for the people ... Coventry's own bring a new Asian vibe to their Jam like songs..next album all important - zero or hero
Eels - End Times .... If you haven't heard of him then you're missing out.... sparse sounding relationship breakup album
Snow patrol - A hundred million suns ...same old Snow Patrol buts that's ok by me- need a big change of sound next though
MC Rut - 25 years... one guitar one set of drums for the biggest sound you will ever hear from 2 people
The Proclaimers - Notes & Rhymes .... they just get better and better and are much more than 500 miles
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! ..... almost never writes a bad song, a couple of these are sublime

Hey - wanna take a punt on random music you might like?.... great !! Thought you would.......no hints- here goes:
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From the song ....
Two Kisses ©Kemp/Vance 2011

This new day that I’ve found

Has all too quickly come around

New days – behind me

Switching moments out of time

Sometimes yours, sometimes mine

Forgotten futures
Blinding

Two kisses on the lips

The first sweat the next wet

New feelings abound

If I come around to stay

Would that always be the way

Hopes for the future
Binding

And it’s all too easy, all too easy

And it’s all too easy and sleazy

Too dirty

And sleazy

It’s easy dirty sleazy

This new day that I’ve found

Feels like a merry go round

Days in front

And yet behind me

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and a poem
One your kids can read .........
"Bertie’s Great Balloon Race" (published by Forward Press NOV 2010)

One summer’s day, Bertie the butterfly met his good friend Bizzy the bee

And after exchanging some pleasantries, invited him home for some tea.

“Oh Bizzy, my friend, I need some good honest advice.

You see, my butterfly chums say I’m dull – well boring to be precise.”

So over sunflower sandwiches and dandelion squash,

They discussed Bertie’s plight while scoffing their nosh.

"That’s terrible poor Bertie", Bizzy sympathetically said.

"But isn’t your demeanor simply inside your head?"

"No Bizzy my friend. Alas if only that were true.

I wish that just once for excitement, my friends I’d undo.

When they give me my turn to choose which game we should play,

I struggle to come up with something to awaken their day"

"Then think hard Bertie my friend – let your mind dance!

What would you really like to do in life, if given a chance?"

So Bertie closed his eyes thinking hard, while eating his food.

"I’d like to fly as high as a plane," he mused. "That would be good!"

Said Bizzy "Let’s now work out how you can all fly really high,

Higher than the tallest trees and up to the very top of the sky.

They’ll laugh and they’ll scream and your game will be such a hit.

Bertie’s flying game is the best ever - they’ll be forced to admit!"

Our friends thought hard together while munching a rose petal flan

"I’ve got it dear Bertie" Bizzy shouted, "I’ve got you a plan!

You’re going to fly much, much higher than ever before,

Then jump from a great height and float down to the floor"

"But Bizzy, butterflies aren’t built for such a long flight

To travel that high we’d have to hold on to a kite!"

"I’m not thinking of a kite Bertie, more of an air filled balloon.

If you hang on as it rises you could go to the moon!"

"A balloon!” exclaimed Bertie, "Oh yes, now I see.

When my friends hear my game, they’ll giggle with glee.

They can blow up a balloon each and then start the race.

Oh Bizzy, you’re brilliant! The plan’s falling into place.”

"Our balloons can float up and up till we’re as high as a plane

But to get there and back fastest will be the name of the game.

We’ll need someone to start it and to be a judge at the end.

Can you do it Bizzy? I know the rules you won’t bend."

So invitations were sent to nine of Bertie's best butterfly friends

Asking all to compete in a balloon race on that very next weekend.

The RSVP's were sent back from his chums - post haste

It seemed they all wanted a chance to win that great balloon race

Bizzy and Bertie then spent the week planning a fantastic event.

To have the biggest and best game ever was Bertie's intent.

They bought ten coloured varieties of the best stretchy balloons

And they arranged a landing area, around which ribbons they festooned.

Soon the day came for Bertie's Great Balloon Race to commence.

His friends gathered round with excitement and no little suspense

As Bizzy stepped up to explain the rules of their game.

"The first to two thousand feet and back will win the acclaim!"

They were to hover with balloon in hand till the hooter did sound

And then blow their balloons up to lift them high off the ground.

Bizzy had asked two bluebird friends to fly up to two thousand feet

And as each butterfly reached them, "Go back down!" they would tweet.

The winner would be the first up then back down to the finishing line

Where they would receive a winner’s garland and some marigold wine.

And so the butterflies hovered holding their balloons with some trepidation,

Each hoping to be the one back first for the crowd’s adulation.

For a throng had now gathered to watch Bertie's great race,

Some taking bets on which butterfly would best last the pace.

So with much excitement, but with no further ado,

Bizzy counted “3-2-1”, then his hooter he blew.

When each contestant was ready, they were to tie a knot good and tight,

Then hang onto their floating balloon, while rising up to the agreed height.

When the bluebirds gave them the sound and they were ready to turn around and go,

Bertie and his friends would leave their balloons behind and fly down to the target below.

Quite soon the sky was filled with ten coloured balloons in gay flight,

As both the crowd and the contestants cheered in loud delight.

The balloons rose higher with each and every butterfly's blow

As the crowd whooped and hollered, applauding this colourful show

Bertie and his nine friends were trying their hardest, all keen to win the race.

Some butterflies had more puff than others and soon flew up at quite a pace.

And so it was, that ten balloons and their pilots made their way up through the sky

But poor Bertie was really struggling and was unable for his balloon's knot to tie

While our hero was still trying valiantly to reach two thousand feet,

Some friends were getting the 'go down' signal as they heard the bluebirds tweet.

It was Alex first to flutter down past him as Bertie was still on the rise,

His friend certainly looked the favourite to get the winner’s prize

At last Bertie reached the bluebirds, but his friends had by now fluttered past.

He knew he'd have to do something really special if he wasn’t to finish last.

So when Bertie got the signal, instead of letting his red balloon go,

He thought he'd let the air out bit by bit and speed back down below

Now although Bertie's idea was quite good in theory he hadn't built into his plan

That air from his balloon would mix with the wind, like some wild extractor fan.

So as Bertie hung grimly on to his balloon, while downwards it was darting,

It let out a great ‘brrroooooooom’ type of sound, like someone who was farting!

Soon he shot past his friends Johnny and then Timmy and then Joe,

While trying to control his balloon as if at some wild rodeo.

Next he flew with gusto past Jenny, Millie and Pete.

He had only three more to better by seven hundred feet

Bertie's balloon continued its somewhat dizzy descent

Until all of his red balloons' hot air had been completely spent.

With five hundred feet left until the end of the race,

His balloon suddenly ran out of hot air and all of its pace!

Bertie in limbo did not know quite where to turn,

But this chance to win the race he knew he should not spurn.

So he went into free fall closing his wings and started diving

To go past the remaining three racers, was for what he was striving.

He picked up some pace as past his next friend he did lunge,

And through wind, air and cloud Butterfly Bertie did plunge.

With only two more to pass he continued his rather ungallant fall,

But to the crowd (who could see him by now) he'd started to enthrall.

"Bertie's coming through fast now" they shouted "Look at him go!"

There were only two more to beat and he seemed very 'gung -ho'!

Then suddenly out of the blue, our dear Bertie remembered his place.

It was about making friends happy he recalled -not winning the race.

Bertie then opened his wings, slowing down to consider his position,

Remembering that to feel part of the group was his original mission.

“For I will get more” (he thought) “through making others happy

Than by zipping down past them like some uncaring, cocky chappie”

So instead of sky diving, he flapped and then started to glide and to fly

And then our hero began hovering gently still some two hundred feet high.

Soon his friends were shooting by him looking bewildered in passing,

For there was Bertie - cheering, flapping, shouting, and laughing!

"I hope you are having fun and good luck my chums!" he was screaming,

As one after one his friends towards the finishing line were streaming.

Bertie watched as far below him his friend Alex landed first,

No doubt looking forward to his garland and to quenching his thirst.

Alex was followed quickly by Amy, then Jenny and then by Pete,

While as all the others finished, Bertie still hovered at two hundred feet.

When he was satisfied that they had all finished and had their fun,

Bertie floated down gently - his silky wings glinting in the sun.

Alex looked up and shouted - "Look! Here's Bertie coming down now.

Let’s all clap and cheer him home - his game has been such a wow!”

“Thank you friend” they hollered. “It has been a fantastic day!

Three cheers for good old Bertie - hip hip, hip hip hooray!"

Later, as the sun set over Buttercup Meadow, Bertie reflected on the day.

“You know, Bizzy, I had a great time with my friends, but I really have to say

Today I learned that, as closer towards the ground I was spinning,

Taking part in the game is what counts – it’s not about winning!”

From the song - Bootstraps – (Warren Kemp 2010)

Way back then they used to call you Charisma Charlie

Filling every room up with your wit and your lines

No party was complete without your presence and your presents

As your name sake said it was the best and worst of times

Those high rise flats inbred a certain type of bitter person

Many minnows, some sharks and a few big fish in the pond

The sugar frosties were plentiful, bought and traded like buckfast

Low met high, deep met shallow- you played it cool….... aka James Bond

Too often you came in looking like a train wreck

Or was it much more a 4am car crash

God you were hanging – by your bootstraps

And just about with it – that had to be some party bash

God you were hanging – on by your bootstraps

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and a snippet of one soon to be released ..........Crashed and Burned by Kemp & Vance

You stopped talking and also shut your ears

Nobody wanting to address those fears

Of being over

Things start to make more sense in isolation

Like the holiday you insisted had 28 day cancellation

In case I guess

You took the joy away

Too far

This time

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