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Outta here

by Brian Heywood

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After four singles and an album release with Heywood & Moore and a successful collaboration with BBC Radio 1 John Peel’s favorite Pyschobillly band “The Pocket Gods” - Australian singer / songwriter Brian Heywood has found time in his busy schedule to release one of his original songs as a digital single.

The original track was recorded at producer Andy Neve’s studio in Oxfordshire (UK) and features Brian on lead vocals and all the guitar parts while producer Andy supplied backing vocals, keyboards and programmed the drums.

The song Outta Here was started on the flight back from the Womex world music conference in Seville and is an upbeat reflection on how people react to difficult situations. The world banking system had just melted down and many people were struggling to survive the blow. The “bar in Spain” mentioned in the third verse is a real place in the old town of Seville and is a traditional family run Tappas bar called El Ringconcillo with sides of smoked pork hanging on hooks from the barrelled ceiling. The only information technology they use is a piece of chalk with which they keep a tab for each customer on the ancient oak bar.

After four years it now really reflects what people want to do...

lyrics

Caught in the undertow, watch where the money flows
Watch while your world it goes, straight down the tube
Friends and relations say, they will help you on your way
Maybe some other day, on a frosty day in hell

What do you do when you've got nothing more to say
Where do you turn when you're wishing the world away
What do you go when you turn out the lights
Find a corner or just get the next flight out of here

More people every day, that's what the papers say
They say there's hell to pay, but who gets the bill
Turn to the government, looks like it's heaven sent,
It turns out that the copper's bent, and still we get the bill

What do you do when you've got nothing more to say
Where do you turn when you're wishing the world away
What do you go when you turn out the lights
Find a corner or just get the next flight out of here

I know this bar in Spain, with a means to ease the pain
They keep the score upon the grain so you know you'll have to pay
Barrelled ceiling, cold stone floor, iron bars across the door
Just raise your glass to get some more, it keeps the world at bay

What do you do when you've got nothing more to say
Where do you turn when you're wishing the world away
What do you go when you turn out the lights
Find a corner or just get the next flight out of here
What do you do when you've got nothing more to say
Where do you turn when you're wishing the world away
What do you go when you turn out the lights
Find a corner or just get the next flight out of here

credits

released September 15, 2020
Brian Heywood - vocals & electric and acoustic guitars
Andrew Neve - bass, keys, backing vocals and drum programming.

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Brian Heywood Newcastle, Australia

A guitarist, vocalist, bandleader, arranger, composer, producer and award winning song writer - he is just as at home on a big festival stage in outback Western Australia as an indie live music club in the heart of London.

"Just when it seemed as if newer electric British roots bands were getting thinner on the ground - Very welcome and very good." - fROOTS Magazine (UK) "
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