Foy Vance: Days drift by...

Days drift by...

Saturday, 04 October 2008

..like scenes from a moving train...

First of all, I stand corrected, it's Maurice Macartney (no big C as I had it previously). Secondly, note to Mark Ede, Maurice actually has a brother called Paul how is none too pleased about the jokes that come with it...so much so that he's now known as Max (I think it's Max, I still call him Paul). There's a story of Paul working in a call centre one summer for extra doe, and the policy was to introduce yourself to the poor unassuming buggers that pick the phone up, only to be given a hard sell for something they don't want... anyway, that aside...thing is, everytime Paul called people up and said "Hi, my name's Paul Macartney and I'm calling from..." kkker dooooooooooooo (the sound a phone gives off, when slammed down)...

All that aside, I'm here to give you Maurice's track... it's a song called 'Scenes', it's always been one of my favourite, singing it is like reciting an ambiguous novel! I love it...Please be aware that it was recorded during a wine and whiskey session, with one mic in Studio 52 (the name given to my studio by a mate...it stuck)...having said that, this is always the sort of recording approach that gets my juices flowing, loose and hearty!

The toilet tour songs will be able to download in the next few days too... and then followed by something else, but who knows what? not me!

...for those of you the like it and feel you want to have given something for 'Scenes', Maurice has asked that you give it to Oxfam UK...

...and if you want it for free, equally so here it is...enjoy

Comments

Rory

For two pups having been on the sauce, it's a damn good first cut. More Maurice I say!

Gaz

What a great song! Where can we hear more of Maurice's stuff?

mark

First off, apologies to Paul, aka Max, for adding to his burden. Secondly, yeah, sounds like a pretty cool song. Whether it compares favourably with a Foy Vance song is another question, but clearly, that wasn't the purpose of the exercise, so it's a question which need not be raised here(he says raising it). Also, at the risk of offending everyone, being a half Welsh /Half Cockney I can't make out the lyrics too clearly. Wot with Amy W(h)inehouse singing in Polish and you, Foy, singing in your native Belfast accent a half wit like me can't hear what you are singing about too clearly. Something about Klingons at the start (is it based on the Star Wars trilogy?) and 'the days drift by like scenes from a moving train' seems like a nice lyrical idea....I suspect the rest of the lyric could be equally interesting/compelling.

Steve Jones

And the clean young men With their clean young hands... blowing noses on fivers and fivers on roses for their ladyfriends. And the wheezing geezer - the rattling man - puts a hand to his heart, leans an oil-stained palm on a windowpane... the owner complains... And the days drift by like scenes from a moving train. Don't know if I'll be this way, don't know if I'll be this way again. Daddy's in denim... got a bad cough. Sonny with a walkman, mummy switches off for a family break. Sister's converted - she's changing her ways, catalysed by an "ozone holy joe" she met just the other day... she gets carried away... and the days drift by like scenes from a moving train etc. Behind lace curtains and bubble-glass doors, there's a man in a red coat watching re-runs of all the best wars. He tips his ash into his cup of tea, picks up the remote, flicks around, checks out what's on TV, but there's nothing to see..... and the days drift by etc.

Stephen Macartney

Hey Foy! What a great song, it's one of my favourites too. And a damn fine version of it, my hats off to yourself and Steve! Hope to catch up with you again sometime soon..

Jack "Max/Paul" Macartney

Hey Foy, love your version of 'Scenes', haven't heard it in an age! Hope you guys had a top night. It's 'Jack' actually, not Max though I'm warming to that one now heh heh. After a Mr C.S.Lewis and because 'Barbara' wasn't really working for me.. That call centre story just gave me chills, I'd put a little lock on that particular door in my brain!! Give us a shout if you're ever playing out Oxford way mate, would love to catch a show! Speaky soon! - Jack/Max/Paul/Barbara.

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