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My Musical Poetry
NEWEST OF ALL: I got engaged to a Liberian asylum seeker called Faith on the 23rd of January 2010. Laster that day, I performed a new song on a mobile phone dedicated to her, improvising the lyrics on the spot rather than reading from written lyrics as I usually do, called "In My Heart". You can download it in MP3 format. Other new musical poems/songs, recorded in January 2010 are as follows:
QUITE NEW VIDEOS: I have put videos of some of my musical poems on YouTube and MySpace Video, most of which are recordings of me singing them unaccompanied on demonstrations, but "Mandy" is a very original and important music video, that others have commented is very funny. [I have also produced that song as an MP3 file for your convenience and listening pleasure!] Find the videos on my MySpace page www.myspace.com/galaxiasteve or click on links below:
NEW: Fans of my musical poetry will be pleased to hear that some recordings of songs by my new band Red Day are on-line. Visit the Downloads & Lyrics page of the Red Day website. Because that band does not meet up very often, I did some further unaccompanied recordings on the 17th of September 2008, details of which are provided below.
EVEN NEWER: I did further recordings towards the end of September 2008, after the Labour Party Conference and Convention of the Left, details of which are provided below.
EVEN NEWER STILL: I wrote another new song called
“Donovan’s Doorway”, based on Latin Quarter’s song of the same name on the Mick & Caroline album, and did a recording of it on the 4th of October 2008, downloadable as specified below. [I chose not to put the lyrics of this song on-line to hinder artificially intelligent programs that may try to analyse the song and use it to put pressure on the woman it is dedicated to (using mind control techniques).]
As an alternative to clicking on links below in order to hear my musical poetry, you can visit my MySpace page. I have put a playlist of some of my best musical poetry, and songs that I have recorded with my bands, on the Project Playlist widget on that page (which has facilities for downloading them or placing them on your own pages on MySpace and other social networking sites). I have placed them in a good order on that page for your listening pleasure!
I have written dozens of songs/musical poems. It was quite a while after first setting up a band (called Galaxia) that I became involved in a new band in Glasgow (Red Day), and in the meantime I recorded some musical poems (unaccompanied songs, some with spoken parts).
I recorded my first collection of musical poetry in February/March 2007, in time for the Scottish parliamentary elections (which took place on the 3rd of May). I made two further sets of recordings in December 2007, as listed further down this page. Very importantly, I corrected my most important song, that was initially too fatalistic, in the new recording of The World Is Planned, which is probably my most important song. My musical poem The Master Race is also very important.
I had the further motivation, in making the later recordings, of publicising the supposed situation of Priya Reddy (warcry), who I believed was a political prisoner in a psychiatric institution in the United States that she has compared to Auschwitz concentration camp; You’re A Rebel, On My Own, Fairytale of New York (which is fictional and I recorded using a karaoke CD for background music) and I Know Her Quite Well, as well as my earlier recording Belly Of The Beast in which I predicted such a predicament, are dedicated to her. She finally emailed me to say that she has never been in such a place. I have recorded new versions of the first two of those songs with Red Day, and placed new MP3 files on top of the originals to correct this false information about her.
The song Fast Car is based on Tracy Chapman’s song of the same name that I loathe because it reminds me of the assassination of someone I was in love with (Nathalie Monier). Note that my understanding that she was killed by two black drug dealers in Moss Side, reflected in this song that I wrote to mark the tenth anniversary of her death, was disinformation, probably by infiltrators on the side of big business to try to increase racism within the Socialist Party. They did not succeed, but the party now has an even smaller proportion of black or Asian members than it did at the time. I later discovered, from newspaper reports on the internet, that the two assassins were from leafy suburbs of Manchester, one of whom had a German surname (Schultz).
Sometimes people comment that I should get singing lessons, which I never have, and I admit to some of my singing being a bit out-of-tune. I can’t read music or identify musical notes, but my singing has improved considerably over the years, even if some of the notes I hit aren’t on the usual scales! My singing is also usually better for songs that have better lyrics, with my subconscious helping me recognise political mistakes! Additionally, many of my songs don’t scan, and when I do drumming, as I do using African drums (bongos) in the Red Day song Think Of Me, which perhaps has my most tuneful singing, I generally hit a drum once per syllable rather than drum out a repetitive beat; I suppose I am pioneering a different kind of music!
For explanations of songs I have written, including a few that I have not yet recorded versions of, go to the lyrics page of the Galaxia website. Recordings of songs can also be downloaded from that page or the lyrics pages of particular songs. Details of musical poems, in which there are also some spoken lyrics, are provided towards the bottom of this page.
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My first collection of recordings, in Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 formats, is listed below (note that some of these songs are quite long and the WMA files are a bit shorter than the MP3 ones):
I wish Cath was a folk rocker (with flowers in her hair)–WMA, MP3, lyrics
My Life (part 1) formerly known as I Walk The Earth – WMA, MP3, lyrics
I made the following recordings in MP3 format (these are all less than three minutes long and the files are around 1MB in size) in early December 2007:
I also made the following recordings in MP3 format (these are all less than five minutes long and all files are below 2.4MB in size) in late December 2007:
The following is a list of musical poems I have written so far (most of which I have made recordings of). Note that the following list consists of those with some spoken sections; information about songs (including those I have performed with Red Day or as musical poems) can be found on the lyrics page of the Galaxia website.
9/11 Inside Job – A poem (later recorded by my new band Red Day, an MP3 file of which can be downloaded by clicking here) about the attack on the twin towers on the 11th of September 2001. The evidence is overwhelming that it was allowed to happen and that explosives demolished those towers and a third tower not hit by a plane (suspiciously containing CIA and other secret service headquarters that could have planned the atrocity). No other towers in history have collapsed, except for one in Madrid that took hours to do so, and these did so extremely symmetically and in several seconds. Click here for the lyrics.
The Master Race – A poem about a woman (for whom I have used the pseudonym Martina) with blonde hair and blue eyes, which is the Nazi conception of the “Master Race” that they were planning to create. The poem also refers to two other conceptions of the Master Race – Zionists (Jewish fundamentalists who believe they are the “chosen people” selected by God) and people with very deep brown eyes! The poem also mentions my experience of opposing fascism in Oldham where the police used divide-and-rule to try to prevent a united demonstration of anti-fascists (and I was arrested breaking through the police line), where we stopped the British National Party (BNP) from winning any seats in the subsequent local elections. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Assassinations – A poem about the assassination of Nathalie Monier, a woman I was deeply in love with, about a week before Princess Diana also died in very suspicious circumstances. I have set up a discussion group called assassination-of-nathalie-monier. Visit the assassination-of-princess-diana group or the Princess Diana bulletin board at the Revolutionary Platform Networkforum for more information about Diana’s assassination. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Slow Waltz For Alana – A poem about the death of Alana Murray, who was at one time the most promising contact for my band. Visit the assassination-of-alana-murray group for more information. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
My Life (part 1) formerly known as I Walk The Earth – An autobiographical poem containing a lot of important information about my life. It is dedicated to several different women from my past (Paula Mitchell, Naomi Byron, Sinéad Daly and Susan from Dublin, a Polish woman whose name I never found out, a Polish lodger of my former best friend Julian Beard called Dorotca, Morag Allen, Cath Bann and Sonya Qureshi). It contains information about the miners’ strike, a 55-mile sponsored walk (from UMIST in Manchester back to UMIST again) called the Bogle Stroll, the anti-poll tax movement, a Youth Against Racism in Europe camp in eastern Germany, the 1998 European School of the CWI (at which I became a big factor in world politics by being the only person from England or Wales to speak in the debate in favour of setting up the Scottish Socialist Party), the circumstances that led to me first becoming a political prisoner and my time with a nurse (Sonya Qureshi) when I was incarcerated. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of the orginal musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Fairground Attraction – A fictional poem about a trip to a fairground with a member of the Militant Tendency (that I was a member of from 1990-98, as it became Militant Labour and then the Socialist Party). Click here for the lyrics. It can be downloaded in MP3 format (by clicking here).
The Surveillance State – A poem (which could alternatively be sung, so it is also listed on the Galaxia website) dedicated to Cath Bann (founder of Defy-ID, an organiation “against ID cards and the surveillance state” which gave me inspiration for the poem and its title). This song is about spying, ID cards, mind reading and mind control, pointing out the role of infiltration (in both trying to prevent political change and ensuring it actually happens) in the chorus. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Too Good To Be Forgotten – A poem dedicated to Cath Bann (my strongest collaborator between 1998 and 2003 who I naturally fell in love with), about the poll tax, anarchism, sanctions and war on Iraq, ID cards and (of course) love! Note that I have heard a rumour that Cath has got maried, presumably to her long-time boyfriend Nathan; if this is the case, I must trust Cath’s judgement in realising that Nathan is now genuine (although perhaps he wasn’t in the past) so please disregard the negative things I have said about him in this poem! Cath rejected me in 2003, as I point out in this poem, but I still have hopes of getting together with her at some point in the future... Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Walking Where The Roses Grow – A poem dedicated to Rosie Kane (who at the time was a Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow) about the environment, which mentions direct action against Trident and calls for strike action or demonstrations at the time of the upcoming G8 summit (which has now passed). My G8 summit worldwide general strike website provides some arguments about whether strike action would have been pracitcable at the time of that summit. This poem also warns about big business infiltrators and there is a hint of love in it too! Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Couldn’t Wait Until Sunday – A poem I wrote much of while a political prisoner in a police station cell on the night of the 12th/13th May 2006, initially calling it Can’t Wait Until Sunday, about my plans for my 40th birthday on Sunday the 14th of May. I had invited along the first serious love of my life, Rhiannon Williams, who I had not seen for over 20 years. My plans were wrecked by my incarceration. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Socialist Chameleon – A poem about Jo Simpson, who I met when I was a political prisoner on a psychiatric ward. I thought Jo (who was very political and interested in being in my band) was one too, despite her hearing voices which perhaps were forcing her to betray me, which I think was against her will. I know they can be broadcast using some sort of machine, partly due to personal experience and also due to watching a TV programme about such mind control in which a member of Christians Against Mental Slavery talked about having a machine that could do it and receiving death threats. As this poem suggests, Jo could have been struggling to disobey what the voices were trying to make her do. Click here for the lyrics. I have recorded it as a musical poem, available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here)
An ode to Scott – A poem about addiction to drugs and alcohol. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
Whatever Happened To The Conspiracies? – A poem dedicated to Martine McCutcheon. The poem mentions how different opinions about whether Martine is a human being or a robot (and who I now realise is human or possibly an angel as I discuss on Martine’s page on this website) had a miscarriage (expressed by me in my document How our brains help or hinder the struggle for socialism) has destroyed the strongest conspiracies by the forces of big business; they have regrouped but are much weaker. Click here for the lyrics.
I have also written the following musical poem that could be described as science fiction, science fact or some combination of the two. Make your own mind up!
To The Earth With Love – A poem influenced by Doctor Who, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Douglas Adams’ Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and Star Trek (particularly the Star Trek Insurrection film). It is also dedicated to many women in my past or present life and the odd celebrity, none of whom I have yet met except for David Beckham, and one who I cannot meet (Princess Diana who was assassinated in 1997).
Click here for the lyrics.
