The Children
Rockingham Street

(TP100, first issue 2002, revised 2005)

New sounds in
city and western

Sample track: Going Out
and Let’s Leave Them There

The Children on Rockingham Street are Bertie Fritsch (drums), John Gibbens (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Armorel Weston (bass and vocals). The record was recorded in the summer and autumn of 2002 at the Tipi, Elephant & Castle SE1, and at Moonbase, London Fields E8.

Word on the street : the sleevenote

Lyrics:

Busker Noise: losing my religion, three little birds, what they give you’s all they’ve got to give

Fighting Upstairs: the life that they share takes the shape of a pear

Let's Leave Them There: where their lives have been leading, into the country of two

Elephant Girls: there’s no more elegant girls

The King Comes Out Tonight: I fell asleep in Brighton on a rainy Sunday evening

Peckham to King’s Cross: from Heathrow and Gatwick ghost-riders take flight but if I had a pony I’d be with the gang tonight

Small Talk: I have to bite my tongue, I have to play it cool

Midnight Rock: they say the cosmos is shaped like a doughnut and I believe we’ve just found the hole

Dunno: Dr Who from Dr No, Heartbreak Hotel from Desolation Row, Zeppo from Chico, Barnaby Rudge from Robinson Crusoe…

Some Kind of Rain: that’s some blindman’s train pulls out of sight

Going Out: now the blackbrid is whistling slow as though at something surprising

Heart of Town: first time we met some band was playing, first thing you said I couldn’t hear

Stop: you say you need time to grow and learn about yourself, well I've seen that little girl that you’ve been learning with

Blue Plaque: on the wall in white and blue there’s a place for you

You and Me Against the World: though they say your ma is just a little girl, well baby here we are

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