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  • Better Day

    Better Day

    · Magic Rabbits

    Dance into the fire of Bondian badinage with Tim and Damian, and their almost-expired licences to thrill. Journey deep into their volcano fortress recording studio as they bring you their ‘007 theme song that never was’ and discuss the best (and worst) soundtracks from everyone’s favourite spy movie franchise. It’s the usual chat and choons you’ve grown to love. And literally nobody does it better.

  • Before You Fell

    Before You Fell

    · Magic Rabbits

    Foxtrot across the shiny, sprung dancefloor of music biz chat with your hosts Tim Riley and Damian Scott as they explore the world of pub gigs, Bond themes, tribute acts and other assorted nonsense. All capped off with their delightful new (8 years in the making) co-written song 'Before You Fell'. Yes, it's another ballroom blitz episode of MAGIC RABBITS.

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  • Watercolours

    Watercolours

    · Magic Rabbits

    Tiptoe daintily through the tulips of lyricism with Tim and Damian in an unusually wordy podcast episode. Explore with them the joys of metaphor, simile, assonance, alliteration, prosody and dog walks.

    Discover their favourite song lyrics with another brief encounter with Tim’s old mate Art Garfunkel. All culminating in the spectral, jazz-infused brushstrokes of ‘Watercolours’,their latest re-recorded song from their old Templemen band days. It’s a belter.

  • The Things We Said In Bed

    The Things We Said In Bed

    · Magic Rabbits

    Abseil down the vertiginous sheer face of rock (and pop) with Tim and Damian in another adventure-filled episode of the podcast you never knew you needed.

    This time, join the lads as they recall the (Edinburgh) Fringe benefits of being in the world’s most underrated and undiscovered brilliant band.

    All descending rapidly toward a pristine reworking of Tim’s least favourite (and Damian’s most favourite) song: ‘The Things We Said In Bed’.

    Frankly, it’s all a bit ropey.

  • Peter and Jane

    Peter and Jane

    · Magic Rabbits

    Hold hands once again with Tim and Damian as they skip merrilythrough the swaying, golden fields of musical nonsense.

    Marvel at the lush, verdant gorgeousness of this week’s song, ‘Peter and Jane’. And hear the lads expound on the joys and merits of artistic collaboration, living in the Lake District, and Disney musicals.

    It’s another forty-odd minutes of audio pleasure. With a specific emphasis on the ‘odd’.

    LYRICS:

    Peter and Jane

    Music: Damian Scott

    Words: Tim Riley

    The daring deeds of a daring man

    Can’t impress you in the way I can

    The meek and mildness of human kindness

    Can get to you

    You

    Peter and Jane watch movies

    Shouldn’t we do that

    Peter and Jane go walking

    Wouldn’t that be good

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze into each other’s eyes

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze

    Lucky for me you especially

    Like to hear my voice constantly

    How long will it take

    For this ice to break

    Through

    Peter and Jane watch movies

    Shouldn’t we do that

    Peter and Jane go walking

    Wouldn’t that be good

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze into each other’s eyes

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze

    Now and again you seem to be

    A completely different person to me

    It’s so confusing

    I keep losing touch

    With you

    Peter and Jane watch movies

    Shouldn’t we do that

    Peter and Jane go walking

    Wouldn’t that be good

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze into each other’s eyes

    And when they’re stuck for words

    They gaze

  • Tea and Biscuits

    Tea and Biscuits

    · Magic Rabbits

    Time again to clamber aboard the soul-fired train of musical memories with your drivers Tim and Damian.

    This week, the mates present ‘Tea and Biscuits’, a song that draws upon the stop-frame joys of Trumptonshire and tabloids. Along the scenic route, they’ll discuss life, first jobs, and Tim’s close and lasting relationship with Billy Bragg (almost).

    It’s another unmissable ride – and you’ll get there in 45 minutes (or if you can’t then you can claim a ticket refund via a cunningly complex online process).

    LYRICS:

    Tea and Biscuits

    words and music by Damian Scott

    Tea and biscuits as you curse into your cup

    Beer and grumbling as you swear your time is up

    Words of wisdom as you put the world to rights

    The morning paper to see who won the fight

    Ten o’clock and never late

    You’re waiting for the early morning break

    And the papers will tell you what’s going on in the world

    Tea and biscuits as you toast the bride

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    A royal wedding for the folks inside

    Tea and biscuits as the hooter blows

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    Pull up your trousers and wipe your nose

    The Sun or Mirror left by the toilet seat

    Smiling Sam is there to make your day complete

    A perfect figure and a page of misspelt words

    She’s sitting pretty in her sealskin and her furs

    Ten o’clock and never late

    You’re waiting for the early morning break

    And the papers will tell you what’s going on in the world

    Tea and biscuits as you toast the bride

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    A royal wedding for the folks inside

    Tea and biscuits as the hooter blows

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    Pull up your trousers and wipe your nose

    Like or lump it as you contemplate your shares

    It’s cake or crumpet for the chaps that work upstairs

    Ten o’clock and never late

    You’re waiting for the early morning break

    And the papers will tell you what’s going on in the world

    Tea and biscuits as you toast the bride

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    A royal wedding for the folks inside

    Tea and biscuits as the hooter blows

    [Papers, read all about it in the papers]

    Pull up your trousers and wipe your nose

  • Morningside Road

    Morningside Road

    · Magic Rabbits

    It’s time once again to rope up to Tim and Damian as they traverse the rocky (‘n’ rolly) wastelands of bandmatery.

    This week, our musical explorers discuss banishment from a famed pub
van breakdowns
 a lovely and much-missed fella called Martin Ruby
inspirational management
getting kitted out at Afflecks Palace
dodgy ‘Suede’ bootleg cassettes
 and a recording studio called Frog.

    And, as if that weren’t enough (and it probably isn't), the show culminates in a newly recorded version of an old ‘Boat Thief’ live set classic, Tim’s marvellous paean to Edinburgh: ‘Morningside Road’.

    Och, the new!

    🎧 BOAT THIEF

    LYRICS:

    Morningside Road

    words and music by Tim Riley

    Well, I wrap my coat around me

    And I wish that you were here

    So I can take your hand in the Canny Man’s

    And make things disappear

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

    So I nudge the sleeping city

    As I’m walking through her streets

    And I kick my toes at the falling snow

    As it settles around my feet

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

    Well, I’ve always seen this place as my second home

    And the city is my friend when I’m all alone

    So I’m counting every hour

    Til I’m with her once again

    Til I again embrace that wondrous place

    That mistress to so many, many men

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

    Come with me and share my load

    I’m gonna walk with you down Morningside Road

  • A Thousand Miles Away

    A Thousand Miles Away

    · Magic Rabbits

    Join Tim and Damian on another scamper through the deep, dank forest of bandmate nostalgia.

    This time, the nearly-men of pop bang on about the weight of mandolins, the value of using antique audio equipment, first-person versus third-person song perspectives, brushes with bigwig A&R men
and background sheep noises.

    All topped off with a rousing little rendition of Tim’s “A Thousand Miles Away” (with tasty real drums!).

    Join them and together, hack through the music-biz wonder-growth.

    LYRICS

    A Thousand Miles Away

    words and music by Tim Riley

    She’s away from here

    Even when she’s right here

    And her vacant stare

    Means she’s never quite there

    She’s a thousand miles away

    She’s a thousand miles away

    With her head in the clouds

    She skips around the town

    And no one knows the sanctuary she’s found

    She’s a thousand miles away

    She’s a thousand miles away

    She’s away from here

    Even when she’s right here

    And no one knows the sanctuary she’s found

    She’s a thousand miles away

    She’s a thousand miles away

  • Can't See For Looking

    Can't See For Looking

    · Magic Rabbits

    Tim and Damian once again amble along the windswept promenade of music-biz memories, deliberating on childhood tribalism, cultural appropriation, difficult time signatures, recording studio nerves
 and Jamaican beer. All culminating beautifully in a wistful re-recording of Tim’s ‘Can’t SeeFor Looking’. Grab a jacket, turn up the collar and join them for the b-side stroll.

    References:

    Peter Gabriel

    https://open.spotify.com/track/6vZZtivPrtpggT5SSXsYTy

    https://open.spotify.com/album/5mHESsxnNuS9E6s6769eWu

    Aztec Camera

    https://open.spotify.com/album/1VduWll7rkJvGmwe5gYu72

    The Style Council

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eGSA4P5vw&list=RDT3eGSA4P5vw&start_radio=1

    Sly & Robbie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIsTZPp0iM&list=RDVVIsTZPp0iM&start_radio=1

    Stephen Duffy - The Lilac Time

    https://open.spotify.com/album/5SgauH4yHE5d2s7cBZRHKK

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0Ew8gg

    David Sylvian

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEArdmll_9w&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmRkH-vUXwHhDFkortLSwLsi&index=4

    Linden Studios Cumbria - Guy Forrester

    http://lindenstudio.co.uk/

    LYRICS

    Can’t See For Looking

    words and music by Tim Riley

    I can’t see for looking, see the wood for the trees

    Though I’ve looked high and low on my hands and my knees

    And I wish that you’d tell me what it is that I’ve lost

    Cos I can’t see for looking

    Our union is ending, and it cuts me in two

    To see you turn away when I look at you

    And you decline my invitation to give it one chance

    Our union is ending

    I’m practising perfection, my motive unclear

    It’ll soften your defences, I’m certain, my dear

    And if that were to happen, I’m sure you’d agree

    Oh, what am I saying?

    As a desperate attempt, I have pleaded with you

    To consider it further and start anew

    But my rivers of persuasion are fast running dry

    These rivers of persuasion

    Please forgive me

    Please forgive me

    Please forgive me

    Please forgive me

    I can’t see for looking, see the wood for the trees

    Though I’ve looked high and low on my hands and my knees

    And I wish that you’d tell me what it is that I’ve lost

    Cos I can’t see for looking

    Our union is ending, and it cuts me in two

    To see you turn away when I look at you

    And you decline my invitation to give it one chance

    Our union is ending

  • The Newlyweds

    The Newlyweds

    · Magic Rabbits

    To kick off with, Tim and Damian natter about their musical journey, using one of their old songs as a springboard for the chat. This week it's 'The Newlyweds', which they've re-recorded specially for this show.

    Stephen Duffy (The Lilac Time)

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/5SgauH4yHE5d2s7cBZRHKK⁠

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0Ew8gg⁠

    Led Zeppelin

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/0GqpoHJREPp0iuXK3HzrHk⁠

    Marc Bolan

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/track/4JzqDlNhjxxZ3oQcfXhS6q⁠

    Mike Oldfield

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/0a3YQpBnRzJzNktOjb6Dum⁠

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/200p7O3raeXT2jNhmzK4TE⁠

    Yanks Records

    ⁠https://medium.com/@alangregson/vinyl-hunting-in-mid-to-late-1980s-manchester-bd564c213258⁠

    The Jam

    ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3M8X_FV-8&list=RD1e3M8X_FV-8&start_radio=1⁠

    Aztec Camera

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/1VduWll7rkJvGmwe5gYu72⁠

    XTC

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/2qT62DYO8Ajb276vUJmvhz⁠

    ELO

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/7jefIIksOi1EazgRTfW2Pk⁠

    Steely Dan

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/6P7H3ai06vU1sGvdpBwDmE⁠

    Little Feat

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZIwOAzDuGPspzK7yiTc4S⁠

    Bob Dylan

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX⁠

    Side FX

    ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@SideFX-x9g/videos⁠

    Biscuit Barrel

    ⁠https://www.emmabridgewater.co.uk/products/blue-hen-biscuit-barrel?variant=56315146011011⁠

    The Clash

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RGLhK1IP9jnYFH4BRFJBS⁠

    Prefab Sprout

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/4w3QqrcmBv8dasemwBXmxf⁠

    Tears for Fears

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/search/Tears%20for%20fears⁠

    Elvis Costello

    ⁠https://open.spotify.com/artist/2BGRfQgtzikz1pzAD0kaEn⁠

    LYRICS:

    The Newlyweds

    words and music by Damian Scott

    The bridal suite wasn’t quite what you expected

    And the view out of the lake was not that at all

    And the thirty-year-old outlook from a sixteen-year-old mind

    Will never help you when she’s crawling up the wall

    Wishing you were not the newlyweds

    Wishing you were not the newlyweds

    Wishing you were not the newlyweds

    Start from the start and wake up one day ten years later

    The honeymoon, it came and went in silence

    As you packed away your memories in that case

    The pressure cooker romance started leaking steam, quiteslowly first

    But blew its top much later in your face

    The photographs were dull and uninspiring

    A perpetual reminder of the grief

    A Kodachrome rendition of a black and white state of mind

    That took away your future like a thief

    Wake up, wake up, wake up!

    (Won’t you) wake up, wake up!