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Tattered Cover
2nd February 2019 - Denver CO.
Their main Colfax Avenue branch used to be a theatre and you can still make out the huge tall prop cavern above the stage and browse the music section in what was once the orchestra pit. In the audience we could see friendly faces from all our previous concerts in Colorado. We relished the experience and ended up playing for almost two hours, the book covers piling up in front of us as we dropped them down after each song. The space we were playing in held a sense of all the other authors that had appeared their over the years.

CACKLING FARTS
Inspired by The Horologicon, by Mark Forsyth.

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I wake in the morning just before dawn
Uhtceare my dreamery’s gone.
Thinking there’s so much to do and no time
Day-peep comes but the sun doesn’t shine.
Cunctuation I can’t face the day,
Pissaprest, hope it goes away.

The rum-peeper shows me my pimginnits
I’m trying fucation to cover my zits.
I can’t be bothered to straighten my hair
I’m cymotrichous and I don’t care.
Most of my clothes are second hand
I’m a ragabash cos I’m in a band
I’m in need of ariston and a butter-shag.
My cackling farts are over done
My toast is brizzled and Brizzle’s my home
It’s time to leave it with my cello
And more, to oxter lift and go.
It’s the day of the gig at the bookshop
The band must charette
And write till we drop.
It’s a panic party but a jolly one
As long as we Chado to help us with songs.
Ben is our host and makes pots of tea,
We’re about to be golopshusly bedinnered you’ll see.
His cackling farts are just spot on
There’s cheesy toast within this home
Now it’s time to leave it with our big load
And more, to oxter lift and go.
Waiting for people to turn up and sit
Nervously practising this little bit.
Fisking around the bookshop and then
The author and audience, ladies and men.
Now we’re at the song’s eschaton
Soon to be quafftide for this little one.
Nod-crafty people say they listened hard
Now to be vinolent, hand me a glass.
My fackling carts are over done
My head is Brizzled or is that my home?
It’s time to leave with David’s sow And more to oxter lift and go.
And more to oxter lift and go.

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from LIVE in American Bookshops, released August 11, 2020

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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more

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