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    Chronicles the band's debut tour of America, each song recorded live in a different bookshop, from New Jersey to New York, Colorado to New Mexico. Gold embossed deluxe edition, complete with photo book and digital download, which includes the bonus tracks.

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Little City Books
16th January 2019 - Hoboken NJ.

This bookshop is a veritable Tardis on
the corner of Bloomfield St in Hoboken, extending down and doubling in size as you walk through to the huge children’s section - fairy lights, immersive book displays, all new to us in their American editions. Kate, the co-owner,hadinitiallybeenworriedabout generating an audience in the depths of January, but it had sold out and was gearing up to be a full and warm first welcome on our American tour. They stocked their bar with Scottish whisky and a surprisingly delicious 12% beer called MacGuffin.

ONCE UPON A TIME
A song using the first lines of books.

lyrics

High, high above the North Pole. On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man. His children are falling from the sky. All children except one grow up. He was born with a gift of laughter. And a sense that the world was mad.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Writing a song about first lines.
It was the age of wisdom, of foolishness.
It was the Season of light, season of dark. Drawing the reader in right from the start. It was the spring of hope, the winter of despair.
The sun shone, having no alternative. It was
the day my grandmother exploded. It was a pleasure to burn. The church is blowing a sad windblown ‘Kathleen’ on the bells in the skid row slums as I wake up all woebegone and goopy. Transformedintoa monstrous vermin.
It was the season of light, the season of dark. Inspiration comes from The past
Is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Itwasthebestoftimes,itwastheworst of times. Light of my life, fire of my loins.
It was love at first sight,
love at first sight.
All this happened, more or less, more or less.

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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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