Meet the band! This bunch have brought more than I ever hoped to the music.
Thanks so much to everyone who already has tickets for next month. It’s going to be so much fun.
16th Nov – Manchester
17th Nov – Kendal
18th Nov – Birmingham
19th Nov – Bristol
23rd Nov – London
Absolutely delighted to confirm Kizzy Crawford as support act for the November tour.
She’s a young Welsh / Bajan artist with talent to burn. Get to know her music here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuGD5PUYXck
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5yPNQ2rLG2TDftpNXr1ckY
16th November – Manchester
17th November – Kendal
18th November – Birmingham
19th November – Bristol
23rd November – London
Tickets: http://www.musicglue.com/jakemorley/tickets/… Read the rest
In support of international charity Postcards For Peace, whose goal is to end discrimination and violence through education, I’ve joined with twenty five other incredible musicians to contribute a song to this album
The title, A World of Hope, comes from the lyrics to Jo Hamilton’s ‘There It Is’ (one of the first tracks contributed to the project) and it is a fitting name for an album that features 26 songs of war and peace, of hope and of love, of living life to the full, of not giving up and of having the courage to face adversity.
It includes acts that have truly earned the right to be called legends, Grammy award nominees, multiple BBC Folk Award winners, acts that have enjoyed chart success and artists that spend their lives travelling the world to get their music heard. From octogenarian Peggy Seeger to teenager Breeze Redwine, every single one … Read the rest
Fly my pretty, fly!
You can listen to it here, or visit the homepage for a complete list of stores:
iTunes: http://share.jakemorley.com/the-manual-itunes
Signed, book-bound CD: http://share.jakemorley.com/the-manual-cd
Spotify: http://share.jakemorley.com/jmspotify… Read the rest
This November I’ll play 5 nights across the UK with a band. I haven’t done that since 2012! Here are the dates:
16th November 2016 – Manchester, Gullivers
17th November 2016 – Kendal, Bootleggers
18th November 2016 – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
19th November 2016 – Bristol, Thekla
23rd November 2016 – London, Bush Hall
Tickets here: http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/jake-morley-tickets
20% off Ticket + Album bundles: http://www.musicglue.com/jakemorley/bundles/
These are my biggest shows for years and they’ll be way more fun if you’re there. Diaries out let’s do this!… Read the rest
Around this time i made a big discovery
All the little test tubes shattered in my laboratory
Yeh I’ve got a laboratory
That here I am and now’s the time to
Start again
Have you seen me lately i’ve been the one with the eyes that stare nowhere
Bringing down anyone foolish enough to be around me
Maybe it’s a little overdue but i’m ready to
Start again
I got 10 new toes looks like they’re in new rows connected to my new legs
Taking me places I may well have been to before
But suddenly everything’s new I’ve managed to
Start again
It’s a new moment, different to the last
Unencumbered it arises just for an instant before being replaced by another
Incessantly it’s all moving faster than baby clothes and the weather
The wrecking ball of change is coming
But if you can start again
You’re doing … Read the rest
My younger days are gone
Time don’t stand still
My my where do the years go
Before you know you’re a grown-up
So speak your mind and use your head
Walk tall
Find a roof and make a bed
Take good care of all the ones that you love
Don’t be scared be strong
Carry the weight of the world
Oh it’s time to learn what it means to be a man now
Your father and his father have been here before
Good to know when you’re feeling a little low down
As you labour in the mud dream of the sky
I know I could do better
So speak your mind and use your head
Walk tall
Find a roof and make a bed
Take good care of all the ones that you love
Don’t be scared be strong
Carry the weight of the world
Oh it’s time … Read the rest
I stumbled upon a little house
It was an allegorical house
There upon the door I saw a sign
It was my name on the door
No one was home
No one was home
So I broke in (no)
Oh I broke in
I muck about trashing it up
And I jump for joy on the beds
Peeling all the paper from the walls
And smashing the windows
With not a care at all
Not a care at all
As I rifle the drawers (no)
As I rifle the drawers
One long forever later I was hit
By a tidal wave of regret
Why did I defile a special place
That could have been my home?
Not cool at all
Not cool at all
Is it too late for me (no)
Is it too late for me
To fix this place up
Give it all of my love… Read the rest
I won’t let this evening die
Hold it closer
No veil gonna shroud my eyes
Not even nearly
The darkness fears me
Cos I won’t yet let go
Won’t consign this to history
The weight on my eyes
I won’t let this night forget
Stay within me
I won’t sign my name just yet
won’t give back this day to the place it came from
Tonight I ruminate until
The weight on my eyes comes
Just one flash
Control is a desperate dream
Of chasing shadows
For now balance flows through me
But blink and it’s gone
Lost to the dawn where the sunshine hits like thunder
Don’t surrender to slumber
The weight on my eyes
Simple measures, precious pleasures
I’m king of the day tonight
And seeing it clearly
But I’m the fool of tomorrow’s light
To come all this way
And just throw it away
Oh I … Read the rest
At some stage the air just came too much bear
And I had to leave home
Tame like a lionchild who’s only known the cage
At an age he craves the wild
I need to be alone
When I feel the waves start to break
The noise is thick escape im breathing in the smoke the air
And the clothes start to tear yeah i’m throwing off the chains
And running away to roar
There’s something you’ve gotta know
Sometimes I need to be alone
Are you strong enough to take me as I am my love
So I dive out the door
I’m fleeing from the scene
And I’m screaming but I’m silent
Like I’m having a bad dream
Heart beating, overheating
I cannot move for people
I just need to be alone
And as the hustle grows dim
I slip within the cracks between the facts … Read the rest