Writer · Performer · Label Director
The new Bedlam Six album is now on general release, available as a 12″ vinyl, compact disc and various download formats from the Bedlam Shop and as a collection of MP3s from all the usual digital retailers.
There is a website dedicated to the album at bedlamyouth.com.
Photo taken mere seconds before I dropped this plant pot onto the head of some poor innocent passer-by.
The vinyl part of our new LP “Youth” has just arrived. It will be available to pre-order from next week and go on general release on Monday 3rd March.
For such a creative and progressive place the internet has an awful lot of blood on its hands. If we are to believe the popular music press the internet has so far destroyed the album, the guitar band and indeed the music industry as a whole.
I am Internet, destroyer of worlds.
But amidst the din of recycled and regurgitated whinging there is one question lying quietly dormant, cocooned in the chrysalis of a tale formed in the early days of social media. It is a question almost as old as this year’s Song Of The Year Grammy winner Lorde.
“Who will be the first act launched to a classic level of recognisable superstardom solely via the internet?”
Here is the latest Bedlam Six music video.
Director – Andrew Brittain
Producer – Ella Gainsborough
Director of Photography – Charles Leek
Production Assistant – Kieren King
Production Designer – Alison Boyle
Assistant Editor – Matilda Smith
Runner – Jack Nixon
Song written by Louis Barabbas
Arranged and Performed by The Bedlam Six
Recording by WR Audio
Filmed on location in Salford, Greater Manchester
Bella the Cat, Lucinda Potter, Louis Barabbas, Biff Roxby, Fran Lydiatt, Dan Watkins, Matthew Cleghorn, Tom Cleghorn
We both know love comes with conditions
Collusions, collisions, unplanned revisions
And small print.
Darling we’re no different,
It’s you and me or you and someone else.
Between the womb and the tomb
There’s not a lot of room
To be the people we want to be.
Now I’m all rage,
I’ve forgotten how to act my age
Everything is slipping away from me.
Baby, I am the man you’re holding on to right now
But tell me who is the man you’re holding on for?
I want to know more.
Joking apart, don’t you dare enjoy the start,
We need to save our smiles for the happy ending.
I’ve put myself through hell
But these thoughts won’t think themselves
And I’m wondering if you’re just pretending.
Now my inner child is watching
So I’ve put him up for adoption
Because I suspect he’s up to something really bad.
And you still give me chills
You’ve got me hooked through the gills
But love never stopped anyone feeling sad.
Baby, I am the man you’re holding on to right now
But tell me who is the man you’re holding on for?
I want to know more.
It’s just the echo of a memory
Of a shadow of a regret
And the regrets are all for things
I haven’t even done yet.
I’m just a privileged boy
Battling for his right to a little misery
Wishing you were kissing me
And wishing it meant more.
I am the man you’re holding on to right now
But tell me who is the man you’re holding on for?
