Our set at the moment contains a couple of songs that we still love to play from our first album 'There must be less to life than this...', including the album opener 'Dark Clouds'. Here's a video of us playing this at our showcase a couple of weeks ago:
Songs are born in all sorts of ways and this one was born some years ago in Northern Spain (at the same time as "The Birds" incidentally). The weather rolls in from the Bay of Biscay, and the sense of foreboding as a storm builds is palpable. It can get heavy and that's where the song came into being, in the growing darkness that can hang over the mountains and plains. It was never intended to have any Latin influence, but as we've played it over the years it's taken on a slight Flamenco tinge. Maybe a song always betrays its roots?
Songs are born in all sorts of ways and this one was born some years ago in Northern Spain (at the same time as "The Birds" incidentally). The weather rolls in from the Bay of Biscay, and the sense of foreboding as a storm builds is palpable. It can get heavy and that's where the song came into being, in the growing darkness that can hang over the mountains and plains. It was never intended to have any Latin influence, but as we've played it over the years it's taken on a slight Flamenco tinge. Maybe a song always betrays its roots?