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lyrics

The modern day festival, spectacular but lame

It started with the best intentions, now I wonder why I came

For the modern day music? I don't much care for it

Though it wound up on my hard drive, I'd never pay for this

The modern day festival, so the sunday papers say

Will be coated in tarmac but pack your wellies anyway

For to be seen in a floral print is the order of the day

We may be standing in the queue but, hey man, we've lost our way


How did we let it get like this?

Where did it go wrong

Always slightly worse than before

That's what progress means


The modern day festival, the organisers try

But health and safety took the joy and now we don't know why

We ever came here, for the touts and the tourbus

And the piles of shit all in the country to be cleared up for us

The modern day festival – I blame the mobile phone

For turning anonymity to communication zone

Just a modern day weekend, a night on the piss

No observer's book or usborne guide prepared me for this


How did we let it get like this?...


The moral of this story, the moral of this fable

Is that one should always pitch one's tent far from this as one is able

To afford, for this home in the country may be alright for some

But with the ID photos and debit charges, it seems we've all been done

The modern day festival, is a long way you see

From a banjo in the backyard and a squeezebox on the knee

But if that's the way it's going to stay and how it's got to be

Farewell ye modern festivals, and come back here when you're free



How did we let it get like this?...

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from Here the brute harpies make their nests, released August 1, 2009
Words and music by Julian Gaskell ©2008

Contains excerpt of the Macedonian traditional tune 'Jovano, Jovanke' (trad/arr. J. Gaskell ©2008)


JG – vocals, accordion, balalaika, washboard

DP – acoustic guitar, vocals

TS – upright bass, vocals

RP – drums

KJ – mandolin

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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