XTD is Across the Divide



 

Benediction     Celtic folk/rock     My Irish friend’s parting shot to me was always 'May the road rise to meet you; may the wind be in your back!' The rest is my poetic licence working.    video
 
Normal Day         Singer/songwriter acoustic rock    A song for the working class, wherein I once didst travail - pure nostalgia from another era. Now the factories are gone and becoming a rock star is considered a career move!     video.
 
Mission Impossible    Staight ahead rock    This track will self-destruct in five minutes, quicker if you play it! A love song for my wife...they said, ‘It’ll never last!’
 
Samson & Delilah      Dylanesque/country     An allegorical tongue-in-cheek (and true!) story about me being seduced by a record executive.
 
Ball & Chain    Dub percussion Europop    Bye Bye Baby. Things are changing and I’m moving on. I'm fed up of you bleating like you are a victim, when really you are a victor.
 
Cold City     medium rock    
Broken promises come as a package with rock ‘n’ roll - or is it just with life? Anyway, here’s my six-penneth on the subject.
 
Shanty Town Blues     Southern blues    Inspired by Curtis Mayfield, and first recorded yonks ago with lovely guitar distortion on a B&O Sound-On-Sound recorder.
 
Robin's song     Retro rock with a modern theme     Who’s Robin? Some crazy bird writing stuff about me and Jack Rosa on Facebook.
 
Post War Baby     Songwriter ballad    
A song about a girl who had a somewhat materialistic outlook on things… but she was very pretty!
 
Girl in a Jaguar     comic pop/rock    Retro ditty of local gal using the family Jag to insinuate a certain social standing.
 
Across the Divide     medium folk/rock    
Yesterdays’ glory lies somewhere in a fog of yesterdays’ lost ‘Lookout across the divide, what’s there to see? - only the ruins of how it used to be.’

 

 
The cast...

Dave
 


Mandy
 


Bob Wilson
 


Mark Jago
 


Alan Smith
 


Jack Rosa
 


Stephanie
Sungbin Huh


Fitzroy
Storrod


Gordon
Davies


Tony
Kelsey


Ged
Eastick


Martin Smith


Barry Willis
 


Chris Malin