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Chris: We released a home-recorded collection of songs called ‘Caterpillar Until Further Notice’ not long into the 1st lockdown in 2020. We had planned to release another collection basically straight away. This song was written for that 2nd collection. I was still going to work in the NHS and my daily walks to the office during that spring were beautiful and sunny but also hauntingly quiet. The quiet, along with that nervous hyper-vigilance that marked that early pandemic period, meant I noticed more on my walks than I would've normally. One day I spotted a perfectly pristine dead blue tit by the tram stop...

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A 20 minute walk to work
And i pass only a handful of people
Most purposeful-looking
Some questionable
And at the primrose hill tram stop
I nearly step on the perfect little body of a dead blue tit
Right there on the platform
It's spindly little legs
The feathers on its yellow belly matted
But the blue still brilliant
And i thought it strange
To see a dead little blue tit
I can’t remember ever seeing one before

And that same day
While avoiding work
I read an article that reported blue tits
Had started dying in large numbers in Germany
And that they didn’t really know why
And it probably won’t happen here but maybe it's something to look out for
So on the walk back home i looked out for it
I found the little thing though it's body had been moved
Off the platform and onto the grass
Lying in the shadow of seed-shedding dandelion
And i took a photo of it and thought
‘I should send this to the RSPB or something’
But i didn’t then and haven’t now
As i rediscover that photo on my camera roll during week 7 of lockdown

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from Incredible Longboats: Relics 2019 - 2023, released May 5, 2023

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Soup Review Sheffield, UK

Soup Review are what happens when South Yorkshire meets South Coast, when folk tradition meets anti-folk downbeat self- deprecation.
Chris Delamere is the son of a morris dancer. Mario D’Agostino arrived in Sheffield from Weymouth.
Together they write songs that masquerade as comic, but on closer listening reveal themselves to be a deep and poignant exploration of the human condition. ... more

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