Pimyo

The songs demoed on this page include "Suenos de Pimyo" that's Spanish for Dreams of Pimyo. It's a hazy instrumental piece written in a chilled out mood with a glass of rioja in one hand and a nubile senorita in the other." The second song up couldn't be more different; "I Could've", a tense prayer from a father to an aborted child. No.3 "Les Dauphines", an instrumental written as a signing-off piece for my old rockabilly band, The Dauphines. The fourth song, recorded live at the Wurzel Bush Folk Club in Brinklow is "The Ballad of Good Old Ted", the story of a pensioner who was convicted for shooting a burglar. "Rusty Bridge" is the fifth demo here; I watched an old metal footbridge being renovated a little too late and thought of analogies with people and the whole bridges idea of maintaining friendships. No.6 is "Nine-o-clock Comes", played in DADGAD and discussing colonialism in a has-been society. The "Pimyo Carol" is seventh up. You can do a Viennese Waltz to this! If I ever get it finished, I'll have it released and played at Christmas lights switch-ons. Number eight, "Better Than This" is a true story but written in the style of Flight of the Conchords, using a cod hip-hop beat to support some stuff that was happening one day, back east. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unfettered by constraints of style, genre, talent or sex appeal, Pimyo quietly goes about the business of making self-indulgent noises with the sole aim of self amusement and gratification. Occasionally inspired to write something that gets his goat but never protest singing in the traditional sense from a particular political stance. (I'm sure that socialism has many worthy aspects) But Pimyo's songs are politically much closer to home: selfishness, narcissism, dreams, food, sex, alcohol, stone circles, morris dancing.