From the recording The Friday Songs
The third in The Portraits’ weekly “Friday Song” series has just been released on their Facebook www.facebook.com/theportraitsmusic
A brand new song every single week based on ideas and inspiration sent in by you!
"Glastonbury Song" was written on Wednesday afternoon this week and was inspired by Ian Chambers of the amazing UK Sounds radio http://uksounds.com/ - Ian has always been a great support to The Portraits, and he wrote us an email to suggest we capture in song what he called the “Glasto panic” – the madness leading up to our appearance at Glastonbury Festival in 2011. In fact, it’s the tale of the whole experience from finding out we were playing, and screaming out the window (!) and then rapidly amassing a new group, to pushing the van through the mud to get there, and feeling really at home once there.
It is not the same lovely “Glastonbury Song” by the Waterboys which just happens to be one of Jeremy’s favourite songs ever. But it follows something of a similar theme – feeling your heart has found its home in such beautiful surroundings.
We hope you enjoy the song, and we look forward to receiving your input towards the next song in the series. The songs are inspired by ideas, pictures, suggestions sent to us by you. They can be originals for which you send us stories, bits of poetry -- anything from your own lives, or covers you would like to hear us do in Portraits-style. We will tag you in the videos and publicity if you've been the inspiration for the current week's song!
Meanwhile, “Glastonbury Song” along with last week’s Friday Song "Daybreak" and the previous week's song "Final Act", the very first in the Friday Song series, can be downloaded right now from our main site http://www.theportraitsmusic.com/ - click on Friday Song towards the top of the page. The song can be downloaded for free, or you have the option of choosing a price -- and all proceeds from sales of the Friday Songs will go to The Burma Campaign (http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/) who campaign for human rights and democracy in Burma, a cause close to our hearts.
JEREMY MILLINGTON
THE PORTRAITS http://www.theportraitsmusic.com/
— with Jeremy Millington and Lorraine Reilly Millington.
Lyrics
GLASTONBURY SONG
The phone rings in a West London hovel
Where the landlady just doesn’t care
Between the mice and the holes in the fabric
Would one of the Portraits be there?
I run a show in the town of Pilton
You may just have heard of its name
I’m heading there with a million (others)
And we’d love it if you’d come and play
There’s a heart drumming behind me
There’s a crowd who breathe in my every tone
Why was it so long in coming?
I’ve a feeling I have just come home
Bear with me twenty-five seconds
While I open the window and scream
And fire June’s paper arrows
Made of pages I’ve just wiped clean
There’s a heart drumming behind me
There’s a crowd who breathe in my every tone
Why was it so long in coming?
I’ve a feeling I have just come home
Four weeks
Twenty voices and heartache
And a shiny new band later on
Join a line
Muddy flowers and excess
A queue of love ten miles long
There’s a heart drumming behind me
There’s a crowd who breathe in my every tone
Why was it so long in coming?
I’ve a feeling I have just come home