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Produced by Ian Shaw and David Preston



Ian Shaw all voices and piano 
David Preston guitars
Thad Kelly basses 
Mark Fletcher drums 
Thebe Lipere percussion
Guy Barker trumpet and flugel 
Julian Siegel tenor & soprano sax and bass clarinet 
Gabriella Swallow cello 
Liane Carroll voice 

Recorded at the Livingston Studios on the 12th-15th November 2007.
Engineered by Calum Malcolm, assisted by Sonny.
Mixed by Calum Malcolm at Carlekemp Studios, North Berwick, UK.
Design and photography by John Haxby. 

Hiraeth is Welsh for homesick.
She's Loaded is for all my girlfriends and Julian Clary.
Letter From A Dead Soldier is an apology to children orphaned by war.
A Good And Simple Man is in memory of my dad, Vic Bagshaw. 

Love at First Tequila 

In a bar behind the all-night, there's a girl in silver heels, there's a juke-box playing 'Up Tight' and a scally selling wheels. She brushes up against the boy like a puppy dog in Spring, he turns to her, he loves her lips, her tattoos and her ring. Here's a pound towards the next drink, here's a diamond for your ear, here's to what the other girls think, will you dance me out of here? Here's a kiss to last till later, here's a number on your palm, here's a "later, alligator" in blue ink across my arm. Lady Luck seems to be waltzing with the dealer, but it's love at first tequila. She crawls the streets of Camden like a lizard stalks a rock, chasing all the gigs, her pride is under key and lock. She sings to feed her babies, hand to mouth and mile to mile. But whenshe sings 'Perdido', they'll be dancing in the aisle. Here's a pound towards the next drink, here's a diamond for your ear, here's to what the other girls think, will you dance me out of here? Here's a kiss to last till later, here's a number on your palm, here's a "later, alligator" in blue ink across my arm. Lady Luck seems to be waltzing with the dealer, but it's love at first tequila. Back down the Black Gardenia, shiny horn tied in a sack, braving "no's" and "maybe's", keeping face from crock and ***. His family is on the far side of the wrong side of the tracks, keeping out the hungry wolves, here's a slammer to relax. Here's a pound towards the next drink, here's a diamond for your ear, here's to what the other girls think, will you dance me out of here? Here's a kiss to last till later, here's a number on your palm, here's a "later, alligator" take my lovin', take my arm. Lady Luck seems tobe waltzing with the dealer, but it's love at first tequila. They climb the stairs up to the skylight where the city's sound asleep. They make love to moon and starlight and the secret's theirs to keep. She doesn't want this one to end so she pins him to the floor. She shows the boy the sharp end of a knife she's used before. Here's a pound towards the next drink, here's a diamond for your ear, here's to what the other girls think, will you dance me out of here? Here's a kiss to last till later, here's a number on your palm, here's a "later, alligator" in blue ink across my arm. Lady Luck seems to be waltzing with the dealer, but it's love at first tequila. 

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