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Live tracks from Whangaehu Music Festival Feb 1997. We played two sets. An evening set at around midnight with a malfunctioning monitor system and an afternoon set the next day under the effects of severe sleep deprivation. It wasn't our best gig but it was filmed - on SVHS tape - with the audio taken directly from the camera’s built in microphones. In 2004 I took a copy of this audio to Neil Maddever who produced masters for a full length live CD. My plan was to release this as a companion CD to the Forms Of Escape album but subsequent events rendered this impossible. In '06 I found a better copy of the source audio. The four tracks included here are taken from this.
lyrics
I can’t keep my eyes off ‘a you
and I can’t help myself, or what I do
I just gotta watch the way you move
And I just gotta touch, would ya like me to.
I,I,I,I,I,I,I…….
Wish all the other songs had been for you
And I wish that the sky was always blue
And that our hearts would never be that colour too
I wish, I wish
Now I surrender, at last I surrender
I never felt this good before standing at an open door
Now I surrender, at last I surrender
I never felt this safe before with my head in a blender
I,I,I,I,I,I,I…….
Wish all the other songs had been for you
And I wish that the sky was always blue
And that our hearts would never be that colour too
I wish
And I wish all the other times had been with you
And I wish that my wishes would all come true
For you and I and me and you
I wish, I wish
I,I,I,I,I,I,I…….
Wish all the other songs had been for you
And I wish that the sky was always blue
And that our hearts would never be that colour too
I wish
And I wish all the other times had been with you
And I wish all the songs I’ve sung were sung for you
If I’d known you then I would have wanted to
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish.
credits
from The Mother Back To Strong Down,
released December 11, 2012
Guitar & Vocals: Gavin Burgess. Guitar: David Rogerson. Bass: Murray Loveridge. Drums: Neville Messent. Audio taken from video footage recorded by Bruce Ponting. Post production, tweezing and tweaks undertaken by Gavin at Sasquatch Studio.
Gavin Burgess is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, studio engineer and producer who divides his time between his home in
Thailand and his native New Zealand. He has performed and released music with bands including ‘Top Secret’, ‘The Gavin Burgess Band’, and as a solo artist. He records and releases through his own independent ‘Gavland’ label....more
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