A L B U M S

YEAR ZERO (2002)

GHCD8 (Avalon Records)

Epic, melodic, symphonic, dramatic — more "ic's" than you can shake a stick at. Released 23 Sep 2002.

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Credits

ROY KEYWORTH: Electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar on Democracy, noisy effects and Ding Dong.

STUART NICHOLSON: Most of the main singing, lots of background singing, ethereal choiry stuff, all the words and a teeny weenie amount of keyboard mayhem.

SPENCER LUCKMAN: Drums and all manner of strange percussive interludes.

DEAN BAKER: An old but perfectly formed Fender Rhodes Piano, Steam Driven Mellotron, reasonably stable Mini Moog, Taurus bass pedals, assorted modern digital synthesizers and rack mounted trickery, sampling, programming, wedding and 'glamour' photography (e-mail for prices)……we jest not!!!

NEIL PEPPER: Bass guitar and Lord Lucan impersonation.

And introducing some very special guests:

Cantori featuring:
      Jonathan Prentice - Baritone voices
      Lorraine Rowan - Soprano voices
      Nicki Clewlow - Alto voices
John Wetton - Vocals and back up vocals
Sarah Quilter - Flute, saxophone, clarinet and vocals
Rob Booth - Trumpet
Sabino Andreotti, Wai Lim Kai, Yun Hwa Son - various atmospheric voices

All music written and arranged for your aural delight by Galahad except for Cantori voices on Deceptive Vistas arranged by Jonathan Prentice.

Written, rehearsed, knocked in to shape and recorded in super stereo sound at various times between the Summer of 2000 and the Spring of 2002 at:

a. Underworld Studios, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Recorded and engineered by Neil Pepper
b. Dean's garage, Poole, Dorset, England. Recorded and engineered by Dean Baker
c. Knighton Heath Music Centre, Poole, Dorset, England. Recorded, engineered, mixed and, at times, co-produced by Jamie 'Jason' King

All of the above with a little back seat driving from Roy and Stu.

Track Listing

I Year Zeroverture
II Belt up
III Ever the Optimist
IV The Charlotte Suite
V Haunted
VI Democracy
VII Baroque and Roll Dementia
VIII A Deeper Understanding?
IX The Jazz Suite
X Take a Deep Breath and Hold on Tight
XI i Hindsight 1
XI ii Hindsight 2 - A very clever guy indeed
XII The September Suite
XIII World Watching
XIV Deceptive Vistas /Postscript - Perspective

Lyrics

[Select a track title below to view the lyrics for that track, or scroll down from here to see the entire set.]

Year Zeroverture / Belt Up / Ever the Optimist / The Charlotte Suite / Haunted / Democracy / Baroque and Roll Dementia / A Deeper Understanding? / The Jazz Suite / Take a Deep Breath and Hold on Tight / i Hindsight 1 / ii Hindsight 2 - A very clever guy indeed / The September Suite / World Watching / Deceptive Vistas / Postscript - Perspective

I - Year Zeroverture
Year Zero, Year Zero, it's coming

II - Belt Up
Open your arms, embrace a new dawn

It's almost here
Can you feel it creeping up behind you....?

Belt up and brace yourselves, now is our time
Take a deep breath and hold on to the wire
This is the start of something so good
People get ready for the ride of your lives

If you believe that you'll believe anything!

Open your arms and embrace a new dawn
Grasp the windows of opportunity and make them your own
It maybe a touch idealistic but we've all got to have a dream
Life without focus is no life at all

The excitement is mounting
It's all too much to bear

III - Ever the Optimist
Open your eyes
See the vista of light.

Open your eyes
See the vista of light.

IV - The Charlotte Suite

V - Haunted
They say the clock is always ticking away
But I say, it's only just started
It all comes and it all goes
and then it all comes again
constantly turning, turning in circles
It's coming back to haunt who ever wants to be haunted

Spooky!!!

Life is a roller coaster.... to some
And to those.. this roller coaster
is about to start again...
Yes, it's about to start again

We've paid our entrance fee
time after time
year after year
Eyes down, hands on the wheel
And now we're at the front of the starting grid again
Ready for the off
Here we go, here we go again
We got to watch out for the other 'bad' guys cause they don't play it straight
We're whiter than white, most of the time anyway
Got to play by the rules, our rules
Oh what a surprise, what a surprise!!
Ain't going to take any more lies!!

VI - Democracy
Is there any real democracy?
Is it all just illusory?

Open your eyes
See the vista of light.

VII - Baroque and Roll Dementia
OOAAA, OOOOAA, OOOOOOOAAAAH!

VIII - A Deeper Understanding?
Digging deeper,
Deeper understanding,
Understanding all our surroundings,
Surrounding ourselves with home comforts,
With everything we hold dear,
Dear oh dear
Why do we always destroy what we love?

IX - The Jazz Suite

X - Take a Deep Breath and Hold on Tight
Belt up and brace yourselves, now is our time
Take a deep breath and hold on tight
This is the start of something so good
and this something got me started

Open your arms, embrace the nature of change
See the positive light in all that you do
Someone once said 'the times, they are a changin'
No more freewheelin' we're focused instead

XI i - Hindsight 1

XI ii - Hindsight 2 - A very clever guy indeed
Hindsight is a very clever guy
But not as clever as I!
He can only look back
He can't plan for the future

Yes they say hindsight is a very clever guy
But not as clever as I!
He can only look back
He can't plan for the future

Come on, come on and give me a try,
Any way you like

Whether good or bad I don't know for sure
We'll just have to wait and see how it all turns out
History will judge our actions
Someone else will point the finger of blame

I guess it depends on the money
The money, the money, yes the money!!!!
The colour of your money
Not to say your skin!!

("It always comes to down to money and wealth
Influence and the people you know
It always does, it always will")

But what about the caged people
Does it get any better for them?
It could hardly get much worse
From squalid attitudes to squalid conditions
Just push them all to the back of your minds
They are of no concern to either party
now or ever

("I doubt it will, they'll just remain forgotten
For them nothing will change
If it does it will only be for the worse
They'll keep it all out of view
The World will never know the REAL truth
never")

Foresight, is a very clever guy
Much cleverer than all of us
Yet we never seem to use him
I wonder why?

XII - The September Suite

XIII- World Watching
It doesn't matter now, it never really did
They are all invisible, inconsequential
After all, that's life!!
or maybe an end to it
Oh you are so perceptive

The World will be watching
with a curious eye
Taking notes and taking stock
Nerves will be fraying everywhere
Please take heed and take care
After all, that's life!!
All over the World....

XIV - Deceptive Vistas
The countdown to change is almost over
soon you'll be wandering what the fuss was all about
Looking out across the harbour
in the twilight hours
at a beautiful vista of light
so calm and so serene
yes so calm and so serene
Deceptive, isn't it???

Postscript - Perspective
I'm thankful for the great times
Respectful of the bad
For it's those that put perspective
On the good life I now have

I'm thankful for the great times
Respectful of the bad
For it's those that put perspective
On the good life I now have....