Arden Street from PBGB JUKEBOX by PBGB

A little while ago Al sat in The Shed strumming a tune he was working on. He called it Arden Street. He was singing about his earlier days in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

Wasn't long before we started kicking it about.

Found a basic feel we liked. Manny came up with a neat refrain.

When we figured we had the bones together we turned on the recorder. Got the bed down pretty quickly.

Neil took the files home, waved his joojoo over it and added a keyboard track.

Al speaks........."The story at work in Arden Street is one of generational change, international chaos and violence seeping into our quiet homes and cultural icons, and the challenges of growing old in a changing world. Our protagonist sets forth on his day with a surreal but unshakeable feeling that in some profound way his world has changed. The pillars and safeties are no more, even the birds sound alien. He walks through the usual streets and but they feel foreign to him. He catches his usual bus and in a meeting of the comfortably mundane with horrific foreign violence his feeling that this was somehow his last day becomes reality. The riff of the song is to signify the "town bells ringing, the horn of Gabriel, the bells of Armageddon".

Heavy stuff Al !

Anyway, it's yet another great song thanks Al. We're really chuffed to be part of bringing it to life.

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