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Back in September of 2013, whilst on tour my laptop was stolen by a(n) (un)known scumbag in Birmingham. What this mainly meant was lost data. Lost creative work. Lost production settings. And lost accounts. Which meant redoing them from scratch before this year's online tax return deadline.

I managed to piece it together via receipts, calendars, diaries and bank statements. What this meant though, was re-living the entire year from April 2012 to April 2013.

I'd just been through a short though pretty intense relationship and breakup so going back through those memories with every receipt and each scrap of paper felt tantamount to a form of time travel to me.

I wrote at the time (Dec 2013):
"The idea for a song about someone refusing to let go of the past until they see it from this supposedly mundane perspective whilst redoing my accounts and the memories they brought back to me on 31st December 2013 whilst everyone else was excitedly getting ready for their New Year's Eve revelries."

...Which seems like a standard thing I would say when trying to play down the personal aspect of a song so close to the time the events I was writing about had occurred. This one was actually a personal one. I wrote it at my kitchen table whilst my house was setting up to celebrate New Year's Eve.

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Three words in my calendar tells me
I went swimming with you that night
A taxi from Asda in Fulwood in the ice
Warm breath and cigarette smoke in the moonlight

Sat here at my kitchen table
This stack of receipts to archive
Each moment relived through a scrap of paper
The Year of the Snake will be finally over tonight

A chit for two pairs of four cans of Carlsberg
In The Spar they were cheaper than eight pack on offer
The mood I was in cos I couldn't stay over
The mood I was in because of your brother

Sat here at my kitchen table
This stack of receipts to archive
Each moment relived through a scrap of paper
This annus horriblis will be finally over tonight

Amber leaf blonde with menthol filters
A pint of milk from that Plungington Spar
Well I still wander round Spars to feel close to you
Or the Co-op if the Spar is too far away

Sat here at my kitchen table
69 Love Songs are playing
Every moment relived through each faded date
The Year of the Snake will be finally over
This annus horriblis will be finally over
The year that I had you is going forever tonight

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from Calendar Volume I, released September 30, 2022

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Granfalloon Manchester, UK

Manchester based composer and recordist. Lo-fi. Folk. Psych. Songs. Unusually long neck for a man my height.

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