Category Archives: Nick’s Songs

A selection of my songs

Songs from the room at the bottom of the garden

As I’m not playing live much at the moment I have started a weekend live stream. The aim is to play 4 or 5 new songs each time with the occasional request.

There are now Ten for you to watch. Last updated 12 December 2020

Next episode at 11.30 on Sunday

Episode 1
Jetpacks Monorails and Ray Guns
Not for Softies
Food Romance
Primrose Hill
‘Olidays
Episode 2
Rainy Day at the seaside
Seaside Town
The Bar’s Still Here
Broken Smile
The Year I Hitchhiked down to Rome

Episode 3
Almost the Great Romance
Bed and Breakfast
Rolling Up the Sleeping Bags
If I didn’t Love you so Much
Bricks
Episode 4
Best Year Yet
Coffee Monster
Falling
Shooting Stars
When I was Immortal
Songbirds Sing to Keep Warm
Episode 5
City of Lights (Searching for Street Art in Paris)
Club Fifty-Nine
Dig Beneath the Dust
If You Want to Stay Warm
“Friend” he said “We’re Growing Old”
Episode 6
Space Dogs
Tell me a Story
When I Grow Old
Stiff Upper Lip
The Boy in Red Canvas Shoes
Episode 7
She grows the best roses in Paris
Do you care enough to fail?
If I turned into a Beetle
Only see the sun, when it goes away.
Let’s call Monday “Sheep Day”
Episode 8
All I really need to be happy
Go to sleep my darling
Searching
Will we remember
Turnips
Food Romance
Episode 9
Breathing
The Quiet Hunt
Wolves
Who are you pretending to be today
Unicorns and Superheroes
‘Olidays
Episode 10
Too tall for the mosh pit
Blue Cheese
TwentyFourSeven
Are We Nearly There Yet
Happy Now
Primrose Hill

Instagram Videos

I’ve recently started making short videos for songs fragments. Come and say “Hello” if you are on Instagram. @nickhaynesmusic

The First Five Years

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I’ve been writing songs for a long time but only started recording them properly around five years ago. I have now put together seventeen of my favourite demos in an album. This is a very strange selection so I don’t expect anyone to like all of them. I’ll be surprised if you don’t find something you like.

The most popular track on Spotify at the moment is Schauinsland.

This has also been played a lot.

The album is on all online platforms.

Bricks – A reverse video

I made this video to encourage people to use local venues before they disappear. Worth watching for the reverse camera stuff alone.

Music released by DK Records.

Available on Spotify  and  iTunes

I wrote and performed the music and it was mastered by Paul Kenward at Stewie B’s.

A big thank you to all the people who appeared in the video including Henry, Eric, AdamLeonC , Steve, Wes Lawson Bowie, Jack Tinmouth, and Andre.

Dig Beneath the Dust

Dig Beneath the Dust    5.45

Climbing on a train for a trip to the seaside

New trunks, no bucket and spade

Promised myself to learn to swim this summer

Confidence starting to fade

It’s hard to learn to swim, a mouthful of sea, making me choke

But when you throw away the armbands you feel stronger

Growing up with every stroke

Dig beneath the dust, beneath the dust, beneath the dust

The past is never dead. It’s only sleeping

Dig beneath the dust, then tuck it into bed

 

Walking up to Sunninghill on Saturday morning

For library books and lardy cake

Mother traded green shield stamps for roller skates

I learned the hard way how to brake

You learn to ride a bike by falling off so many times

But it’s worth it in the end when you can do it

Without a friend holding on

Dig beneath the dust, beneath the dust, beneath the dust

The past is never dead. It’s only sleeping

Dig beneath the dust, then tuck it into bed

 

Every time you wake a memory, it changes

Picking over the details rearranges everything

 

Walking up to school each day, a different adventure

Scuffing my new shoes on the way

Creeping past the wolf hound snarling at the gate

They said he only, wants to play

A rocket to the moon, on the TV, in black and while

I thought they must be cold up there

I watched the moon, every night.

Dig beneath the dust, beneath the dust, beneath the dust

The past is never dead It’s only sleeping

Dig beneath the dust, then tuck it into bed

 

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Primrose Hill

Couple eating cupcakes in the morning light
They only met last night but still he knows
This man is different
It’s springtime, on Primrose Hill
 
Looking over London, you can see the BT tower
Looking over London, the misty sky climbs away,
Climbs away, climbs away

Couple lying on the grass in the afternoon sun
Watching the city having fun, sharing wine
Sharing time
It’s Summer, on Primrose Hill

Couple watching fireworks on a cold dark night
He says Guy Fawkes was right, the city glows
Sulphur in the air
It’s autumn, on Primrose Hill
 
Couple walk their dog in the morning snow
London sparkles below, it seems like a year
Since they first met here
It’s winter, on Primrose Hill

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Orange

I’m making a set of mini CDs with my songs on them and giving them out when I play live. Each CD contains at least two songs and there will be six of them. Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue and Purple. The CDs are called the Rainbow sessions (Indigo and Violet are combined to make the purple CD).

I chose this format as it is easy to stick in the pocket and it’s more fun for me putting out a couple of songs at a time rather than waiting until I have recorded a dozen or so. It’s also a bit of a treasure hunt to see if you can get a set. You should only play it in a drawer loading CD player. If you don’t have one then you can listen to the tracks on You Tube below.

The Orange CD contains 1. Jetpacks, Monorails and Rayguns and 2. Space Dogs . Yellow will be out soon.

If you want to find out what I am up to then follow me on Twitter @nickHaynesmusic or Facebook NickHaynesMusic. See you soon.

 

 

1. Jetpacks, Monorails and Rayguns

2. Space Dogs

Red

I’m making a set of mini CDs with my songs on them and giving them out when I play live. Each CD contains at least two songs and there will be six of them. Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue and Purple. The CDs are called the Rainbow sessions  (Indigo and Violet are combined to make the purple CD).

I chose this format as it is easy to stick in the pocket and it’s more fun for me putting out a couple of songs at a time rather than waiting until I have recorded a dozen or so. It’s also a bit of a treasure hunt to see if you can get a set. You should only play it in a drawer loading CD player. If you don’t have one then you can listen to the tracks on You Tube below.

The Red CD contains 1. Club59 and 2. Coffee Monster.  Orange will be out soon.

If you want to find out what I am up to then follow me on Twitter @nickHaynesmusic or  Facebook  NickHaynesMusic. See you soon.

 

 

1. Club59

2. Coffee Monster