This was the first release for EET in 2009. I approached Andi Bridges (drummer/lyrics/vox) and asked ‘would he and Justin Hettereley (bass guitar/lyrics/vox) be interested in playing loud rock and roll?’ I love acoustic guitar and folk genres but missed composing rock riffs and riddims, shouting and utilising my love of all loud music!
The process turned out to be an extended one as we have continued to perform and record again every two years or so. They are topp teammates and each of the 3 albums/eps recorded are a totally different form from the rest of what Babar Luck does.
Malcom Gaynor produced and tweaked this album as we wanted it to sound polished and twinkly so it also has Gemma Gaynor on violin and Azam Khan on lead guitar with heavy riffs.
Babar Luck and Captain Hotknives first album together is a ‘concept album’ from 2011. Me and my friend are stuck in purgatory yet trying to get into heaven. We are singing God songs to get us in ??!!
I have now done two cd’s with dear friend Captain Hotknives who plays bass guitar and sings. He is also famous for his comedic songwriting and performances, chk him out, support his humour.
This was a opp to make a record with a large production team and other musicians -Meaning there was a budget!
It has all the things one would expect from a polished sounding record that’s objective it to reach a popp market. Lu Edmonds, Mark Roberts, Ben Mandelson helped to complete this in 2006. It was recorded/produced at unit 2 studios north Acton London by Aide Hardy (he played bass)
I had to do the artwork with Mr. Chapman standing over the shoulder of the artist. Those around me at the time who wanted the fame, pop and WORK, felt it was ill advised to to have religious symbols on the front cover – the point for me was to unify as it always is. That’s idealism not fascism. To stand by in a privileged place (western decadent culture) and not make a effort or to be afraid, which is what most in the world does.
Recorded from 1998 – 2005 electronic organic. Includes songs that Babar and Mr. Melchers produced in south london & elsewhere over a seven year period – since that time we lost touch but we did those and it was very wonderful
This was the second bunch of my songs recorded. Again it was and is a joy to listen to and if one follows a thread- it is golden! The songs are amazing and we wanted to do this, a duet album, meaning two voices so it is Luck and Falk ..
yes been active busy creative – and trying to get much done and getting much done as always – as the new year approaches -below a lovely picture 3 shows in nov coming upp all different all a Joy
we continue to search for shows and get to recording with both of our musical units Below – The Babar Luck World Citizen Folk Band – Trippy!!?? we be aiming for something like the first 2 albums we done below is a link to the second album arabesque soul folk sci fi folk https://babarluck.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-the-greatest-force-on-this-earth
& Our rock/punk noise East End Trinity (pictured below) we have faces and you can see them elsewhere i just like that picture(it was taken at Andi the drummers 40th birthday..) here is the link to our last album called Dry it should have been called “Drei” (3 in german) but for some reason the bassman “wingco” was outvoted bands/diplomacy??? – He was right -anyhow… its called Dry –https://babarluck.bandcamp.com/album/dry
We have putt our very first “proper demoes” which got me Gold Medals https://babarluck.bandcamp.com/album/babar-luck-bouttime which was some “fun” demoes that turned out to be very important in me getting to record me future musical experimentations the simplicity of and brillient mixing and mastering by mr. Melchers who was and is a wonderful creative its elecronic organic and tunes i love …….
Also managed to find a album i did with creative Captain Hotknives (me and him pictured above…) who is a versatile musician chk his youtube channelsome of his mainly comedic stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5ZCIPdq7GoWuD0NXrL-kQ
He is a great bass player & a topp bloke – In it the album that is we are trying to get into heaven after being stuck in purgatory – a concept album done aroun 2010 -serious & fun- and the tunes you may recognise but not all of them and not played that way!!! Thats -“Hotknives & Luck Knocking on Heavens Door” – archaic rustic spacey melodic https://babarluck.bandcamp.com/album/knocking-on-heavens-door and like
we are always
happy to play with and do all things ….
Happy YES
to have the opp to be asked to collabarate on a couple of tunes with Tim Holehouse(pictured above) a musicaneer and damn fine musician- incidently he has a new album out called “Come” chk https://timholehouse.com This was for “Lost”(front cover above) a project that tries to assist peoples who suffer or have suffered from a variety of trauma ………………….
Thats a lovely photo of a “Happy Borg “- black and white has its place – Who is the “Happy Borg”which one????
So if you are lost hang on hold on and reach out – Some consider me a Yogi or a wise man – Love making music love to entertain and edutain – A key to contentment i feel is always want the best for all humanity(never easy) as wishing and loving those close and far is what makes us strong – Talawa – starken – forgive and be forgiven – we are all works in progress – happy days to you all – salaam and peace –
Super hyped and ready to do the Babar Luck world citizen sci fi folk thing & our electric punk rock prog band East End Trinity –
we have a special show it is benefit for worthy causes what causes chk on https://www.facebook.com/events/2568304453402581/ with sci-fi folk band on sat 26th october 2pm sharp Telegraph at the earl of Derby SE14 5LW london uk we shall have the amazing Jason James following us one of our kinspirit and musical comrade –
Extremely excited and its still more then a month to go but bunged a poster of it playing with our “cuzzinz” from many moons Random Hand metal rock ska thanks the matinee performance from 2pm sat 30th nov
we have also on 28th nov Duke of Wellington show in Brighton hove shoreham by the sea with sci fi folk sound – thanks to Attila the Stockbrocker for that a topp notch poet musician – & on the 29th nov we play Salisbury George and Dragon thanks to Nick & his family runn pubb eating place – We are keen to have more shows and exhibit our musical incarnations ask your local venue pub eatery social hang outs ask them do they want a bit of LUCK – Ideas and music of its time & timeless – Edutainment fun and Niceness –
& about how we can make a better world from the world of Babar Luck Aug 2019
Boomtown 2019 was the nx bit; The viewpoints expressed are from a place of love excuse if they come across as too strong – we have to get along – Good to be around those that like and respect you- we try to love and respect everybody we keep trying to make a better world including a better me.
of the write i write for you You that all inclusiv idealist dreamer traveller schemer insider outsider the bully the bullied the civilian the clock work angels simply music lover or the curious or the accidental reading this coz the modem world made you hit that button now you r in my orbit I Babar luck a child of migrancy dual cultural legacy where empires rise and fall. No worry hold on trebien this is poem blogg of sorts a write to describe what we did in Boomtown 2019 the kaptain booked i we have exchanged words he knows i am a emotional person no doubt like himself at times & what times words fail me no they don’t i got those and those that feel it know dat Equal rights and justice is a mustice (like ghosts those words weigh me down)
its ok i can take the wait It is the way the world is things that get massive or what comes from the underground grows it becomes something to be managed there must be rules and discipline yes as a musician or artist of any kind almost we get what we can get I am told & this time for the first time in a long while i stayed till the Monday for those unaware of festival and fairs and gatherings they vary a incredible amount its in flows – Most begin & end There is NO naivety on me part about business There is GREAT naivety on most who have not made business – payed the cost to be the boss – sounds romantic A cliche – It is not It is what deciding choosing what’s best crunching numbers and time trying to make people feel worthy and accepted and good and cared for about delegating good business is good happy peoples working as a team with given tasks shared and problems solved There is always avarice and greed its human nature Inequality injustice is i am told natural I disagree In my experience things can work in so many ways but they got to work objectives to be reached deadlines pressure putt each enviroment requires a different sett of tools delivered deadpan yes the wife n i decided to camp and yes those that know me
wil know me practical skills r limited to be kind Be more kind like Frank says easier said then done like most lyrics of songs easier
wrote then done vote then done
the democracy slope the other half was practical and angelic like fix upp tent life yamm
beans & foods count me blessings thank she & the stars Boomtown 2019 yes the show was on the 8th August 8.30 pm
Oft i write for you a child of migrancy dual cultural legacy where empires rise and fall. No worry hold on trebien this is poem blogg of sorts a write to describe what we did in Boomtown 2019
i got those and those that feel it know dat Equal rights and justice is a mustice (like ghosts those words weigh me down)
its ok i can take the weight
It is the way the world is things that get massive or what comes from the underground grows it becomes something to be managed
there must be rules and discipline
I got there in time and waited a bit met Trevor driver Wil on way upp hill was on Flying Lotus stage Whistlers Green
Monster Paris was the band on before made some good noise their First European shows state side
kinda funky soul based trippy lòops and effects drummer sang played keyboards the bassist had effects making all sort of guitar type sounds akin to Royal Blood at times
the modem world has changed roles of what instruments do do
i was straight and focussed as i like to be b4 shows amazingly i usually am
at times i like to play at thingz
i don’t really do anything
b4 i play
Not really factuality duplicity of the brain
creatives who i know play at it if you know what i mean
sameghei? underecht?
chemical rushes aside
waited in the wings the show cant recall the sequence of events it was solo so i just go n do what i feel
i played some songs as yet unrecorded hipp hopp songettz with me 4th rate mouth percussion effects organically with me mouth over the Mike that amplifies the sound its a way to be contemporary n also for me to figure out what kind of beats and basslines will end upp dressing upp the skeleton of the songz in the future when they are recorded
I also have vocal “skitts” “hookz” stolen from other musical styles
songs i like which is again another way when playing solo
to hold my attention coz when solo i like to explore all genres & styles
as much as i can
Its like a organic acid trip
I like to say
some have said that about me music
in fact most music i have made in me life
i use diff palettes but none i can confidently say
can do the voices/learnt through assimilation and being a part of different cultures & immersing meyelf in their lives and being a part of their lives & maybe as me mother has said (harshly but maybe fairly) ” imitating parrot”
And as some one of the British empire and someone who was taught to speak and to aim to speak the Queens English
I feel it is me Given right to speak English as i wish
as a child of migrancy and to make fun and to play with language and words
whats so great about any language apart form the fact we relate to it and it is what we use some dominates as used to devide us some unifies us
But i can make myself understood and that’s all we have to do -like james Baldwin said
& me colloquialisms
to the degrees i can
when I get me honorary degrees I wil tel dem
coz then i wil return dem
coz me nah wont dem honorary degrees
me honoured to be me what we want what i need till then …no repeats…
text forward must go..
what i recall on this sett i sang “No truer words” for the Irish in me
i sang T.U.M.O.L.T which is a acronym
for “The unofficial mayor of london town”
i did 2 punky popp songs “Boys wil be Boys” & “care in community”
i did “From two we made One” me eightish minute Londonstaanee Kaawallee Raagaa in it i talk about some of me fave writers and poets like Oscar Wilde Shakespear Maya Angelou William Blake Rumi Hafiz LKJ Buckowski Joni Mitchell Dylan n Dylan Thomas just a few to mention for now
i ended the sett with 3 reggae/ska songs”B smart not a slave”from the album babar luck and the philosopherz hi
“The king of London town” from the chronicles of jhon Brute
“One love”- one of me anthems
i call what i do 3 tone coz it was the black n white some say that made two tone Now how about the brown in the mix 3 tone get it?
Reggae Ska music is universal loved thoughout the world and made throughout the world the world the Diaspora it came from was a place where badly behaved slaves were sent from all part of a British Empire Before those badly behaved slaves were sent to those Islands there were tribes and people living in those Islands who were wiped out
Thats why as a idealist/dreamer/future thinker
As i am that way thats why we don’t do no Flagz …colourful Raggs..patriotism…
By all means wave what flag if you wish
its good to be aware that some may disagree with that flag and its history n we know what immeasurable stupidity that can lead to those who lead and those that are lead
YES 3 tone that’s me style let the whole world sing along shall we have a sing along Reggae music is univershall
Boomtown 2019 yes
in the sett we did have a sing along was good lotts of clapps and applause
I thanked all those from my beating heart
there were also many moments of humour as i say humour is what makes us human
so during me Alive setts i like crack a yoke or two hoping again to relieve my self
of any extreme sadness i may feel or the audience may feel
the tears oft do come at me shows from the tuffest most stoic of humans its something thats me being me reaching you from the heart
they know
they feel
coz me Alive shows wil always be tackling subjects
Popp music is afraid to
it is a emotional thing to be awake being Alive
Being Conscious I was talking about this to 3 fellars the nx day who saw me sett I was saying to be awake is not easy waking upp is not easy letting things effect us is not easy taking the patience and the time to see there are humans effected tragicaly all across the world
simply burying ones head in the sand nah work
nehee kaam kaartha hai no one can survive in a vacuum
no one can exist all alone
sameghei? Underecht? get we?
As humanity tend to not get love to avoid it to runn from it & to Dominate exterminate and violate the path so far of the human civil-lie-zation
YES….ouch…. Boomtown 2019 On a brighter note we got to chk Dreadzone and some wicked soundsystems we got to hang out the bk with Hifocus records with the likes of Jam Baxter Edward Scissortongue Dirty Dike nice to to see That crew Hifocus Records which is a part of British hipp hopp British hipp hopp has a long lineage we proud to be have been around and hear from the days of London Posse Gunshott Jehst mc righteous Akala chester P Bugsy Malone Wretch 32 Benny Banks Lioness Leshurr Nadia rose onwards those that know me will know i love that genra passionately and all forms within it from the psychedelic to street in a way that would describe me how do i describe me Frankenstaanee a musical monster created in the west who believes we can make a better world for the nx generations so be aware fellow spaceship drivers & fellow survivors many galaxies to chk upon
sequences and the names maybe wrong or mistaken the ideas expressed are from a place of love regardless they come across as too strong – we got to get along – live long and prosper- or be with those who like and respect YOU – we try and do both
So early was the start of the Rebellion 2019 a alternative punk music festival taking place in Blackpool
“The vegaz of the North” for a punk like we we tek the coach you see when i was young ….
Punk meant someone who is “used” in prison took me long time to accept that i suppose thats why we said bk in the way “Not your punk” As Eastwood looks on They got Gunn habbits bare long how can anything grow pure when the roots R bloodied for so long – we got coach we got along)
Birmingham was first then Blackpool came along
As i journeyed to sing me songz mett a chapp called Jamie outside the winter gardens he decided to opt out of society and live in a caravan
a long time eco warrior resistor mother earth carer Dont blame the man
met a women called Amanada
she was bilingual(spanish-english)
She had a nine year old daughter talked about raiseing the children and letting them be children Yet too much control when young can be detrimental
_as too much freedom we three agreed modem system stifeling _as too much freedom we three agreed modem system stifeling
complicit in unfairness Got me wristband (the key)
and mett fellow citizenz Mett Huggy a wonderful gentleman A bitt of legend Runns Almost Acoustic stage in Rebellion Saw Millie Manders play the same stage as i
she smashed her sett we talked the nx day briefly
and she gave me much respect i said she had to continue to be what she was And grow to to be great and consistent this comes with much discipline & persistance
when it was time to do me show i was ready to play accordingly to the audience appropraite for that audience I cant recall the sett or the sequence i didd do i did what i could to entertain them like i will do what i do to entertain you the chords the words the song to reach those with the message of how and why we can get along it kinda getts hectic at times there is too much emotion too much passion i close me eyes and its not a act its a way at a time to keep focussed on where i am at Professional and percise is what i try to be
when i sing those for you and for me I am grateful the reaction was good the clapping was loud i thanked all those that were appreciative from my beating heart then i went out to chill saw the Pog who R from Brighton to do their works
(we talked about rascism and sexism n how little thats changed in the “alternativ” construct how far we are from being human as we do with drivers who are not hi & are responsible adults with twinkles in their eyes) Pog sing songs and have melodious songs at their heart with cutting lyricks we did some shows in the end of spring With Tim Holehouse whos music you should be getting Totally diff from me but in a way the same
as we Musicaneers out on the creative seas Just a word incase i forget why i was inspired to be at that festival Rebellion 2019 it was the likes Billy Liar creativ enlightened honest in art And the likes of was Atilla the stockbroker a inspirational poet creativ and he knows His-story gently encourageing me Both amazing in their own way suggestions to be getting into your musical art Poetry library saw mr.sorrow (newly a dad) sat with RDF and the TV smith
A poet called Sean Maguire with his new poem book out of the bag i was there at the late bar then bumped into G a man Griffstock related who i was trying to trak down we mett his friends and had a good chatt i stumbled about he knew i whould need somewhere to crash i was kindly layed out on his floor with a buzz strong before the lights were out i was gone In them rnorning we talked about family etc and he reveaeld to me that his daughter was with child and thats why Gs wife was not there at this years Rebellion 2019 they did have a chat and were in contk
(as parents r on thease occasions)
a tangent – Whilst using the lav that morning i spied behind a sink a dolly used by babies never in my life in a lav i have spotted a dolly for babies behind a sink i jumped out of Lav told G thats s sighn there is going to be a baby you gonna be a Grandfather G after the event i found out it did occurr Grandfather G what a good bitt of news On that morning i bimbled about sat aroun on the floor there was much calmness flowing throo
i saw the spirit of 76 0r 77 its remnenets
and wondered what a wonder humanity is we cling to happiness in all its forms any bit we can Regardless of its contradictions Beer Poetry and football was what Attila mentioned and not neccassarily in that order i may add its a joke in a way as a bar was having a Benefitt for homeless peoples and they had approached so we did a few tunes in the arvo we mett some lovely folk there i did a sett that was more contempory meaning more simply more then what i did the day before at Rebellion 2019
i was well oiled on the “HW” by then i thanked all that were about
& made me way to the coach bk to London
which left 10pm on the friday nite
& was directly returning to London to arive 6am plus + i had a london show with me rock band East End Trinity & thebabarluckworldcitizenfolkband sci fi folk i was touched that the musicians were all willing to do sat 3rd August
at new x inn london dephtford uk 2019 A rare spectacular as we say it had been arranged for a while and we had two support acts Both solo acoustic for that Mark Noble & Tim Holehouse It was a lovely evening & we had good vibes As always so grateful to have loved ones attend and look after us in all the ways yes as i say many changes have occurred in make upp of the band/s and the units East End Trinity our rock unit has stayed the same ten years we have done 3 cds with East End Trinity and about to do our 4th the nutts and bolts are there The world citizen folk band the line upp is is diff from the last 2 musical outpourings which is inevitable in life Great Respect to all past musicians for their amazing efforts and hard work and the changes one has to face
as expressed me always happy to do what we have done over the last decade in our musical incarnations if a venue or promoter or agent or corporation wishes to hear
and its financialy viable for them and us then why not? I wish for greater and better communication
but we are all so busy and caught upp in catching upp
some simply holding on i putt me hands upp i am not the best at communication Amazing one whould think
a life that intails herding catts
and what has been achieved thats why me always talking about
https://www.babarluck.bandcamp.com it is not the best advertised promoted outlett for downloads etc As i say there are many downloadable nett platformz & bigger platforms
who have floundered at being pragmatic
& logical
& bussiness like Those other nett downloads that u may see Babar Luck music on the money does not get to me –
i am told by bussiness heads and managers and publicists that there are ways to collect that cash
Thanks to those at Rebellion 2019 i never got any photos as yet when they come they wil be here – got some shotts ffrom the sat 3rd august 2019 me world citizen folk band which was Matt “celtic Raasta” violin sir Eddie”real” Cahoun percussion Funky Al electric Bass – And the East End Trinity our rok/punk unit -the picture has no shot of the drummer he is hidden which is diff as he is 6foot 6 anyhow Andi Bridges drumms Justin Hettereley Bass and meself electric guitar – we also had for the electric Rock band Azam Khan guest on second guitar for the last 4 songs – thanks to both wonderful establishments for allowing me to do me thing
