Another Side of Xmas ... with The Flamingo Diaries, by The Flamingo Diaries

Another Side of Xmas ... with The Flamingo Diaries

by The Flamingo Diaries

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Artwork and Sleeve by M.Bolt. Flamingogo logo by Alex Gil

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1.	Things (Ain't Like They Used To Be) 03:09	lyrics	buy track
... what's puzzling me is this catastrophe ?
2.	On The 115 (Back Home) 03:44	info	buy track
3.	Gimme That Zappa ! 02:42	info	buy track
4.	Music Box Serenade 00:46	info	buy track
5.	Christmas Card From A Hooker (T.Waits) 05:17	lyrics	buy track
Hey Charlie I think about you everytime I pass that filling station On account of all the grease you wear in your hair x
6.	Star Spangled Xmas Trees (somebody set fire to the christmas tree last night) 02:54	info	buy track
7.	Bird On The Wire (L.Cohen) 03:03	lyrics	buy track
Turkey on a mobile ?
8.	Snow Back Time 06:22	lyrics	buy track
Sub bass rumbles and prog washboard x
9.	White Christmas (Irving Berlin) 02:02	info	buy track
10.	White Xmas (Instrumental) (bonus track) 01:44	info	buy track

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A collection of oddities, rarities and reworkings recorded and mixed between summer 2018 and December 2020. An alternative festive collection to combat the winter blues x

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released December 21, 2020

Selina Clements Woolnough - tells the jokes, plays the drums, percussion and e-drums. She also provided the space and hospitality, various background expletives, singing, smoking and drinking !

Víctor Muñiz-Alique Gómez - played bass on White Christmas and some other stuff .... pipe, cigar, live gigs and car. We're working on another album .... all things will pass !

Martin Manoeuvre - was left with hours of recordings and tape that he hates to mix but secretly loves ... well kind of ! He also sings, plays bass (sometimes), various guitars, mandolin (can you hear it ?) but no keyboards on this one ... also the odd bit of stray banging and takes full blame for dubious EQ'ing, mixing and low budget mastering. He is writing these sleeve notes and is producer of some kind to all of this stuff.

The trusty Boss BR900CD was used and abused. Live drums, no clicks, direct input bass and guitars mostly. Vocals done sitting not standing ....enjoy and be happy x

All music performed by The Flamingo Diaries

Things (Ain't Like They Used To Be), Gimme That Zappa and Star Spangled Xmas Trees were written by M.Bolt

On The 115 (Back Home) and Snow Back Time were composed by Selina Clements Woolnough/M.Bolt

Music Box Serenade was stolen from a biscuit tin !

A special thanks to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, George Michael and Irving Berlin who's songs we have taken for a big old Flamingo song and dance ... and of course Bob Dylan who's album sleeve we have mercilessly hacked into and butchered ... but we love you just the same x

The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.
There's never been such a day
In Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it's December the twenty-fourth
And I am longing to be up North ..... from 'White Christmas'

Cheers to Alex Gil for the Flamingogo logo ... it's looking great !

Flamingo Diaries December 2020.

An exclusive Flamingogo Music Product for 2020 recorded in Salford and Longsight, Manchester UK.

Flamingogo Music release no.2 (2020)

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