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LIGHTS OUT EP

by Cult Figures

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    Limited edition CD version of Lights Out EP in card sleeve. Includes download card. Photography and sleeve design by Stuart Hilton

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1.
LIGHTS OUT 03:18
LIGHTS OUT Don’t turn the light out Don’t turn the light out I don’t wanna see the darkness in my mind Don’t turn the light out Don’t turn the light out I don’t wanna to see the darkness deep inside Turn up the music Sweet country music I don’t wanna hear the darkness in my mind Turn up the music Sweet country music I don’t wanna hear the demon deep inside Don’t turn the light out Don’t turn the light out I don’t wanna see the darkness in my mind Turn up the music Sweet country music I don’t wanna hear the evil deep inside Give me a world that’s shining bright I don’t ever want to see the lights out x 2
2.
DONUT LIFE 02:52
DONUT LIFE It’s a donut life Going round and round in circles There’s a row of five And eight packs on a tray Up a long conveyor belt to the deep fat fryer Out the other side Into the sugar Roll them round and round Into a 5 pack Put the label on Stick them on the shelf It’s a donut life Going round and round in circles In the Sainsbury’s Underneath the Euston tower Up a long conveyor belt to the deep fat fryer Out the other side Into the sugar Roll them round and round Into a 5 pack Put the label on Stick them on the shelf Have you seen the bakery Where I stand in public view Waiting for the new day to begin From 6am to 2pm Packing plastic trays With apple pies that no one wants to buy. It’s a donut life Going round and round in circles Here come the customers Waddling in like sheep Up a long conveyor belt to the deep fat fryer Out the other side Into the sugar Roll them round and round Into a 5 pack Put the label on Stick them on the shelf
3.
END OF THE LINE End of the line x 2 End of the line for you End of the line x 2 End of the line for you Coughing hard in the early morning It’s pouring down and the day is dawning A nagging pain in your chest And you look a bloody mess When will this journey ever end? End of the line x 2 End of the line for you End of the line x 2 End of the line for you The right way up is upside down And the streets are spinning round Not turning left or turning right You keep heading for the light Where this journey is going to end End of the line x 2 End of the line for you End of the line x 2 End of the line for you Bah bah bah bah… End of the line x 2 End of the line for you End of the line x 2 End of the line for you

about

Hot on the heels of SILVER BLADES EP, Cult Figures release the second of three monthly EPs on Gare du Nord Records – with a new album to follow.

Recorded by Liam Watson at Toerag, June 2019. Mixed by John Rivers at Woodbine Street between October 2019 to May 2020.

Singer Gary Jones tells the stories behind the songs:

LIGHTS OUT
When Jon delivered LIGHTS OUT I was in a bad place, a botched appointment had left me hanging waiting for a second MRI scan to confirm (or not) if I had a brain tumour. This stripped down song resonated so much with my dark thoughts and anxieties, that I didn’t want to change a thing.
Postscript: The scan revealed that I did NOT have a brain tumour!

DONUT LIFE
I had to find a job quickly, the trouble was that my CV and tax details were so sketchy for the previous 15 years it looked like I had done a long prison stretch for some heinous crime! DONUT LIFE was inspired by my drunken rant about my new job as an in-store baker for a supermarket chain and describes the bleakness and despair of pre-dawn shifts, and the mind-numbing monotony of a menial, minimum wage life. A donut life!

END OF THE LINE
Inspired by my own pre-dawn journey on the night bus, through the dark London streets, heading for the donut factory. I imagine the fate of a stressed out overworked office worker taking their last journey to the grindstone job.

credits

released July 10, 2020

Released on Gare Du Nord Records garedunordrecords.co.uk

Cult Figures are:
Gary Jones – lead vocals – whistling on LIGHTS OUT
Jon Hodgson – guitar/backing vocals
Barney Russel – guitar
Lee McFadden – bass/backing vocals/2nd lead vocal on LIGHTS OUT
Stuart Hilton – drums/backing vocals.

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Cult Figures released two classic singles on Swell Map's Rather Records in 1979 and 1980. Now they are back and coming to stage near you!

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