Six Months of Saturdays
Our first CD, released in the Autumn of 2009 and featuring our first two Scholars: Louise Calf and Ed Stone. They contributed four songs to the album as Scholars and then joined the band! So really they’ve stayed with us from the outset. This is a very eclectic collection of songs as the band experiments with folk (No Poetry, Sandy, Major Matt Mason, Roadside Comedy), blues (Old Gray Posts), Big Band (Too Many Weddings), Motown (Let Love Shine), 50’s Pop (I Love You Anyway), and straight disco rave (71 Hours to Monday). As we tell our fans, ‘if you don’t like a song on this album, skip to the next, because it is guaranteed to be different.’ So check out the styles! And also check out the video for The Knife Will Come.
Misery Marmalade and Other Spanish Jams
Our second CD, released in summer 2010 and featuring Gus Warriner, Mike Park, Sophie Mackinder and Imogen Commander as Scholars. We are discovering our sound in this album, which is mostly an acoustic affair of guitars and cellos, although we drift into reggae and rock towards the back half. We’re rather pleased with the fact that the first four songs have four different lead vocals, and that Sat Out the 15th is the first song we wrote to feature both beat boxing and a cello as the main instruments. And, of course, there’s Gus – our wunderkind, who kicks off the album with his very own Fairy Tale.
