Patriot Parade

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We wanted to build something around a bass-driven hook, like Green Day’s Longview, but with obnoxious levels of cowbell. The song builds until you think it can’t build any more - and then it goes even harder.

It’s an anti-racist protest song, taking the piss out of populist demagogues and their followers. It’s dedicated to the Nigel Farages and Laurence Foxes of the world. And the people who watch GB News. All 50 of them.

The sound mashes punk, alt-rock and Britpop, with elements of Blur, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Green Day.

lyrics

Let's all be friends
Make a pact to meet at the weekends
Raging and aggrieved like real men
Take a flying leap off the deep end
The television is on again
Tuned in to the patriot parade

Waving at the side of the road
Hanging on your every word so
Get up on your pallet of soap
And tell them how you want it

No more reason
Questioning the lies I believe in
Switching up our minds with the seasons
Drifting out of line like a heathen
The tunnel vision gets stronger when
We all march in the patriot parade

Waving at the side of the road
Hanging on your every word so
Get up on your pallet of soap
And tell them who you're wanting to go home

Waving at the side of the road
Hanging on your every word so
Get up on your pallet of soap
And tell them how you want it

Don't make this hard
Don't make this hard
Coz who we are is all we are

Waving at the side of the road
Hanging on your every word so
Get up on your pallet of soap
And tell them how you want it to go

They're craving persuading
So wade in
And tell them how they want it

credits

released February 23, 2024
Composition & lyrics: Andy Walker
Drums: Guy Davis
Producer: Alex Loring
Mastering Engineer: Guy Massey

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Attendant London, UK

Energetic modern rock infused with big riffs and sardonic humour.

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Jun 22

Hope and Anchor

London, UK

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