“Oh I've got to play that!' I really had to share that with everyone” - Charlie Ashcroft, Amazing Radio
“This one I really like, it's just kind of really drew me in” - Amy Lame, BBC Radio 6 Music
“Always bringing the energy - James Threlfall, BBC Introducing In The West
“Reminds me of The Beautiful South” - Gwenno, BBC Radio 6 Music, Huw Stephen's Round Table
"I liked lots of moments in it. it felt like it was on this road, driving down a road and I was super interested" - Jordan Rakei BBC 6 Music
“An interesting piece of historic cultural excavation from Emily Breeze,” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music
“That might be one of my favourites! It's just channelling brilliance. - Mark McNally, Postcards From The Underground
“I love that something very special” - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music
"Loved the way the sort of speaking voice just draws you in, you just wanna hear what she's saying" - Craig Charles, BBC 6 Music
“Absolutely blew me away” - John Kennedy, Radio X
“Some lovely pop-noir there, somewhere between Self Esteem and Dry cleaning” - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music
“21st Century answer to Patti Smith, performing deeply personal poetry over grooving post-punk rock n roll” - Tom Robinson, 6 Music
“Emily Breeze IS talent..love her, she’s amazing” - Robert Carlyle (on Twitter)
SECOND RODEO is the follow-up to Emily’s 2023 album RAPTURE, a record which saw a breakthrough in Emily’s 20-year music career with further support at Radio X, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, XS Manchester and QBS Radio(Qatar).
SECOND RODEO contains more tales from a life well lived as a hopeless romantic, dreamer and degenerate, which range from depictions of the rituals and habits of teenagers in the late 90s in ‘1997’ to a Beatnik-inspired hymn delivered at breakneck speed in ‘The Beatniks’, to a multiverse-spanning tale of the cosmic life cycle of a relationship in ‘We Were Lovers’… to a fuzzed-out shoegaze cover of Paul's Simon’s iconic ‘Graceland.
lyrics
Greasy hair and heavy metal
Summer of 1997
We hung out in skate parks and cemeteries
Spent our bus fare on 10 Embassy
Downed warm white lightning
Threw up Peach 2020
Bought cassette tapes and T shirts from HMV
Explicit lyrics, parental advisory
Yeah, we were raging against the machine
We did it with our pocket money
In a haze of hormones and Lynx Africa
We taped the hits off of the radio
Danced in dry ice at the indie disco
Nobody knows where the time goes
But me and you know, me and you know we know
We were drop out kids
We were skivers of school
We were young and dumb and bullet proof
I got a tribal tattoo
Young and dumb and full of shit
Young and dumb and full of shit
What a beautiful thing
What a beautiful thing
We taped the hits off of the radio
Danced in dry ice at the indie disco
Nobody knows where the time goes
But me and you know, me and you know we know
John Hughes movies and MTV
Said we could be anything we wanted to be
Astronaut, lawyer, movie star, priest
All you gotta do is believe in the dream
Now we’re filling your spreadsheets
And we’re sweeping your floors
We’re teaching your children
And we’re dangerously bored
But everybodies feeling fine thanks to the medication
Constant stimulation, endless entertainment
Front row tickets for the alien invasion
Porn for every kink before your morning meditation
Daily affirmation, the times they are a changing
The times they are a changing
We taped the hits off of the radio
Danced in dry ice at the indie disco
Nobody knows where the time goes
But me and you know, me and you know we know
credits
from Second Rodeo EP,
released April 19, 2024
Emily Breeze - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Rob Norbury - lead guitar
Andy Sutor on Drums
Helen Stanley on keyboards
George Caveney on bass guitar
Recorded in Bristol at Robot Club and produced by Stew Jackson
with mastering by Steve Street.
Sugar Shack Records is a sister imprint of Bristol Archive Records and Reggae Archive Records. Established in 1985, we have released critically acclaimed Rock and Reggae albums.
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