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York's Bull made a fleeting previous appearance on Breaking More Waves on the August monthly playlist, so with more posts in a day than ever before, now seems a good opportunity to introduce them a bit further with their third song. Bonzo Please follows up previous releases Disco Living and Green. Whilst this song is supposedly their third, if you do a quick internet search you'll find that Bonzo Please has actually been kicking round for years. There's an earlier version on Soundcloud from 5 years ago!
When I first read that Bonzo Please was ‘a song about writing songs’ I almost switched off. There is nothing that I find more boring in music than a writer talking about writing a song. In 99.9% of the cases it always falls into the same tired old cliches. If you had a musicians buzzword bingo card you’d just be waiting for the words ‘journey’ and ‘inspiration’ to crop up I can assure you. I mean does anybody care for instance if the music came before the lyrics or vice versa? It still forms a song doesn’t it? Yet artists and interviewers seem to find this stuff really interesting.
Thankfully Bonzo Please is an enjoyable effort. It’s a wind the windows down, feel the breeze flow through, we’re going on a road trip, type of song. Apparently it’s also inspired (see there’s that word you can’t get away from it) by the modern day preoccupation with staring at your phone/ and TV constantly watching other people.
Bull - Bonzo Please
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