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    Featuring two fine trans-atlantic songwriters, four fine singers, virtuoso violin, harmonica and double-bass performing a selection of powerful songs to a select audience in the intimate setting of St. Dunstan's House in Glastonbury, "Live on the Ley" is a treat for lovers of music and song.

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Nathan Ball's acerbic and incisive critique of the modern media and our seeming willingness to swallow it.

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There’s herrings and there's elephants
Red and white respectively
False flags and smoke screens
The modern day mystery
Our eyes are locked on prizes
And now the chase has become tantalizing
Like cats and dogs with mirrorballs
And lazer pens reflecting in

And we’re taking it all…. right in
We let them supersize these lies
And now we’re happily ingesting them
Mcdonalds for the mind
Glitter for the eyes
Contortion for our souls
Restricted and controlled

Is it not truth that we’re supposed to see
In the papers and on tv screens
Are the people really blind to these
Hidden agendas and the fat cats pipedreams?
Our chosen motivations
In consequential situations
Overlooked by wide and dazzled eyes
Celebrity obsessed and pacified

And we’re taking it all…. right in
We let them supersize these lies
And now we’re happily ingesting them
Mcdonalds for the mind
Glitter for the eyes
Contortion for the soul
The masses all controlled

And we’re taking it all…. right in
We let them airbrush out the lies
So theres no need for them to compromise
On Mcdonalds for the mind

There’s Herrings and theres elephants
Red and white respectivly
False flags and smoke screens determining our destiny…

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from Live on The Ley - Alastair Caplin, Jez Hellard, Nathan Ball, Nye Parsons & Scott Cook, released April 1, 2015

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Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra London, UK

Potent songs, silky double-bass, fiery fiddling and smoking harmonicas.

Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra play a rich mongrel mix of folk music, from jigs, reels and rebel ballads to tango, rhumba and reggae.

Virtuoso musicianship, conscious poetry; from dance tunes to rebel ballads, sweet love songs to powerful politics and passionate improvisation. ... more

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