Photos © Allan Morrow
Steve Demetri, John Wilde, Jim Bell, Ric Hool
Ric Hool… The Crawdaddy Club. This was the first public outing of ‘No Beginner’. I’m pretty sure the gig was recorded – wonderfully RAW! Getting back to ‘No Beginner’… This, Roger (Carey – and Hi!) is the song with the chorus
indelibly imprinted on your grey cells: my apology. Every song written for The Breathers was special so in one sense
‘No Beginner’ is no exception… but it is. But before I launch into that, I have to make known that as the group’s
lyricist and tunesmith, I brought some raw fudge that The Breathers cooked into what became fabulous songs. We never ‘played’ them; we were inside them punching them out in every performance: rehearsal and actual.
Jim, Steve and John were right there and right into it. Back to ‘No Beginner’…
The Chorus:
‘You’re a breather
A soul survivor
A racing driver
A man of action
A space ship captain
An outright winner
And no oh oh oh oh beginner’
Checked out each group member but as soon as John released it on stage there became a realisation of those words moving out to the audience in the very first word of the chorus: You’re That word; that song found complete connection. It said, you are all these things… and more. It shared a limitless inspiration. ‘No Beginner’ was the ever-developing live song, in the vocal of an ‘in the moment’ singer: Izzi Peptone. Fun; engagement; field holler; call and reply, absurdism primed for exploration.
‘You’re a breather
An ice-cream cornet
A nest of hornets
A ghostly spectre
A train inspector
A Surrealist painting
An actress fainting
A rhino charging
A misspent farthing’
To infinity… The Breathers should have taken it there… and beyond. Ric Hool
John Wilde… spot on Ric, those songs were a call to Action! I would love to hear them again.
Alan Esdaile… Action!
Grant Young… I’d love to hear these recordings
Jim Bell… Good news, I’m looking to restore all of the Breathers catalog over the summer holidays.
The Crawdaddy Club.
This was the first public outing of ‘No Beginner’.
I’m pretty sure the gig was recorded – wonderfully RAW!
Getting back to ‘No Beginner’…
This, Roger (Carey – and Hi!) is the song with the chorus
indelibly imprinted on your grey cells: my apology.
Every song written for The Breathers was special so in one sense
‘No Beginner’ is no exception… but it is.
But before I launch into that, I have to make known that as the group’s
lyricist and tunesmith, I brought some raw fudge that The Breathers cooked
into what became fabulous songs. We never ‘played’ them; we were inside them
punching them out in every performance: rehearsal and actual.
Jim, Steve and John were right there and right into it.
Back to ‘No Beginner’…
The Chorus:
‘You’re a breather
A soul survivor
A racing driver
A man of action
A space ship captain
An outright winner
And no oh oh oh oh beginner’
Checked out each group member but as soon as John released it on stage there
became a realisation of those words moving out to the audience in the very first word of the chorus: You’re
That word; that song found complete connection.
It said, you are all these things… and more.
It shared a limitless inspiration.
‘No Beginner’ was the ever-developing live song,
in the vocal of an ‘in the moment’ singer: Izzi Peptone.
Fun; engagement; field holler; call and reply, absurdism primed for exploration.
‘You’re a breather
An ice-cream cornet
A nest of hornets
A ghostly spectre
A train inspector
A Surrealist painting
An actress fainting
A rhino charging
A misspent farthing’
To infinity…
The Breathers should have taken it there… and beyond.
Ric Hool