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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    All Power to the Bookshop, Steve's latest album, began as an Arts Council project about our relationship with books and reading. He explores how our memories, our hopes and dreams, our thoughts and emotional responses can be formed by the books we read and share. It’s an eclectic collection of songs that acts as propaganda for bookshops and reading.

    Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern secondhand bookshops and like gravity, they're pretty much nonnegotiable.
    Kathleen Tessaro

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Power to the Bookshop via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

Enid Blyton wrote the books that
every child would read
For 50 years she plied her trade oh
my what a career
She understood that children don’t
want parents in the way
They seek adventure through the
night and they seek it in the day
So it all comes down to Enid Blyton it
doesn’t matter if you don’t like her
So many do
Enid Blyton’s Busy Bees wrote to her
all the time
All convinced that her lucky kids
must have a lovely life
On open days she serve her guests
jelly and ice cream
And like her books it all looked
perfect and serene
So it all comes down to Enid Blyton it
doesn’t matter if you don’t like her
There's no denying Enid Blyton and if
you never enjoyed her writing
So many do.
Bows and arrows, sticks and stones
A cave that narrow, escaping in the
dark, then home.
Now memory’s a strange old beast
and there’s no way I’d defend her
darker it can’t be denied that some
books oh they offend.
But feminists and socialists all loved
the work she did
Even anarchists share with capitalists
a love for her as a kid

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from All Power to the Bookshop, released January 1, 2022

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Steve was/is the singer and songwriter with Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines who signed to BMG and toured and recorded throughout Europe in the late 80s and 90s.
He’s since recorded 3 solo albums and one with the band Captain Pop. He’s also written for TV and semi theatre pieces about the Cold War and Surveillance. He lives in the Peak District. ... more

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