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nostradamus

from DJMC (NC edit) (2009) by nev clay

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inspired back in 2000 by the impending millenium and the brief acquaintance of a TEFL teacher. It's something about Nostradamus missing all the good (ie small) stuff.

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nostradamus may have predicted the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but his quatrains omitted to mention the display in this butcher's window, where a pink plastic pig in a hat is carrying a baking tray. Nations rise and fall - will I ever scale your city walls? Mother Shipton saw ships in the sky, but she never prophesied the paper-girl's fluorescent satchel hanging froma satellite dish, and she never warned me that the end of your nose would twitch when you got drunk. I read your stars in the Chronicle to find out how you're doing. They say that now's a good time to travel, but you've already gone. And mine said "look to the future, and give up on a lost cause".

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from DJMC (NC edit) (2009), released October 10, 2009
Richard Dawson - biscuit tin percussion, laughter

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nev clay Newcastle, UK

Nev lives near Newcastle and until 2018 was a mental health nurse. He's been clarting around the local music scene for 30 years, and once supported Keith Emerson out of ELP. Cover photo - Stan Bonnar concrete hippo, Killingworth, Newcastle, photo by Narbi Price 3 Jan 2023. Secret guitar tuning: CGDGAD ... more

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