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staff room

from pearshaped (2001) by nev clay

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the lyrics give away the age of this song - Foundation? (used to be the old Riverside). C90s? (old people used to do mix tapes on them). university? (that's where working class kids used to be able to go)

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she's a schoolteacher. she gets great holidays. she's in the trade union and strikes against performance pay. she sells the socialist worker on saturday afternoons. the board of governors hope she puts in for a transfer soon. the headmistress fears her, but fancies her just the same. the kids in the corridors make fun of her irish name. the caretaker dreams about her, and he waves as she parks her car. the dinnerladies say she's alright for a southerner. some of the girls in the 6th form would love to be her friend, some of the boys in the 5th form want to be something else. they see her down at Foundation, drinking grolsch and dancing there, she's 29 but still puts henna on her hair. she lives with a bloke who's in the Animal Liberation Front. he likes to liberate rabbits and sabotage a hunt. officially he's a vegan, but sometimes he eats cheese. he wears Levellers t-shirts, does the washing and cooks the tea. they met at university doing history and politics. he did her a C90 of Nick Cave "kicking against the pricks". they used to live in fenham, but now they live in forest hall. they've got two cats and have no interest in football. there's nothing i can teach her, nothing i can do or say to make her life any better so i keep out of her way. there's nothing i want to take from her except the eczema on her hands. she drinks tea and smokes bensons, and that's all i understand.

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from pearshaped (2001), track released September 21, 2011

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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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