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your dad sells lighters

from pearshaped (2001) by nev clay

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any resemblance to persons living or dead is not entirely coincidental. nb these days, the house would be full of flat screen tellies, not dvd players which were a luxury item early in the century...

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your dad sells lighters outside the market. he fills them in the evening sitting in the kitchen. your mother does her best, but everything tastes of petrol. maybe that's why you fancy the boy who gives you free ciggies at the allnight garage. your uncle davy asks strangers for money. he says he's lost his busfare, but his pockets are jingling. he smells of sandwich shops and bus-station toilets. maybe that's why you don't like the bloke who drives the mini-bus to the 6th form college you go to. your dodgy half-brother says work is for wankers, but he goes out in a ski-mask at half past two in the morning. now every room in the house is full of DVD players. maybe that's why you want to be a travel rep and spend the rest of your life as far away from them as possible.

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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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