Bella & Bertie: If you leave, our city will fall into the sea

by alan_neilson

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This special re-release edition includes a making of PDF booklet, previously unheard versions of 'Life Gets Tedious?' and Neilson's brand new songs 'On the Mersey' and 'We Are All Stardust'.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of We Are All Stardust EP, Bella & Bertie: If you leave, our city will fall into the sea, On the Mersey, à deux le jeu, You Make Me Happy, We Are Beautiful People, From Winter to Winter (special edition), From Winter to Winter, and 4 more. , and , .

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1.	My Name is Charles 00:09	buy track
2.	My Earliest Recollection 01:26	buy track
3.	Meningitis 01:39	buy track
4.	In the Hospital 01:27	buy track
5.	Hospital Pt 2 00:52	buy track
6.	Put to the Foot of the Bed 01:28	buy track
7.	I Used to Run From Auntie G’s 02:00	buy track
8.	Hurry Up Now Charlie 00:13	buy track
9.	I Hated My Uncle Dick 01:06	buy track
10.	Spice Balls 00:45	buy track
11.	Ukelele 01:38	buy track
12.	Talking About Drums 02:35	buy track
13.	Eclipse 02:00	buy track
14.	Looking For a Job 02:07	buy track
15.	Working at Dales’ Butchers 00:16	buy track
16.	Killing the Cows 03:01	buy track
17.	Maggots in the Mince 01:27	buy track
18.	Hitting Every Fencepost 01:52	buy track
19.	Every Day Was a Menace 01:04	buy track
20.	I Want to Join the Air Force 01:04	buy track
21.	Thomas Allen Dies 03:57	buy track
22.	Starting the Band 00:25	buy track
23.	Chas Allen’s Modernites 02:45	buy track
24.	War Is Declared 01:49	buy track
25.	The Night Chas Met Min 02:51	buy track
26.	Air Raid In Liverpool 01:56	buy track
27.	Chas and Min Get Married 02:28	buy track
28.	During the War 00:43	buy track
29.	Christmas 01:29	buy track
30.	The War is Over 00:36	buy track
31.	Post-war Modernites 03:13	buy track
32.	Retirement 01:56	buy track
33.	Chas’s Favourite Songs 02:44	buy track
34.	Here Comes Charlie: Chas’s Theme Song 01:45	buy track
35.	What Will I Do? 03:32	buy track
36.	Life Gets Tedious? 03:34	buy track
37.	Life Gets Mixed Up 02:40	buy track
38.	Life Gets the Mekano Set Treatment 06:21	buy track
39.	LFC R Unstoppable 2003 02:50	buy track
40.	Life Gets Tedious original 1982 02:21	buy track
41.	On the Mersey 03:57	buy track
42.	We Are All Stardust 06:35	buy track

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This album is a Bandcamp only remastered and expanded special edition of the original 2009 release "The Life and Times of C A Allen".
This release reverts to the original CD version track listing with additional tracks recorded at the time and also a brand new Neilson song "We Are All Stardust" (to be released separately as a single later in 2022).

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released July 18, 2022

Voices: Charles Allen; Minnie Allen; Ethel Robinson; John Robinson; Alan Neilson
All Instruments by Alan Neilson except flute on 'Life Gets Tedious?' by Lynette Neilson
Production, music and arrangements by Alan Neilson

Thank you to Neil and John Robinson
This release is dedicated to Charles Allen and Minnie Allen, and the city of Liverpool

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Imagine someone who thought he could save the world, then take twenty plus years to realise that the world is big and ugly enough to look after itself. neilson now just sings about simple stuff - things that mean something to him and you. ... more

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