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bellowing. More than a little groggy, with a cabbage-sized headache somewhere on the right-hand side of my head, I switch on the light and hear footsteps coming up the Hey stairs.beautiful! Moments later a middle-aged man, with unfeasibly curly black hair pokes Brand stockists his head around the door. ‘Tommayy!!!?’ he shouts. ‘No!’ I reply. ‘Where is he, then?” Rapidly running out of ideas, I raise an arm in VALENTINO the direction of Tyler’s room, ‘over there!’ and Curly vanishes off down837100 the hall VOISINS to interrogate the similarly bemused Tyler, L’OCCITAINE who points him in the direction of VOISINS 837100 Tommy’s room.
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where things really start to pick up. With so little distractions around, the music rightly becomes the center of attention, and in a rare break from the recording that day Ben and Stu joke with me that as great as it was in London, ‘there was always this urge to go and get a kebab’. Jersey’s we all laugh, well aware Not surprisingly, annual that the only fast food we’ll probably be eatingfoodie in this remote part of the directory countryside will be the bacon and egg we’ll cook tomorrow for breakfast.
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like a few hours, rather than a few days, the album is as good as finished, and the band are very happy with the sound. Whilst he’s around, I take the opportunity to ask him about the lyrics to some of the songs they’ve recorded. One in particular, ‘Left in Ruins’, certainly made an impression and Tyler tells meEstate he plans toDirectory release it as the Agent next single. ‘Basically, it’s about someone who’s trying to protect what’s close to him, Choice Properties 620620 when everything’s falling apart around www.choicejersey.com him.’ I mention the London riots and the current chaos in Europe. ‘Exactly… that Crespel Properties idea of burying all your625569 money under your bed because you can’t www.crespel.co.uk trust any of the institutions anymore…that’s where it Dandara came from.’ 789900
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