It is a strangely haunting number but the lyrics seem peculiarly throwaway and carelessly crafted - yet that does not appear to matter. The song did its job and now, many years later - the members of The Dream Academy - Nick Laird-Clowes, Kate St John, and Gilbert Gabriel are all in their late sixties but still making music.
I give you "Life in a Northern Town" with lyrics:-
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I must apologise for another absence. Shirley and I are heading for the North Yorkshire market town of Malton on Monday morning. We will be staying in "The Talbot" hotel (see top picture) . I have paid for this two night stay with a gift voucher that my two children generously presented to me in 2023 to mark my seventieth birthday.
Malton holds a special place in my heart because it is where my father was born and raised and it is where my paternal grandparents are both buried - though strangely, I have never slept there before. So it will be a break but also a little bit of a pilgrimage too.
I will be back at this keyboard on Wednesday night. Adios! or as we say in in Yorkshire, "See thi!"
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/d8URlHr
