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- Radiation Intro
Album Tracks:
- Costa Del Slough
- Under The Sun
- Three Minute Boy
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These Chains
- Born To Run
- Cathedral Wall
- A Few Words For The Dead
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Radiation - These Chains
Introduction:
Steve Hogarth in the
Radiation Press Release said:
"I think with These Chains and the album
generally, a lot of it's to do with my reaching forty, and watching my
friends lives as well. You're twenty and you've got your dreams and
ambitions; in your thirties, you begin to feel like you're a proper person;
then when you get to the end of your thirties, it all starts to fall apart
again. This sudden disillusion of things that you thought were solid and
sorted.
"One early morning I was driving through
the countryside and the sun was rising on the fields and it was really
beautiful", reflects the vocalist, "and I thought this is the one thing they
can't take from you. They can take your house, people can leave you, but
there's something going on here and it's for everyone. And I thought a lot
of our perceptions of what we need are misplaced. Like in that song, the
themes, `these chains are all your own, this cage was unlocked all the
time.´"
"The chorus there sort of sums up the
album and links the personal statement of something like Now She'll Never
Know and the little story of the Three Minute Boy. They're both
about people being victims of themselves, or people who fail to deal with
the things that are happening to them. All the albums I've done have been
very personal, they're just where I am at the time."
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