Don’t be afraid
I will come to your aid
I will call you
And tell you I love you.Just yesterday
I was coming this way
Didn’t think you would journey so far away.You are all that I see
Lying down in front of me
Want to run, want to hide
Want to take myself outside
But I stand here in front of you
Will you call out my name
I just want to hear the sound of you
I just want to hear my name.Days pass me by
In the night I ask why
I will hold you
And tell you I love you.Now I’m afraid
You wont come to my aid
Will you call me
And tell me…
Anniversary… 10 years ago today. God bless H.V.McAlinden x
_Linden: Album Release Date Announced
Press release from AED Records about my new album xx
… news just in from the AED office girls…
_LINDEN: BLEACHED HIGHLIGHTS AED0009
July 30th 2012 will bring the release of our sunniest record. Bleached Highlights is the first batch of new songs from Linden, the nom de plume of Joe McAlinden, late of 90s much loved Creation band…
Promo copies of the album are now with us… Ecstatic x.
My first setlist in 10 years - Monorail, Glasgow, Record Store Day 2012 xx
This is the front sleeve of Bleached Highlights - Vortex by artist & friend Jim Lambie. We love x
Wowzers…
Acoustic AED Showcase in Glasgow
As part of Record Store Day 2012, the AED Records Posse - Edwyn Collins, Dead Flamingoes and Linden will be performing in Glasgow at Monorail (12 Kings Court, Glasgow, G1 5RB. Tel - 0141 552 9458) this coming Saturday, 21/4/12. The scheduled time, according to Monorail, is 8.30pm but there is lots going on so if I were you, I’d plan on popping down earlier… Hopefully see some of you there xx
Obviously I’ll be there :)
This appeared at my back door as I was listening to side one of Gerry Loves new Lightships long player. It was one of those moments…
Lawrence of Belgravia – bande-annonce [© heavenly Films]
On tour in England – bientôt près de chez nous aussi ? Peut-être…
2 London Riverside Studios 7 Bristol Cube
8 London Tricycle
9 Sheffield Showroow
10 Nottingham Broadway
12 Birmingham MAC
13 Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
14 London Brixton Ritzy
15 Leeds Hyde Park Picturehouse
16 Newcastle Tyneside Cinema
17 Edinburgh Cameo
21 London Hackney Picturehouse
Amazing film - go see it…
I was looking back through some old notes, lyrics and stuff on my iPad and found this photograph which was taken in Glasgow Central train station just before the train left for London and my first trip to West Heath Yard. Alongside the picture were some words… Where to begin? Let’s start here, now, at Glasgow Central…My first train journey in over ten years and I’m off down to West Hampstead, London to make a record at West Heath Yard Studio with Edwyn Collins.I am very anxious about the whole thing because all I have is a bunch of songs, a lump in my throat and my Martin acoustic bass guitar. I have no idea where this journey will end, who’ll be helping along the way, questions, questions, questions… I feel exactly the same as I did going back to school on that first day after the summer holidays - walking through those rusty old gates, new shoes, tie straight, head full of wonder and excitement… upward and onwards.
Just me sitting at home in Argyll on a very rainy Wednesday singing If I Had Wings…
