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Famous and Dandy

from Stay Tuned by The Silverbeets

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    Stay Tuned is the latest release by Australian act, The Silverbeets, and is their first full length album.
    Prepare yourself to be taken on a journey. From the opening soundscape ‘All Cool People’ through to the last dying guitar notes of ‘Sunshine in a Glass of White Wine’, Stay Tuned evokes memories of a bygone era when radio was the shrine to which the avid listener came to worship. This is a nostalgic look backwards at how albums were once crafted as an entire piece to be cherished in one sitting like an 11 course meal, slowly savoured and fondly rememberedafter many years.
    Stay Tuned flows and ebbs, taking the listener to places they weren’t expecting to find themselves. Employing the layered textures of multiple instruments that are never gratuitous, Stay Tuned weaves a web over the listener. The journey begins slowly through a laid back suburban soundscape instrumental piece before tempting and inviting us to get off the couch and start enjoying life through And I/You Thought, rather than being afraid of it, and then taking you away on a rollercoaster ride leadingyou through a Parisian Street Market complete with apropos accordion on the song Famous and Dandy. While employing elements of upbeat rock, the album is reflective and looks at life from a mature perspective as is displayed in Split Window Kombis which takes the listener through the internalisation of growing older and of not wanting to leave this earth, just yet. But this is not a journey for the faint at heart. A tasteful pastiche of sound was employed in the making of this album; manic, expertly played drums dominate and drives The Calm Before the Super Solar Storm, a song for those with insomnia; while Wake Up & Realise is more melancholic and slow, allowingthe lyrics to take centre stage, over layers of cello and guitars, before a cacophonic maelstrom is unleashed out of nowhere, taking the listener well out of their comfort zone.
    The album ends like a choose your own adventure book. What better way to end a journey than to choose to sit back, whileWatching the Sun disappear, with good friends, beers in hand ready for the final rays of light to peer over the horizon or you can choose to listen on bringing you continuing the aural experience with a strum of a harp among reversed guitar and affected synthsbefore saying adieu withthe sadreflectionof waving goodbye to a lover with the beautifully titledSunshine in a Glass of White Wine. But like a good book, a well-crafted album makes you want to just put the needle back on the first track of side 1 and start the journey all over again.
    Influences abound in this album. There are references to Pink Floyd, The Byrdsand David Bowie as well as modern contemporaries such as Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and Elbow. Yet, The Silverbeets have their own sound and approach to an old art form. As much as there is nostalgia on this album there is also a modern feel – a combination of old and new, the known and the unknown. This is an album for music lovers. It is an album for those who love alternative music, and for those who may be looking forsomething outside of the mainstream. But mostly it is an album, not a collection of random songs thrown together.
    Some listeners will not get this album, some will think it is brilliant and some may just enjoy a song or two and ignore the rest, but if Stay Tuned was to go unnoticed,the musical world will be poorer because of it.

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Famous & Dandy

All verses are picked individual notes not necessarily in order of being written
Bass and Drums start Song

G# E D E
I wanna take you away on a ride
F# D C D
I’ll take you to the place where the sun goes to hide
G# E D E
But first I must find you and that is the problem
F# D C D
As everyone I meet I share nothing in common with

Amaj Gmaj - Instrumental for a bar

G# E D E
I wanna take you to deep within my heart
F# D C D
I’ll take you to the place where we could never part
G# E D E
There we can live in substantive bliss
F# D C D
We’ll be free from life’s burdens as I’m kissing your lips
G# E D E G# E D A G#
So now I hope I find you and do not go crazy
F# D C D F# D C D G F#
Oh that’ll make me happy and that will amaze me
G# E D E G# E D A G#
It shouldn’t really matter that I am lonely
F# D C D F# D C D G F#
But maybe it’s my wish that it won’t take forever



Same Chord formation as in verse but strummed

E 7 E 11 E 7
Oh how I wished that I lived in Paris
D 7 D 11add 6 D7add6
I would eat croissants every morning for my breakfast
E 7 E 11 E 7
Oh how I wish that I was a star
Gmaj Gmaj7
I’d be dating movie people go riding in a luxury car







E 7 E 11 E 7
Oh how I wished that I lived with you
D 7 D 11add 6 D7add6
I could do anything that you wanted me to do
E 7 E 11 E 7
Oh how I wish that you lived with me
D 7 D 11add 6 D7add6
We could get together and be everything we wanted to be

Outro is picked

G# E D E F# D C D

G# E D E F# D C D
Oh how I wish

Repeat 4 times

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from Stay Tuned, track released June 15, 2018

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The Silverbeets

Founded in 2014, The Silverbeets are primarily:
Farnz Cordeaux
Rhythm Guitar & Vocals
Billy O'Brien
Drums
Nigel Hope
Bass
Ernie Oppenheimer
Keys
Many other musicians collaborate.
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