John Reilly - 'Building Avalon'
‘BUILDING AVALON’RELEASE DATE: 6th JUNE 2011
LABEL: ART MUSIC
FROMAT: DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
DISTRIBUTION: PROPER DISTRIBUTION
CAT # AM007
SHEFFIELD FAVOURITE TO RELEASE SUMMER SINGLE
‘Building Avalon’ is the new single from Sheffield favourite John Reilly.
Just one of the results of an intensely creative and exciting 18-month period of songwriting with Vancouver-based piano man Lewis Nitikman, ‘Building Avalon’ has already been playlisted by CBC Radio 2, Canada’s national radio station.
Hailing from the same working environment as Richard Hawley, Pulp and Arctic Monkeys, John Reilly is rapidly emerging from his former role as the frontman for Boy On A Dolphin into his newly adopted solo role, having already performed to over 10,000 fans across several sold-out headline shows at Sheffield’s prestigious City Hall.
As usual, Reilly’s lyrics cut through the surface and head straight to where it matters and suddenly you are a part of his crusade. With a deep bow to Northern Soul, Reilly sings ‘You wanna take us on? Then come and get some!’ as ‘Building Avalon’ bursts out of the blocks with a soulful brass riff that conjures up thoughts of The Teardrop Explodes’ Reward and Plan B.
With its UK release set for June 6th, ‘Building Avalon’ precedes the release of John Reilly’s debut solo album, ‘ZEBULON’, which is scheduled for release on August 1st 2011.
John Reilly is available for interview.
http://www.johnreilly.org/
Building Avalon
Toy town, tick tock, BANG, birds scatter
Don’t talk to us like we don’t matter.
Fad man, sad man, giving us the bullet.
A hole in his body without a soul in it.
So we lay on the grass beneath the cooling towers
The sound of the steel press shaking all the flowers.
We devise our own private retribution
We build our own Avalon
Yes we believe and we belong
In our Avalon
How do sleep?
What made you think we would run?
You wanna take us on?
Then come and get some!
Two face, fixed race, sharks in the shallows
In reach with a leach lurking in the shadows
One door opens as another door’s slamming
Still little Lewis’s got his head down jamming’
Give us a wall and we’ll bring a sledgehammer
Give us a call take a walk around our Manor
We’re gonna build or own rockin’ planetarium
We build our own Avalon
Yes we believe and we belong
In our Avalon
How do you sleep?
What made you think we would run?
You wanna take us on?
Then come and get some!
Avalon – Wrap me in your arms
Avalon – Keep us safe from harm
Avalon – Now I fear no one
We build our own Avalon
Yes we believe and we belong
In our Avalon
Up for the fight, don’t need a gun
In our Avalon
Yes we believe and we belong
In our Avalon
How do you sleep?
What made you think we would run?
You wanna take us on?
Then come and get some!