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1.
D.R.E.A.D 05:46
Horn arrangement: Joshua Elcock Solo: Moss Taylor First thing in the morning, before I even get to yawning, the doom takes over me. What a way to start the day. Before I sip at my coffee, I’ve already wandered off the edge of eternity. What a way to start the day. Monsieur Roquetin is gonna do himself in. I can’t help but think well good for him. Is it something to do with the allure of art. You know Elliot stabbed himself in his own heart. 2 steps forward 1 step back, take another 2 see where you’re at. First thing in the morning and it waits for me. D.R.E.A.D There’s a dread, is there something else that I can feel instead. Maybe love, the love that I forgot to show myself. I’ve become a hasbeen, I was barely an is-being, For any time at all… Maybe I’m a never-was. In the present continuous, Like the leaves I’ve fallen off, The trees deciduous. Noone really cares about us anymore. Who would have thought that I’d be getting into Tramadol. But it’s a pretty good way to escape it all. I’ve been having trouble just to feel alive. And lurking in the corner is a wish to die, wish to die. 2 steps forward 1 step back, take another 2 see where you’re at. First thing in the morning and it waits for me. D.R.E.A.D There’s a dread, is there something else that I can feel instead. Maybe love, the love that I forgot to show myself. There’s a dread, is there something else that I can feel instead. Maybe love, the love that I forgot to show myself. Hopelessness worthlessness pointlessness dread, Hell of a cocktail when you’re still in bed. Loathing scorn shame and spite I use them all to wipe the sleep from my eyes. 2 steps forward 1 step back, take another 2 see where you’re at. First thing in the morning and it waits for me. D.R.E.A.D There’s a dread, is there something else that I can feel instead. Maybe love, the love that I forgot to show myself. There’s a dread, is there something else that I can feel instead. Maybe love, the love that I forgot to show myself.
2.
2nd Place 04:58
Horns: Liam Shortall Solo: Joshua Elcock Yeah you better build yourself a boat, cos the path you beat around the bush filled with rain and formed a moat. Pulling up the 2nd place project now. Put them irons in the fire, and bring that hammer crashing down. I gotta wrap up in a bow an idea or ten, or it’s just like Syphon Filter on PlayStation 1 all over again. Advanced higher maths exam for eternity. Mr Ford I can’t afford to have again this dream, please! I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. If there’s even a chance then i won’t run that race. I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. I’ll be sitting in my safe space, safely wasting away. So long ago I suffered it last. But something twigged and broke and tension snapped and now I’m back. Them fruits are rotten on the vine. Seize the moment and save it for another time. Go on have another shot on goal. But I’m afraid of stubbing my toe. (God forbid you stub your toe) Shattered bones, toxoplasmosis, the common cold or dying alone. The Zone is but a dot on the horizon to me I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. If there’s even a chance then I won’t run that race. I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. I’ll be sitting in my safe space, safely wasting away. If I can’t jump the highest jump, then I won’t jump at all. I can’t bear the unbearable burden of a stumble or a fall. I pick a door 1 million more just close on right behind. It’s got to be all or nothing, all or nothing. All or nothing at all or nothing at all or nothing at all or nothing at all. I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. If there’s even a chance then I won’t run that race. I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. It’s got to be all or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing at all. I’m never gonna settle for 2nd place. If there’s even a chance then I won’t run that race. For 2nd place. It’s got to be all or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing at all.
3.
Oh Savanna 05:01
Horns: Liam Shortall Hey Gather round brothers and sisters This ones called “Oh Savanna” Comment sava, Savanna? Hey, mon ami McGuire is gonna lay it down And tell you how it is in this autobiographical song. That girl she was so New Orleans she even had a pet crayfish on her shoulder that she later ate. I could not believe my two eyes. We were setting the world to rights. We drew up a deal and a clementine peel and some jobs to do before we die It was one year ago to the day I was a golden haired Super Saiyan Singing Machine but three-six-five and a quarter just slipped away. And then to my surprise, I find myself at my lowest ebb again. Savanna, I'm lost, I could use a friend. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. I'm hurtling towards my judgment day. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. It's Lundi Gras and I'm getting further away. From the joy of just having that moment, is all there is and that ain't the way experience goes and that's just what I said. But I ain't been living well cooped up in my head. I couldn't even enjoy the shred. It's a beautiful world but I've been locked down in my shed. I got a life to live but I'm fixing some inconsequential trinket instead. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. I'm hurtling towards my judgment day. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. It's Lundi gras and I'm getting further away. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. I'm hurtling towards my judgment day. Oh Savanna, I lost my way. It's Lundi gras and I'm getting further away. Further and further away. I forgot about something. Something real strong. If singing and dancing is still alive. Alright. I think I understand-a Gonna get back to the plan-a I think yes well maybe maybe I can-a I'm taking it back Savanna, I'm taking it back. I'm taking it back Savanna, I'm taking it back Savanna I'm taking it back. I sure done lost my way but I'm getting on track Savanna. I sure done lost my way, I'm taking it back.
4.
24/7 05:27
Horns: Mateusz Sobieski Solo: Liam Shortall 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE! What’s become of me, oh what indeed. I’m even sweating over grooves in my sleep. If I ain’t killing it, then it’s killing me. Stress lines at my eyes Charlie Brown good grief! I’ll never find another kind of sugar for my bowl. Aspartamine has taken it’s toll. I never knew there ever could be such fragility. Hemorrhaging worth in torrents bleed. In the dichotomy, the radge is the one that supersedes. 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE. You want it, you got it. Whatever you want well that’s just what I’ll be. WHO ME? You want it, you got it. I made a bop resonate somehow. Make all the bops about wrestlers now. (If only the ultimate warrior had a funny sound) I need on the SAMAs, I need in the Skinny. But they dig serious don’t dig silly. (Don’t you be no silly billy) I got an ego, it won’t let me go, we go hand in hand, and it’s wish is my command. Fun is fun, it sure is fun but the dark don’t go away. It’s very much, very much still there. In the dichotomy, the radge is the one that supersedes. 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE You want it, you got it. Whatever you want, well that’s just what I’ll be. WHO ME? You want it, you got it. Whatever you want just ask and you’ll receive. WHO ME? You want it, you got it. And if it’s 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE You want it, you got it. I am a mirror in front of a mirror with nothing in between, self-reflecting to infinity. In the Blade and the Ice, in the days of old, this wisdom Blitzer told. He said: “If you’re not enough without it, You’ll never be enough with the gold.” My self-esteem torn at the seams, it acts contingently on the praise that I receive. The thing I made is delicate that I hold in my hands. I held too tight and crushed it into sand. Into sand. To sand. The radge is the one that supersedes 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE You want it, you got it. Whatever you want, well that’s just what I’ll be. WHO ME? You want it, you got it. Craig Charles don’t want nothing to do with me. OOH WHEE You want it, you got it. My brother says, “Don’t you sing so self referentially” OOH WHEE I done it, I sung it. 24/7 funk hilarity OOH WHEE
5.
2008 03:37
Horns: Liam Shortall Solo: Michael Butcher Holding a flame for a certain year that treated me real nice, growing radder all the time, I even got lucky once or twice. In the battle of having fun and feeling truly alive, I was right there on the frontline. I don’t need no summer of ‘69, summer of 2008 is just fine. And it’s all mine! Fixie bike and a 3310 2008 is where I wanna be. Where were you and what were you doing In the year 2008? Holy hell it was alright being 21 years old, living right there in the moment, watching the youth unfold. Uncrushed and undestroyed 2008 version of me, a little bit gormless, yes, but free from misery. No nothing bad happened that year at all. No, no, nothing bad as I recall. And I had a ball. Fixie bike and a 3310 2008 is where I wanna be. Where were you and what were you doing In 2008? Hey Mikey, Yeah! I’m gonna ask you a question. Ok! Where were you in the year 2008? (Mikey burns) I’m gonna paint my sunglasses pink. Paint ‘em real good so i don’t have to think. In my kitchen sink. Fixie bike and a 3310 2008 is where I wanna be. Where were you and what were you doing In 2008? Fixie bike and a 3310 2008 is where I wanna be. Don’t tell me that you weren’t born yet in 2008.
6.
Horns: Liam Shortall I got bogged down, in an avalanche rut, going with my brain instead of my gut I got a heart on fire, it’s dying to get out. I got terrors that I need to scream about I ought to be singing everyday, makes the bad things go away, I got caught in minutiae. Won’t someone drive me away in a Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid gonna take me there. It’s got flames all up the sides, mahogany trim inside. Let the Super Solid Soul Vehicle ride! I got knowledge, I cling on to survive. But Billy said: “All you need is the 1 and the 7 and the 5”. I got Mojo, living in me. But it’s been so long I forgot how to let it breathe And I’ll ruminate indefinitely on just how exactically to extend the chords harmonically, when all I need is, all I really need is a Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid gonna take me there. I need a whip to transport me, to where my heart wants me to be, with my Mojo in the shotgun seat. All I need is one string, and my voice to sing, main man laying down the vibe; I guess this is what it means to feel alive. I GOT A WHOLE LOTTA MOJO, AIN'T GOT NO SKILL. I got Soul, (don’t say the style!) I just did. Like JB did way before I was a kid. A powerful tower might just blow your lid. (hottest whip) I don’t care, I won’t keep my passion hid. Billy didn’t complicate. He used what he had to make. And the people did relate. He comes smashing through the gate, in a… So many options so many sounds. In an inch of water you’ll see me drown. I got lost but I done got found when I borrowed Grandma’s turnaround for the Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid Soul Vehicle Super Solid gonna take me there. It’s got flames all up the sides, mahogany trim inside. Let the Super Solid Soul Vehicle ride! I GOT A WHOLE LOTTA MOJO, AIN'T GOT NO SKILL.
7.
Jedi 04:05
Horns: Joshua Elcock Solo: Mateusz Sobieski It’s all slipping so fast, and I’m slipping so fast. Suddenly I’m swarmed in a swarm of tasks. I’d love to keep up the upkeep up but It’s like doing keepy-ups with china cups, on ice, on drugs. Not quite enough time being a husband. A little too much time being in a band. The weight presses down so heavy on me, I can’t break free. All it was was two or three hundred grams. When I leave this life, what will my Jedi ghost look like. Manifest in the best of me, I can see that it won’t look like me now. I think I’m getting further away from the ideal iteration of that day. I can’t retrace the path I took, I scorched it without a second look. Ain’t no option “revert to saved”. Congratulations young apprentice, your jaded training I see is near complete. It’s too late for me, my son, I was together but then I came undone. Strike me down and I will be released. When I leave this life, what will my Jedi ghost look like. Manifest in the best of me, I can see that it won’t look like me now. When I leave this life, what will my Jedi ghost look like. That’s the one that I should aim for should it all go astray. Yub nub, Ee chop yub nub Yub nub, Ee chop yub nub When I leave this life, what will my Jedi ghost look like. Manifest in the best of me, I can see that it might look like me now. When I leave this life, what will my Jedi ghost look like. Manifest in the best of me, I can see that it might look like me now. Look like me now. That’s the one that I should aim for should it all go astray.
8.
Rise Up! 04:49
Horns: Liam Shortall Solo: Mateusz Sobieski Ever since I was a little boy I've always been drawn to the dark. I heard the lion sing and I realised that I'd never be king of nothing, dust in the wind, I'd never make a mark. Sadness overtook me, a place familiar to me, I've been so many times since then. It's alright to get dark sometimes, get you through to the other side. It's alright to get down sometimes, get you through to the other side. Cos we lie to ourselves sometimes, pretending everything's just fine. But even guys, they can cry sometimes, and you know that’s just fine. You better dig! Dig to find cover, dig until your skin is torn! Keep on digging till your fingers are bloodied stumps and the bone shows. Limp haggard tendrils, barely brushing at the dirt crumbs exposed on the clay below. It's alright to get dark sometimes, get you through to the other side. It's alright to get down sometimes, get you through to the other side. Cos we lie to ourselves sometimes, pretending everything's just fine. But even guys, they can cry sometimes, and you know that’s just fine. I created a monster, resides down below, in a realm trans-dimensional, terrible teeth exposed. I beckon you monster, set me free. I wish not to merely cease, but to never have been! Rise up! And obliterate me. Rise up! So I can be free. Rise up! Delete my history. I don't want to cease but to have never been. It's alright to get dark sometimes, get you through to the other side. It's alright to get down sometimes, get you through to the other side. Cos we lie to ourselves sometimes, pretending everything's just fine. But even guys, they can cry sometimes, and you know thats just fine.
9.
Ushakable 05:30
Horns: Micheal Butcher When I was the son of a bitch machine I knew not what giving a fuck means. I was young and fresh and free and keen, I was unshakable. The war against giving a fuck was the hardest i’ve ever one. I won’t let nobody make it come undone. No-one, NO-ONE. I am unshakable. I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit Don’t let them get you. You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you if you have Unshakable faith in your own radness Unshakable faith in your own awesomeness Unshakable faith in your own radness I won’t care about apathy. Shaking loose of these vines on me. Radness in and of itself it breeds, so be unshakable, unshakable. Compare yourself and live in hell. Everyone is shite compared to someone else. Consider yourself RAD, you might as well, and be unshakable, unshakable. I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit Don’t let them get you. You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you If you have Unshakable faith in your own radness Unshakable faith in you own awesomeness Unshakable faith in your own radness I’ll never let you shake me down, I will not allow. No! I don’t give a fuck no more, No! I don’t give a fuck no more, No! The radness will overcome the doubt. No! I don’t give a fuck no more, No! I don’t give a fuck no more, No! But it can only be unshakable, if you describe it so. There will be times when this ridiculous and duplicitous world will assail you with a tale of sabotage. When it tries to break your belief and convince you that you are not Rad. When the weight of the inexorable decay of hope threatens to crush down upon you, in those troubled moments, I tell you there is but one action to take, one alone… You must stand firm, raise your head and pronounce with a furious and unshakable belief in the truth of the words you speak: “Fuck you, World! I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit!” Engender the truth of your own blistering radness, NOW, and beat back that foul decay, for both like wildfire self-cultivate. Sow the right seed: the seed of Rad. In an unstoppable eruption of trust and endlessly flourishing Mojo, the decay: vanquished. Stride forth into the world, bolstered by a new and unshakable faith in your own radness! Unshakable faith in your own radness Unshakable faith in your own awesomeness Unshakable faith in your own radness I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit I am rad as fuck and I do cool shit Don’t let them get you. You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You are rad as fuck and you do cool shit You won’t let them get you, you’ll never let them get you You got ta be Unshakable. Unshakable. Unshakable. Unshakable.
10.
Tower 05:26
Horns: Liam Shortall Solo: Mateusz Sobieski/Michael Butcher Give my self a fucking shake up. Remember where I am. What kind of monster could wake up next to her and not fall in love again and again and again and again. It’s just like doing a backflip. You’ll hurt yourself if you don’t commit. Get yourself into a tight tuck. It wont work if you only give half a fuck, or anything less than all of your heart Our love is not a drug, you’ll be coming down for decades long. Our love is like a tower, growing taller and ever more strong. He longed to touch her like the old days: The old days are now! Close your eyes and they’ll be gone. While they were happening, you were looking at your phone. Dont gotta be phantasmagorical equestrian. Pedestrian is just fine. Head over heels all the time, the baseline is untenable, incredible, turns terrible with time Not mine. I’m still in love all the time. It’s a beautiful pedestrian love. Our love is not a drug, you’ll be coming down for decades long. Our love is like a tower, growing taller and ever more strong. Taller and ever more strong, it might be grammatically wrong. But it’s true, I love you. And without ya don’t know what I would do. Ever ever taller and evermore strong, it might be grammatically wrong. Our love is not a drug, you’ll be coming down for decades long. Our love is like a tower, growing taller and ever more strong.
11.
Better 04:02
Horns: Michael Butcher Dancing solo: Moss Taylor If a consciousness in constant flux creates instantaneous entities, my saddest self created an anchor. A portal or a node or whatever you want to call it. He called me up, looking for answers. What he said: “I’m lost, so lost. Have you found the panacea that we’ve all been searching for? Have you banished that curse of futility away?” I’m glad to say that in a roundabout way, there’s an asterix there, a caveat, but I have. It’s gone, yes it’s gone, at least it is part of the time. This ain’t our first rodeo, rodeo. We’ve been around this block a few times before. We can handle one more Well I thought just there I thought just now that maybe I had finally left those woods behind. But we’re not so different, you and I, we’ll be there again and again and time after time after time after time. Underneath the canopy no light shines through, But still I became the man who stands, bruised but better in front of you. It’s because I’ve seen the bottom that I know it’s true that there is another side. If there’s a way out we will find. We will make it through. It’s gone, yeah it’s gone, at least it is at some small part of the time, You’re not alone, not alone, your better half is here to help you along. It won’t be like this forever, you're gonna gonna get gonna get better, This ain’t our first rodeo, rodeo, We’ve been around this block a few times before We can handle one more. Everything is gonna be alright, More or less, at least some of the time. It won’t be like this forever, You’re going to get better. It won’t be like this forever, you’re gonna gonna get gonna get better, It’s gone, yeah it’s gone, at least it is at some small part of the time, You’re not alone, not alone, your better half is here to help you along. It won’t be like this forever, you’re gonna gonna get gonna get better, This ain’t our first rodeo, rodeo, We’ve been around this block a few times before We can handle one more.
12.
Warmth 04:44
Horns: Michael Butcher I’ve been trying to love you, the way you ought to be loved. But I’m falling short again. I want to stay, I’ll fight tooth and nail that which drags me away, and turn my eyes to glaze. I woke this morning to something rare, something in romance, something fair. Softness of your skin and a face full of your hair. I’m aware of the warmth that I find there I’m aware of the warmth that I find there I’m aware of the warmth that I find there (Maybe I can stay longer this time) I must seize this, never leave this behind. Make hay while the sun shines. Been so long since I saw the face of that love of mine. How long have I been gone this time. I woke this morning to something rare, something in romance, something fair. Comfort in your arms and a face full of your hair. I’m aware of the warmth that I find there I’m aware of the warmth that I find there I’m aware of the warmth that I find there (Maybe I can stay longer this time) I want to stay, I want to stay, in the warm. She takes care of me and I'll never need nobody else to rely on. I’ve come in from the cold, she’ll be there to hold me and keep me warm. I’m aware of the warmth that I find there. of the warmth that I find there. of the warmth.
13.
Stay Rad 04:57
Horns: Liam Shortall You’ve been talking to past versions of yourself, now I'm gonna pitch in from somewhere else. (The Future) A letter to my younger self at 33, I’m an old man now so listen to me. All I’ve got to do is potter around, and think of all the youth I've squandered with a furrow in my brow. With my head up in those thunderclouds, being somewhere else from where I was. Yes you’re in a war my son, you gotta fight sometimes to make sure that it’s won. Stay Rad, kid. Stay Rad, kid. If you aren’t in the battle, get off the front line. Stay Rad, kid Stay Rad, kid. Cos you can’t be fighting battles all of the time. Take a look at that wonderful wife of ours. At the centre of this hectic life of ours. Always there with you and you’re a million miles away. A million miles, what a waste. When will you realise that you can be your own friend? Open up your eyes to beauty again. Because there’s some of it in every tiny thing, but only in the moment that you’re in. Don’t worry ‘bout doing II-Vs all the time, I really don’t think anyone really minds. Stay Rad, kid. Stay Rad, kid. If you aren’t in the battle, get off the front line. Stay Rad, kid Stay Rad, kid. Cos you can’t be fighting battles all of the time. And if you make a song of this letter of mine maybe it can serve to remind, the only place that you can truly be alive Is wherever you are at that time. (Everything is going to be alright, you’ll be fine. Stay Rad) Stay Rad, kid. Stay Rad, kid. If you aren’t in the battle, get off the front line. Stay Rad, kid Stay Rad, kid. Cos you can’t be fighting battles all of the time. One last gift from me to you, a little couplet that you can use: Open your eyes and you’ll be fine and I'll see you in 47 years time. Stay Rad. Now give a kiss to the love of your life. Half a verse will have to do just fine.

credits

released February 17, 2023

Credits:
Tom McGuire: Vocals, Guitar
Luca Pisanu: Bass Guitar
Moss Taylor: Keys
Micah Johnston: Drums
Liam Shortall: Trombone
Josh Elcock: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Mateusz Sobieski: Tenor Saxophone
Michael Butcher: Tenor Saxophone

Harry Wier: Baritone Sax Tr.1,5
Gordon Mill (of Bohemian Monk Machine): Spoke on “Unshakable”
Wing It Musical Theatre Kids Choir sang on “Rise Up”
Little Acres (Emilie Boyd, Rachel Lightbody, Cariss Crosbie): Backing Vocals, Tr. 9,10
Katie Doyle, Ligia Auter, Eleanor Kane, Anoushka Nanguy, Beth Jerem, Amore Kai: Backing Vocals Tr.1,2,3,11,13
Peter McGuire Snr: Spoke on Stay Rad
Grant Cassidy: Percussion Tr. 2,7,8,10
Kev Young: Papa Legba in “Oh Sav” and Irv Blitzer in “24/7”


Recorded by Gus Stirrat at Solas Sounds Studios
Mixed by Jack Davis
Mastered by Stevie Cossar
Track 5 Recorded and mixed by Bruce Rintoul

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