The following is the contents of the "My musical poetry" page at my socialist website: www.socialiststeve.me.uk/poetry.htm. There are 20 songs/poems that you can download in WMA (Windows Media Audio) or MP3 format, or view the lyrics. I've included the entire contents of the page, which includes a fair amount of information about my extremely interesting love life! There is actually a song called "Belly Of The Beast" that is better than my other love songs/poems, but you will have to search for it...

 

I have written quite a large number of political songs/msuical poems (some of which are also about love). I was intending to wait until my band Galaxia (which will perhaps adopt the name Red Day) is established before producing recordings of them. However, this would take some time and the Scottish parliamentary elections (on Thursday the 3rd of May 2007) are approaching. I have therefore recorded some of them as poems on my own, with some lines sung rather than spoken.

 

I have so far made the following recordings, in Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 formats:

• I wish Cath was a folk rocker (with flowers in her hair) – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• The Revolution Could Have Started Then! – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Walking Where The Roses Grow – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• 9/11 Inside Job – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• George Bush’s Army – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Livin’ La Vida Loca – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Couldn’t Wait Until Sunday – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• I Don’t Look Back In Anger – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Poll Tax Victory – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• The Surveillance State – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• The Fugitive – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Prisoners Political – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• An ode to Scott – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Assassinations – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Does it matter if God exists? – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• The Socialist Throng – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• I Walk The Earth – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• What Can I Do? – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Too Good To Be Forgotten – WMA, MP3, lyrics
• Talking About A Revolution – WMA, MP3, lyrics

I have divided my musical creations into songs in which every line has a tune (which may be performed by the band as well as myself unaccompanied) and musical poems with lines that do not (which will only be performed by me). The songs are on the Galaxia/Red Day website (with brief explanations of those songs on and their lyrics accessible from the lyrics page of that website) and the poems are listed below. When I have produced recordings of any poems or songs, MP3/WMA files containing the recordings for downloading free of charge from anywhere in the world (copyleft to encourage distribution for non-commercial purposes) will be placed here. Some of the songs/poems may be recorded on CDs using the Red Squirrel Collective record label, set up by Scottish Socialist Youth (the youth wing of the Scottish Socialist Party). That record label has produced demo CDs at £1 each, so I would like CDs with my recordings on to also be available cheaply. I will not make any profit out of them; any proceeds will be reinvested in the record label or distributed to good causes by the Foundation for PR-based Socialism.

 

The following is a list of musical poems I have written so far:

• The Surveillance State – A poem (which is alternatively a song on the Galaxia website) dedicated to Cath Bann (founder of Defy-ID, an organiation “against ID cards and the surveillance state” which gave me inspiration for the poem and its title). This song is about spying, ID cards, mind reading and mind control, pointing out the role of infiltration in both preventing political change and ensuring it actually happens in the chorus. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• Too Good To Be Forgotten – A poem dedicated to Cath Bann (my strongest collaborator between 1998 and 2003 who I naturally fell in love with), about the poll tax, anarchism, sanctions and war on Iraq, ID cards and (of course) love! Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• Walking Where The Roses Grow – A poem dedicated to Rosie Kane (Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow) about the environment, which mentions direct action against Trident and calls for strike action or demonstrations at the time of the next G8 summit. My G8 summit worldwide general strike website discusses whether strike action is pracitcable at the time of this summit. This poem also warns about big business infiltrators and there is a hint of love in it too! Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• Assassinations – A poem about the assassination of Nathalie Monier, a woman I was deeply in love with, about a week before Princess Diana also died in very suspicious circumstances. I have set up a discussion group called assassination-of-nathalie-monier. Visit the assassination-of-princess-diana group or the Princess Diana bulletin board at the Revolutionary Platform Network forum for more information about Diana’s assassination. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• Couldn’t Wait Until Sunday – A poem I wrote much of while a political prisoner in a police station cell on the night of the 12th/13th May 2006, initially calling it Can’t Wait Until Sunday, about my plans for my 40th birthday on Sunday the 14th of May. I had invited along the first serious love of my life, Rhiannon Williams, who I had not seen for over 20 years. My plans were wrecked by my incarceration. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• I Walk The Earth – A poem dedicated to several different women from my past (Paula Mitchell, Naomi Byron, Sinéad Daly and Susan from Dublin, a Polish woman whose name I never found out, a Polish lodger of my former best friend Julian Beard called Dorotca, Morag Allen, Cath Bann and Sonya Qureshi). It contains information about the miners’ strike, a 55-mile sponsored walk (from UMIST in Manchester back to UMIST again) called the Bogle Stroll, the anti-poll tax movement, a Youth Against Racism in Europe camp in eastern Germany, the 1998 European School of the CWI (at which I became a big factor in world politics by being the only person from England or Wales to speak in the debate in favour of setting up the Scottish Socialist Party), the circumstances that led to me first becoming a political prisoner and my time with a nurse called Sonya when I was incarcerated. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• An ode to Scott – A poem about addiction to drugs and alcohol. Click here for the lyrics. I have done a recording of this musical poem, available as a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file (downloadable by clicking here) and also available in MP3 format (downloadable by clicking here).
• Whatever Happened To The Conspiracies? – A poem dedicated to Martine McCutcheon (who I suggested is the nicest robot the world has ever seen). The poem mentions how different opinions about whether Martine had a miscarriage (expressed by me in my document How our brains help or hinder the struggle for socialism) has destroyed the strongest conspiracies by the forces of big business; they have regrouped but are much weaker. Click here for the lyrics.

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