Love songs for Travellers

One interesting thing that you may not know about the Balustrade boys is that neither of them has a car! Part of this is because they live in Bath and so have no need for a big motor as there is no where to park it! But the main reason is because they live in Bath and so cannot afford to get one as they spend all their money on council tax and looking after the listed Georgian townhouses they live in and so cost ridiculous sums of money to look after because Jane Austen may once have rustled a corset near it at one time or another. The upside to this though is that both lads have thighs like tree trunks from hiking up the many hills of Bath as well as having an encyclopedic knowledge of the British Transport system (both are proud holders of Young Person's Railcard despite neither being able to be accurately described as young!).

Which brings us indirectly to the prupose and title of this post. As a result of their love of all things transport (combined with Mr Carter's slightly confused love of all things Mojave 3-based) the lads have set about a song writing challenge this week. Taking the title of this potential new song from a slip of the tongue by Mr Carter when referring to the aforemnetioned acoustic indie threesome's album 'Excuses for Travellers' both fellas have embarked on a mission to write a new song for the album. Initial results were promising as Mr Carter produced an 99% complete masterpiece of jangly indie goodness all about firelight tales and memorable angles, while Lex turned in a particularly alt.country song about travelling to Bristol and staring at wierdos on the train!

We'll keep you posted on how the competition progresses, however for now, Love Songs for Travellers Parts One and Two have been pencilled on to the initial track list for the album which now includes the final track, Zaire, a plinky plonky acoustic number which will nicely close the album out (OK, so we know that for an A to Z of the West Country it is a bit of a cop out to have the final song called Zaire, but the only other Z we could think of was Zoo as in Bristol Zoo and that isn't a particularly cool name for a song - especially after Welsh chav-rappers Goldie Looking Chain have already name-checked the West Country's penguin purveyors on their novelty hit, Guns don't kill people wappers do!).