Andy Hum M

Many people were filmed in St Michael’s church in Byker Newcastle, individually, over the course of a day, playing single notes on various insruments to create a note bank that andy jackson the composer used to create the score that you see and hear. Most of the participants had no previous musical experience. Myself Anton Hecht bought it all together, with Richard Lawson on camera. The work was produced by Mathew Lennon for Newcastle City Council as part of the Off-Centre project. The main body of people came from the community group Aspire.

One of me fave songs on their new album American Slang No copyright infringement intended. This is purely for entertainment purposes only. Now the lights go low on the avenue And the cars pass by in the rain The university boys and girls fill the bars While i’m waiting for the light to change and steam heat pours from the bodies on the floor down in the basement where the jack knives play for the hub city girls with their ribbons and curls who know the meaning of staying out late and everybody singing… who who who who sinds better than we do? than them sopranos in Andy Diamonds choir Singing woa woah woah woah nobody knows I been crazy for so long with out ya and tell me just baby who’ll sing the rhythm and the blues so sad and slow like i do now find me a beat down out in the universe though ill never forget where im from im from we might of moved away from home and slept out there on our own a million miles away in a storm but the beat never leaves and the tempos a relief to my aching bones rambling all over but if im gone for to long i can always hum along so dont ya never forget what i told ya ain’t it just like you always wanted to?

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” -Ad libbed by Roddy Piper (played Nada) in “They Live”