I've just heard that our song Weymouth Flyer is going to get a play on the radio this Saturday. Geoff Barker has supported our little band since we first started seriously recording and he will be playing the track on his Saturday Rock "n" Roll Party show this weekend.
I only ever used to make train journeys over a few routes - up to London for entertainment, to Bristol to watch football and in my memory the best of all down to Weymouth for days out. There are loads of great American train songs so i thought i'd write some lyrics that reflected a different point of view concerning riding the rails. Those American place names seem so exiting and exotic so i'm supposing the glamour of Castle Cary and Pen Mill will have a similar effect on the casual foreign listener. Brunel built our station and he was a visionary genius but in photos he looks a bit of a shortarse so maybe Tom Cruise could play him on screen in God's Wonderful Railway -The Movie!
Geoff's show is on most of the BBC local stations in the west country or you can find it on-line on http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2006/03/02/listenagain_fulllist_feature.shtml.
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