Damascene - an original soundtrack

The Filthy Tongues featuring Paul Hullah

Scenes

A decade ago, The Filthy Tongues and poet Paul Hullah were involved in creating ‘SCENES’. An illustrated book of poetry accompanied with a vinyl recording featuring both the artist and poet singing and reading poetry.

They have now revisited this and created a musical soundtrack for it called ‘DAMASCENE’ .

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Limited edition signed CD’s, T-shirts, Tote Bags and copies of the original SCENES book all available from the online store.

Damascene CD
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A book called Scenes

This was an ambitious venture, an eclectic mix of electro, spoken word and Scotland's favourite underground band.

The book produced was called SCENES and documented, sometimes directly sometimes in an obtuse way, the goings on around the Scottish music scene of the early and mid 1980's.

A time of musical factions, cults and youth tribes and a time that also was the stalking ground of Hullah, Metcalfe, Shirley Manson, Big John Duncan and a myriad of other characters.

Looking back it felt rose tinted but there was pain in that Bohemia, pain that birthed an art that still lives on in the recordings of the groups who dominated those nightclubs.

Some of them went on to great things, some of them not so much.

Track Listing

  1. CROOKED

  2. HOMING

  3. CRUEL

  4. POVERTY, ALCOHOLISM AND EXTREME DEPRESSION

  5. MEMORY

  6. LET

  7. MY LAST SACCADE

  8. OVERGROUND

  9. LETHE WALKS

  10. I’M ON YOUR SIDE OPHELIA (XMAS VERSION)

Lethe Walks

Taken from the album DAMASCENE

“Never mind those late night docs on BBC Four, Scenes, which is published by Edinburgh's Word Power Books, is an album of snapshots of the 1980s in Scotland as they really were”

— Keith Bruce, Arts Editor THE HERALD