Road To Nowhere (The FREE Listening Companion)

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Ghost Is Clear (An Introduction 2002-2015), Soft Invaders (The Ones That Got Away), Road To Nowhere (The FREE Listening Companion), Four Fragments (FREE Acoustic EP), Unravelling, Low Cloud Revisits (FREE Download Single), Lit By Sparks, Blue Snakes, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Silver (October Fallen Home Demo 1987) 02:38	info	buy track
2.	The Return (Very first rehearsal take 1988) 02:14	info	buy track
3.	The Return (Onion Johnny Gravel Pit Demo, Summer 1989) 03:54	info	buy track
4.	Twelfth Of Never (The Violet Trade Home Demo 1992) 03:30	info	buy track
5.	Guessing Game (Whiskey Girls Demo 1992) 03:23	info	buy track
6.	Minor Character (Colourburst (Mk. 1) Studio Demo 1993) 02:47	info	buy track
7.	Bender (Colourburst (Mk. 2) Studio Demo 1994) 03:16	info	buy track
8.	The Girl Fell Out Of The Radio (Colourburst (Mk.3) Studio Recording 1995) 02:55	info	buy track
9.	Planet (Colourburst (Mk. 4) Studio Demo 1996) 03:31	info	buy track
10.	Monte Carlo (Fruit Machine Studio Version 1998/9) 03:56	info	buy track
11.	Public Information Film (Filth Monkey Unreleased Album Recording 2000) 04:12	info	buy track
12.	Over (Lumina Home Demo 2000) 02:38	info	buy track
13.	Mr Leggs Where Are You? (Mr Leggs Unreleased Album Recording 2001) 04:49	info	buy track
14.	What Do You Do For Encores? (Villareal Album Recording 2005) 03:52	info	buy track
15.	The 7th (Villareal Album Recording 2007) 03:50	info	buy track
16.	Purple and Blue (Villareal Album Recording 2010) 04:28	info	buy track
17.	Map Of Japan (Lightning Dept. Album Recording 2012) 00:48	info	buy track
18.	Low Cloud Revisits (Villareal Album recording 2013) 04:21	info	buy track
19.	Huey Lewis and the News (Villareal Acoustic Recording 2013) 02:59	info	buy track
20.	The Pale Fountains (Lightning Dept. Album Recording 2016) 02:16	info	buy track

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Thanks to John Shire at Invocations Press, I was encouraged to write about my time spent in bands. Somehow snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the book tells the story of how things went slightly awry, but I never gave up trying even when everybody told me I should! .
'Road To Nowhere (mishaps of an indie musician)' concerns itself not just with the music i wrote-but with that of many forgotten and underrated artists from those halcyon days when the term 'indie' was not a derogatory term. The resulting biography details the highs and lows of an aspiring Indie-wannabe-and THIS is the soundtrack to that story!

The listening companion features one track from 20 of the projects I have been involved with over the years. It's FREE OF CHARGE to everyone although I DO recommend you read the story or else these songs won't make a great deal of sense when played back to back! The initial press of the book has now sold but I am pleased to announce that ROAD TO NOWHERE V2.0 is currently in production (Spring 2020). Watch this space!
September 2020: Quick update to say that despite Covid 19's best efforts to thwart creativity, V2.0 of this book is now nearing completion. This time the story is even more lurid and there are links to Spotify playlists and seven(!) Bandcamp pages. Stay tuned pop people....more will follow.

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released May 14, 2014

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Villareal Brighton, UK

Villareal are based in Brighton, UK. Together with sister band Lightning Dept they occasionally make albums for people to listen to and enjoy.
On 31/5/14, lead singer Simon Parker had his first book published. To celebrate, a FREE 19-Track album was launched.This serves as a listening companion to the biog. It includes fragments of songs from school days onwards...

Look out for new music soon... ... more

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