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Byres Road Saturday

from Playing Songs No One's Listening To by Roy Møller

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I sent off a CD of my second solo album to Marc Riley in a Jiffy bag with an A4 information sheet. He eventually, in the John Peel tradition, opened it, mislaid it, eventually listened to it and then got in touch with me through social media. It was heartening to me that that was done in traditional means, just going on what he’d heard. I don’t think I’d have reached that sort of exposure just through social media, there are too many people playing that game. One night I came back from a shift, entered the house through the kitchen and heard a familiar piece of music on the radio – I thought it was some kind of freak of physics that one of my songs was coming through the radio! Then Marc Riley announced, “That was Byres Road Saturday, by Roy Moller”.

The song is a snapshot of a time long gone but I'm glad I worked in a reference to Listen to the Band by the Monkees which in turn led to Wally from The Beautiful Music suggesting the album title.

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Let me describe the scene – let me describe the scene…
let me tell you, let me tell you
Let me describe the scene – let me describe the scene…
let me tell you, let me tell you

Well, the Grosvenor Loner goes from Bart to Homer
in the space of a decade and a half
And he’s drunk from the fountain of a man-made fountain made of second-hand vinyl and a phonograph
Pictures on railings, pictures on gables a little bit up the road
Charting movements of eternal students & the ones that come & go

Play a song and no one listens on Byres Road on a Saturday afternoon
Middle: Misguidedly I thought that here I’d always be in tune
I’m in tune to the moon, they say I’m in tune to the moon
Come walk with me
Down Byres Road on a Saturday afternoon

Casual crowds are not allowed to keep you from calming down
In tucked-away alleyways, cafés and galleries – a Caledonian Camden Town
Always run into somebody then run into another of your hook up occasionally friends
I ran into somebody between the shop Fopp and the library
We did the catch-up, lifted the latch up
On the door called memory - that’s what you’ll see
The Grosvenor Groover & the butcher’s improver
Let me tell you people it never ends
Till night descends – till night time comes to
Byres Road on a Saturday afternoon
Byres Road Saturday…

Keep the conversation going…

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from Playing Songs No One's Listening To, released June 1, 2011

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British-Canadian pop artist.

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