Songs From The Seaside

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Songs From The Seaside

LONGY AND THE GOSPEL TRASHLiner Notes for Songs From The Seaside – Live in Southend”There are live albums, and then there are documents. This is the latter.It’s Songs From The Seaside Live in Southend captures Longy and the Gospel Trash at full tilt: 11 songs, a full big band, an upstairs pub in Southend, and a room thick with sweat, brass, electricity and belief. No studio polish. No safety net. Just wood floors, warm beer, overblown horns, and songs that have already lived a few lives before landing here.Recorded in Longy’s hometown, upstairs in a pub where the ceiling feels low enough to lean on and the stage was never designed to hold that many players, this album isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. You can hear the crowd pressed in close. You can hear glasses clink between verses. You can hear the band pushing air around the room like they’re trying to lift the roof clean off.Longy and the Gospel Trash have always existed somewhere between sermon and bar fight. There

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    Positively Unemployed

    Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit.

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    Love Schizophrenia

    Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit.

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    Healing Hands

    Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit.

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    Substitute

    Substitute Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit. Substitute

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    Penthouses & Pavements

    Penthouses & Pavements Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit. Penthouses & Pavements

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    Back from the Abyss

    Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit. Back From The Abyss “Back From The Abyss” is about hitting the depths and choosing to rise anyway. It carries that tension between darkness and defiance — a comeback carved out of hard moments and hard lessons.

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    Down on Victoria

    Written by Longy. Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. Published into the Valueverse by the New Music Nudge Unit. Down On Victoria “Down On Victoria” captures a late-night street, a turning point, and the kind of memories that linger long after you’ve moved on. It’s reflective, grounded, and quietly powerful.

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    Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For Written and performed by Longy - Published by the New Music Nudge Unit Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash.

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    Primark Hospital Blues

    Primark Hospital Blues Written and performed by Longy - Published by the New Music Nudge Unit Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash.

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    You Say You're a Warrior, Are Ya?

    You Say You’re a Warrior Written and performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. All stomp, brass blasts and raised eyebrows, “You Say You’re a Warrior” is a rallying cry with a sly smirk. Longy throws the title like a gauntlet, calling out chest-beating bravado while the band barrels forward in full big-band riot mode. It’s part protest, part pub sermon — a chorus built to be yelled back at the stage, daring you to prove you’re as fearless as you claim.

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    Hamlet Court Blues

    Hamlet Court Blues Written by Longy Performed by Longy and The Gospel Trash. A salt-stung strut through Southend’s backstreets, “Hamlet Court Blues” turns faded shopfronts and neon hangovers into something mythic. Longy croons like a seaside Springsteen on last orders, half in love with the wreckage, half ready to fight it. The horns swagger, the rhythm lurches and sways, and what starts as a local lament blooms into a widescreen, pint-hoisting anthem for anyone who’s ever found beauty in the boarded-up bits.

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LONGY AND THE GOSPEL TRASHLiner Notes for Songs From The Seaside – Live in Southend”There are live albums, and then there are documents. This is the latter.It’s Songs From The Seaside Live in Southend captures Longy and the Gospel Trash at full tilt: 11 songs, a full big band, an upstairs pub in Southend, and a room thick with sweat, brass, electricity and belief. No studio polish. No safety net. Just wood floors, warm beer, overblown horns, and songs that have already lived a few lives before landing here.Recorded in Longy’s hometown, upstairs in a pub where the ceiling feels low enough to lean on and the stage was never designed to hold that many players, this album isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. You can hear the crowd pressed in close. You can hear glasses clink between verses. You can hear the band pushing air around the room like they’re trying to lift the roof clean off.Longy and the Gospel Trash have always existed somewhere between sermon and bar fight. There

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