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After the Last Bell Rings

from Very Interesting Extras by Findlay Napier

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Boo and I were really chuffed when the Alan Kelly Gang recorded this as the title track for their album Last Bell.
The song started as an exercise in holding one chord for as long as possible before changing.
‘After the Last Bell Rings’ was inspired by two things. The spark of the idea was a joke Chris Sherburn used to tell at Last Night Fun gigs. Just as Nick Scott was about to play a beautiful, and long, slow air on the uilleann pipes, Chris would invite the audience to stack their chairs quietly during the performance, supposedly to save time at the end of the night.
The rest of the song is based round the end of every Sunday Funday at the open mic night in Bar Bloc, Glasgow. I used to run the night there with Louis Abbott and Jamie Sturt. After twelve hours of music and drinking the musicians of Glasgow still had the energy to keep partying into the early hours of Monday morning.

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After the Last Bell Rings Words and music by Boo Hewerdine & Findlay Napier
After the last bell rings Will I be on my own Sleeping beneath the stars Nowhere to call home
A million lights above me When all I want is one Will I be on my own After the last bell rings
After the last bell rings
Where am I going to go
When all the chairs are stacked Caught in the undertow
Eyes in the bar room mirror Somehow seem to know Where am I going to go
After the last bell rings
Let it ring, let it ring Let it ring, let it ring
After the last bell rings Darling put your hand in mine Both of us are lost
Who knows what we’ll find Our pockets may be empty
All we’ve got is time
Darling put your hand in mine After the last bell rings

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from Very Interesting Extras, released February 15, 2016

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Findlay Napier Glasgow, UK

One of Scotland's finest songwriters. In 2021 he was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards and in 2018 he was the first solo act to be nominated for Live Act of the Year. Described as Micheal Marra meets Elvis Costello, a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright or a Scottish James Taylor this master storyteller's songs are full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire. ... more

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