Going Off At A Tangent

by Jake Wyatt

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1.	Things Can Start 02:07	lyrics	buy track
"What things? What things can start?" “We can begin with a resolve.”
2.	Goodbye 04:22	info	buy track
3.	Forecast 01:14	lyrics	buy track
“Eeeee-yupp! Urrrrgghhh!”
4.	The Shepherd 02:12	lyrics	buy track
“Sheeps love mushrooms.”
5.	Burnt Whisper Experiment 02:13	lyrics	buy track
"Burnt my lip." “Yeah, my, my legs are on fire.”
6.	Schmiel The Sheep 06:17	lyrics	buy track
“When I first heard about her, I, I, I, I cried.” “Well, um, feathers, I – no, not feathers – I have little, um, little... I would say... balls. Balls.” “There’s many wet times – that’s holding us back.”
7.	Keeky Kumpy 03:24	info	buy track
8.	Birthdays 04:30	lyrics	buy track
“How do you think I feel? I’m ten and I have a birthday every 4 years... you know, and my wife, she’s 167 when she shouldn’t be, just ’cause she counts her birthdays in different ways.”
9.	100 Years Of Achievement 05:23	lyrics	buy track
“Some pretty amazing insights into the world of sport.” “Me and my 11 kids go out and we ’ave a grape each on a Tuesday ’cause it’s my favourite day. I wake up early on a Tuesday, I wake up at 11 o’clock.”
10.	Wizard 00:58	lyrics	buy track
“Do you have a hat?”
11.	Questions Of 11 02:12	lyrics	buy track
"Eleven? Eleven? Eleven?" “About 11?”
12.	Debate 02:09	lyrics	buy track
“It needs to end. Does it ever end, really? The beginning, the start? Hmm?” “All endings end with either a void or a lot of things to clear up.” “When something comes to an end, it’s an opportunity to...”
13.	Follow The Grains 07:00	lyrics	buy track
“Oh God – rain! Lots of clouds. Stormy, stormy weather! Oh dear. Oh no – rain! Oh no – wind! Ahahahahahahaha! Brrrr! It won’t be good overall. Hahahahaha!”
14.	Squirrels 09:47	lyrics	buy track
“Hang on a sec, I’ve really reached a milestone here, I’ve become an adult, I’m an old man . . . I’m an old man.” “I’ve matured. It’s the most horrible thing in the world.” “Running across a brick, running across a road, you come near me, I bring you home!”
15.	The Orb 03:24	lyrics	buy track
“Yeah, and here I go, I’m still going – my walking’s just gonna never end – oh, it may end.”
16.	A Stable Lad 07:00	lyrics	buy track
“Don’t see boots like that ’round ’ere! Oh no! Gotta go to London to find boots like thaa-aat!”
17.	The Windmill Castle 05:22	lyrics	buy track
“What? You’ve spat in it? That’s horrible. You’re really, really disgusting.”
18.	Great Squirrels 03:25	lyrics	buy track
“You’ve just jumped in on my show.”
19.	The End 05:12	lyrics	buy track
“I don’t wanna, you know, speculate on every situation that’s ever occurred, but in general, we started on our own and we end on our own.” “We all have to face the end on our own.” “Is that it?” "Never mind if this all comes across as mad rapping, just mind if this actually makes sense."

about

Go over and across into another world with this disc of modernist, eschatological escapism.

Have your brain tickled, confused and exhausted by these epistemologically provocative sketches, semi-detached interviews, ad-lib musical off-shoots and hypnotic rumblings.

Swoon at the tragedy and the saviour of sheep species, smirk at good squeaks, new starts and repeated attempts.

Join us on adventures and find yourself alone at the end with a bit more, or a bit less, of something or other than when you started or joined us.

Audacious sound pioneer Jake Wyatt going off at a tangent with experts and animals, blowing off into the breeze on a journey to a place.

Mostly unscripted heartache and fun, spoken and sung.
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This is the over-long, unawaited follow-up to Being Audacious. Further sardonic echoes of Pontypridd airwaves, recorded on quarter inch tape, minidisc and cassette, in the radio studios at the University of Glamorgan, on the hill south of Pontypridd, and here and there in Norwich, remastered with sparkly new special effects and underwhelming melodies, snapped, re-edited and tickled to the endth degree. It is incredibly awful and contradictory in some places, but still not enough in others.

That’s right, it’s the difficult second album, 4 years in the making. Going Off At A Tangent was launched charitably in 2009, raising £111.11 for Comic Relief. I squeezed as much as I could onto an 80 minutes disc – it’s fat, fun and beyond epic in concept. And I have a nice lot of CD copies, so if you want one (£4, if you’d be so kind), get in touch. I think you’ll be pleased.

It's an album of two halves, starting with sketches, interviews, questions, and odds and sods; then from track 13 a magical adventure leads us to the dramatic anticlimax. Starting anew, these last 7 tracks entail The Director’s Cut of a jolly dramatic narrative from 2003, remixed and enhanced during 2007-9 with a fresh bed of background noise and additional dialogues from 2005.

credits

released March 13, 2009

© Jake Wyatt / Nice Adventures Productions.

Featuring:
Rhia Stankovic as Schmiel the Sheep, a squirrel, and evil Dorothy.
Amanda Buckley and her big beginning, middle and end.
Rick Bush with his legs on fire.
Daryl Perrins as the unstable stable lad.
Kym Ragin’ Ryan as the Shepherd of the sheeps.
Tim Shaw as Dr Liam Trosser, an actual expert on birthdays from the University of the United Kingdom.
Laz Assiratti as sporting achiever Chester Harold III.
Richard Errulld as Richard the Squirrel.
Lloyd Harrington as Graham the driver.
Baz Greenland & Lisa Hancock as freelance weather forecaster Michael and his mother.
Kate Griffiths as the Weather Prognosticator.
Tanya Walker as a squirrel.

Originally available on CD from 13th March 2009. Finally got around to putting it on here on 17th April 2022.

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Jake Wyatt Norwich, UK

Multifaceted comic performer, slow but determined novel constructionist, banana poet, arcane impressionist, flower conditioner, and loving hubby. Former producer and broadcaster of bizarre imaginings on local radio in Wales: epic escapades with vocal squirrels, neat sheep and lovely clouds! ... more

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