No Coincidence (1997), by Jocasta

No Coincidence (1997)

by Jocasta

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1.	Laughing 04:11	lyrics	buy track
Laughing (written by Tim Arnold) Please can somebody tell me what is happening to all of the people? I can’t take it anymore, I’m sick of the cynics And it’s happening to more and more people Come on, attack a cartoon character, Where you gonna find Mickey Mouse in the Ministry of Defence? Come on, you know you won’t defend us, or turn against us In fact it means you’ll be just too hooked to care And they’re laughing, laughing at the world And they’re laughing, laughing at the world Tease them, I see where it leads to It makes money look as strong as the people I’ll keep on dying the days you all celebrate Until I have become one of those people Come on, attack a cartoon character, Where you gonna find Mickey Mouse in the Ministry of Defence? Come on, you know you won’t defend us, or turn against us In fact it means you’ll be just too hooked to care And they’re laughing, laughing at the world And they’re laughing, laughing at the world Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
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5.	Leave The Light On 03:38		buy track
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"I wrote and orchestrated this album between the age of 17 and 20, and put the songs into the hands of three extraordinarily gifted musicians – Jack Reynolds, Adrian Meehan and Andy Lewis. Together, we were Jocasta.

The ingredients of my songs, their musical muscle and our combined energy got us signed to Sony after ripping through a set at The Borderline in 1995. This is the sound of my first steps into the life of creativity I am blessed to experience today. We didn’t make the rest of the journey together as a band, but the magical musical journey I have taken ever since is forever informed by each band member’s nurturing of my music at that time. Jocasta made enough of a mark on the London music scene to secure a somewhat odd place in Britpop history. However, only the rest of the band understood just what each lyric and note of music meant to me.

I’d also like to acknowledge Nick Ingman and The London Symphony Orchestra, without whose collaboration, I would never have been able to develop my orchestral instincts that have possessed me for the last 3 decades. This album was my university. I learnt a lot from everyone who worked on it and it gave me the firm push I needed to become a frontman – something that was never one of my ambitions. It’s an incredible album of extraordinary musicianship, production, ideas and raw angst ridden lyrics that I still believe in now."

Jocasta’s album ‘No Coincidence’ was finally release again exactly 20 years after the original release, June 2nd 2017.

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released June 1, 1997

Tim Arnold - Vocals, guitars and piano
Andy Lewis - Bass
Adrian Meehan - Drums
Jack Reynolds - Guitar

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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, film-maker and social activist – Tim Arnold is a maverick artist whose work stretches the boundaries of the imagination and defies genre and category. In recognition of Tim’s constant change of musical direction, Iggy Pop compared Tim to David Bowie during their collaboration on the film 'Blood Orange'. ... more

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