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When Staying Alive's The Latest Craze (2020)

by Tim Arnold

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‘One Percent’ Activate me Cultivate me Circulate me Concentrate me And just when I think I escape It’s got me on my knees I smile through the tape Restrictions never ease Data rape me Calibrate me Alienate me Dominate me I’m talking to stupid in my mirror And a choice that can’t be clearer One prison on my left Another one on my right Got to make up my mind now For the one percent parasite Contaminate me Devastate me Prostitute me Electrocute me Attention deficit The strangest benefit Ahead of the curve? Try not to, hope not to, Pray not to lose your nerve One prison on my left Another one on my right Got to make up my mind now For the one percent parasite Contain and constrain The profits are insane Enrage to engage It’s cold out in these flames One prison on my left Another one on my right Got to make up my mind now For the one percent parasite You sedate me Automate me Inoculate me Take me back to Infancy Liberty Security And purity
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Change of System Melujean Ballesteros, Rahima Bibi Sidhanee Kevin Smith, Gareth Roberts, Leilani Medel, Oscar King Amor Gatinao, Abdul Mabud Chowdury Elbert Rico Sara Trollope Lynsay Coventry Julie Omar, Donna Campbell, Areema Nasreen Donald Suelto, Syed Zishan Haider, Glen Corbin Isn’t that enough Names to make a difference? Isn’t that Enough To end your game? Isn’t that Enough Shame on you to listen? Isn’t that Enough To roll out a change of system? Edmond Adedeji, Catherine Sweeney, Adil El Tayar Mohamed Sami Shousha Elizabeth Glanister Leilani Dayrit, Barbara Moore, Pooja Sharma Anton Sebastianpillai, Eric Labeja Acellam Isn’t that enough Names to make a difference? Isn’t that Enough To end your game? Isn’t that Enough Shame on you to listen? Isn’t that Enough To roll out a change of system? John Alagos, Rebecca Mack, Fayez Ayache Elsie Sazuze, Janice Graham, Jitendra Rathod Emily Perugia, Alice Kit Tak Ong, Aimee O’Rourke, Alfa Sa'adu, Thomas Harvey, Carol Jamabo Isn’t that enough Names to make a difference? Isn’t that Enough To end your game? Isn’t that Enough Shame on you to listen? Isn’t that Enough To roll out a change of system?
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Key Worker 05:12
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The Wonder 04:46
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☆☆☆☆ “An uplifting album with a dose of reality and compassion”
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☆☆☆☆ "John Peel would have loved this album"
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☆☆☆☆ “Like listening to a soundtrack of your own life”
John Higgs
☆☆☆☆ "An album for our times with a message of love and hope"
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On 23 March 2020, the day the UK went into lockdown, Tim Arnold began work on what became WHEN STAYING ALIVE’S THE LATEST CRAZE. He had little choice but to do this because it making the record was how he processed things. “I had to just keep responding to what was happening, because it was always pretty intense,” he recalls. What is so extraordinary, given this context, is how universal the album is. Arnold faced his own unique personal situation and pulled out of it stories and feelings that all of us can recognise. The effect is like listening to a soundtrack album and realising with shock that it is the soundtrack to your own life.

A new and different world seems to arrive every few days on average now, and we can be forgiven if much of our mental capacity is spent trying to navigate this. There is a danger that what we saw at the start will be forgotten, when our lives and values were presented back to us in magnified clarity. Should this happen, WHEN SAYING ALIVE’S THE LATEST CRAZE will help. Arnold went deep into the unified and the universal, so you will find your own personal portrait here.

John Higgs, Brighton, August 2020

Singles and Videos

Playlist for all FIVE videos taken from the album so far: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzXN6dufPK4LieCDvFDrASGnqLH-TzX8e

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released November 6, 2020

Written, performed and produced by Tim Arnold, 23rd March - 7th May 2020.

Personnel

Tim Arnold – Lead and backing vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums, synths and programming.
Phra Peter Suparo - Percussion
Andy Lewis – Bass guitar (Track 3 and track 6)

Ben Pelchat – Electric Guitar, backing vocals (Track 3)

Kate Alderton – Backing vocals and spoken word (Track 2, Track 4 and Track 7)

Graeme Taylor – Piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond Organ (Track 3)

Lisa Millett – Backing vocals (Track 3)

Jonathan Hill - Violin (Track 7)

‘Little Wonders’ on Track 6: Andrew Schlussel, Ziggy Schlussel, Fin Pepper, Rose Pepper, Nic Alderton, Kate Alderton and Ben Pelchat.

Cover Portrait by Charlie Granby and Steve Iggulden

Mastered by Ben Pelchat, Kensington Sound, Toronto, CA.


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Tim Arnold London, UK

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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