A Cautionary Drive Around The Wirral, by Cautionary Guides

A Cautionary Drive Around The Wirral

by Cautionary Guides

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radioactivity700 What a gem of an album here's hoping for many more.

Steve Binns This album is quietly as addictive as crack (oh and it’s good too!) 🫠 Favorite track: Our Way of Life Would Never Be the Same Again.

Steve Roden Lovely album - on the new listens so far, I'd go with 'Hundred of Wirral' as being my favourite so far. Favorite track: Hundred of Wirral.

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	1.	Metropolitan 03:26
	2.	Our Way of Life Would Never Be the Same Again 03:36
	3.	Merseytravel 03:12
	4.	Hundred of Wirral 03:02
	5.	St Andrew’s Church 03:47
	6.	A Date at Arrowe Park 04:31
	7.	The Pharmaceutical Institute 04:27
	8.	The Ferry Precinct 02:30
	9.	New Brighton Baths 03:43

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David Mills and Nathan Brenville spend a lot of time talking to each other about music but something always got in the way of a fully realised collaboration until this project came along. The motivation behind it stems from various unusual sources: an abandoned book pitch for a history of the Wirral’s music scenes post-Merseybeat, births, deaths, and learning to drive.

Merseytravel is one of a series of songs inspired by a sense of disconnection with your own roots and heritage, in this case the Wirral Peninsula. The restless feeling of always coming and going but never quite feeling at home. But regardless of where one grew up, we all can relate to those formative years, using local transport, catching the bus into town, cadging a half fare if you looked young enough, with a fiver in your back pocket to spend carefully down at Our Price.

These factors provided the inspiration for music at once personal and abstract: an existential road trip through their formative years, the pair turning the dials of their car radio attempting to receive a clear signal through the static of lost years.

This deeply affecting album contains a series of songs inspired by a sense of disconnection with your own roots and heritage, in this case the Wirral Peninsula. The restless feeling of always coming and going but never quite feeling at home. Regardless of where one grew up, we can all relate to those formative years, using local transport, catching the bus into town, cadging a half fare if you looked young enough, with a fiver in your back pocket to spend carefully down at Our Price.

Both Nathan and David now live a long way from the North West of England, where they once called home. This album speaks to that restless feeling of coming and going but no longer quite belonging, the estranged heritage and a dislocated past.

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released July 23, 2023

Cautionary Guides are David Mills and Nathan Brenville

Recorded 2022. Artwork by Nathan Brenville.

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