Dave Clemo & Vince Gorman- December Song

I’ve been working with Vince for about 12 years, during various incarnations of the Dave Clemo Band, The Tartan Painters, at Whitby Gospel Music Convention and as a duo, sometimes with Vince leading and other times with me.
Back in 2014/5 I started making videos of my various music projects and Vince & I recorded a number of my compositions, including this one.
I wrote this song a few years ago after chatting to some friends about the relentless expansion of the towns into once fertile farmland and green belt. Somebody uttered the phrase ‘I can remember when all this was fields’, and that gave me the inspiration for the first part of the song. About twenty- five or so years ago my wife and I would travel to churches up and down the country to play concerts and take the Sunday services. More than once we found ourselves in old mining towns that were hollowed out shells, with no industry, no jobs, no hope. I grew up in a seaside town when the local power station would sound the hooter to denote the end of the shifts and I’ve included that in the song.
So that’s it. Hope you like it!