Note: all tracks recorded under the names Academy 23 or UNIT are the property of DNA Records and protected by copyright, regardless of who wrote the works concerned. This is a track from our 50th album ‘E Pluribus Unum’. We owe a debt of gratitude (…
Note: all tracks recorded under the names Academy 23 or UNIT are the property of DNA Records and protected by copyright, regardless of who wrote the works concerned. This is a track from our 50th album ‘E Pluribus Unum’. We owe a debt of gratitude (again) to Dieter Gerhard for the loan of his baritone saxophone.
I’ve seen you on street corners, your dog on a piece of rope
like an electron round a nucleus that has no isotope:
too much work’s required to jump to another energy state.
You’d rather not arrive at all than turn up 2 hours late.
In orbit round your body fly your satellites here and there;
your atmosphere reveals an ecosystem in your hair.
Your non-event horizon is abysmal to behold:
if any god created you, I hope he broke the mould.
You’re as far from common decency as Saturn from the Sun.
A nanosecond in your company is a light year away from fun.
Your brain scan leaves a nice straight line on my magnetic tape:
your mind is a singularity from which intelligence can’t escape.
Your specific gravity is located in a tin
that you purchased with the pennies from the hat you keep them in,
but since you will not use your cash to live your life at all,
I hope you find a big black hole into which you can fall.
Andy Martin – Vocals, Hammond Organ, Alto Saxophone.
Keilan Knight – 5 String Bass Guitar, Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Drums, Baritone Saxophone.
Text & Music: Andy Martin © 2022.
Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.
In 2016 we released our 30th album (Fast – Clean – Cheap) and with it an era passed. We realised it is neither necessary nor desirable to continue to issue our work on compact discs. The process is expensive and time consuming (pressing CDs, printing booklets and tray cards, buying jiffy bags, going to the post office – it’s so 1990s) so now Band Camp exists, an avenue is presented by which we can release our work to the public directly. Our projects will be obtainable from this address:
unit-united.bandcamp.com.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp and Lulu sites is now [email protected].
In addition there are currently 12 books available. These are proper books in print, not fake, ersatz ‘books’ you see advertised on the internet these days as ‘e-books’. They can be purchased from lulu.com. Type ‘Andy Martin – Grange Hill’ to locate them.
