B i o g r a p h y
 (by Andy Kellman)

Brighton, England's Electrelane formed in 1998, eventually comprising guitarist Mia Clarke, bassist Rachel Dalley, drummer Emma Gaze, and keyboardist/guitarist Verity Susman. Sharing an equal amount of fondness for Krautrock, vintage equipment like the Farfisa organ, and modern production techniques, the band made their recorded debut in January 2000 with the Film Music single on In Denial. Following another single for Fierce Panda, the group set up the Sony-supported Let's Rock! label, issuing a pair of singles (Gabriel and Blue Straggler) prior to the April 2001 release of Rock It to the Moon, the band's first full-length. Active and vocal proponents of female involvement in music, the band became part of the ~Ladyfest concerts that took place in Glasgow a few months later. For the band's second album, 2004's The Power Out, Electrelane moved to Too Pure and added vocals and more pop structure to their sound. Dalley left the band late in 2004 and was replaced by Ros Murray. Axes, Electrelane's denser, more experimental third full-length, arrived the following spring. After extensive touring in support of Axes, the band convened in Berlin in summer 2006 to write their fourth album, No Shouts No Calls, which they recorded that fall; the album, which fell closer to The Power Out's pop sound, was released in spring 2007.




Rock It To The Moon
- 2001-04-30 - Instrumental



The Invisible Dog
Long Dark
Gabriel
Film Music
Blue Straggler
Many Peaks
Le Song
Spartakiade
U.O.R.
The Boat
Mother
 

The Power Out
- 2004-01-26 -



Gone Under Sea
On Parade
The Valleys
Birds
Take The Bit Between Your Teeth
Oh Sombra!
Enter Laughing
This Deed
Love Builds Up (Instrumental)
Only One Thing Is Needed
You Make Me Weak At the Knees (Instrumental)
 

Axes
- 2005-05-09 -



One, Two, Three, Lots (Instrumental)
Bells
Two For Joy
If Not Now, When (Instrumental)
Eight Steps (Instrumental)
Gone Darker (Instrumental)
Atom's Tomb (Instrumental)
Business Or Otherwise (Instrumental)
Those Pockets Are People (Instrumental)
The Partisan
I Keep Losing Heart
Come Back (Instrumental)
Suitcase (Instrumental)
 

No Shouts, No Calls
- 2007-04-30 -



The Greater Times
To The East
After The Call
Tram 21 (Instrumental)
In Berlin
At Sea
Between The Wolf And The Dog (Instrumental)
Saturday
Five (Instrumental)
Cut And Run
The Lighthouse (Instrumental)

Non Albums Tracks
- Misc -

Come On
I Love You My Farfisa
I Want To Be The President
I'm On Fire
More Than This
Smalltown Boy

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The Power Out

Gone Under Sea

A la belle étoile
J'ai vu ton visage gris
T'avais un chagrin d'amour
Les mensonges, c'est désespéré

Où est la cavalière
Tu n'es plus brave
Je t'ai perdue dans la foule
Tu as coulé sous les flots

La mer était calme mais il pleuvait sans cesse
J'ai compté les bateaux, j'ai compté la tristesse
Et combien de vies cela a-t-il coûté
Et combien de vies cela a-t-il coûté

Avé Maria
Avé Maria
Under the stars
I saw your grey face
You were having an unhappy love affair
The lies, it's desperate

Where is the cavalier
You're not brave anymore
I lost you in the crowd
You slipped beneath the waves

The sea was calm but the rain was relentless
I counted the boats, I counted the sadness
And how many lives were lost
And how many lives were lost

Ave Maria
Ave Maria

On Parade

Stand up against the wall
So I can make you out
Do do you wanna be it
You take the power out
One day we'll be wandering

Girl you'll be a dandy
And a deserter
You sit astride your horses
Dressed as Nelson

I wanna see her
I wanna see her
I wanna see her with her horses
Oh yeah

I bet I'd like your underwear
I bet I'd like your underwear
I bet I'd like your underwear

You got it down
You got it down
Ah you got it down
You got it down

The Valleys

I heard it from the valleys
I heard it ringing in the mountains

I heard it from the valleys
I heard him singing in the mountains

Poem 'A Letter Home' by Siegfried Sassoon, written May 1916 :

Robert, when I drowse to-night
Skirting lawns of sleep to chase
Shifting dreams in mazy light
Somewhere then I'll see your face

Turning back to bid me follow
Where I wag my arms and hollow
Over hedges hasting after
Crooked smile and baffling laughter
We know such dreams are true

He's come back, all mirth and glory

Running tireless, floating, leaping
Down your web-hung woods and valleys
Where the glowworm stars are peeping

Like the prince in a fairy story

Till I find you, quiet as stone
On a hill-top all alone
Staring outward, gravely pondering
Jumbled leagues of hillock-wandering

Winter called him far away

You and I have walked together
In the starving winter weather
We've been glad because we knew
Time's too short and friends are few

Blossoms bring him home with May

We've been sad because we missed
One whose yellow head was kissed
By the gods, who thought about him
Till they couldn't do without him

Oh now he's here again
Standing in a wood that swings

To the madrigal he sings
And I'm sure, as here I stand
That he shines through every land
That he sings in every place
Where we're thinking of his face

While we know such dreams are true

Birds

I loved you in the morning
Before the sun would come
You were the dawn to me

I loved you in the evening
While the birds were still singing
You gave every song to me

I want to see you
More than anything
Oh I miss you
All day and everyday

It's not that I can't go on without you
Got a lot of things to do
I'm busy, busy all the time
Still I can't stop thinking about you

Take The Bit Between Your Teeth

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me
Oh I don't want to hear it
Turn it up, yeah yeah

I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard
I know you had it hard and you wanted to tell me

That you're the man
That you're the man
That you're the man, you've got all of the answers
Oh I don't think you do

Turn it up, yeah yeah

Oh Sombra!

( Sonnet by Juan Boscán )

Como aquel que en soñar gusto recibe
su gusto procediendo de locura
Así el imaginar con su figuravanamente su gozo en mí concibe

Otro bien en mí, triste, no se escribe
si no es aquel que en mi pensar procura
de cuanto ha sido hecho en mi ventura
lo sólo imaginado es lo que vive

Teme mi corazón de ir adelante
Viendo estar su dolor puesto en celada
Y así revuelve atrás en un instante
A contemplar su gloria ya pasada

¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada
¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada

¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada
¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada

¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada
¡Oh sombra, oh sombra de remedio inconstante
Ser en mí lo mejor lo que no es nada

Like one receiving pleasure from a dream
His pleasure thus proceeding from delusion
So does imagination with illusions conceive in vain its happiness in me

No other good's inscribed on my sad heart
Except what in my thoughts I might procure
Of all the good I ever have endured
What lives is only the imagined part

My heart is frightened to proceed ahead
Seeing that its pain in ambush lies
And so after a moment it turns back
To contemplate those glories that have fled

Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack
Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack

Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack
Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack

Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack
Oh shadow, oh shadow of relief, that fickle flies
To make what's best in me be what I lack

Enter Laughing

I saw a light
And it shone
Yeah it shone
All around your head

My friend there's no time
For all our plans
Now you're gone
There's no way back from here

Sometimes I just want to change
But the people keep saying
You can't give up your old ways

Can you tell me how
I could be so blind
To ever let you go
When I wanted you around

You know I was just waiting for you to come over
I thought that you knew it

I never told you that I
I've been looking out for you
I've been thinking about you
I could, I could, I could, I could
I could, I could, I could not tell you

This Deed

( Friedrich Nietzsche, from Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft, section 125 of book 3 )

Diese Tat ist ihnen immer noch ferner
Als die fernsten Gestirne
Und doch haben sie dieselbe getan!
Und doch haben sie dieselbe getan!

Hände hoch!
Hände hoch!
Hände hoch...
This deed is still more distant from them
Than the most distant stars
And yet they have done the very same!
And yet they have done the very same!

Hands up!
Hands up!
Hands up...

Only One Thing Is Needed

I'm going out again
I'm going to meet that girl
I saw her looking so fine, I said I've got to go on over

You got it, you got it, you you you got it
You're going to be my girl
I saw you looking so fine, I said I've got to go on over

I'm going out to meet her
I'm going out to meet her

Axes

Bells

Winter bells and dark and silent trees
Help me while these thoughts are troubling me

I slept through the falling of the leaves
I never knew that time could get so far
Away from me

Two For Joy

I’ve no sorrow
If I’m glad
Oh let me show it

Did you see those birds take flight
She opened her hand and they flew across the room

How the morning skies are high
I watch them as they turn from black to blue
I was dreaming of boats last night
Boats in the desert and anchors and bridges and you

Oh, let’s get in the water
Oh, let’s get in the water
They said “no, don’t go near the water”
You said “oh, let’s get in the water”
You said “oh oh oh…”

The Partisan

( Leonard Cohen Cover )

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
I took my gun and vanished

I have changed my name so often
I have lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows

I Keep Losing Heart

Careful where you swing that axe
It might come back and hit you in the

Yes, no, yes, no, no
Yes, yes, oh

No Shouts, No Calls

The Greater Times

You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I found you
I'm tearing down the walls without you
Ant I'm getting lost in all the plans that I heard you make
About the older times
About the greater times
Oh I don't know, I don't know anyway

Look up
Look up

I'll keep my eyes on you
Do you remember when you were a child then ?
And you laughed when you looked at the moon
There's no meaning anymore
We're floating in the sky

And if you think that we are older now
It's just our heads are butterflies
Are you the one that I've been waiting for

You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I found you
I'm tearing down the walls, the walls, the walls
Are you the one that I've been waiting for
Are you the one that I've been waiting for

To The East

You didn't know where to go
Walking around in this flag-waving town
I saw you waiting for a train
And you disappeared
Your face pressed up to the window

You went so far away
And I want to come there too
I want to be with you
I'm just waiting until you say these words:
"Come back, come back, come back, oh, to me

I'm living near Gdansk
There's a train, you'd be here soon
There's a life for me and you
The East means so many things
But it could be home, it could be home, it could be home, it could be home
For you and me
It could be home, it could be home, it could be home, it could be home
Come back, come back, come back, oh, to me."

And if you'd ever say those words
I'd come to you, where you are
It's too hard to be apart
The East's not so far away
But it could be home, it could be home, it could be home, it could be home
For you and me
It could be home, it could be home, it could be home, it could be home
Come back, come back, come back
Oh, to me

After The Call

All the things that I've done
Go around in my head
And I can't forget
All the things she said

All the things that I've done
Go around in my head
And I can't forget
All the things she said

What could I do
What could I do
What could I do
What could I do

In her eyes
In her eyes
In her eyes
It's all there in her eyes

All the things that I've done
Go around in my head
And I can't forget
All the things she said

What could I do
What could I do
What could I do
What could I do

In Berlin

There is thunder in Berlin
We fell down under a moving sky
When you walked into the room tonight
Lighting took hold of my heart for a while

You are all that I want
You are all that I need

Snow will come and cover this town
If we freeze I want to freeze next to you
City lights shine overheads
I never want to leave you

You are all that I want
You are all that I need
You are all that I've longed for this wintertime
You are all that I need

At Sea

I think there will be rain tonight
It's up there in the clouds that are forming
We must secure the rigging now
Before nightfalls the waves will be turning

Did you feel the wind pick up
Without the sails we're safer 'til the morning
I wish there were another ship
It's lonely now the rain has started falling

I miss the friends we knew back home
I'm thinking of them now the storm is rising

At sea there's always tomorrow
There are ways to be free

We'll work it out
We'll work it out

Saturday

I've got a photo from a long time ago
Hold it in your pocket
Hold it in your pocket
I've got a ring that my grandmother gave to me
Wear it on your finger
Wear it on your finger
I've got a letter that's full of our secrets
The last one you sent to me
The last one you sent to me

What shall I do with a life turned to memory
I tried to forget you
I tried to forget you
Where shall I go when I wake from a dream of you
I tried to forget you
I tried to forget you

I still see you
I still see you
I still see you

I turn in my sleep and I see you beside me
It's your imagination
It's your imagination
I go to the places we went to together
Find another country
Find another country

I turn in my sleep and I see you beside me
It's your imagination
It's your imagination
I want to go on but it's another day without you
I tried to forget you
I tried to forget you

I still see you
I still see you
I still see you

Cut and Run

Seeing you here, it makes me smile
I hear you laugh and all day
I am waiting to be next to you
Hoping that you feel the same way
It seems like you're moving away
If it's the end I need to know
Before I have to let you go
I'm just not ready to be alone

Say it, say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you

Say it, say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you

Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now

Say it, say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you

We were like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
We were like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me

Baby, I'm afraid of change
But I think it's more that I still like you
Just as much as when we met
I don't want to sleep alone
And think of you with someone else
Holding them when I still want
To reach for you and hold you close
In the night, you know I still love you

Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now
Say it, say it now

Say it, say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you

We were like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
We were like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me

 

Non Albums Tracks

Come On

Come on with your love
Come on with your love
And come on with your love...

I Love You My Farfisa

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I love you
My Farfisa
I love you
My Farfisa

I Want To Be The President

We've got arms
They're the fighting kind
Take you on
'Cause you're strong

We've got love
It's the hating kind
We're not interested in your difference
We like to be divided

My gun is bigger than yours
My tank goes faster than yours
My missile's turning me on
My weapon makes me feel strong

Bang bang bang
Do you wanna see my gun
Well come on
We'll resist
We'll resist
We'll resist
I'll let you take control

But if they say that it's so
Is that the way you will go
And if you thought it was wrong
Would you still follow along

They're building walls tonight
They're building walls tonight

Ain't it cold
Ain't it cold
Ain't it cold
Where you empty your soul

Ain't it cold
Ain't it cold
Ain't it cold
Where you empty your soul

There'll be a war tonight
There'll be a war tonight

I'm On Fire

( Bruce Springsteen Cover )

I'm on Fire
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire

Tell me now, baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire

More Than This

( Roxy Music Cover / Live )

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing

As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
For the sea and the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
There's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
Oh there's nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going

No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
For the sea and the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
There's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
Oh no, there's nothing

Smalltown Boy

( Bronski Beat Cover / Live )

You leave in the morning with everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
For the answers you seek will never be found at home
The love that you need will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy
You were the one that they'd talk about around town
As they put you down

And as hard as they would try, they'd hurt to make you cry
But you'd never cry to them, just to your soul
No, you'd never cry to them, just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Cry boy, cry, cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry boy, cry
Cry boy, cry boy, cry

You leave in the morning with everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

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