Just My Cup of Tea

The title came from the fact that Don Powell drinks so much tea… and it´s so un-rock and roll! Notes written by Paul Cookson on behalf of the Occasional Flames “As well as the songs that Les and I had been working on Don contributed lyrics too He said he´d got some unfinished lyrics that maybe we could use and should he send them over? Of course I expected verses and choruses … the file had loads – and I mean loads! – of scraps of paper with snippets and phrases Not lyrics as such However one day I sat down at my dining room table and spread them all out Bit by bit I found things that worked together and then added a few linking lines of my own or phrases I´d heard him say and several new songs were born Personally what I love about the project is that it´s not a band as such more of an artistic co-operative with music words visuals Also there´s something about the fact that Les Martin and I were all born in 1961 and brought up in the north west – within thirty miles of each other although we didn´t know each other then – watching Slade on Top Of The Pops and here we are all these years later working together with our mate Don the drummer we watched on telly all those years ago And the songs are really good too!” DON POWELL´S OCCASIONAL FLAMES ARE Don Powell drums percussion cow bells handclaps words Les Glover vocals all guitars bass banjo e-bow percussion music Paul Cookson words ukulele swanee whistle duck caller football rattle rants and chants Martin Ed Chatterton design art direction branding