Stately Homes Of England are Tim Bowden and Andrew Cowen. You can listen to and download our releases at Bandcamp, join the Stately community at SoundCloud, read more about the band here and connect with us via the links below right.

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Fresh off the dumb waiter

05/12/2009

The Walrus Variations


Although it's been a bit quiet here, the Belleville EP is shaping up nicely. The track count has exceeded the acceptable number for an EP so it may surface as more than one project. More bootylicious than the album, it'll be a tonic for fans of The Drum Club, Psychick Warriors of Gaia and lovers of all good pop music. Bear with us a little while longer and all will be revealed.

There is new Stately material over at Soundcoud, including a rip of our first 12" vinyl release and a squelchy version of I Am The Walrus, streaming at the top of this post. Hoping to add a wall of guitars and screaming. Walrus started life as one of the more than 51,000 midi files rescued from Geocities user groups before being put through the Stately Kenwood Chef.

To paraphrase U2, Oasis stole this song and we're stealing it back. After the jump is a link to the complete set of Geocities midi files and the remarkable story of their liberation.