The song is called "LIFE" and it's about being homeless - something that happened to me and my wife last year. Fortunately we now have somewhere to live, so I'm using the song to raise awareness about homelessness, particularly about people like me who have a good job but end up without a roof over their head. Especially at Christmas. It's the 2025 re-edit of the song I released last year. This version features the voices of the people who are involved in supporting people in need of help, and someone who has been helped by The Whitechapel Centre in Liverpool. All money from sales of the track will be donated to The Whitechapel Centre and other homeless charities in the north west of England.

What's it all about? S.O.A.P. is the second single from my forthcoming album "Sunlight".

The album will be released out on Friday 12th May 2023.

S.O.A.P. is a song about the historic village of Port Sunlight in Wirral, United Kingdom.

It features guest vocals from Kathryn Blackburn.

There's a nod to some of my favourite bands including Kraftwerk, OMD, early Human League and Depeche Mode.

#humangue #synthpop #electropop

This song is from my upcoming EP which is the third and final in a series of limited edition CD releases to commemorate and celebrate the Class 507 and 508 electric trains in Liverpool region that have been in service for over 40 years, and are now being scrapped. It's about nostalgia, and life. These trains have carried people to school, work, hospital appointments, and social events. Relationships, marriages, even babies, have been conceived on these trains. The EP has also reunited me with an old school friend after 40 years of not being in touch! My friend Pete Allen (aka Found Object on Bandcamp) agreed to do a remix/reworking of the title track "Yellow and Grey". Fellow Bandcamper, Jess Brett, who is English, and now lives in Berlin, has provided vocals for the song in German, as a nod to Trans Europa Express by Kraftwerk

When I released my song "Yellow and Grey" in 2023, little did I know that it would become such a popular song with music fans, and with fans of the Merseyrail Class 507 and 508 electric trains that the song is about.

I wrote the song as not only a tribute to those trains, but as a nod to the all-time classic train song "Trans Europa Express" by Kraftwerk. It's an iconic song about an iconic train, which sounds far better being listened to in the original German language version. So in true fan mode, I decided to record a version of "Yellow and Grey" with German lyrics, despite not being able to speak German myself!

Not entirely satisfied with this version, I contacted two friends whose music is inspired by Kraftwerk, and one of whom now lives in Germany, and asked them to come up with a new version of "Yellow and Grey" which sounded like a proper tribute to Kraftwerk and Trans Europa Express. The result is Gelb und Grauzone which you hear today. //

Gelb und Grauzone will be available to buy at https://mistrust.bandcamp.com from Friday 1st November 2024 when you pre-order the limited edition EP "Yellow and Grey - The Farewell" by Mistrust.

*****RE-RELEASED FOR CHRISTMAS 2025*****

"Life" is the new single by Mistrust. It will be released on Friday 4th October 2024 at mistrust.bandcamp.com and on all major streaming platforms.

I will be donating all proceeds from sales of "LIFE" to The Whitechapel Centre homeless charity in Liverpool.

Presave "LIFE" now at https://linktr.ee/mistrustmusic

The song is about homelessness and is to raise awareness about the increasing number of people who are having leave their own homes and have nowhere else to live. Whether they can no longer afford their mortgages, or have been living in rented accommodation and being been told to leave by their landlords. The local authority housing teams can't help them, and they can't afford to rent privately, so they're having to stay long-term with relatives or friends.

I will be performing this new version of Life for the first time at "Primal Live" at Camp and Furnace in Liverpool on Sunday 6th October 2024. I'll be one of over 30 musical acts performing in a battle of the bands type contest to raise money for The Whitechapel Centre homeless charity.

"Life" is a new version of the song that was the opening track of my 2023 album "Sunlight".

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New Chester Road (Revisited) - Taken from the forthcoming album "Sunlight (Revisited)" - Buy Now at https://mistrust.bandcamp.com

New Chester Road Revisited takes the listener on a journey down the road of the same name, from Birkenhead via Port Sunlight. It's a metaphor about looking back on life and how things are no longer the same, but never really change.

I started playing the original version of New Chester Road (which was on my 2023 album "Sunlight") live at my gigs last year but wanted to try it with a more uptempo, electronic feel. Something a bit more in my Kraftwerk, OMD, and early Human League influenced style.

The beat I used in the new version reminded me of the one used in the song “The Quiet Men” by Ultravox in the John Foxx era (one of my favourite songs). I then ended up trying to replicate the stuttering bass line which sounds similar to the one performed by Chris Cross in The Quiet Men. When I heard that Chris had died, I felt that I wanted to pay my own tribute to him. Rather than do a cover version of an Ultravox song, this feels like a more personal thing to do and put out a song which is very much inspired by one of his classic bass lines and influential style.

Yellow And Grey (album Version) by mistrust

The sounds of the new and old Merseyrail trains!

Available Now on Limited Edition CD at https://mistrust.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-and-grey-ep-2

Dies ist die deutsche Version des Songs Yellow and Grey von Mistrust.

"Yellow and Grey" erinnert an Mistrusts kürzliche Zugfahrt nach Port Sunlight (dem historischen Arbeiterdorf in Wirral, Großbritannien), in den alternden gelben und grauen Zügen, die durch das Dorf fahren. Diese Züge werden durch glänzende neue moderne Züge ersetzt, die auch gelb und grau sind! Daher die Zeile "Gelb und Grau ist hier für immer !" Die übergeordneten Themen des Songs sind Nostalgie und Neuanfänge!

Kaufe die Single Gelb und Grau und erhalte einen kostenlosen Bonustrack!

Now Available on Limited Edition Compact Disc at https://mistrust.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-and-grey-ep-2

"Yellow and Grey" recalls Mistrust's recent train journey to Port Sunlight (the historic workers' village in Wirral, UK), on the ageing yellow and grey trains that pass through the village. These trains are being replaced by shiny new modern trains which are also yellow and grey! Hence the line "Yellow and Grey is here to stay!" The song's overall themes are nostalgia and new beginnings!

"Yellow and Grey" includes a line from the poem "From a Railway Carriage" by Robert Louis Stevenson (can you spot it?), and there's also a nod to the classic Kraftwerk song "Trans Europe Express" with Mistrust recording a German language version of Yellow and Grey ("gelb und grau") which is released alongside the original song.

Both songs are taken from Mistrust's forthcoming album which is out in Spring 2023.

Tim Blackburn, the UK singer-songwriter and remixer who records as Mistrust, is back with a new single called "Yellow and Grey". It marks his first new material since the release of his single "Never Let You Go" last year.