Songdog ‎- Last Orders At Harry's Bar (2013)

“I stagger out into the storm – where did it all go? I mean, everything….The journey never ends, it’s just the travellers do …” ‘Last Orders At Harry’s Bar’ - title track.

‘Last Orders At Harry’s Bar’ serves as a metaphor for a time and place of Last Things, a site and a moment of final reckoning. The songs on ‘Last Orders At Harry’s Bar’ form a heartfelt testimony to a life lived, bearing witness to the passing of time, to pain, to love and the loss of it, and to the consolations of memory. Yet, however bleak the vision, the spirit remains defiant in the songs’ elegant melodies and explicit lyricism.

The idea for the album was born out of a cache of Lyndon Morgans’s old love letters and photographs that he rediscovered while sorting his way through a garage-full of ancient NMEs and Melody Makers back home in Blackwood. The fourteen songs were written over a three-month period ending at the close of the year with ‘Straight-To-Video Kind of Days’, a melody Lyndon had written over twenty years before and finally found the right words for that snowy Christmas Eve. The tracks were recorded the following summer on a mobile rig in a beautiful 17th century former hunting lodge at Devil’s Bridge, deep in the magnificent isolation of the Cardiganshire countryside.