Where we're going, we don't need roads...

Having failed so far to come up with something worthwhile putting on the site, I'll resort to more song lyrics. Matt from Speakeasy came round last night to watch a movie. Since I have recently purchased the Back to the Future boxset, we decided that it would be criminal not to enjoy episode one of this fine trilogy. Oh how we laughed. To be fair, I can probably get most of the way through the script of that movie without having to watch it, so doing something like, for example, writing a song about the movie, wouldn't be a major problem. So that's what we did. The story of Marty Mcfly is retold in glorious musicolor, appearing at a Salvator Darlings gig near you soon. And, if you're interested, here's the lyrics:

My calculations were correct
On that night in 1985
And did I detect
A flux capacitor in overdrive?

I was doing 88
Powered by plutonium.
The doc had just turned late
Terrorists in pandemonium.

(Bridge 1)
With your best friend's life going down the sink
You'd better think, Mcfly, think
Cause you're going

(Chorus)
Back to the future
Back to the future
1.21 gigawatts -
Yes my friend, that's lots of watts.

Arrived in 55
In a barn on the Twin Pines Ranch.
Glad to find that I'm alive,
I see a man clinging to a branch.

(He's a peeping tom!)

Spying on a girl.
Dressed in 1950s lingerie,
She looked kind of like my mom
But in a creepy kind of teenage way.

(Bridge 2)
She was looking kind of hot and tried to ask me out,
then she tried to kiss me - I was freaking out
I had to get

(Chorus)
Yes my friend, your mom was looking hot.

(Middle)
This is where my tale takes its turn,
My father he had to learn
How to fight the local jerk
If my plan was going to work...
I got attacked by a gang of punks
Who locked me up in Marvin's trunk
And I was stuck with no way out
My mom began to scream and shout
As Biff was getting far too fresh
My dad began to clench his fist
Then choking back his greatest fears
Said 'get your damn hands off of her'.

(Chorus)
Yes my friend, Biff deserved exactly what he got.

Back at the tower clock
The time I had was running out.
With cables set up by the doc
We had planned the perfect route.

Four minutes past ten
Lightning struck Hill Valley hall.
To 85 again -
You'll never have a closer call.

(Bridge 3)
Just in time doc Brown was able
To connect the final cable.

(Chorus)
Yes my friend, Emmett's death I had to stop.

(Final Chorus)
Back to the future
Back to the future
He'd taken several bullets to the chest,
But my friend, on my advice, he was wearing a bulletproof vest.


Very, very silly.

If you live in Leeds, I recommend that you make it down to The Vine on the Headrow on Tuesday September 7, where you can see Speakeasy supporting The Bilderberg Group, Farming Incident and Dolores. Check out the link to their website above for more details. Let's support local music...