On Paul Mosely and The Red Meat Orchestra‘s latest album, the tellingly titled ‘You’re Going To Die!’, the songs are inspired by grief and what comes after that. While usually a morose subject, Paul Mosley’s album sounds incredibly upbeat, a reflection of the energy he injects into his songs which are “urgent, vital and full of life”, songs “you write once in a lifetime when only the truth will do.”
A number of guest singers appear on the album, and for the nostalgic ‘The 1970s‘, Paul is joined by Josienne Clarke who also appears in the accompanying video we have the pleasure in premiering below which was shot, edited and directed by Alec Bowman. Paul shares the following:
“This whole album (‘You’re Going To Die!’) is about grief although it’s oddly up beat. Grief does funny things to your sense of time; lots of looking back but your memories are changed by the new knowledge of the loss. When I think of my mother’s life now, I think the heart of her story, when she was the most herself, is in the 1970’s when I was only small and my siblings were all at home. We often seemed to be in the car, at night, as a family. Somehow that’s the snapshot I have of her and us as our most together.
“Josienne Clarke is one of my favourite people. I wrote the part of “Delores’ in my folk opera ‘The Butcher’ especially for her and brilliantly she stuck around to be a full member of the Red Meat Orchestra alongside Jack Harris and ex-Mediaeval Baebes Esther Dee. ‘Sometimes you just want to sing along to the saddest songs on midnight radio’ felt like a very Josienne thing to sing – and as ever she brought an intelligent melancholy to it that I love.”
In the video, Paul and Josienne relive those car journeys, balloons, laughs, fights, Tupperware of sandwiches, the lot…