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Marked for Life

by Bardonthewire

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Morning Assembly 07:39
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Young Running Shadow 00:39
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3.
First Day 00:49
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4.
Pike 03:11
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Child of the Sixties 01:24
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Marked for Life 03:31
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Coalfield Grammar 01:14
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Marxist-Lennonist 00:50
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Welsh Rugby 03:17
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Old School Tie 02:03
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Profiles 03:32
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Bowie Night 00:46
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First Love to Advanced Level 01:22
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Sex Education 02:32
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Born to Run in Abersychan 00:56
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Rap in Coal Minor 03:05
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School Production 03:16
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World Banker's Assembly 02:33
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Mock Exams 03:55
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The Bullying Woodenhead 01:43
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21.
A Design for Life 00:16
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A Design for Life 02:51
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Nowhere Faster 00:38
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24.
Exam Invigilation 03:00
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Guitar Scream 00:08
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26.
On Being Locked Inside A Tiny Room By An Inept Caretaker 02:26
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Helathy Norfolk 00:46
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28.
Final Assembly 01:29
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Star The Dark 01:22
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30.
Star Teacher 00:43
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about

A so last century album, recorded at the millennium, capturing the whole of my life in education as both pupil and teacher up to and including being a Head of Creative Arts/Head of Drama and Second In English Department which is where I was until September 2000, when I became a Head of English. As far as the teaching career goes, almost all under Conservative Governments, so the biggest bogey man you'll find in this record is Chris Woodhead (and what then seemed like aliens from the planet Saturn, Ofsted inspectors.) The horrors and 20 year betrayals (to this progressive lefty at any rate) of Blair, tuition fees and the stultifying Framework for English teaching through adverts, bus tickets and decontextualised bites out of literature do not yet cast the enormous Wizard of Oz shadow they cast in my schooldays novel www.amazon.co.uk/River-Deep-Mountain-Gareth-Calway/dp/190606122X (which reviewers seem to either love or hate*).
The teaching career part of this album breathes a different air. It records is an era when my working week would still end with a hour laughing about it all, however fraught, with my Head of Department/best friend before going home.

*Or the relevant pages of www.amazon.co.uk/Exile-His-Country-Gareth-Calway/dp/1904781942/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KVOFXAN42RVT&keywords=gareth+calway+exile+in+his+country&qid=1672841669&s=books&sprefix=gareth+calway+exile+in+his+country%2Cstripbooks%2C63&sr=1-1

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released January 4, 2023

Words written and performed by by Gareth Calway.
My guitar stunt man was Les Chappell who also wrote the riffs and produced and generally facilitated the record. And was a blast to work with.

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Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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