Live and Kicking Album

Dream On

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Another nostalgic song that was first aired and recorded live in 2005 at the Sage, Gateshead. "Dream on - think about what used to be - never mind what might have been". It's a tribute to Bill our roadie and sound engineer and part-time band member and minder who made all our early live recordings, performing some amazing technical wizardry with the rather crude equipment available at the time. He was a real one-off character and not for the faint of heart. Sadly, he's no longer with us but his memory lives on in these recordings.



Remember how we felt back then

Just one desire 

Searching for a dream

To set the world on fire 

Never realising who we'd

Hurt along the way 

We'd just close our eyes

And let the music play 

We've all done foolish things

And been misunderstood 

But living with regrets

Does no one any good 

 

Dream on, think about what used to be 

Never mind what might have been 

Dream on, remember absent company 

Imagine that they're here again 

 

We’d fill the night with beating drums

And loud guitars 

We weren’t gonna stop

Until we reached the stars 

Never cared to listen

To what others had to say 

We'd just close our eyes

And let the music play 

But like all things before

We couldn’t make it last 

And now there’s no going back

 

Cos we can’t change the past 

 

We’d fill the night with beating drums

And loud guitars 

We weren’t gonna stop

Until we reached the stars 

Never cared to listen

To what others had to say 

We'd just close our eyes

And let the music play 

But like all things before

We couldn’t make it last 

And now there’s no going back

Cos we can’t change the past 

 

Dream on, think about what used to be 

Never mind what might have been 

Dream on, remember absent company 

Imagine that they're here again 

 

Billy called and he asked me

To say what’s going on 

I said “I don’t know

I think the magic is all gone” 

Then he cried, he said

“No, I just can’t believe that’s true 

Take away the dream from me

And what else can I do?” 

 

Dream on, think about what used to be 

Never mind what might have been 

Dream on, remember absent company 

Imagine that they're here again 


Sage Gateshead

The Sage at Gateshead is the home of musical life here in the North East of England. It has hosted concerts from a huge range of local and internationally famous artists. The building is an incredible feat of structural engineering with its awe inspiring design of curved glass and stainless steel. Sage contains three performance halls and the building was designed around these three spaces to allow for maximum attention to detail in their acoustic properties.

Structurally it is actually three separate buildings, insulated from each other to prevent noise and vibration travelling between them. These three buildings are enclosed by the now-famous glass and steel shell. Hall One was intended as an acoustically perfect space, modelled on the renowned Musikverein in Vienna. Its ceiling panels may be raised and lowered and curtains drawn across the ribbed wooden side walls, changing the sound profile of the room to suit any type of music. Hall Two is a smaller venue, possibly the world's only ten-sided performance space.The building's third concourse was designed to be used for informal music-making. Below the concourse level is the Music Education Centre, where workshops, community music courses and day-to-day instrumental teaching takes place in over 20 individual, largely sound-proofed rooms, one of which is also a recording studio.

Dream On Copyright (c) Steve Nielson (Musical Juice) All Rights Reserved