This Late Hour, by Steve Smart Poetry & Music

This Late Hour

by Steve Smart Poetry & Music

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Not even a cup of tea (or Smarty sings weird songs), Palin says Pound, All The Blame - the best of Steve Smart, Voices In My Head - Disc 2, Voices In My Head - Disc 1, Unbitter, This Late Hour, Aint That A Kick In The Head - original motion picture soundtrack, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Album intro 01:30	buy track
2.	Retreat Into (intro) 00:35	buy track
3.	Retreat Into 01:32	buy track
4.	Lighting Damp Matches 04:34	buy track
5.	These Small Deaths 00:47	buy track
6.	Laverne In The Silence 02:10	buy track
7.	Drawing Back 03:14	buy track
8.	Things That Weren't Lies 01:50	buy track
9.	One Night In Fairyland (intro) 00:28	buy track
10.	One Night In Fairyland 02:00	buy track
11.	Talking bit #3 00:38	buy track
12.	Natural Selection 01:47	buy track
13.	Talking Bit #4 00:58	buy track
14.	Talking Bit #5 00:43	buy track
15.	W.O.W. 02:14	buy track
16.	Logical Extension (intro) 00:42	buy track
17.	Logical Extension of an 80s Childhood 03:08	buy track
18.	Talking Bit #6 00:41	buy track
19.	Talking Bit #6 02:19	buy track

about

From the original 2009 liner notes: "This album was kinda like an ugly puppy. I mean you're not really going to drown it but you don't want it on your bed either.'

2023 editor note: What the actual hell?

From the original liner notes: 'Then you realise it has personality and can do tricks. All of a sudden you're showing it off to your friends saying "Hey, look at my awesome puppy". Yeah, it's kinda like that.'

2023 editor note: Is it though, really? Is that really what it's like?

From the original liner notes: 'This was meant to be an inbetween-albums album, like a tour special release of an album you already own, with one extra track that isn't very good. Or a Christmas album. Or a latter period U2 album. Nothing to take very seriously. But then I got carried away and filled it with little bonuses (secret tracks!!! shhhh).'

2023 editor note: Hey, idiot, if you list the secret tracks on the cover, they aren't really secret tracks. Are they.

From the original liner notes: The CD was produced at my parents' house in Blackburn South, sitting alone in my sister's old room very late at night.

2023 editor note: So it was an inventive title then...

From the original liner notes: 'There is no music and almost no vocal effects, just poems and talking bits. I always liked albums where people speak inbetween the tracks, little bits that make it feel more personal somehow, more human. I'm not slick, shoot me.'

'This Late Hour' is dedicated to my dear and amazing friend Kat Muscat - just because I can and it'll make her blush. You rock Kat!

xxSteve
M+D+K+S - Love you'

2023 editor note: Oh god, I'd forgotten this was the album I dedicated to Kat. That's... Damn. For those of you who didn't know Kat, she died in 2015, about six years after this album was released. She was 25. Kat was a stunning person, just the best. In the intervening years we hadn't seen as much of each other as I would have liked. Busy lives, the usual thing. And of course there's always time. Until there isn't. It's been eight years and there is no part of me that doesn't wish she was sitting here right now. And for the record, yes, it did make her blush. A lot.

Below is a link to the Kat Muscat Fellowship on the Express Media website. Kat worked with Express Media for a pretty big part of her too young life and was very passionate about supporting young writers, particularly of an underrepresented gender or sex. expressmedia.org.au/programs/the-kat-muscat-fellowship/

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released August 1, 2009

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Steve Smart Poetry & Music Melbourne, Australia

Steve Smart is practically indestructible. Hard headed and stubborn, he may not be the most famous poet in the world but no one can say it's from lack of trying. All of his poetry and music albums are right here at Bandcamp.

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