White Town Downloads
I’m currently in negotiations to put all of my songs online, available by paid download. At the moment, the only White Town music online is the EMI album which is available on iTunes UK.
I’ve had several Guestbook comments from people who are finding it very hard to buy White Town records anywhere. Well, hopefully my whole back catalogue will be online soon. So that’ll be:
Socialism, Sexism & Sexuality
Peek & Poke
Truffaut (was going to be the first WT album, replaced by SSS)
Any older stuff of mine, including all the Big Scientists / Ugly Pop songs I did between 1982 - 1989, pre-White Town
Altogether, that’ll probaby be around 150 songs. More than enough to wade through! 
If I can get this going, I’m going to re-start Bzangy Groink as a label. I put out ‘Peek & Poke’ on Bzangy Groink back in 2000 but the label’s been fallow since then. I hope to issue all future White Town songs via Bzangy Groink (at least in the UK) and maybe other artists too. There’s loads of brilliant music out there which isn’t getting signed or heard. I’d like to change that,
love and kisses,
Jyoti
UNHCR Benefit CD
The day has come. For all of you who will be performing or know people in
New york or on the East Coast who would like to attend the “Voyces United
For UNHCR” cd release send the infromation out to them.
Tickets will go on sale TOMORROW April 14th, 2005. The venue holds about
420-500 people. Tickets WILL sell out.
You can now purchase tickets online at The Knitting Factory Websiteor to go directly to purchase tickets at TicketWeb
So make sure you post this on your websites, fanlistings, send it to you
mailing lists and such. This will be a great night.joalby
joalby1@hotmail.com“Voyces United For UNHCR” CD Release
The Knitting Factory New York
Sunday June 26th, 2005 @ 8:00pm
(Doors open at 7:00pm)
This event WILL SELL OUT.
Yep, I’m proud to have a track on this CD, it’s called ‘The PNAC Cabal’ and it’s a somewhat paranoid instrumental.
I’m not playing but if you can make it to the gig, please buy tickets and help support a very worthwhile cause.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.
In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of more than 6,000 people in more than 116 countries continues to help some 17 million persons.
(Source: UNHCR)
More Remix Stuff
I’ve 95% finished the remix I’m doing for Totally Radd!!. It’s quite extreme, still very musical but… well, you’d have to hear it to see what I mean. Put it this way: they’re either gonna love it or hate it!
Let’s hope it’s the former!
UPDATE
They like it! Phew!
Happy Christmas From Jyoti!
Hello! Observant WT fans may know I’m not a big fan of Christmas generally. Let’s just say I have certain issues with the season of drunken thuggery and ill-will to random strangers.
However, this year I’m trying to be a little less Scroogey and humbuggy. So, as a little pressie from me, please accept, for a strictly limited time, a free mp3. It’s a track called ‘Merry Fucking Christmas’ and it was originally on the 2000 Parasol Records Christmas comp, Christmas Singles.
White Town - Merry Fucking Christmas (Too late! It’s gone!)
Right/cntrl-click above to download the track! (It’s only 1.7 meg so it shouldn’t take too long.) It works best played extremely loudly with your head between the speakers.
Hope you all have a great festive season and don’t eat too many sweeties!
love and kisses,
Jyoti
25 AñOS DE FLOR DE PASIóN
I’m very, very proud to have one of my tracks, ‘The Taste Of A Girl,’ on the compilation 25 AñOS DE FLOR DE PASIóN. This comp is a celebration of and a tribute to Juan de Pablos, a Spanish radio DJ who’s being doing his show for 25 years now. I’m so flattered he chose one of my songs to go on this comp. I really can’t believe I’m rubbing shoulders with The Beach Boys, The Hollies, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran. There’s even a little bit on why he chose it:
The Taste of a Girl that I used to play monthly, every 23rd in honour of my girlfriend Maria José… as we met on July 23rd. I had lost it and I came across it two years ago…
Which is exactly the right reason to play it, of course!
Ahhh… it brings back happy memories of ‘97 when I was taken round Barcelona and Madrid by the Spanish EMI people (who were all lovely, very friendly). Maybe I should go back and actually play some shows this time, eh?
Elefant Records
Subterfuge Records
Remix Update
I finished the Jeunes remix and they love it. It’ll hopefully be an extra track on a future CD of theirs, I’ll post up more info when I find out.
I’ve just got a copy of a Swedish fanzine called En Garde. I did an interview for it a while back and it’s in issue 9. Makes me wish I could read Swedish 
I’ll post up an address to get it from once I’ve confirmed it with the author.
EDIT
There’s no safe postal address I can give out but En Garde’s head honcho is Anton Gustavsson and his email address is:
antongustavsson@spray.se
Remixes!
I’ve just started work on a remix for ace band The Jeunes. It’s gonna be difficult cos I like the original but I’m going to try and push it in some cracked direction.
I also should be remixing electropop freakazoids Totally Radd!! soon, so look out for that. I’m planning to Boystown that track till it pops.
Bzangy Groink Studio
The good news is that my new Bzangy Groink studio is 96% done. I’ve still got a fair bit of soldering and general fixing to do but the builders have gone and all the major structural work is done.
Thanks to my mate Daz, I’ve tested it out with live drums and you can barely hear them outside. So I can now start recording all kinds of crazy shit without disturbing the neighbours.
Finally, I can resume working on the next WT album, which has been greatly delayed because of all my house moving/lack of studio turmoil. I’ve no idea how it’s going to sound but I do know I want to get cracking. I’ve got loads of songs I want to record!
I’ve got a US label lined up for the next release (and possibly a German one?) but I’m still looking for other indies in other countries so if you’re an interested label, please get in touch.
Wahey!
Thanks to Keyvan for doing this swish new WT site. Now’s everything’s been moved over to WordPress, it’ll be much simpler to post stuff and hence keep everything updated.
Cheers, Keyvan!
Women In Technology Lyrics
1. Undressed (4.17)
Let me help you get undressed
I’m no better than the rest
And I know you can see through
All I’ve said today
But for an hour maybe two
It will just be me and you
We can find a place where no-one
Ever wants to go
I can make it if you stay
I can’t take it if you goI’ve had too many one night stands
I’ve had too many broken plans
Now when I need someone I find
Myself alone
And I know it’s the same for you
You’ve told me all that you’ve been
through, We can put the past behind
All we’ll share today
I can make it if you stay
I can’t take it if you goLet me help you get undressed
I’m no better that the rest
And I know you can see through
All I’ve said today
But for an hour maybe two
Let’s pretend I’m the man for you
It will almost seem like nothing
Ever, ever changed
I can make it if you stay
I can’t take it if you go
I can make it if you stay
I can’t take it if you go
2. Thursday at the Blue Note (2.48)
Well I don’t think that I know you
I’ve never seen you here
Before all though I could be wrong
And though this music doesn’t move me
Thrill or even soothe me
I think I might dance to just this one songIs that your brother dancing with you?
He’s giving me some funny looks
I though you said you were on your own
Look, I know I’m no oil painting
But my face doesn’t need re-arranging
And I’m quite attached to all my bones.This isn’t the way things were meant to be
Now he’s waiting outside with his mates for
me. “Thursday at the Blue Note”.
3. A Week Next June (4.17)
You’re crying, cos I’ve spilt your paints
again, But in a few short years,
You’ll understand true life pain
When those baby eyes of yours,
Have turned the brightest blue,
And boys fall into them
You just won’t know what to do.And I can see you trying.
To make him understand,
And I can see him ask why
He can’t be your man.Now winter’s around us.
And your kisses keep me warm again,
but when the spring brings the flowers,
Will they wash away with the rain?
And when the land is wrapped in white,
We’re as happy as kids could be.
I’ll let you win every snowball fight,
If you’ll only stay with me.And I can see you trying.
To make him understand,
And I can see him ask why
He can’t be your man.I see you’re leaving,
Has March really come so soon?
I don’t want to pressure you.
But can we make a date a week next June?
And I never understand.
Why you run away
Because I know he’s waiting for you,
Every sunny, cloudless day.And I can see you trying.
To make him understand,
And I can see him ask why
He can’t be your man.And I can see me trying.
To make you understand,
And I can see me ask why
I can’t be your man.
4. Your Woman (4.18)
Just tell me what you’ve got to say to me,
I’ve been waiting for so long to hear the truth,
It comes as no surprise at all you see,
So cut the crap and tell me that we’re through.Now I know your heart, I know your mind,
You don’t even know you’re being unkind,
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways,
Just use me up and then you walk away,
Boy you can’t play me that way.Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.When I saw my best friend yesterday,
She said she never liked you from the start,
Well me, I wish that I could claim the same,
But you always knew you held my heart.
And you’re such a charming handsome man,
Now I think I finally understand,
Is it in your genes?, I don’t know,
But I’ll soon find out, that’s for sure,
Why did you play me this way?Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.Well I guess what they say is true,
I could never spend my life with a man like you,
I could never be your woman.
5. White Town (2.21)
I can’t understand
After everything that we planned,
How you could turn around to me and
whisper goodbye. Well I’ve been dropped before
But not so high off the floor
And I just can’t seem to pick myself up
again. If it’s something that I said
That made you feel this way,
Then I take back every word from the first
hello, But most likely I know.
Your parents said baby no
And the boy you told your friends about
just had to go. Well it’s a white town
with green trees. And nothing in love is free
So if it’s not worth fighting for It’s worth nothing at all.
6. The Shape of Love (5.20)
Here’s the best I can do
So far away from you
As the ocean holds the sky
So I try to hold your eyesAnd I know the world is turning
I know it’s yesterday for you
But the shape we’re giving love
Could never be untrueChoose the way you want to be
That doesn’t mean him or me
Love is so much more that flesh
How to hurt and how to kissAnd I know the world is turning
I know it’s yesterday for you
But the shape we’re giving love
Could never be untrueI wish I’d known you when
I could have made a change
I would have been a friend
I would have given you anythingAs you touch near your heart
Are we really far apart?
Yes I know distance kills
But it can’t fight love’s willAnd I know the world is turning
I know it’s yesterday for you
But the shape we’re giving love
Could never be untrueAnd we know the world is turning
We know that yesterday is due.
But this shape we’re giving love
Can never be untrue.
This shape can never be untrue.
7. Wanted (4.23)
(by Ann Person)
You didn’t notice I existed that night
I jumped & I waved
Even shouted your name that nightBut it’s all the same
You’ll never see me again
All I wanted
You see my face
But it’s all the same
You’ll never see me again
All I wantedYou’re so pretty
You turn me inside out
And I only say this
Because I know I’m notBut it’s all the same
You’ll never see me again
All I wanted
You see my face
But it’s all the same
You’ll never see me again
All I wantedAnd now I’m standing
And you’ve left me with what?
And now you thank me
for what you’ve gotBut it’s all the same
you’ll never see me again
All I wanted
You see my face
But it’s all the same
You’ll never see me again
All I wanted
8. The Function Of The Orgasm (2.24)
It’s half past eight, and I’m waiting
In a beautiful place
Anticipating everything we’ll do
And all we’ll say.
Till your father sees you againNow I don’t know just what you’re doing
Is it me or him
That you’re screwing?
But I don’t care and you don’t care
When you’re hereNow the storm is here
I see you running
Your face full of tears.
So red and burning
And I can’t work out
How you spend
Another day with himJust say the word
You know I’ll do it
I’m waiting for you
Just let me do it
And we can run away to another place.
Less full of fear.
9. Going Nowhere Somehow (5.21)
Take a look at where you’re going
Do you know where you come from?
Seems like you’ve spent your life just
searching, In the length of just one songBut you know you’re going nowhere
Like so many of your age
This has gone on far too long now
To be dismissed as another phaseWell you can turn the clock back
Pretend that you’re still young and
unaware. But everyone that you lack
weighs upon your mind, When she’s not thereI don’t want to break your heart,
I don’t want to let you down
It’s just that I always thought
Life would be more than just
Going nowhere somehow.Now your friends are disappearing
They’re getting scarcer day by day
You’ve only got yourself to blame for
that, You always wanted things that way
Cos it’s easier being lonely
Than being let down again and again
When you’re standing on edge of
things, It means you never have to pretend.Well you can turn the clock back
Pretend that you’re still young and
unaware. But everyone that you lack
weighs upon your mind,
When she’s not thereI don’t want to break your heart
I don’t want to let you down
It’s just that I always thought
Life would be more than just
Going nowhere somehow.
11. Death of My Desire (4.53)
Here my child
Rest your head on me.
Cos I’m the safest man you’ll ever meet.
I’ll tell you a story
I won’t expect you to believe
About a boy who lost his reason to deceiveIt’s the death of my desire
While I grew up I hid behind a smile.
I was never allowed to be an average child.
And now the years have forced
me to be a man. I find I can’t go
Along with this meaningless sham.It’s the death of my desire.
I want to find a new way
But I can’t make it on my own,
I want a partner in crime
So I don’t feel so alone.So come to bed,
I won’t disturb your sleep.
Cos I’ve a secret I’m determined not to keep
I see you understand my point of view,
You’re safe because there’s nothing I
need from you.It’s the death of my desire.
12. Once I Flew (4.24)
Once I flew
And it made my fingertips sing
I was more like a God than a King
Now I can’t believe that was trueOnce I flew
Though you don’t believe me I know
You look where I’m standing now
You can’t believe I left the ground.Look up to the bright blue sky
Can’t you feel life passing by
If you could wouldn’t you
Try to soar over everything?
All the pain this world can bring
Once I flew now I’ve lost my wings
Now I’m down here with you
Now I’m down here with youOnce I flew
And the angels were my friends
They would grant me every whim
Now I can’t believe that was true
Once I flew
Though it’s easy to forget
I don’t seem to have managed yet.And I don’t think I ever will
Look up to the bright blue sky
Can’t you feel the life passing by?
If you could wouldn’t you
Try to soar over everything?
All the pain this world can bring
Once I flew now I’ve lost my wings
Now I’m down here with you
Now I’m down here with you.<Astronauts>
And in my dreams I am happy again
You’re in my arms and we’re flying
again, Flying away.
