I’ve spent some time working on a new website for singer Larry Beau. Larry styles himself as a minstrel and wanderer. He sings cabaret-influenced gothic-tinged songs of outcasts, nomads, beggars, rogues and lovers.

It’s hard to place him in any category – he has been compared with Kate Bush, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and 1930s cabaret artistes.

Best just go to his website and have a listen to the sample tracks.

Misery Hill

Legends of scandal vanish in memory lonely
while the young guns revel in a five-second claim to fame
Back from the movies, Gloria steals the moment
by swallowing plls and a cocktail of lethal blue.

Lolitas and madmen and drag-queens and demons at Misery Hill.

Star of the game show, lives on her one-day wonder
on a diet of playback the moment she wins the prize.
Bride of the sideshow mourns like a songbird dying
trapped in a marriage to madness and misery.
Old Mr Bozo watches the high towers crumble
admiring the wonder of particles fall like rain.

lolitas and madmen and drag-queens and demons at Misery Hill.

I’ll sing you a love song, see if it makes you happy
called ‘Over the rainbow and into the arms of you.’