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    Chris’s songs over the last 20 years or more have been a reminder to find the comic absurdity in many aspects of our society and the campaigns to change it for the better. Reminding us that in being able to laugh at ourselves, we can then feel freer to experiment and enjoy a culture with more complex forms of expression being understood.

    He’s gone from risking his own skin walking into dodgy far-right pubs to sing songs making fun of racism, to writing songs making light of the head spinning speed in the 90s in which someone could go from leafleting against fox hunting to being asked to help liberate beagles from a laboratory. He’s poked fun at the history of land ownership and past along tales of drug smugglers robbing their van back from the RUC.

    This is a work in progress sleeve notes zine to go along with the greatest hits album which you can find at ishkahzines.bandcamp.com, and possibly soon to go up on captainhotknives.bandcamp.com

    Ideally when it’s fully finished it will contain illustrations, a finished bonus song fan tribute and more commentary from the Captain which I hope to glean from him at some point on a podcast or in conversation.

    If you’d like to help illustrate or write the bonus fan tribute hit me up at theosladehome@gmail.com

    The cover is illustrated by Daniel Hughes - facebook.com/DanielHughesArt/

    Finally, you can get updates on the Captain's music at - facebook.com/Captain-Hotknives-107061225033704/

    And you can donate to him at - captainhotknives.bandcamp.com

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I was in the van with the Endy boys, on the way to Crossmaglen
And they told me tales of smokeless bowl and of the smokeless men

And how the army took the smokeless truck and locked it safe away
Behind big walls and steel gates in the army base that day

But then one night, a bold young lad said I’m off to get the truck
And though they thought he could not succeed, they wished him best of luck

He took a small, a smaller truck and pressed it to the gate
He inched it forward gradually and bent the steel plates

He crawled beneath the bent steel gate into the army base
He found the truck that the army took and he drove it from that place

So fare thee well oh smokeless bowl, I hope you all stay free
I hope you all have all the luck outrunning the army

So fare thee well oh smokeless bowl, I hope you all stay free
Bringing contra band from over land and fuck the RUC

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from Captain Hotknives Greatest Hits, released May 3, 2021

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