SHIPBUILDING (Costello / Langer, cover version): OrwellLester rehearsal version. Tue 20 Dec 2011.

SHIPBUILDING (cover version). Bryan Orwell (piano / bvs) and Andy Lester (guitar / lead vocal). Part of a duo set in preparation for gigs from January 2012 under the name of OrwellLester. Andy and Bryan previously played together for a few years in a four-piece band called BLUETrain.

"Shipbuilding" is a song written by Elvis Costello (lyrics) and Clive Langer (music). Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics discuss the contradiction of the war bringing back prosperity to traditional shipbuilding areas of Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England (Swan Hunter) and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war, whilst also sending off the sons of these areas to fight and, potentially, lose their lives in those same ships. According to Clive Langer, he'd written the tune for Robert Wyatt but wasn't happy with the lyrics that he had written himself. Langer played the tune to Costello at a party hosted by Nick Lowe, and within days Costello had written lyrics he described as "the best lyrics I've ever written". (Wikipedia).

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