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The home of quality popular tunes the

whole family will enjoy...

Who are Clarksville?

The year? 1997. Remember that?

Jim'll fixes it for a young Tony Blair to have a go at running the country.

Unknown English graduate pretends to have never read anything more than a Stabucks menu before launching her first Harry Potter novel, instantly fading into obscurity.

In Paris, bashful kohl eyed celebrity clothes horse and serial adulterer Diana Windsor decides a seat belt will ruin the line of her Versace and stupid people in Middle England convince themselves they've lost a friend.

And least importantly, a young Richard Asplin hauls his 1952 Reissue bound-edged Fender Telecaster from its dusty case and decides to write some songs.

Eight, to be precise.

Under the quirkily pop-culturey and potentially litigious moniker of "Smallville", Richard and a selection of mofderately talented cohorts rehearsed in the sweaty, brothely atmos of West London's least pleasant rehearsal rooms, "Smallville" gigged the smaller Camden clubs, broke even on the cost of amp rental and then jacked it in.

Richard swapped his Tascam 4-track analogue portable recording studio for a clunky electric typewriter and began work on a new project, - a novel -later to become "T-Shirt & Genes" and music became a footnote in the "about the author" in the next 3 novels and the next 13 years.

And then time, in that irritating way it has, passes...

Which brings us to 2010 and Richard decides the eight tracks that made up his brief songwriting career have too many hooks, puns, catchy choruses and singalong harmonies to lie gathering dust on yellowing foolscap in a Rymans clear-sleeve wallet. So armed with a new Boss BR-600 8-track digital recorder, a borrowed bass guitar and a Yamaha E-403 home keyboard, the songs get a new lease of life.

Fresh arrangements, sparkling guitar riffs, jangly chords, snappy snare-drums and - hell - the obligatory xylophone solo, the songs are back. Clarksville is the name, wit-pop is the game.

Enjoy.

Enjoy the quality pop tunes of

Clarksville

in the comfort of your   own home!

A very limited edition CD containing all 8 Clarksville anthems is available FREE by request on a first-come first get-a-CD- gift-wrapped-in-the-post basis

Clarksville

Walking Like Michael (Madsen)

The songs

Clarksville

Back to A Few Words On The Subject

Clarksville

Lego Heart

Darwin Stardust

Clarksville

Clarksville

Darwin Stardust

Clarksville

I've been a wild Rover

Clarksville

Lover's Quiff

Walking like Michael (Madsen)

Lego Heart

Darwin stardust

I've been a wild Rover

Lover's quiff

Snoopy Bookends

Gone in sixty seconds

Tar verty much

Just send an email to:

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with your name and postal address and a reason you'd like to dance to Clarksville in your own home and the first to respond (while stocks last) will have a CD of bright chirpy witpop to listen to once and then recycle as p'raps a dangly earring or novelty coaster

The songs

Clarksville

Snoopy bookends

Clarksville

Gone in 60 seconds

Clarksville

Clarksville

Tar Very Much