Jailbreak Runaways and a Village Girl (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 and 1994 / Recorded in 1995 and 2012 (lead guitar part)

Basically, as far as the music concerns, my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a collection of re-workings of my past compositions written in 1991; either works I wrote for a band that couldn’t exist long enough to perform it, or works for a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole works I wrote for them when it was performed. The chorus section of this tune came from the former, whilst other sections were newly written – or largely adapted from I Can’t Explain by The Who - in 1994.

In the concept, this tune features The Peasant’s monologue, which gives the account of how the jailbreak runaways – Kelp and Suetrea - come across with a village girl called Mikhi, in a bit comical way.

This tune was one of my favourites to play with my band called Culotte in those days and we had lots of fun jamming this thing especially in the final days of the band.