Blood Diamond Mind

Music video: youtu.be/xMZagmAH6Us

Freddy Fudd Pucker (Tom Young) is originally from a small city at the edge of the earth called Dunedin, New Zealand. However, he has spent the last five years or so touring the world, playing hundreds of shows across Australasia, the USA and Europe. The last two years have seen him based in Berlin, Germany, focusing on a nearly constant European tour schedule. Freddy looks at touring as a way of cultivating not only a growing and loyal fan base but the very experiences and characters that make up his songs.

A one-boy-band of sorts, his live show consists of a guitar, banjo, distorted loops and samples, a suitcase bass-drum on one foot, a tambourine on the other and the howl of someone that refuses to grow into what he considers an ugly, modern idea of adulthood. With these tools he performs intensely lyrical songs wrapped in extremely fast rhythms and melodies.

Freddy has started recording his new full-length due to be released mid-2015. The intention is to continue to explore the depths of Freddy’s unique songwriting style. Already the new songs are sounding more impassioned than ever. An accompanying graphic booklet is also under way.

BLOOD DIAMOND MIND

Conception is a shot in the dark
Misery a well-oiled machine
Unlearn the things you've learnt from the start
Throw your soul on the gears underneath
There's a boiler room thats begging to be destroyed
Pull your eyes from the burning furnace void
We look like humans trying to pick up their severed hands

My blood diamond mind
My blood diamond heart
These dark ages days get pulled apart and renamed
Yet still look the same

These years are a maze of dark hallways
This love a glowing ember in a cave
We drink from the faucets of friends
Their roots rise to our lips from the graves
This currency of envy is empty
I throw mine from my moving train
You pick it up, I name a price, you buy me back again

Hollow, shifting sand sorrow exposes knowledge inherent in all things
On borrowed time, fighting non-linear wars from within
A curse to kill...

My blood diamond mind
My blood diamond heart
These dark ages days get pulled apart and renamed
The bullseye winks my way
Fools gold glitters in his eyelid
These dark ages days are a wine made from grey grapes
It all tastes the same.

© Freddy Fudd Pucker