Paul Heaton – Acid Country track by track

The Old Radio – A simple and affectionate look at a bar radio and the uplifting and sometimes tragic news and songs it has brought the customers down the years.

Even A Palm Tree –  Paul and Moulettes singer Ruth Skipper bicker and pull each other apart before realising that they themselves are the ‘little rain’ providing the plant of lifes fuel.

Young Man’s Game –  A 75 year old wanders back through his old community to see it’s been destroyed by the modern day.

Welcome To The South – A song about the compromises a previously pithy young northern student makes on his arrival in Brighton.

House Party – The story of four very different people’s, uninvited visit to a party.

Life Of A Cat – A man filled with remorse and regret, contemplates whether life wouldn’t have been so much easier had he been curled up in front of a fire.

This House – Paul teams up with Sally Ellyson of Hem, to sing a tale of two parallel lives in one house

Ladder’s Bottom Rung – ‘From the bustling bazaars of Istanbul to the curios of Kilkenny, the folk you learn to trust the most are the folk with hardly any’.  Why do the poor behave with so much more dignity than the stinking rich?

Acid Country – Originally written as a replacement to the cynical National Anthem ‘God Save Our Queen’ this acidic rant is the furthest Heaton’s been from his sweeter, straighter past.

A Cold One In The Fridge – A song inspired by Patrick deWitt’s novel Ablutions sees yet another new leaf fall to life’s autumn.