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The New No

Ben Leach – music, Rodney Prosser vocals & artwork

**My Life in the Cartel** tells the tale of Kenny Dog Leach and in the song he goes back to see his wife Justine Teeny Rey. Kenny had a son with Jane but she booted him out. Their son is Daryl Jacob and because Kenny is Jewish he wanted Jacob but Jane wanted Daryl. The initials make DJ which coincidentally is Daryl Jacob’s job. The song **And So it Begins** is about him.

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Bio

The New No started in 2013
Ben and Rodney started writing songs about different types of villains in songs that comment about what it is like to be up close and personal with this crowd. Rodney was working as a stand up comedian and managing a band in Hackney and some moments were epic and others were pretty scary. These made their way onto paper. By working on songs from 2013 onwards, Ben and Rodney built a series of cracking tunes with hugely entertaining stories. However it wasn’t until their fascination for London villains spawned the creation of a fictitious family called The Hampton Family that The New No really came into existence. The Hampton family are a strange bunch of characters who are quite shady. Some of the characters are quite frightening, some are nice on the outside but really dangerous and one is a woman who is really seedy. All the stories involving these characters are the substance of a series of songs.

This single

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My Life in the Cartel - The New No

Lyrics

Nice shave brushed up pretty neat, you’d never know. Used to be a queens guard 22 up 22 down, four hours on, four hours off, always drunk. Speeding down the industrial roads, empty but careful, follow the signs, don’t pay attention to them other cars.
Take a trip to the coast.

Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises. Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises

Excited and aware. How come they’re so hot on punctuality, I thought it was for a joke, “if you’re late I’ll kill you” give it a chance from the skydive to the cocktail bar, cut to the chase, waiting for the ageing babe working for the other side to flash you a smile. Towards the city smoke, bright lights to guide me there, the clock is ticking tut tut tut for what I’m about to do.

Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises. Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises

An army can take a city without shedding blood, that’s a beautiful idea yeah yeah yeah but that ain’t the case now. Revenge will be taken for what them have done. Now the time has come, bright lights dot dot dot. Smoking, sucking morning smoke on a ravaged throat.
No sudden movement but slow slow yeah feeling kind of nervous in the waking hours

Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises. Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises
Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises. Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises

I went down the bakers got meself a cake, a little compensation for my day, a small reward. See I never do much really, I don’t like being intimidated by some people but occasionally it can happen. I don’t live in a world similar to everyone. Look out your window my dear, I’ll be back later.

(Rodney Prosser / Ben Leach)

Production credits:
Ben Leach

Writing credits:
Rodney Prosser / Ben Leach

Musician credits:

Ben Leach (Keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion, programming).

Rodney Prosser (Vocals)

Dark Spark Music

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Lyrics

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My Life in the Cartel

Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises. Concrete sinks, hot air rises, seems like life ain’t full of surprises

(Rodney Christopher Guy Prosser / Benedict Simon Leach)

Production credits: Benedict Simon Leach Writing credits: Rodney Christopher Guy Prosser / Benedict Simon Leach
Musician credits: Benedict Simon Leach (Keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion, programming). Rodney Prosser (Vocals)
Label name : Dark Spark Music

Biographie : Avant l’existence de The New, No Ben Leach (claviériste du groupe britannique The Farm et plus tard The Happy Mondays parmi tant d’autres) a été en tournée pendant 30 ans au total avec de nombreux groupes. Ben a grandi à Liverpool et a ensuite déménagé à Dulwich dans le sud-est de Londres et vit maintenant dans un village non loin de Cahors en France. Ben partage son temps entre l’enregistrement et la rénovation de sa maison. Rodney Prosser a lancé un fanzine PIGMENT en 1983 et a également imprimé deux livres de poésie le mettant en contact avec de nombreux groupes. Il anime Punk Party Radio Show depuis deux ans et demi. Rodney a grandi à Birmingham (Angleterre) et a déménagé à Hackney East London puis à Paris France en 1992.

Influences musicales basées sur le film de Michel Caine Get Carter.

Le nom The New No provenait de la référence des nouveaux originaux du Spinal Tap en raison du fait que quelqu’un avait déjà le nom The No…
Le New No a commencé en 2013 Ben et Rodney ont commencé à travailler sur des chansons en 2013, mais ce n’est que lorsque leur fascination pour les méchants de Londres a engendré la création d’une famille fictive appelée The Hampton Family que The New No a vraiment vu le jour. La famille Hampton est un étrange groupe de personnages assez louches. Certains des personnages sont assez effrayants, certains sont gentils à l’extérieur mais vraiment dangereux et l’un d’entre eux est une femme vraiment minable. Toutes les histoires impliquant ces personnages sont la substance d’une série de chansons. L’histoire de “Ma vie au cartel” de The New No My Life in The Cartel parle de Kenny Dogleach qui n’aime pas qu’on lui manque de respect. L’histoire qui est racontée ici est entièrement basée sur la réalité de personnes avec lesquelles Ben et Rodney sont entrés en contact ou avec lesquelles ils ont travaillé. Les paroles parlent d’une sorte de karma de gangster : si vous faites une erreur et faites une erreur, vous tomberez bientôt. L’histoire passe d’une vie passée en tant que garde de la reine à travailler pour un patron de la pègre et à avoir encore des problèmes à la maison avec sa femme. Besoin d’un gâteau comme récompense calme pour une journée bien remplie à noyer trois méchants.

The New No
Nouvel single “My Life in the Cartel” 11/11/2022

I suppose if you look into our way of working… when we create a track it is very much in sync with question “is it good enough to continue with this idea“. Creativity is something we aren’t short of but there is a certain way of managing the huge amounts of ideas. Peter Buck from REM said “if I have an idea, I’ll play it to the band and if they don’t go “hell yeah” then I drop it”. The idea for some of our songs begins with some amusing stories. When we recorded Lewisham Dance School, I was trying out a cheeky voice pretending to to be a twenty something woman from Lewisham who likes men. That idea was kept because it has a bit of reality. One idea we exploited after meeting a WWII tank commander at a village dinner was a full-on Commander gung ho lingo with swearing and everything. All great fun. However if it isn’t doing it for Ben… it gets the Apple Z (cancel) treatment. Rodney

The New No artwork and words

Hello we are called The New No and we have a few singles lined up with the label Dark Spark Music. This is the first one “My Life in the Cartel”. Written from up close encounters with London villains through being involved in Stand Up and music. The characters in our songs are a family and eventually we hope to make a movie called “The Hampton Family”.
This song is being released on the 11/11/2022.

Thanks Rodney Prosser (vocals and video and artwork)

The New No