One of the things that delights me about the whole Hopeless, Maine project I'm part of, is how much of a community has developed around it. Tom and I have always held space for other people to come and play with us, and this has led to many glorious things at this point.
In this video, are the Ominous Folk of Hopeless, Maine. That's Tom and I plus James and Susie, and we've done a fair amount of gigging together over the last year. It's been a wonderful expansion of the Hopeless project. We headed this way years ago after being asked to do an evening event at a book festival. It would be fair to say that graphic novels do not work well on stage.
This song was written for us by Walter Sickert. Tom first ran into Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys more than ten years ago when they were all at the same steampunk event in New York. We used Walter's recording of it in another video (see below) but without the guitar accompaniment, it was tricky to perform. We borrowed a snippet of another of Walter's songs, and added that to the mix for the Ominous Folk version.
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