Romantic Masochist (Valentine mix)

Photography by @tellthee

Love Truth Love.

The Glorious Verse sleeve art

@tellthee created this appropriate sleeve art should a CD of The Glorious Verse be released. Which it wont because #thereisnoCD #thereisnoband

All the same, this is wonderful.

Christmas Tombs card

Wishing all adorers of Greville and the Tombstones a very gentle festive time.

May ghosts come to settle by candlelight.

May bones be placed in your stocking.

May there be a new year for you.

Card design by @tellthee

S-booky decorations

Composition and photo by @tellthee

Wishing everyone a very spooky Halloween.

There is no Live album

There is no band. There is no Live.

Many thanks to my friend @tellthee for this great image and design.

It's so realistic. But it is not a real album. Like all Greville and The Tombstones albums, if they did exist, they would be blank. Not even any grooves in the vinyl, I would think.

God's Councel

@laubjean and @tellthee tweeted this week with images which were for me.

They are emotive, beautiful and are special to me and I want to share them here.

by Jeanie Laub

by Jeanie Laub

by Jeanie Laub

by Jeanie Laub

by @tellthee

by @tellthee

The translation of the script is:

IT IS DESIGNED IN GOD'S COUNCEL,

THAT ONE MUST EXIT FROM THE BELOVED ONE HAS

If My Love is an Altar, My Lips are Daggers

Here is a Greville and the Tombstones song:
If My Love is an Altar, My Lips are Daggers

To be sung by girls.

I’m hard crushing!

So into you

I’m red blushing!

Should you might

One night

Take up my invite

I’m having all the ghoul kids over

We can try to contact the living

We’ll hold hands Listen to favourite bands

Whatever you want, I’m giving

And I know what they say:

My lips hold a curse they betray

A fate sealed by my kiss

But don’t run away

Boy’s lips lie

Kiss me anyway

I’m having all the ghoul kids over

For a wide eyed candle Séance

We’ll squeeze tight

Can stay together all night

Speak in tongues as Bon Vivants

And I know what they say:

My lips stopped Steve getting away

A fate sealed by my kiss

But don’t run away

Boy’s lips lie

Kiss me anyway

I hear you’re a writer

A poet turned match striker

Words inked to ignite her

Delicate soul

My lips burn hot for you

My waters run deep for you

My eyes turn black as two

Lumps of Coal

I’ll kiss you under beams of destruction

We’ll be perfection in the setting sun

And I know what they say:

My lips made Dave pass right away

A fate sealed by my kiss

But don’t run away

Boy’s lips lie

Kiss me anyway

I’m having all the ghoul kids over

See if we can sacrifice the liars

Down with me lie

A kiss between you and I

Hope so much you don’t die

And I know what they say:

My lips spell out “obitu-aray”

A fate sealed by my kiss

But don’t run away

Boy’s lips lie

Kiss me anyway

Kiss me anyway

Here is the single CD sleeve art:

#thereisnosingle
#thereisnosong
#thereisnoband
#grevilleandthetombstones4eva

 

The Romantic Masochist

A Typo (www.theretronaut.com)

Valentine's Day was made for this.

A song perfect for this day of love and relationships and perfect for a second album.

This a song about the purest love for someone: altgoth love.
Unrequited love.

This is a love song for you.












It's called:


The Romantic Masochist

This is a song I wrote about a lovely relationship.

It might have needed more hammer.

Please don’t touch me,

Deny me your tender kiss

Because I’m your romantic masochist

Don’t put me out my misery

Because it’s what makes me, me

Your static hard-line stare

Only says to me you care

I’m Hurtin’,  I am Hurtin

But to me, it’s just flirtin

Don’t put me out my misery

Because it’s what makes me, me

Please don’t touch me,

Deny me your tender kiss

Because I’m your romantic masochist

My spirit is a glass blown

Ornament never shown

With a breath, shatter me

I’ll crawl on it, hand ‘n knee

Don’t put me out my misery

Because it’s what makes me, me

I need you to hammer

Home the lover

With a claw hammer

From the shed

Take the hammer

Take the hammer

Hammer home the lover

Until it’s over

Until it’s done

Smell of desperate sweat

Polishing tarnished regret

I am broken and I’m done

But I’ve had, so much fun

Don’t put me out my misery

Because it’s what makes me, me

Please don’t touch me,

Deny me your tender kiss

Because I’m your romantic masochist

And here is the single sleeve art:



A Grevilly Christmas!

I tweeted the lyrics as #grevadvent in December 2013 and this is what's behind the 24th door! Welcome grevadventurers!

This is the #grevadvent tweets collected and presented as the Greville and the Tombstones' Christmas song!!

It is not exactly #altgothic and not the usual romance ballad, but if it was good enough for The Darkness not to take themselves too seriously for once and to do a one off novelty seasonal track, then it is good enough for ol' Greville and the Tombstones.

I hope it gets all fans of the band and indeed everyone in the festive mood! It ticks all the boxes - Santa, mistletoe and tinsel.

Imagine, like, loads of sleigh bells being jingled during it, too, if you want.

It'd definitely get onto Now This Is Christmas! if it was actually a song.

The B-Side would be a 7 min composition called: Santa's Right For Dub.

Merry Seasonal Times - one and all!

Here is the single cover:

On the Naughty List

*Those lyrics in italic are sung by She Scoops Out Owls For Hats or another darlin'.

[Sampled curt 1964 BBC styled male voice] We all go in, we-all-go-out, we all go in, we-all-go-out

I aint getting a present this Christmas

I aint getting a nutmeg, mistletoe kiss

Saint Nick checked and here’s a twist

My name’s twice on the Naughty List

 

Oh… I’ve been bad

Made my pretty darlin’ sad

When she impales the angel on top of the tree

Well, I think she’s thinkin’ of me

 

Oh-ho…

 

Snow layin’ and deep’nin’

Low as sobs of my darlin’s weepin’

When she hangs her stocking at the chimney

Well, I think she’s thinkin’ of me

 

I aint getting a present this Christmas

I aint getting a nutmeg, mistletoe kiss

Saint Nick checked and here’s a twist

My name’s twice on the Naughty List

 

Oh… I’ve been bad

Worst Christmas we have had

When she puts down Mary in the nativity

Well, I think she’s thinkin’ of me

 

Oh-ho…

 

Orange n’ cinnamon nights,

Outside glitter and tinsel frost bites

When she carves up the Christmas turkey

Well, I think she’s thinkin’ of me

 

Whoa-ho…

I’m strung out on merry lights, Strung out on those berry lights

 

If you hope to get absolution,

You’ll need more than keepin’ a New Year’s resolution!

 

Oh Darlin’! I can change, don’t fear,

I’ll get Saint Nick to score my name off twice next year.

 

Some piece of work you turned out to be,

I know you aint ever were thinkin’ of me!

 

No–ho-ho…

 

I aint getting a present this Christmas

I aint getting a nutmeg, mistletoe kiss

Saint Nick checked and here’s a twist

My name’s twice on the Naughty List

It’s a twist ‘cos my name’s twice on the Naughty List

[Sampled US 1950’s girl group] Jing, jing, jinglin’ an’ Jing, jing, jinglin’ on, an’ [to quick fade-out]

There is no second album. Here is the second album cover

We all know there was no first album. And we all saw how that worked out. So it makes sense that there is no second album. That's just philosophy. And potentially mathematics.

The name of the second album is:

Battlers Of Soulweeds, Purveyors of the Ahool

And this is the album cover!

 

 

#thereisnosecondalbum





It took the body parts of 7 men to make him, but only 1 woman to break his heart, made from 3 men's hearts

There is no album. But if there was then this would be the album sleeve booklet. The band hope you enjoy. There is no band. It is all pretend.

 

 

 

 Click on the tabs below to read the lyrics and see more album artwork. There are tabs.

 

 

#thereisnoband #thereisbandmerch

Greville and the Tombstones are so alt-goth they don't exist. There is literally: No Band.

Then I invented #rockcraftsaturday last Saturday when I put on a rock t-shirt and took out 4 coloured felt-tips and invited great friend of the band, craft genius and resident Greville and the Tombstones' artist @jaffne round.

So!

Encouraged by @warriorgrrl and inspired by her utterly fab gloom-pop She Makes War merchandise, here now is the first foray and range of Greville and the Tombstone band merchandise.

Because - and I cannot stress this enough - what is more alt-goth than having actual home-spun merch for an imaginary alt-goth band?

How about a Greville and the Tombstone designed plectrum?

 

None of these have never strummed a guitar. And you can take that guarantee to the Bank. How the bank teller will react to you telling them this, I cannot guarantee.

 

I would like to say I could see the band throwing them out to the enraptured audience, but as we do not do gigs I have not tried throwing genuine Greville and the Tombstones plectrums at anything resembling an audience yet, but when I do, I am sure it will be a delight for the bus passengers on my morning bus commute.

 

How about a some Greville and the Tombstone @jaffne original hand drawn art for any wall in the home?

 

 

Seriously, how cool and alt-goth is that?

 

Finally, how about something for the mantelpiece or office desk?

 

The picture on the kids FIMO mini-kit I bought suggested we could make a sheep

 

And this is, almost certainly, only the beginning. I will post more merch as it is created.

 

Fans should look out on Twitter for future #rockcraftsaturday news on more merch.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Nuclear Fall out - single sleeve art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The King of Neptune - single sleeve art

Here is the CD sleeve art for the latest single.
The B-side (uncredited on the cover) is: Jesus, It's Tough

 

 

 

Although the CD case will be empty, it is something which will look good in record shops, I reckon.



Unicorn Song - single sleeve art

Here is the sleeve for the latest CD single:
The Unicorn Song    (B-side, Why does nothing last cool?)

There is no single to go in it, but - still!

There is no album. Here is the album cover.

A while ago I Twitter announced I would announce the new album title at the strike of noon.

I lost 2 followers.

Then on that strike of noon, I revealed:

It Took The Body Parts Of 7 Men To Make Him But Only 1 Woman To Break His Heart, Made From 3 Men's Hearts

I tweeted the LP cover:

After only 15 minutes of the album tweet, I lost another 2 followers.

This is an imaginary band with pretend songs

Welcome to the blog of Greville and the Tombstones, the gothic alt-country band which only plays in my head, but sometimes bits of it leaks out, hence the need for this sanity saving blog. Obviously.

Here you will find all band news, music stuff and art as well as lyrics to the songs without tunes. In no way are they poems.

To kick things off, with the help of my friend over at Craftiny I have been working on the band logo.

And here it is: the first piece of band art, the band logo!