NEW SINGLE FROM GLENN HODGE BANNED ‘As It Is’

Glenn Hodge Banned is an alternative, contemporary folk singer. An independent artist who has been bastardising nice music for some time now!

London based Kent born singer-songwriter Glenn Hodge has been recording music since 2014 but got his big break by penning the lively festive Folk song ‘Santa’s Coming Round’ for the homeless charity The Big Issue Foundation in 2015. The song featured London based Big Issue vendors and their 4-legged companions and is available as a free download.

He has been compared to Billy Bragg by many but those that do must mean the Billy Bragg before he moved to a massive Dorset farmhouse and started telling us to vote Lib-Dem. Glenn lives on a narrowboat in London moving from place to place like an old-fashioned travelling bard, drawing upon London’s many characters for inspiration. His songs draw upon everyday life topics bringing a degree of candour and often humour. He still works closely with The Big Issue Foundation, raising money through his music for those who desperately need it. With seven singles and one EP behind him he has released the outstanding ‘As It Is’ the first song from his upcoming album Behind Closed Doors due to be released later this year.

There was a fella on the news today, who suffered some abuse

For a mind with an obtuse that comes with privilege

In a look as old as money never hungered for a day

But would showcase a disdain for those were born to it

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But we are the undisputed engine the ones that have to give

Working on the frontline and nursing your kids

And we are building the houses you live in

We work

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Chorus

All over Scotland

Have you met the fierce Irish nation

As it is all throughout England

What you want is a Welshman beside you

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They’re looking ragged in the alleys

In the streets they’re all done in

Put their money on the man who took it home with him

Should we push away our neighbours? Well let’s put it to a vote

On a whim and in the hope that a new age begin

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But we’re the anger in the voices of the many over years

Destined to be choice-less invested in fear

And we’re calling to everyone listen

And we’re calling to everyone listen

We live

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Chorus

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It’s the same the whole world over with an ounce of life to live

Bet your life you’ll give it up and take it all they will

Maybe no amount of protest could change the way it is

But it is the way it is at least it is for now

We’re taking this future if you give in

Get calling to everyone listen

We’re building the houses you live in

Get calling to everyone listen

We are

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Chorus X 2

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