[2008]
Lyrics & Music by Billy Rowan Salisbury
Album: Demo

"This is the first song I wrote after my days as a drum & bass MC. I was travelling in Indonesia, and had just bought myself a guitalele (a mini guitar).
I'd had a t-shirt made with the slogan "Blood is Thicker than Oil" on the front a few months earlier in the build up to the Iraq invasion, and with Iraq having just been invaded it felt right that it should become a song.
And now the story continues with Libya...

"Motor Oil is Thicker Than Blood" from www.military.com/

[2008]
Lyrics & Music by William Rowan Salisbury
Album: Demo

"This is a song I wrote a long time ago now... I was tired of working all week and then wasting my money in the pub every weekend... and I dreamed of travelling the world... now I seem to have come full circle! Maybe it's time for a holiday... "

[2011]
Lyrics & Music by William Salisbury (A.K.A.Billy Rowan, The Undercover Hippy)
Album: Why We Fight (E.P.)

This track was initially inspired by watching a documentary of the same name directed by Eugene Jarecki, well worth checking out. The intro to the song is taken from the original Frank Capra propaganda film made to get the American public behind American involvement in WW2, also called "Why We Fight".

The second speech is President Eisenhower's farewell address in which he warns us of the dangers of the industry of war.

Personnel: Billy Rowan - guitar and vocals; Andreas Millns - keys; Alex Crane - bass; Billy Rowan & Alex Crane - drum programming; Tom First - trumpet; Jehan Abdel-Malak & Alex Crane - saxophones.