This Vinyl Album with Risograph booklet and poster launched at an live music event at Collective in December 2015 is the publication of the project. This is a project three years in development and implementation that incorporated a solo ‘retrospective ‘ exhibition at the City Dome, Collective Gallery in Edinburgh in 2014, as part of Generation, 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, with a subsequent 18 month project, initiated at the exhibition and funded by Creative Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council and the Generation Engagement Project, working with young people and the Gallery that resulted in the release of a collaborative record

Sinclair, Ross

Glasgow School of Art: RADAR

‘20 YEARS OF REAL LIFE – FREE INSTRUMENTS FOR TEENAGERS’ STARTED AS AN EXHIBITION AT COLLECTIVE IN 2014 BY ARTIST ROSS SINCLAIR. TO CELEBRATE TWO DECADES OF HIS REAL LIFE PROJECT ross WORKED WITH COLLECTIVE ON A YEAR LONG PROJECT GIVING AWAY 20 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO YOUNG PEOPLE. EACH GUITAR, BASS, OR DRUM KIT DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTS ONE YEAR OF HIS REAL LIFE PROJECT, REPURPOSED AND TURNED TO FACE THE FUTURE. DURING THE EXHIBITION BANDS COULD PRACTICE IN THE REHEARSAL SPACE, PAINTING WHILE THEY WAITED. AT THE END OF THE EXHIBITION THE INSTRUMENTS WERE OFFERED FREELY TO ANY YOUNG PERSON BORN SINCE ross HAD HIS REAL LIFE TATTOO INKED ON HIS BACK IN 1994 I.E. TEENAGERS. ‘FREE INSTRUMENTS FOR TEENAGERS’ WAS A CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN COLLECTIVE, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ROSS. OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR THE BANDS HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH COLLECTIVE AND ROSS THROUGH A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING SESSIONS WITH INVITED ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, TO WRITE, RECORD AND PERFORM NEW MUSIC. COLLECTIVE WORKED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE AT CANONGATE YOUTH TO PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT FOR THE BANDS, HELPING THEM WRITE AND RECORD ORIGINAL TRACKS FOR THE VINYL. THE PROJECT IS PART OF GENERATION: A MAJOR NATIONWIDE EXHIBITION PROGRAMME SHOWCASING SOME OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS TO HAVE EMERGED FROM SCOTLAND OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS.A year is a long time for a teenager. Whole decades flash past from one year to the next. A different person, under construction, from moment to moment. The music you liked at 13 might make you squirm with embarrassment at 14. A record pored over and analysed and played and played and played at 15 can be at the back of the pile at 16. By 17 it’s not exactly forgotten, but perhaps outgrown of its usefulness. The Strokes at 13 becomes The Velvet Underground at 14 becomes Hole at 15 becomes FKA twigs at 16 and over and over again. Teenagers emerge into their twenties containing multitudes.A teenage band contains even more — the multitudes of three or four or five different people combined together. Each person starts at the same point, with the same records spilled out over turntables and bedroom floors. Same favourites, same after-school experiences. Shared seats on buses and trains to see the same bands in the same halls in the next big town, putting on eyeliner and pulling on band t-shirts on the way. Eventually it’s not enough, all this stuff, these records and gigs made by other people, and you have to do it yourself — bring your shared fanaticism together and make something of your own. Your enthusiasm becomes a tangible thing, a CD with three or four songs and a sleeve folded from cardboard. The whole thing might last years or just a few months. You all start at the same point, but sometimes you diverge into different places, different tastes, different priorities.The symbolic gesture of giving away instruments to teenagers in order to open up wider creative possibilities is inherently romantic, and romanticism is often overruled by pragmatism. Exams, part-time jobs, changing school or college or city or country — things get left behind. Priorities are made and you find that you don’t have time for band practice every week. Your friend whose attic doubles up for your rehearsal room moves to the next town, and you have to take 11 standard grades next year. Maybe you try it, enthusiastic at first, and it’s not what you thought it would be. You pass your bass to your sister or your friend. Maybe you prefer drawing, or taking photographs, or writing plays, but you keep the drums in the corner of your room, playing them every couple of months. Maybe you get your guitar out every week after school, playing loops and recording them or just playing the same Jesus and Mary Chain cover over and over with nobody listening. Maybe playing guitar or bass or drums or singing gives you something you never had before, it allows you to become someone different or become yourself. Maybe you find a few other people who feel like that too, and it lasts for a year or a few years or forever. Not everything you try becomes part of your life, but sometimes something sticks. It becomes the main thing in your life, or just something you do at the weekend. But its something that’s still meaningful, forever omnipresent in the background.Claire Biddles, 2015Bedroom AthleteAboutJames Fox, Lead GuitarMatthew Gibb, Vocals and Rhythm GuitarJeeva Nagra, Bass GuitarThomas Coull, DrumsFormed in 2013 as part of Ross Sinclair’s 20 Years of Real Life – Free Instruments for Teenagers project at Collective, the name Bedroom Athlete comes from a track from James Chance and the Contortions’ 1979 LP ‘Buy’. Inspirations: James Chance’s live energy and frenetic guitar riffs, as well as bands like Radiohead, Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire.facebook.com/bedroomathletesoundcloud.com/bedr00m-athleteLyricsOver My HeadI’ve been doing nothing betterThan I’ve ever doneI’ve been sleeping inTil one every dayIt takes about a year for earth to get around the sunAnd I’ve spent oneSlowly becoming undoneI’ve learnt some things that I’ll never forget In these last few weeks of getting my feet wetBut I don’tWant to get in over my headNo I don’t Want to get in over my headScreen burn on my eyelids Makes for interesting viewingYou’re just a videodroneA haircut and some bones that you drag aroundWhen you speak speaker A doesn’t make a soundPlaying back everything that I doI can’t see underwaterBut I’m seeing you Sleeping on my feet wishing for a bedThis could last 20 secondsOr a couple of years in my headUnits To LetThere’s units to let in the industrial estate I bet youI bet you feel pretty great nowThere’s glass embedded in the dry stone wall I bet youI bet you feel pretty great nowI know what you want and I know what you think I think youI think you know what you’re doing nowThere’s units to let in the industrial estate I bet you I bet you feel pretty great nowDon’t have many long term goals just want toGo to the city feel pretty shitty and sick Don’t have many long term goals just want to Go to the city feel pretty shitty andPayday loans and cash for goldJust want toGo to the city feel pretty shitty and sickWalking around I can see what you mean From the centre leading outwards we get more sad and meanDo you need what you’ve got to survive Because I know I’m not shining on 6.55Do you need to know what it’s for I told you to trust me have you really been keeping scoreAt the weekends I can see what you mean From the centre leading outwards we get more sad and meanMouthwashI’m beginning to notice a blindspotI’m beginning to notice the tasteOf mouthwashI’m beginning to notice youI’m beginning to notice youI’ve been feeling inoculatedSomething piercing my skin Like a wireI see my reflection in the TVMy reflection in the TVI’ve been living door to doorI’ve been living like this all the timeI’ve been taking you for moreI’ve been taking you for something you’re notSome rain must fall but, But not on me I need to take some timeI’ve been living door to doorI’ve been living like this all the timeThere is a voice in my headThat I hear when I’m reading your textsIt makes my hair stand on endIt makes me think of DeathThis car crash set is futileWe all know what’s going onI see my reflection in the windscreen Enemy FireAboutLeah Kerr, Vocals and Lead GuitarRuby Fischbacher, Rhythm GuitarVanessa Batcharj, Lead VocalsEmma Brydon, DrumsHOPE GARDner, managerEnemy Fire are a four-piece from Edinburgh who formed around Ross Sinclair’s exhibition 20 Years of Real Life at Collective. Combining a variety of different genres such as indie, punk, rock and pop to create their own unique sound.facebook.com/Crimson.Reality.BandLyricsAll I NeedIf I took your hand tonight and lay down by your side. Would you move in close to me, relax and close your eyes? Hold me in your arms tonight and never let me go. Look into my eyes this night and deep into my soul. I can see us getting older, can’t you feel us change? The memories that we take on-board, will forever stay the same. It’s you and me against the world, I swear we’ll make it through. Take this chance- forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by me. For one last time remind me why you’re all that I need. Every minute spent with you warms me up inside. Me and you don’t have to think when we’re still young and wild. Promise me you’ll find a way to love me all the time? Forget about the things I said to you the other night. It’s you and me against the world, I swear we’ll make it through. Take this chance- forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by me. For one last time remind me why you’re all that I need. I know that I sound crazy. I hope that’s fine by you. Just come and wait with my baby. We’ll be away from here soon. It’s you and me against the world, I swear we’ll make it through. Take this chance- forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by me. For one last time remind me why you’re all that I need.Appear InvisibleAboutMel Rozel Brayford, Guitar and Vocals  Sammy Harrison, Guitar and Vocals Iain Cross, Drums Glen Oswald, Bass GuitarAppear Invisible are a four-piece alternative rock band who wear three-piece suits! They began in Edinburgh and have been gigging, recording and getting involved in various exciting projects throughout the last two years. Their aim is to “not just be another band in jeans and t-shirts.” They want to create an artistic experience. Everything including the art, the uniform and the songs, when put together as a record, have a concept and aim to communicate feeling. Their influences range from traditional folk and blues to modern rock, pop and metal.appearinvisibleuk.weebly.comfacebook.com/AppearInvisibleUKinstagram.com/appearinvisibleofficialsoundcloud.com/appear-invisibleTwitter @InvisibleAppearALL LYRICS CC Mel Rozel BrayfordLyricsMACHINEI want to be deadWhilst still being aliveEmotion is The key to life You are from outer spaceYou make me want to be sickWe’re being watched they entertain with revengeI watch it too and I will do it again I am a MACHINE I am a MACHINETo live a life in fear Is not a life at allI won’t let you break me I’m not gonna fall You are from outer spaceYou make me want to be sick We’re being watched they entertain with revengeI watch it too and I will do it againI am a MACHINEI am a MACHINEForgetting FrankAs we drive along by the sea at night All I see are flames of harbour lights And this feeling hits me from inside The feeling that I’m alive We lost ourselves at the best time of their lives And I threw you away when he died But I knew in my heart it wasn’t right So we got in our van to share another ride When you sing to me I know this can be ‘Cause you’re my best friend and we will make itI fear for the future but it’s not coming no sooner So I know we’re not gonna break it There was a time I’d give up I won’t lie There was a time I almost said goodbye But I’m no longer Mitchell’s butterfly Now is not our time to dieWhen you sing to me I know this can be‘Cause you’re my best friend and we will make itI fear for the future but it’s not coming no soonerSo I know we’re not gonna break itFor the first time in my lifeI feel like I belongRight here in this momentI feel like I could be someoneWhen you sing to me I know this can be‘Cause you’re my best friend and we will make itKeeley HawesI love the way you laugh It makes me giddy inside I blush you bite your lipWhen you cry I cryI wanna be in a comaReliving the ‘80s with youIs that your real name?Or are you a spook?I wanna see the world but my whole world is pixelated Oh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph? It’s strange I like your million personalitiesI see you everyday but you don’t even know my name“Dear Rosie there’s a rose”“In my heart for you”Oh Kitty ButlerI wanna catch that rose from youLady AgnesCan I come downstairs?There’s been a death at the funeralBut quite frankly I don’t give a shitI wanna see the world but my whole world is pixelatedOh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph?It’s strange I like your million personalitiesI see you everyday but you don’t even know my nameWith perfect elocutionPut me up for persecutionMy green eyes look into yoursKeeley Hawes I wanna see the world but my whole world is pixelatedOh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph?It’s strange I like your million personalitiesI see you everyday but you don’t even know my nameThanks to: Claire Biddles, Erin Colquhoun, Naomi Garriock, Ronnie Gurr, GRACE BORLAND SINCLAIR,Victoria Hollows, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Stephen Foster, Jessica Joyce-Anderson,Shaun Cassidy, Tina Kelly, Iona McCann, Margaret McCormick, Stevie Palmer, Steve Rhind, Evan Thomas, Graeme Young. general thanks to: Basic Mountain, Edinburgh; Canongate Youth, Edinburgh; Chamber Studio, Edinburgh; Stills, Edinburgh; Platform, Glasgow; and Out of the BluePrint, Edinburgh. Recorded by Steve Rhind and Stevie Palmer, Canongate Youth, Edinburgh – www.canongateyouth.org.ukMastered by Chamber Studio, Edinburgh – www.chamberstudio.co.uk INSERT DESIGN AND Layout by Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir (Rafla) Insert printed by Out of the Blueprint, Edinburgh  – WWW.OUTOFTHEBLUEPRINT.ORGVINYL Design BY Ross Sinclair and the bandsVinyl production by Breed Media, Sheffield All artwork and tracks copyright the artists, 2015.Collective is a contemporary visual arts organisation that delivers an exciTing and ambitious programme of new exhibitions, commissions and projects. www.collectivegallery.net instagram.COM/collectivegallery facebook.com/collectivegalleryedinburgh soundcloud.com/collectivegallery twitter @1984_collective ROSS SINCLAIR IS AN ARTIST AND SOMETIME MUSICIAN, WRITER AND TEACHER FROM GLASGOW. 20 YEARS AGO HE HAD THE WORDS REAL LIFE TATTOOED ON HIS BACK AND SINCE THEN HE HAS EXPLORED THIS IDEA IN HUNDREDS OF PROJECTS LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, EXHIBITING WIDELY IN EUROPE, USA, JAPAN, KOREA AND AUSTRALIA. HE HAS BEEN A LECTURER AT GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART SINCE 1995 WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY A READER IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE.www.artinscotland.tv/2015/ross-sinclair-20-years-of-real-life/www.rossandtherealifers.comTWITTER @RealifersRoss

20 Years of Real Life Publication: Free Instruments for Teenagers, Vinyl Album with Risograph booklet and poster


‘20 YEARS OF REAL LIFE – FREE INSTRUMENTS FOR TEENAGERS’ STARTED AS AN EXHIBITION 
AT COLLECTIVE IN 2014 BY ARTIST ROSS SINCLAIR. TO CELEBRATE TWO DECADES OF HIS 
REAL LIFE PROJECT ross WORKED WITH COLLECTIVE ON A YEAR LONG PROJECT GIVING 
AWAY 20 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO YOUNG PEOPLE. EACH GUITAR, BASS, OR DRUM 
KIT DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTS ONE YEAR OF HIS REAL LIFE PROJECT, REPURPOSED AND 
TURNED TO FACE THE FUTURE.
 
DURING THE EXHIBITION BANDS COULD PRACTICE IN THE REHEARSAL SPACE, PAINTING 
WHILE THEY WAITED. AT THE END OF THE EXHIBITION THE INSTRUMENTS WERE OFFERED 
FREELY TO ANY YOUNG PERSON BORN SINCE ross HAD HIS REAL LIFE TATTOO INKED 
ON HIS BACK IN 1994 I.E. TEENAGERS. ‘FREE INSTRUMENTS FOR TEENAGERS’ WAS A CO-
PRODUCTION BETWEEN COLLECTIVE, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ROSS.
 
OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR THE BANDS HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH COLLECTIVE AND 
ROSS THROUGH A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING SESSIONS WITH INVITED 
ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS, TO WRITE, RECORD AND PERFORM NEW MUSIC.
 
COLLECTIVE WORKED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE YOUTH MUSIC INITIATIVE AT CANONGATE 
YOUTH TO PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT FOR THE BANDS, HELPING THEM WRITE AND 
RECORD ORIGINAL TRACKS FOR THE VINYL.
 
THE PROJECT IS PART OF GENERATION: A MAJOR NATIONWIDE EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 
SHOWCASING SOME OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS TO HAVE EMERGED FROM 
SCOTLAND OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS.


A year is a long time for a teenager. Whole decades flash past from one year to the next. A 
different person, under construction, from moment to moment. The music you liked at 13 might 
make you squirm with embarrassment at 14. A record pored over and analysed and played and 
played and played at 15 can be at the back of the pile at 16. By 17 it’s not exactly forgotten, 
but perhaps outgrown of its usefulness. The Strokes at 13 becomes The Velvet Underground at 
14 becomes Hole at 15 becomes FKA twigs at 16 and over and over again. Teenagers emerge into 
their twenties containing multitudes.
A teenage band contains even more — the multitudes of three or four or five different people 
combined together. Each person starts at the same point, with the same records spilled out 
over turntables and bedroom floors. Same favourites, same after-school experiences. Shared 
seats on buses and trains to see the same bands in the same halls in the next big town, 
putting on eyeliner and pulling on band t-shirts on the way. 
Eventually it’s not enough, all this stuff, these records and gigs made by other people, and 
you have to do it yourself — bring your shared fanaticism together and make something of 
your own. Your enthusiasm becomes a tangible thing, a CD with three or four songs and a 
sleeve folded from cardboard. The whole thing might last years or just a few months. You all 
start at the same point, but sometimes you diverge into different places, different tastes, 
different priorities.
The symbolic gesture of giving away instruments to teenagers in order to open up wider 
creative possibilities is inherently romantic, and romanticism is often overruled by 
pragmatism. Exams, part-time jobs, changing school or college or city or country — things 
get left behind. Priorities are made and you find that you don’t have time for band practice 
every week. Your friend whose attic doubles up for your rehearsal room moves to the next 
town, and you have to take 11 standard grades next year. 
Maybe you try it, enthusiastic at first, and it’s not what you thought it would be. You pass 
your bass to your sister or your friend. Maybe you prefer drawing, or taking photographs, 
or writing plays, but you keep the drums in the corner of your room, playing them every 
couple of months. Maybe you get your guitar out every week after school, playing loops and 
recording them or just playing the same Jesus and Mary Chain cover over and over with 
nobody listening. Maybe playing guitar or bass or drums or singing gives you something you 
never had before, it allows you to become someone different or become yourself. 
Maybe you find a few other people who feel like that too, and it lasts for a year or a few 
years or forever. Not everything you try becomes part of your life, but sometimes something 
sticks. It becomes the main thing in your life, or just something you do at the weekend. But 
its something that’s still meaningful, forever omnipresent in the background.
Claire Biddles, 2015
Bedroom Athlete
About
James Fox, Lead Guitar
Matthew Gibb, Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Jeeva Nagra, Bass Guitar
Thomas Coull, Drums
Formed in 2013 as part of Ross Sinclair’s 20 Years 
of Real Life – Free Instruments for Teenagers 
project at Collective, the name Bedroom Athlete 
comes from a track from James Chance and the 
Contortions’ 1979 LP ‘Buy’. 
Inspirations: James Chance’s live energy and 
frenetic guitar riffs, as well as bands like 
Radiohead, Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire.
facebook.com/bedroomathlete
soundcloud.com/bedr00m-athlete
Lyrics
Over My Head
I’ve been doing nothing better
Than I’ve ever done
I’ve been sleeping in
Til one every day
It takes about a year for earth 
to get around the sun
And I’ve spent one
Slowly becoming undone
I’ve learnt some things that 
I’ll never forget 
In these last few weeks of 
getting my feet wet
But I don’t
Want to get in over my head
No I don’t 
Want to get in over my head
Screen burn on my eyelids 
Makes for interesting viewing
You’re just a videodrone
A haircut and some bones that 
you drag around
When you speak speaker A 
doesn’t make a sound
Playing back everything that 
I do
I can’t see underwater
But I’m seeing you 
Sleeping on my feet wishing for 
a bed
This could last 20 seconds
Or a couple of years in my head
Units To Let
There’s units to let in the industrial estate 
I bet you
I bet you feel pretty great now
There’s glass embedded in the dry stone wall I 
bet you
I bet you feel pretty great now
I know what you want and I know what you 
think I think you
I think you know what you’re doing now
There’s units to let in the industrial estate I 
bet you 
I bet you feel pretty great now
Don’t have many long term goals just want to
Go to the city feel pretty shitty and sick 
Don’t have many long term goals just want to 
Go to the city feel pretty shitty and
Payday loans and cash for gold
Just want to
Go to the city feel pretty shitty and sick
Walking around I can see what you mean 
From the centre leading outwards we get more 
sad and mean
Do you need what you’ve got to survive 
Because I know I’m not shining on 6.55
Do you need to know what it’s for 
I told you to trust me have you really been 
keeping score
At the weekends I can see what you mean 
From the centre leading outwards we get more 
sad and mean
Mouthwash
I’m beginning to notice a blindspot
I’m beginning to notice the taste
Of mouthwash
I’m beginning to notice you
I’m beginning to notice you
I’ve been feeling inoculated
Something piercing my skin 
Like a wire
I see my reflection in the TV
My reflection in the TV
I’ve been living door to door
I’ve been living like this all the time
I’ve been taking you for more
I’ve been taking you for something 
you’re not
Some rain must fall but, 
But not on me I need to take some time
I’ve been living door to door
I’ve been living like this all the time
There is a voice in my head
That I hear when I’m reading your 
texts
It makes my hair stand on end
It makes me think of Death
This car crash set is futile
We all know what’s going on
I see my reflection in the windscreen 
Enemy Fire
About
Leah Kerr, Vocals and Lead Guitar
Ruby Fischbacher, Rhythm Guitar
Vanessa Batcharj, Lead Vocals
Emma Brydon, Drums
HOPE GARDner, manager
Enemy Fire are a four-piece from Edinburgh who formed 
around Ross Sinclair’s exhibition 20 Years of Real Life at 
Collective. Combining a variety of different genres such 
as indie, punk, rock and pop to create their own unique 
sound.
facebook.com/Crimson.Reality.Band
Lyrics
All I Need
If I took your hand tonight and lay down 
by your side. Would you move in close to me, 
relax and close your eyes? Hold me in your 
arms tonight and never let me go. Look into 
my eyes this night and deep into my soul. 
I can see us getting older, can’t you feel 
us change? The memories that we take on-
board, will forever stay the same. 
It’s you and me against the world, I swear 
we’ll make it through. Take this chance- 
forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. 
Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by 
me. For one last time remind me why you’re 
all that I need. 
Every minute spent with you warms me up 
inside. Me and you don’t have to think 
when we’re still young and wild. Promise me 
you’ll find a way to love me all the time? 
Forget about the things I said to you the 
other night. 
It’s you and me against the world, I swear 
we’ll make it through. Take this chance- 
forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. 
Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by 
me. For one last time remind me why you’re 
all that I need. 
I know that I sound crazy. I hope that’s 
fine by you. Just come and wait with my 
baby. We’ll be away from here soon. 
It’s you and me against the world, I swear 
we’ll make it through. Take this chance- 
forget your plans, that’s all I want to do. 
Cliche love and white doves, that’s fine by 
me. For one last time remind me why you’re 
all that I need.
Appear Invisible
About
Mel Rozel Brayford, Guitar and Vocals  
Sammy Harrison, Guitar and Vocals 
Iain Cross, Drums 
Glen Oswald, Bass Guitar
Appear Invisible are a four-piece alternative rock band who wear 
three-piece suits! They began in Edinburgh and have been gigging, 
recording and getting involved in various exciting projects 
throughout the last two years. Their aim is to “not just be another 
band in jeans and t-shirts.” They want to create an artistic 
experience. Everything including the art, the uniform and the 
songs, when put together as a record, have a concept and aim to 
communicate feeling. Their influences range from traditional folk 
and blues to modern rock, pop and metal.
appearinvisibleuk.weebly.com
facebook.com/AppearInvisibleUK
instagram.com/appearinvisibleofficial
soundcloud.com/appear-invisible
Twitter @InvisibleAppear
ALL LYRICS CC Mel Rozel Brayford
Lyrics
MACHINE
I want to be dead
Whilst still being alive
Emotion is 
The key to life 
You are from outer space
You make me want to be sick
We’re being watched they entertain with 
revenge
I watch it too and I will do it again 
I am a MACHINE 
I am a MACHINE
To live a life in fear 
Is not a life at all
I won’t let you break me 
I’m not gonna fall 
You are from outer space
You make me want to be sick 
We’re being watched they entertain with 
revenge
I watch it too and I will do it again
I am a MACHINE
I am a MACHINE
Forgetting Frank
As we drive along by the sea at night 
All I see are flames of harbour lights 
And this feeling hits me from inside 
The feeling that I’m alive 
We lost ourselves at the best time of 
their lives 
And I threw you away when he died 
But I knew in my heart it wasn’t right 
So we got in our van to share another 
ride 
When you sing to me I know this can be 
‘Cause you’re my best friend and we 
will make it
I fear for the future but it’s not 
coming no sooner 
So I know we’re not gonna break it 
There was a time I’d give up I won’t lie 
There was a time I almost said goodbye 
But I’m no longer Mitchell’s butterfly 
Now is not our time to die
When you sing to me I know this can be
‘Cause you’re my best friend and we 
will make it
I fear for the future but it’s not 
coming no sooner
So I know we’re not gonna break it
For the first time in my life
I feel like I belong
Right here in this moment
I feel like I could be someone
When you sing to me I know this can be
‘Cause you’re my best friend and we 
will make it
Keeley Hawes
I love the way you laugh 
It makes me giddy inside 
I blush you bite your lip
When you cry I cry
I wanna be in a coma
Reliving the ‘80s with you
Is that your real name?
Or are you a spook?
I wanna see the world but my whole world is 
pixelated 
Oh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph? 
It’s strange I like your million personalities
I see you everyday but you don’t even know my 
name
“Dear Rosie there’s a rose”
“In my heart for you”
Oh Kitty Butler
I wanna catch that rose from you
Lady Agnes
Can I come downstairs?
There’s been a death at the funeral
But quite frankly I don’t give a shit
I wanna see the world but my whole world is 
pixelated
Oh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph?
It’s strange I like your million personalities
I see you everyday but you don’t even know my 
name
With perfect elocution
Put me up for persecution
My green eyes look into yours
Keeley Hawes 
I wanna see the world but my whole world is 
pixelated
Oh I’m in love but what is love for a photograph?
It’s strange I like your million personalities
I see you everyday but you don’t even know my 
name






Thanks to: 
Claire Biddles, Erin Colquhoun, Naomi Garriock, Ronnie Gurr, GRACE BORLAND SINCLAIR,
Victoria Hollows, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Stephen Foster, Jessica Joyce-Anderson,
Shaun Cassidy, Tina Kelly, Iona McCann, Margaret McCormick, Stevie Palmer, Steve 
Rhind, Evan Thomas, Graeme Young. general thanks to: Basic Mountain, Edinburgh; 
Canongate Youth, Edinburgh; Chamber Studio, Edinburgh; Stills, Edinburgh; 
Platform, Glasgow; and Out of the BluePrint, Edinburgh. 
Recorded by Steve Rhind and Stevie Palmer, Canongate Youth, Edinburgh – www.canongateyouth.org.uk
Mastered by Chamber Studio, Edinburgh – www.chamberstudio.co.uk 
INSERT DESIGN AND Layout by Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir (Rafla) 
Insert printed by Out of the Blueprint, Edinburgh  – WWW.OUTOFTHEBLUEPRINT.ORG
VINYL Design BY Ross Sinclair and the bands
Vinyl production by Breed Media, Sheffield 
All artwork and tracks copyright the artists, 2015.
Collective is a contemporary visual arts organisation that delivers an exciTing and 
ambitious programme of new exhibitions, commissions and projects. 
www.collectivegallery.net 
instagram.COM/collectivegallery 
facebook.com/collectivegalleryedinburgh 
soundcloud.com/collectivegallery 
twitter @1984_collective 
ROSS SINCLAIR IS AN ARTIST AND SOMETIME MUSICIAN, WRITER AND TEACHER FROM GLASGOW. 
20 YEARS AGO HE HAD THE WORDS REAL LIFE TATTOOED ON HIS BACK AND SINCE THEN HE HAS 
EXPLORED THIS IDEA IN HUNDREDS OF PROJECTS LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, 
EXHIBITING WIDELY IN EUROPE, USA, JAPAN, KOREA AND AUSTRALIA. HE HAS BEEN A LECTURER AT 
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART SINCE 1995 WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY A READER IN CONTEMPORARY ART 
PRACTICE.
www.artinscotland.tv/2015/ross-sinclair-20-years-of-real-life/
www.rossandtherealifers.com
TWITTER @RealifersRoss



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20 Years of Real Life Publication: Free Instruments for Teenagers, Vinyl Album with Risograph booklet and poster

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