Ghosts by Bring Your Own Hammer presents
In July 2025, we release a new EP, Ghosts, to mark the release of the vinyl version of our first album, My Grief on the Sea, on Bandcamp. A thank you to those who have bought the record and an invitation to new listeners, it is available free as a digital download exclusively on Bandcamp and contains new versions of three tracks from the album: a single mix of the elegiac ‘Over the Ghosts’ by Mike Smalle with Wally Nkikita including a new string arrangement by Marcus Holdaway of the High Llamas; a remix of Tony Higgins and Agu’s evocative ‘Embarkation (float away)’ and a reworking by Simon Fisher Turner of our 2022 single ‘Old Oak Road’ by Mike Smalle featuring Jah Wobble on bass and Cathal Coughlan on backing vocals. As an added bonus, there is a fantastic new song, ‘The Mansions of the Dead’ by Mike Smalle with Eileen Gogan. Any donations made on Bandcamp will be given to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Tracklist
Credits
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Mike Smalle, Marcus Holdaway, Wally Nkikita, Tony Higgins, Agu, Simon Fisher Turner, Jah Wobble, Cathal Coughlan and Eileen Gogan
License
All rights reserved.
Bring Your Own Hammer is not a band, a group, an ensemble or even a collective. If anything, it is a faction but unlike nineteenth-century factions, who met, armed with sticks and wattles in fairs and markets, it is armed with voices and instruments and dedicated, as no faction before, to the re-interpretation of historical material in song form.