Release date: 2/20/2026
CD in jewel case.
“Thanks for refreshing my memory about your brilliant music” - Guy Garvey, BBC 6 Music
“Written and performed with feeling, this is already my favourite album of the year. Whelligan are back with their best songs yet! 10/10” - Wirral Wave Radio
An album full of memories and characters associated with being an unemployed musician growing up in Birkenhead. Jobcentre chat, glorious wasted hours by the waterside. The could’ve-beens, the might’ve-beens, the has-beens, the never-weres. The dreams, the reality, the hopelessness, the humour and the tenderness which was shared by so many in a town that was slowly but surely
being forgotten.
The title (lifted from a line by pessimistic philosopher John Gray,) reflects a patronizing tone adopted by so many political commentators who , while rushing to defend, condone and indeed balm the voices of hatred and racism, sneer at the dreamers, and those seeking to create fairer and kinder societies.
RIYL: Grandaddy, Paul Heaton, Julian Cope, The Fernweh, The Smiths, Love.
1. Scenes From The Job Centre
2. Beau Jolly
3. Wasting a Lifetime
4. Waterside
5. Quality Street (An Interlude)
6. If Only You’d Asked
7. Bedroom Reminiscences
8. My Friend “The Messenger”
9. Hero to Clown
10. Box of Roses (Another Interlude)
11. Back at Square One
12. Ticking the Right Boxes
13. Game Over
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