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Queen of Hearts

by the Chandeliers

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1.
I Dreamt I Could Fly 03:14
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2.
Chinese Whispers 02:09
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3.
Country Girl 02:03
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4.
Balad of the Lonesome Rider 03:12
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5.
I Need Your Love 02:28
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6.
Live Together 03:10
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Intro: G A G A Verse: G C Cm G G C Cm D Bridge: C D G C (x2) D C G C D 2nd Bridge C D G C (x2) D C G C D C G C D C D
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Sunrise 03:14
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8.
Rainy Day 03:14
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9.
Miguel Rodruigez 02:27
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10.
Lucky Day 01:11
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11.
Rock and Roll 01:20
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12.
Silicone 01:26
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13.
Love One Another 03:13
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Why be so uptight, when we could love each other? And why stop and say goodnight, when we should love each other? Everybody’s got to change sometime and when’s the best time we should start? Maybe here tonight will see the one time that you let the sun shine in your heart. People of the world agree and get along together. Let your minds and your hearts run free and get it on together. Let’s count every star that’s shining and give every one of them names. Let’s take off and never stop climbing till we go down together in flames. But I’m shot – I’m all strung out and my heart is hanging on a string so love one another all you can, and let it in… I dreamt about the years that had passed and felt them weigh upon me. And the moments that I tried to make last but had to watch slip from me I want to set this out in every last detail so that everybody after can see and pass time again with people who in time passed, and have everything that never can be, and get high – until it all comes down to the only thing that’s left you cant doubt… love one another all you can love one another all you can love one another or be damned and let it out… Tune: G Am C Bm C Bm G Bm C Verse: G Em Am D G Em Am D Bridge: Am D G Em Am D Em Bm Chorus: C Em Bm Am Bm Am Structure: T, V, B, V, B, C, T, V, B, C (repeat Bm & Am) T, T
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Airplane 02:42
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Released December 2007 on Dirtbrain Recordings.
This album was produced, recorded and mixed by Steve Dixon at Cybersound Studios, Creekside, Deptford. Overdubs done mostly at Steve's house, sometimes at Seb's.
Mastering by Taza Salamut at Cybersound.
All drums, percussion, keyboards, and musical overdubs by Steve Dixon.
Electric guitar, bass guitar and vocals by Sebastian Handley
Acoustic guitar on track 1 by Joe Hoover
Saxophone on track 11 by Amy Perkins
Violin by Milla Greggor
Cello by Annie Ashton
Mouth Organ by John Handley
Various backing vocals by Steve Dixon, John Handley and Victoria Cumming
Photography by Kelly Dearsley
Styling by Victoria Cumming
Hair and Make up by Dominic C. Skinner
Model Thalia
Graphic design by Amy Perkins

To this day (23.09.14) no DJ has ever played one of our songs and no one has ever reviewed our music -- with ONE noble exception: Hedj Dollman is the ONLY person to have listened to an album of ours and write a review of it for his Circus Divine website. For this we are very grateful. Here is his review in full:

As part of 'Act 02: Collaborate and Support' we bring you the 'Sideshow' and are proud to present 'The Chandeliers' as our first guest band.
We met 'The Chandeliers' front man Sebastian Handley by chance on a very chilly Halloween night in the smoking pit at Scala, London.
Sporting a rather fetching leather Zorro style mask, Seb told us about 'The Chandeliers' and, in between shivers, he listed their influences which was more than enough to spark our interest. Handing me a conveniently carried copy of 'Queen Of Hearts' the bands album (Seb says never leave home without one) we parted ways.
Several hours later we left Scala for the drive back to Bedford, remembering the CD on it went. Now, when I listen to a new band, my usual habit is to listen to the opening few bars of the first three tracks then, more often than not, it gets ejected and tossed into the glove box where it stays. I managed to get to the second track and had to start over - I was blown away! These guys sound so familar yet so fresh, comforting like a recently washed blanket.
So who are these guys? Well, 'The Chandeliers' are a 4-piece band hailing from Deptford, London, via the cosmopolitan international hotspots of Denver and Penge.
Steve Dixon - drummer, producer, percussionist, engineer; Milla - bass, violin, acoustic guitar and vocals; Sebastian Handley --- vocals, guitar (has also recorded under the name of Sebastian Morris for reasons best omitted here); Joe - guitar, bass
They play groovy thrashy witty melodic rock 'n' roll, and would love to shine their light into your life. They're not sure about comparisons but some people say they sound a bit like The Pixies fronted by Jonathan Richman or if members of Belle and Sebastian started a side-project with Dinosaur Jr.
As I've already mentioned this album sounds so familar but I challenge you to pin down your comparisons. It sounds like the very best of every worthy band you may of heard in the past 25 years and at the same time it sounds like none of them!
Queen Of Hearts shouldn't work as an album, but it so does. The diversity of its content is un-nerving, short, fast paced tracks like 'Chinese Whispers', awash with everything that was good about post punk garage, flow seamlessly into happy tongue in cheek ditties like 'Country Girl' and dark ballads such as 'Miguel Rodriguez'.
This album will leave you feeling like you have just walked through the mind of a Bi-Polar sufferer on the verge of mania!
Trust me this is a good thing.
I just wish I could stop walking around with a huge grin on my face whilst singing 'Lucky Day' in my head - Possibly the most uplifting track of the century!
Hedj Dollman - Dec 2010

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released December 1, 2007

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All lyrics can be found here:

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All guitar chords can be found here:

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