This is the first of two posts today. This track should have gone on yesterday, but I was not feeling good… at all. So I only had time to do one. Now that’s out the way, let’s get to the song.

“Downing Street Kindling” is a song by the band Larrikin Love. The group split up years ago in 2007, and only a few months after releasing their album “The Freedom Spark“. Larrikin Love were alright. They made some real energetic folk-y type songs about life, love, and English society and whatnot. It’s a shame they broke up so soon.

“Downing Street” has lead singer Edward Leeson lamenting about living in England. He doesn’t like the government, the weather…. it has nothing more to offer him. It’s a funny one though, especially his dramatic vocal delivery when he announces that he can’t carry on in the country for he thinks.. that it is… HELL.

Even though Leeson obviously hated the country, people like the song enough that it got into the top 40 in the charts. Maybe people felt the same way.