Robert John Ardiff – Black Dog
“When the black dog sings
And the half light ends.”
Erstwhile member of Choice Prize-nominated Come On Live Long, Robert John Ardiff (top) gets introspective on this ballad from his second solo album The Corridors Of Love.
Robert writes:
“The album is a love song to the forgotten; the left behind. I wrote the songs over the past year, while I was looking around at the city I live in, thinking, ‘what the hell is going on and where has the soul from this place gone?’ And I don’t just mean because of the pandemic.
“The anxiety that people feel because they can’t afford a house or a place to rent, when they are living paycheck to paycheck, when they are trying to create art or raise children or buy food – and the people in charge don’t seem to care for them.
“The idea came about after reading a book by Deborah Levy entitled ‘The Cost of Living‘ in which she describes the apartment she lives in as ‘the corridors of love’. So I took this idea and tried to tell the stories of the people behind these doors and incorporate it with my own personal experience.”
Nick says: Rooms with a view.
