Скачать или смотреть Through the Night by The Little Lord Street Band (TLLSB)

What the band deem a ‘mixed-bag’ of songs, and collated between singer songwriters James Rogers and Natasha Shanks, A Minute of Another Day takes you in a familiar yet new direction. The LP is an eclectic blend of genres, ranging from country to folk with smatterings of indie, pop, and rock in there too - all while retaining that characteristic Little Lord Street sound. In amongst the genre complexity and diversity there is a song that stands out on the album and ‘Through the Night’ is notable in arrangement, song writing and emotion.


When TLLSB first wrote ‘Through the Night,” it looked and felt different; it was a combination of two different sounding songs brought together over time through a life lived experience by front woman Natasha Shanks prompted to address the shame around an assault and victim-blaming backlash amongst the #metoo carnage, and so she put it in a song as therapy (on request from her therapist at the time).

The song sat unfinished for a few years - it was too hard to finish, every time it felt painful.

TLLSB had worked with songwriter Bri Clark on tracks (Minute of Another Day and Where are We) for the debut album. Bri and the Natasha connected over shared experiences, and it was here the song ‘Through the Night’ was revisited and finished. “We sat at my kitchen table and literally laughed and cried our way through the words and then took it to the piano to work out the pre-chorus changes and overall sense of resolution and hope to an almost hopeless experience,” reflects Tash.


Determined to push ahead, the song made its way to the debut album but the hardships with recording it didn’t stop. It sat in the studio with Producer and engineer Dan Carroll for over a year; it was a hard song to approach with its “un-Lord Street Band” branded sound. Originally it was recorded with the whole band, but then stripped bare by the careful ears and suttle production additions thanks to Dan, who was able to hear the fragility and vulnerability and expose the song’s raw and emotive voices of Tash and Bri.


Again, once recorded this song has been sitting in the background for the band as its subject matter almost ostrasizes it from the album. Wanting to give it light and more space to share with people, we spoke at length with Arlo Cook on a video clip for the song.

“We went back and forward for a long while on how to approach the concept for the video clip. With covid restrictions coming and going in Melbourne over 2020-21, Arlo Cook dug deep into the story behind the song and how best to visually marry it up.

Later in the piece, Arlo paired with Maeva Spyropoulous and edited by Arlo Dean Cook and assisted by Dorian Hiscock to share in the filming and direction of this video clip, filmed on the streets of Melbourne with the view of shining a light on female-identifying victims of assault, abuse, and murder – noting a staggering one in every eight women experience it, and one woman a week is murdered by a domestic partner in Australia.”

Tash goes on further to say “there is a trigger warning and it’s very close to home for many.

You could say this was a song written on the coat of the #metoo moment or a revolt to shame and victim-blaming – we deserve our right to safety and freedom regardless of background, culture, environment, ethnicity, or whatever gender we identify with. Enough is enough. Safety in numbers – the more voices, the more petitions, and protests, the more the government can’t ignore us or stick their heads in the sand. Enough is enough. Down with the boy’s club, down with victim-blaming, down with the patriarchy. We need to educate, learn and communicate.