Mick White - Emergency On Planet Earth (Official Video)

Emergency On Planet Earth is the debut solo single from Mick White and was written by White alongside guitarist Luke Hatton. The solo record started coming together in 2019 as a side project to other musical ventures but as the world went into lockdown early in 2020 writing & recording stepped up and a full album was completed.

Emergency On Planet Earth is quite obviously a statement on the current global situation but without being preachy it’s more about the hopeless state we find ourselves in and is written very much from the perspective of a father who wants the world to be better for his child in the future.
It’s written with the background of a massive shift in climate events, the last year of the Trump administration and of course the world pandemic and is basically a rally cry to people and leaders alike saying ‘we can be better than this, why are we fucking the planet up?’

Musically it’s an intricate and yet straight ahead classic hard rock track brilliantly performed by Luke Hatton (who also played bass) and drummer Carsten Enghardt (who also mixed and mastered the song alongside Ulrich Hilbel). All the vocals, guitars and bass tracks were recorded in the UK with drums being added at 1st Take Studios in Bavaria where it was also mixed during the first few months of 2021.

The accompanying video filmed and produced by James Ross Heron from Carriage Return Media Services sees White portraying a corporate bad guy alongside his performance of the song with Hatton and Enghardt. It also features White’s son Jake playing his younger self as the character reflects on the terrible person he has become.

Emergency On Planet Earth is released digitally worldwide on all platforms on 8th October 2021 through Enghardt Media/Recordjet and is available to download and stream now.

The album Something’s Got To Give will be released early in 2022.

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Line-up:
Mick White - Lead and backing vocals
Luke Hatton - Guitars and bass
Carsten Enghardt - Drums

Mixed and mastered by Carsten Enghardt & Ulrich Hilbel

Video filmed, directed & edited by James Ross Heron

Lyrics:

There’s a fire in the sky and it’s burning all over the world
They turn a blind eye but you can’t avoid the coming storm
Wake up people can’t you see what’s going on?
Time is running out to make a change before everything’s gone

Oh I don’t know why
I keep wondering, I just keep wondering why oh why?
Why? I just don’t know
I keep wondering, I just keep wondering why, and why?

Light up the sky, something’s very wrong
Gotta move, call out to the world
It’s do or die, can’t hold back this time
Gotta move, Emergency on planet earth

They look the other way while we sit and watch the innocent burn
We’re choking up the seas, when the hell is anyone gonna learn
Mother nature’s screaming out to planet earth
The greed of man has now become the biggest curse

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