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David Shah - Vocals
Alex Potterill - Keyboards
Rob Britton - Guitars
Jon Bacon - Bass
Steve Brummell - Drums

lyrics

(let’s kid ourselves)

i’m starting out with such good intentions
i’m starting out with the perfect plan
i'm gonna write just what i see
i’m gonna say just what i feel
i’m gonna do things my own way

no one says no, and no one tries to stop me
no one conspires (at least not openly)
there are no thumbscrews to be seen
there are no pressures spoken of
but i feel the need to please

i want success just like the rest
i write what i need to meet this end
this goes down well
still i want more
i take more and it’s never enough

sometimes i wake up out of the dreaming
know there’s a problem, know that i must act
but someone always reassures
or opens up a few more doors
and i fall back into the dream

just for a moment i can’t imagine why you buy it
i can’t imagine why i buy it anymore
and i will tell the truth one day
but not just now (no, not today)
because there’s really no need to worry

i’m in and out of the dream
i’m in and out of the dream

stop - don’t stop
stop - don’t stop

credits

from Best Kept Secret - Demos & Rarities 2001​-​2004, released December 13, 2004
Review of Tourist Information EP, which featured Success Is Never Enough, Let Us Have It and Make It

"Stealing is a crime. Murder is a crime. Sting is a crime. luxembourg languishing in the Land of the Unsigned is a crime. They hail from London, they've never been to Luxembourg, and they serve up utterly gorgeous British pop with a soupcon of Suede, a portion of Pulp and a nuance of New Romanticism, shot through with dark humour, and capped off by the velvety Morrissey-ish tones of houmous-obsessive David Shah.

This, their third EP, kicks off with 'Let Us Have It', motoring guitars and busy keyboards (including a break that sounds like an ice cream van jingle gone mad) in a wry look at the asylum issue; "here we come like we've always done, but in droves, if you believe all you read", ending with the refrain of the month "we've taken your cities and we've got designs on your countryside". Wordy, but with such eloquent delivery Shah carries it off with aplomb.

Closing song 'Success Is Never Enough' is a dazzling disco-flavoured rocker with cutting guitar, squelchy synths and soaring octave-jumping vocals. Sandwiched in between the two is the jangly bittersweet balladry of 'Make It', a tale of the mismatched: "You were schooled in a monastery", "But I went to a bog standard comp, While you studied Socrates, Shakespeare and Chaucer, my mind was on woodwork and physics." Priceless.

If gifted, intelligent, melodic popsters grew on trees luxembourg would be in the uppermost branches, reaching skywards in a luxuriance of blossoming foliage. Record labels, stop the crime; sign this band.

luxembourg will take over our cities. If you relax it will be painless."

Graham Slee, Soundsxp

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Luxembourg are a British five-piece indie band, formed in London in 2001. Most often compared to artists like Pulp, The Smiths, Suede and Roxy Music, they have been described as "pop noir".

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