Past and present Canadian live music gigs with Yukon singer songwriter Ben Mahony:
Times Changed, Winnipeg, as a member of Matt Allen an the Little Buddies, October 4, 2010
CD Release, Foxy's, Whitehorse, Yukon, July 7,8, 2010
Moonstroke Festival, Mount Mac, Whitehorse, Yukon, January 25, 2010
Watson Lake Conference Centre, Watson Lake, Yukon, New Years Party, Decmeber 31, 2009
Yukon Fest, Railway Club, Vancouver Sept 25, 2009 Ben Mahony Trio
Shipyards Park Canada Day Celebrations April 20th, 2009
Flippers Pub, Whitehorse Yukon, October 12, 2009
The Edge Gallery Winnipeg with Crash the Car February January 28th, 2009
Railway Club, Vancouver, BC January 12th, 2009
Poachers Arms open stage, London, Ontario January 8th, 2009
Bass Line, Ottawa, Ontario, January 2nd, 2009
The Main, Vancouver, BC October 23, 2008
Empress Ale House, Edmonton, Alberta October 4th, 2008
Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge, Alberta December 11th, 2007
The Slice, Lethbridge, Alberta December 10th,
Atlin Arts and Music Festival Solo July 2007
Guided By Voices tribute with the White-Striped Jets, The Slice, Lethbridge, Alberta December 8, 2007
Tom Waits tribute, Times Change, Winnipeg, Manitoba January 19, 2007,
Ben Mahony and the Westminster House Band, The Pitt, Dawson City, Yukon January 26, 2007
The Palamino, Calgary, Alberta Feb 16,2006
Egan's Fort St. John, BC Sep 19,
O’Byrnes Edmonton, Alberta, August 20, 2005
The Backwater Whitehorse, YT Jul 24, 2005
Dawson City Music Festival Dawson City, YT Jul 13, 2005
Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge, Alberta Oct 11, 2005
For a fuller listing go to
http://www.myspace.com/benmahony
Lyrics from Yukon Love Ghosts (Selected)
Angel Is Overcome
Winter and Summer are the Seasons
Failure and Lust are the reasons
Dumbing it down for the Demons
As the angel is overcome
Wrestling the devil in the details
Jamming telepathic signals
If you could clarify the situtaion
Uncomplicate the situation
Maybe it's all very simple
Until the next time I see you
You shouldn't have to be alone
Cause even monks don't die alone
and drunks don't drink alone
and junkies fix with whoever comes
so until the next time i see you
you shouldn't have to be alone
No one should have to be alone
You shouldn't suffer one
You shouldn't suffer alone tonight
You shouldn't suffer alone
No one should have to suffer alone tonight
A country away from the feeling
Of confidence in our being
Countin the tiles on the ceiling
You shouldn't have to be alone
Drunk dial love and then denail
I don't need a mixed message
To know what it is that you re feeling
I can barely hear you breathing
Maybe it's all very simple
Until the next time I see you
You shouldn't have to be alone
No one should have to be alone.
Chorus to "fade"
Between several words are your meanings
Long distance lies are the detials
Dumbing it down for the demons
As the angel is overcome
Dark Wit of Winter
I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me
Somebody screams from behind
I've got the dark wit of winter calling me
Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine
I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me
Somebody screams from behind
I've got the dark wit of winter calling me
Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine
Pull the cork
Crack a joke
I'll laugh
At anything you say
About all of these misfit prophets who know
Who mock the world and jump for joy
They're calling me down creeping me out
Feeling me up
Cuttin the crap and judging me
If you can stand after all of this abuse
I just might let you buy me one
I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me
Somebody screams from behind
I've got the dark wit of winter calling me
Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine
For all the things
I've had and given away
This is my reward
All this beauty
All this damage on display
Angels with demons they can't hide
The northern lights
Advertise tranquility
But you've got to find it on your own
So here's a free one
Here is something if you're stuck
And I'll pretend no to care
I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me
Somebody screams from behind
I've got the dark wit of winter calling me
Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine
Fault Lines
Straddling the fulat lines
Cut wide and deep
Straddling the Fault Lines
Cut by a memory of two
Empties me
Stripping me
It's a pain that cuts both ways
Empties me
Stripping me
It's a pain that cuts both ways
Straddling the Fault Lines
Damaged by your lows and highs
Straddling the Fault lines
over a chasm and death and change
Empties me
Stripping me
It's a pain that cuts both ways
Empties me
Stripping me
It's a pain that cuts both ways
Deconstruct the battles lines
Where sex and pride entwine
IS death and transformation
Our Prize
Or a consolation
Holy Blood
Spilled wine
Holy Blood
Spilled wine
Higher Higher Low
Higher higher Low
Higher HIgher
Higher higher higher higher low
It's a pain that cuts both ways
Marquee
If I found that this contact
It called you down from above
It disrupted and denied you
From the centre
We're bound together
Well you stayed
When you decided
It could not be avoided
In your new city
Unleashed
You had to let it go
You let me go down
and pass away
You let me go down
and find a way to get strange
You let me go down
and pass away
You let me go down
and find a way to get straight
Well I went down
to a centre place
and now you come around
and want me to act just like
We were never broken
I was not resentful
It's easier when you're twenty
and don't try this at home
Well you drive me
You inspire me
But you do not make me happy
You're a magnet on the marquee
and I might have to get free
You let me go down
and pass away
You let me go down
and find a way to get strange
You let me go down
and pass away
You let me go down
and find a way to get straight
It's a bitter world
It bruises your knees
Jaded hearts react toxicly
Some truths are better left unspoken
Some lovers just can't get it together
Set Your Heart
Set Your Heart
You had a dream at birth
You had a heart to find
In these days
You travel far
You search for a place to go
Down in the city
Up into the Upper room
Down to the bar
Up to the mountain
Down to the City
Up into the upper room
Down to the bar
Up to the mountain
Plug me in
Don't let me be
All the way Away
Fell my pulse
Switch me on and off
I'm all the way away
Set Your Heart
After Dark
All the way away
No appetite
To stay in at night
I'm all the way away
Set your heart
Set your heart
Down in the city
Up into the upper room
Down to the bar
Up to the mountain
Down in the city
Up into the upper room
Down to the bar
Up to the mountain
Gimme gimme gimme
I always want more
I always ask for more
Stay afloat
Wear an overcoat
That will you shelter you from the pain
Down in the city
Up into the upper room
Down to the bar
Up to the mountain
Set your heart
Set your heart
Set your heart
Set your heart
Yukon Love Ghosts
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