It’s been a while, but here’s a brand new work-in-progress demo for you (left-click to stream, right-click and “Save Target As” to download:

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/Soldier_On_Demo_15-9-08.mp3

This song is called Soldier On and has lyrics which we hope, through imagery relating to literal soldiers, are encouraging and upbuilding to anyone and everyone who happens to be going through tough times of their own.

Considering this is the first time we’ve uploaded this song, it’s actually pretty full arrangement-wise. There’s going to be saxophone in places, and of course it’s missing the final vocals, but besides that only the long drawn out build-up section (starting at 1:47) needs fleshing out. This vocal-less part will be augmented with extra guitar and sax lines, meaning that each time the riff goes round a new element is added.

Soldier On was actually the last song written for our upcoming second album, and when Dan first demoed it, it ran to considerably less than two minutes in length. But what started as a bit of a filler has grown into what we think may be a very popular piece indeed. We hope you agree – as always, your comments are welcome.

(Incidentally, it turns out that Oasis have a song called Soldier On on their new album. Hopefully this mp3 being available before Dig Out Your Soul is released shows that we haven’t ripped them off. This is one of those things that inexplicably really irritates we musicians.)

As always, here are all our previous demos:

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/Turn_Me_Up_1-8-08.mp3

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/Other_People_31-5-08.mp3

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/Nothing_Can_Stop_You_Being_Mine_15-6-08.mp3

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/Year_Zero_Demo_16-4-08.mp3

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/03_Pseudonym_Demo_27-3-08.mp3

http://www.thehomeguard.info/demos/06_One_for_the_Road_Demo_27-3-08.mp3