Review: Lay Back by This Window – A Journey in Shadows and Light

The video for Lay Back unfolds like a short, self-contained noir film set within the opulent, time-suspended dining car of the Orient Express.

In striking counterpoint to the film noir narrative it fractures into moments of warmth: a woman, smiling and happy. These scenes arrive like sunlight breaking through a stormed sky, their emotional clarity heightened by the claustrophobic gloom that surrounds them. Her perspective feels like the true voice of the song — the lyrics, when paired with her gaze, take on a tone of reflection, perhaps even quiet defiance. By the end of this three minute video, the viewer is left with the impression that the song’s emotional truth belongs to her, not him.

Visually, the piece thrives on texture: the grainy 8mm home movie feel, the muted glow of the table lamp, the rhythmic sway of the train, which feels like it is following the beat. It’s a world where every surface seems to hold a memory, and every glance could be a clue. The noir influence is unmistakable, but it’s the interplay between shadow and light — suspicion and tenderness — that gives Lay Back its lingering power.

 Review: “Lay Back” – This Window

‘This is War’ another sample from our 2026 release, which is due out in February, if everything goes to plan.

Love as War: A Battlefield of Emotion

“Love, in its most intense form, can feel like a warzone—where vulnerability becomes armour and every word fired carries the weight of longing or betrayal. This Is War by This Window captures this emotional combat with haunting precision. The track pulses with tension, echoing the internal conflict of hearts caught between desire and defence.”

When love feels like war, the silence between battles can be the loudest cry.

“In relationships, we often fight not against each other, but for understanding, for closeness, for survival of the bond. The song’s raw energy and lyrical defiance reflect how love can demand strategy, endurance, and sometimes surrender. It’s not always about winning—it’s about what remains after the dust settles.”

This Window have released music for decades, released in Europe and USA in various formats including, vinyl, cassette, CD and streaming (Spotify etc.). Tracks recorded for Microsoft, Beggars Banquet, Cherry Red Records etc.

The current line-up includes: Star (Vocals, Keyboards, Production) Marni De Much (Percussion). This Window now operate from their ‘Morgue Studio’ in North Devon (UK) , producing ‘odd’ music with a dance/rock/gothic undertone.

This Window were active participants in the 1980’s ‘Cassette Culture’, ‘DIY’ movement. Eight solo album releases were released.

It is time to start painting again….

I’ve got my reference books out of storage after ten years – they are on some new shelves in a new room – suddenly the world feels better again after all the struggles.

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F-Spaced Vintage Humbucker Pickup – Includes Mounting Ring Surround

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Vintage Liberty Bass Neck in used condition

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Fender Squier Neck Plate – Guitar Parts Bundle – Tremolo Unit and Other Parts

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Made In Japan – Vintage 5mm Stratocaster Chrome Tremolo Bridge and Other Spares

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2011 Fender Squier Bullet Stratocaster – Loaded Neck – Made By AXL

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Free UK postage and packing This neck is in fantastic shape with minimal signs of ware through use and is a beautiful mellow…

It’s party time ???? ? …but only 3 pints for us before playing (apparently that’s the rule?!). Support act Brieya May – Everyone Welcome…

Here is a video clip of us playing at Kings Nympton Village Hall on the 4th February 2017. We had a great time and the audience were brilliant. We have more gigs lined up for 2017.

Free Downloads

The History of This Window – This Window (UK) was formed by Peter Bright around 1985; earlier tape experiments exist from 1979 to 1984. These tape experiments formed the basic philosophy of This Window. The analogue tape machine became the main instrument used to create ‘songs’. This interest in experimentation had been nurtured whilst being a member of the Exeter College of Art and Design bands, T.34 (1978 – 1980) and The Urge (1979). The Urge supported Adam and the Ants and Bauhaus and were offered a record contract with 4AD but decided to split up and consequently didn’t sign. In A Glass Darkly (1981) was a project with the lead singer from The Urge, Russell Young and two ballet dancers who performed to a tape backing track of a dripping tap, only a handful of gigs were played in London. This project ended and Peter later joined Finish The Story (1981 -1986) as guitarist. Read more…

All bits fitted together like they were made for each other. Now fitted with the correct 8 hole scratch plate. Very low action and sounds like a ‘strat’ should.

Custer’s Last Stand

Free download of a track recorded by This Window featuring Jake Bright on guitar. The lyrics to this song were written in 1979 and was a song performed by T34. This is a totally different version to the original.

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1999 Fender (body) with a 2004 Fender Squire neck.

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In 1982, the Squier brand was reactivated by Fender to become its brand for lower priced versions of Fender guitars. Squier guitars have been manufactured in Japan, Korea, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China, and the United States.In the late 1970s and early 1980s Fender was facing competition from lower priced Japanese made guitars. The higher priced Fender guitars were made in the United States and could not compete with the lower prices of Japanese made Fender copies. In the early 1980s, Japanese labour and production costs were much lower than in America and to compete with the Japanese made guitars, Fender moved the lower priced Fender guitar production from America to Japan.

Fender was also losing sales in Japan to Japanese guitar brands such as T?kai, Greco and Fernandes and the establishment of Fender Japan would benefit Fender sales in Japan, as well as overseas. Fender began negotiations with several Japanese musical instrument distributors and reached an agreement with Yamano Gakki and Kanda Shokai to establish Fender Japan.

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I bought it and have no idea what to do with it….

It is ingrained into our psyche from an early age that failure is a bad thing. From birth to death we are compared, or we compare ourselves, with people that have failed or succeeded. To be successful is to appear to our peers as socially, financially and intellectually superior. To fail is the complete opposite, to be ostracized by this successful society. Our preoccupation with success and its consequent obsession creates within us a crisis of identity. ‘Am I successful?’ ‘Do I appear to be successful?’ ‘Do my friends think I’m successful?’ Is it all just a facade, we have been taken in by what we see and what we are being told.

Business is Business

Ten of the UK’s 12 most struggling towns and cities are in the North of England, new research shows.

Critics say the findings undermine George Osborne’s plan to create a Northern Powerhouse to bridge the North-South divide.

Rochdale’s economy is declining most steeply, followed by Burnley, Bolton, Blackburn and Hull, according to a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

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The number of profit warnings posted by publicly listed companies has reached the highest level since the last recession, according to a survey.

There were 100 warnings by companies listed on the London Stock exchange between October and December – the most since the start of 2009, it said.

Companies are obliged to warn their investors when they think they will earn less than previously expected. (source BBC News)

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How dare the British government and The Arts Council waste my money on propping up outdated institutions. Theatres, galleries, community projects. How dare they tell the tax payer what is ‘good for them’ and then deliver shit.

What is this middle class obsession with Art being good for society?

The frontiers of creativity are in creating video games, smarter bombs and creating more audio and visual ways of distracting us from the reality of the real world.

I want the money wasted on Arts Council Grants to be spent on the NHS, Netflix and a stronger more powerful and destructive armed forces and weaponry.

Art is dead – close Art Colleges

The constant questioning and declassification of what art is and what the content is has lead to this so called crisis in painting and art (there as always been a crisis in painting) – Painting is dead – the exponents of Conceptual Art tried to destroy the art object but failed – thought and the idea is the object. The primary aims of Conceptual Art in the 1960’s was to carry out a theoretical examination of ‘art’ and through understanding propose ‘concepts as art’. Two and three-dimensional art was in the doldrums, the essence of creating was the new Holy Grail. This was considered to be a bold step – proposing an idea as a work of art left the Artist with very little to exhibit or sell, the written word was usually all that was physically evident.

It has taken me nearly 35 years to realize that what I do isn’t pointless and that my unwavering trust in the conceptual philosophies (of artists and writers from Duchamp to Art and Language) has been misplaced. I’m enjoying my painting – for the first time. The ‘world of art’ and the ‘world of everyday life’ had already been discussed in Dada. “Life and art are one,” proclaimed Tzara. Ultimately Dada reduced itself to vandalism, drawing mustaches on the Mona Lisa, instead of destroying the Louvre and genuinely starting again, something a real revolutionary movement would consider as its first option. It increased the status of the most banal object or event into something that ultimately provoked nervous laughter, a childish prank that has been taken seriously ever since. Conceptual Art attempted to be more serious in its approach. Unfortunately the original aims became diffused and the quality of thought became diluted and suffered a similar fate to Dada.