Olympus Mons (click here to order CD or here for digital download)
“Indeed, new album Olympus Mons is a fine piece of work”
Jerry Ewing, PROG Magazine July 2025
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Track 1. Grand Prix
THE FROGS
Donni and Xavvi decide to “spring” Yurri, a retired Rock Star, from a retirement home, as they have become despondent with the modern music of the day, and hark back to the 70s, when Prog, Punk and Glam Rock were in the ascendency.
The two them discuss this with Harri who attempted to organise a return to fame for Yurri in the 90s, but was unsuccessful, only managing to steal the guard dog, Curli for which Archi (Matron of the retirement home) is still bearing a grudge.
Harri suggests to Donni that he use a disguise to get past the vigilant Archi (who is less than willing to discharge Yurri from the home), despite the rescue attempt in the 90s failing. They discuss other tactics but settle on help from Charli who sneaks them in, in an ambulance!
Donni tries the same disguise and is mistook for Harri by Archi (still brooding over her lost dog) who threatens him with violence; and in the ensuing melee, Donni exchanges clothes with Xavvi and makes a temporary get away.
Xavvi (now looking like Harri) is suitably mistaken for Harri by Maeve (a nurse at the home who Harri had seduced back in the 90s) and she invites him back to her quarters to rekindle the liaison. Donni fancies Maeve himself and so insists that he and Xavvi exchange clothing for a second time so he can seduce her.
After the tryst with Maeve, Donni encounters more hostility from the home’s security guards and so insists on a third swap of clothing with Xavvi to avoid a beating.
The “raiding party” finally confront the authorities, explain their quest and persuade them to let Yurri go. He is taken off to a rehearsal room where the band get back together and prepare for a comeback!
Track 2. Bacchus Up
Track 3. The Celebrated Axeman
Track 4. Debacle in the Retirement Home, part (i)
Track 5. Debacle in the Retirement Home, part (ii)
Track 6. Debacle in the Retirement Home, part (iii)
THE LABYRINTH
After many years of indifference to his father’s multi-million-pound furniture business empire called IDEA), Theo thinks enough is enough and he decides to take on the rival boss of Sofas-U-Like, Lord Macintosh (known to his friends as Big Mac).
Big Mac turns up every year for an annual head hunt, agreed to by Theo’s father, based on a long-forgotten pact between the two companies, the rumour being that Theo’s dad had killed Big Mac’s son (awks!!)
Big Mac would suck out their creative juices and then turn them over to his head henchman, Maurice, helped by Chief Web Designer, Dead-Eye, to do with as they saw fit, which usually resulted in unspeakable torture and death.
This year, Theo subversively joins the captive exodus and is transported to Big Mac’s factory where he encountered Big Mac’s daughter Annie, another lost soul and, who similarly, long ago, lost all interest in her family business. In return, Big Mac has lost all interest in her!
Theo and Annie fall in lust and Annie gives away the password to the company computer (The Labyrinth) which enables Theo to infiltrate the enemy at their very core, plant a debilitating virus and lose Maurice and Dead-Eye their jobs (and in the case of Maurice, his life)
Theo and Annie elope, as the haberdasher’s computer crashes!!
Track 7. Safe as Sofas
Track 8. Theophilia and Theophobia
Track 9. All the Way to Cedar Lite
Track 10. The Collapse of the Firewall
Track 11. The Liberated Labyrinth
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