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Instrumental track as taken off Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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Instrumental track .

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from Last Dance Of The SugarPlum Fairy (2010), released March 8, 2010
Songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Eksteen Jacobsz describes 'Tell it like it is':

After listening to too much Muse I got the opening riff for Tell it like it is. The challenge was to make it sound original and not like a rip off. This song was written at a stage when I started writing by finishing basically all the guitars and bass parts and then only write the lyrics. I listened to the song and tried to put lyrics over it but it just didn’t work. I thought it would be nice to have some sort of break in the middle of the album and the instrumental fitted that idea perfectly.

The guitar melody lines are so strong that they actually become the voice of the song. Darryl pushed for lyrics but I was adamant. It’s definitely the hardest rocking song The Sick-Leaves has recorded, apart maybe from Torpedoed Lifeboat on Stone the Crow.

Seeing as guitar is my strongpoint this is my favourite song to play live as no singing is involved.

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The Sick-Leaves Pretoria, South Africa

The Sick-Leaves is the solo project of singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist Eksteen Jacobsz.
The Sick-Leaves have released three albums with the first & second albums being nominated for South African music awards in 2007 & 2009 respectively.
Fourth album Breaking Away is to be released in January 2012 to follow from critically accliamed 2010 released 3rd album Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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