NEWS. PRESS. MUSIC. SIDE PROJECTS. CD BABY. ITUNES. CAFEPRESS. PHOTO. CLIP. THINK. DONATE. LINK. INFO. THINK. Inner City Temples The Temple - once located on upper Queen St in Auckland City, New Zealand - was one of the few remaining venues which supported live acoustic music and poetry. Now gone - after a prolonged battle with the Auckland City Council - but not forgotten, the Temple will be remembered as a nurturer of unknown talent and cultural exchange, and a venue which lived up to its namesake. RIP the Temple... Inner City Temples has now been recorded for Daniel's 2006 release OP-ED, a collection of environmentally, socially, and politically inspired songs. You can hear it @ CD Baby. >> Click to hear: OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political [2006] Track 06: Inner City Temples Music & Lyrics by Daniel Gannaway/Apra © 2006 I love this inner city temple It's a place where you can come and hear Endangered music drowned out by the sound of that traffic It's driving by just out there So let's turn the volume up Let's all smile and slap the bar top We might even get arrested For enjoying our own back catalogue That's noise control, people They want to shut down art That's noise control, people They want to shut down art Shut down art Shut down art Let's pretend for a minute We got a country oozing musical talent Let's pretend for a minute These temples provide a home for it But developers build the walls too thin And lied-to tenants want to hear willows in the wind And the council doesn't know whether To move art out or in Art out or in That's noise control, people They want to shut down art That's noise control, people They want to shut down art Shut down art Shut down art Well great cities are centers for cultural collision And great cities hustle with life 24/7 And great cities know that the secret's in the feel of their streets Great cities know that these temples are where the people meet Where the people meet Where the people meet Where the people meet I love this inner city temple It's a place where you can come and hear Endangered music drowned out by the sound of the traffic It's driving by just out there © Daniel Gannaway/APRA - May 2002 Links: http://www.temple.co.nz/ Quick links: >> MP3s & CDs @ CD Baby! >> Apple iTunes >> Rhapsody >> iSOUND >> MP3tunes >> Napster >> eMusic >> myspace >> VIRB >> ReverbNation >> CafePress ^ top ^ thankyou for supporting truly independent music