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    Our very first official release, this this 6 track EP came out in 2018 and is really more like a mini album.

    Songs are like little fish being released into a big ocean. Who knows where they (or any of us for that matter) will end up?
    We really hope you enjoy our first official release and sense the love that we have put into it.
    It’s dedicated to our family and friends. A special thanks to the amazing Chuck.
    Jim and Josie

    Reviews so far:

    “…high in melodic quality, perfectly-matched voices and rich with storytelling…” Folk Words

    “Lovely stuff” Mike Harding

    "There is a wonderful streak in Little Fish that sees the duo take a meandering walk through song and exemplifies the sheer depth and versatility they possess.” Artree

    "This is a surprisingly enchanting EP” Northern Sky Magazine

    Milton Hide draw inspiration from their surroundings, from people they meet and from traditional folk songs from East Sussex and beyond - way beyond, sometimes!

    ​Who (or where) is Milton Hide?
    Husband and wife duo, Josie and Jim Tipler take their band name from an area of scrub and coppice, known for its nightingales and other wildlife, near their East Sussex home.
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    released April 28, 2018

    Milton Hide are Jim Tipler and Josie Tipler
    All songs written and performed by Milton Hide
    © Milton Hide 2018
    Recorded at Magpie Studio in Wilmington, East Sussex
    With thanks to:
    Marylin Thomas for violin on Perfect Place To Hang;
    Rob Skinner for bass guitar on Love Is A Bitch;
    Charlie Tipler for electric guitar and bass guitar on Home Is Where Your Heart Is, drums on Love Is A Bitch
    Produced by: Charlie Tipler and Jim Tipler
    Recorded, mixed and mastered by Charlie Tipler
    Cover artwork by Josie Tipler

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A song with a very interesting sounding title which takes its name from an area near where we live in East Sussex. After some research we found that Monkyn Pyn is simply and disappointingly derived from “Monks’ Pen”, ie. the pen where the Wilmington Priory monks kept animals. We thought it deserved a more interesting story so we wrote this original song in the style of a classic murder ballad.

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One morning in the month of May when the dew was on
the ground
A dark and handsome stranger came tripping o’er the land
Came up the hill from Wilmington heading for the inn
No-one knew from whence he came but they called him
Monkyn Pyn

He met a fair maid on the road and fairly caught her eye
In a barn across the way
together they did lie
He laid her down upon the hay and kissed her cheek and chin
Took his knife to that poor girl
did that evil Monkyn Pyn

He’s cleaned the blood up with some hay and thrown her
in a well
He’s found the sherrif’s men that day and a story he did tell
Of a widow old who lives nearby, he saw her kill the girl
The men did find that poor sweet girl in the widow’s drinking well

They found her with a bloody knife and blood was on her dress
She cried she’d killed a goose that day with innocent protests
Where is your proof of that they asked for nothing can we find
I filled the mattress and used the fat, there’s nothing left behind

She begs for justice for the crime for she is innocent
She claims the man who killed the girl is the same who had her sent
But the way to prove her innocence is to test her with the flame
If she doesn’t burn it goes to prove the widow is to blame

They’ve sent her down to Lewes town, she’s in the castle grounds
It’s there they’ve built a great bonfire atop of which she’s bound
They’ve set their torches to the pyre to cleanse her of this sin
And no one knows the murderer is the evil Monkyn Pyn

She walks the lanes round Wilmington every night in May
Searching for the evil Pyn who took her life away
But Monkyn Pyn’s as clever as he’s evil, now he’s gone
So maidens all look out for him on the misty May Day dawn

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from Little Fish EP - Milton Hide, released April 28, 2018

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Milton Hide Brighton, UK

Milton Hide's songs are often stories about people or places they know. Often uplifting, sometimes melancholy, sometimes uptempo and sometimes laid back, many original songs and a few surprise covers, Josie and Jim's voices and playing blend like your favourite smoothie.

Milton Hide take their name from an area of scrub and coppice near their home in beautiful East Sussex.
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