For a few years in the 1920s the composers Peter Warlock and E J Moeran shared a house at Eynsford in Kent, where they frequented the pub “The Five Bells” and Warlock shocked their neighbours by riding his motorbike naked. At times they were joined by their fellow young composers William Walton and Constant Lambert as well as by other artists. This talk examines the songs that Warlock, Moeran and some of their friends composed in this period, when their admiration for the music of Delius, English folk song and the Elizabethan madrigal went hand in hand with the downing of a sea of alcohol.