Track listing

1. "I've Agreed to Something I Shouldn't Have" - 4:15
2. "It Only Matters to Those to Whom It Matters" - 3:23
3. "Head Boy" - 2:52
4. "We See the World as Our Stunt Doubles" - 4:35
5. "Kim" - 5:05
6. "In-Joke for One" - 3:06
7. "Don't Be a DJ" - 2:35
8. "Confused and Proud" - 5:05
9. "Evening Dress at 3pm" - 2:51
10. "Come Down from the Cross (Someone Else Needs the Wood)" - 4:27

Trivia

• Dickon chose to entitle the album The Painted Side of the Rocket because he and Tom, his younger brother, received a "rocket" from their father one Christmas
  Christmas
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   and played with it throughout their childhood. The rocket was fashioned from a single piece of hardboard
  Hardboard
  Hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard , not to be confused with 'hardwood', is a type of fiberboard, which is an engineered wood product....
  
  , with one side painted glossy green and silver, and two portholes cut out. Tom pointed out to Dickon that their childhood interaction with the rocket was a perfect symbol for the leap of faith all artists take - the artist creating on the unpainted side, all the while never fully aware of the effect.
• The track "Confused and Proud" was previously released as a B-side on the The Agony Without the Ecstasy
  The Agony Without the Ecstasy
  -Track listing:# "The Agony Without the Ecstasy" - 2:54# "Confused and Proud" - 5:23# "Weightless" - 5:41-Personnel:*Dickon Edwards *Rachel Stevenson *Alex Sharkey *Sheila B...
  
   EP
  Extended play
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  . This "dreamier" version was re-recorded specifically for the album.
• The track "I've Agreed To Something I Shouldn't Have" featured on the 2006 compilation album, "The Kids At The Club", released by How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
  How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
  How Does It Feel To Be Loved? is a London-based night club which predominately plays indie pop, Northern Soul and Motown music...
  
  
• "Evening Dress at 3pm" is the only track Dickon did not have any hand in writing. The lyrics and music are by Kate, with lead vocals by Rachel.
• Copies of The Portable Dickon Edwards
  The Portable Dickon Edwards
  The Portable Dickon Edwards is a limited edition paperback collection of lyrics and other writings by former Orlando member and Fosca frontman Dickon Edwards. It was sold together with Fosca's The Painted Side of the Rocket via the But Is it Art? and Entangled Records website. Cover photography was...
  
   were sold together with the album via the But Is it Art?
  But is it Art?
  But is it Art? is an episode of the BBC sitcom, The Green Green Grass. It was first screened on 2 November 2007, as the first episode of series three...
  
   and Entangled Records website upon release.

Personnel

• Dickon Edwards
  Dickon Edwards
  Dickon Edwards is a London-based indie pop musician, writer, critic, DJ and online diarist. Although his parents named him Richard Edwards, they also chose to call him by the archaic derivative of Richard, "Dickon"...
  
  (Guitar, Lead Vocals)
• Rachel Stevenson (Keyboards, Vocals)
• Tom Edwards (Guitars, Bass)
• Kate Dornan (Keyboards, Recorder, Vocals)