It’s a while since I uploaded a tune and even longer since I made one! Just listening through some old stuff today and this came up… I really like it now, five years on. LAH is an acronym; someone who is currently singing her way … Read More →
Category Archives: Audio
ZZ Top interview – circa 1987
Phil, my brother, and I used to watch this video COUNTLESS times after we recorded it from the Old Grey Whistle Test… I can’t believe that it’s 20 years ago! It’s worth waiting for the footage of them on a 1980 old grey whistle test … Read More →
Rabbit County – a remix
I made this absolutely AGES ago (it seems) as a remix of the beautiful and tender ‘Rabbit County’, by Oddfellows Casino. I LOVE the whole album ‘Winter Creatures’ and heartily recommend it (CD can be purchased here for only a tenner) [Audio clip: view full … Read More →
The Wedding Present, 26 October 2007, Manchester Academy
I’m not going to attempt a well written review of a gig here, I’ve got too much bias with a band that I’ve loved to follow, (pretty fervently for c. 21 years) to do a good, balanced review, but it’s nice to capture my thoughts … Read More →
Attraction (I’m going to stay)
A tune I had hanging about in the ‘unfinished’ folder for ages; so much so that I decided enough was enough… It’s quite a nice mix of the upbeat and the pessimistic.. but it’s really a glass half full tune…
All revved up
In a final installment of moaning about this year’s cancellation of the Three Peaks Cyclocross, I’ve made a little tune based upon some very appropriate words from a certain M. Loaf.
Young Angus
With some little boys, a life ahead full of Rock’n'Roll attitude seems inevitable. Like his namesake Angus Young, my nephew Angus seems destined for something like that. Recorded in Easter when we were playing with music on the computer together.
Podcast: “Blue Chip”
It’s a familiar story… Boy meets computer, boy loves computer, boy meets girl, computer becomes neglected, computer gets jealous. A slightly different feel to some of my recent podcasts…. Click for lyrics
Podcast: It’s okay to be wrong
… is a new song which started life about 16 years ago in a rehearsal room in Lancaster, rehearsing with Phil and James in Inspekta Spencer. The song never came to anything, but the riff lived on in my head! It’s very rocky. I like … Read More →
Fame on another planet… ACIDplanet
A few years ago when I produced music a bit more prolifically than my current one-track-every-18-months rate, I enjoyed a bit of a following on AcidPlanet – a showcase for people making music using Sony’d Acid software. I just found out that one of my … Read More →