...a plethora of creative nonsense...
All posts relating to my music composition and production
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo it’s not often you get a new track ready in the space of a few hours. Actually that’s not fully true, but for the purposes of now, and today, and slinging together an album at some point it is. I made this getting on …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m pretty excited to reveal to you a new project… Over two decades ago I started writing lyrics, charting my story from leaving my Hometown of Cambridge, moving to Leeds and the relationships, adventures, fuckups and learning that I went through. Of course, like many …
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have wanted a 12 string electric for a while – a lot of what I do with guitars is drones and textures, so having messed about a bit with a 12 string acoustic for a while I though this might be a fun new …
Reading Time: 2 minutesShock Horror. I have actually gone out. I’ve been hibernating quite a bit recently, partly age, partly money, partly winter which has taken a bit of a hit on the material I am pulling together for Images From The Underground. Invited by my friend Derek …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo this is a studio re-recording of my liveset that I made for Paula’s Birthday in Santiagos. After many many years of not playing live I have been revamping to create a more portable laptop based set. This was put together pretty quickly. But my planning and getting a series of stems for a number of my tunes has paid off.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes, just sometimes, things turn out just how you want them to… This has been knocking about in different guises for about 14 years now(!) – the original was a quick and simple experiment that I did using some loops I made on a very …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery now and again you have things in life which do your head in. You love them and hate them at the same measure. I am not talking about family here – this tune is something that has been knocking about for a while, in …
