After All (The Twilight Show)
Here’s a little Bowie for you – I had the notion to record this one night so I did! A stripped down version, no edits, trying to preserve a little of the mystery of the original.
Norman Lamont
Experimental songwriting pt 1
Background It’s been a long time since I’ve written a song by the ‘traditional’ method of sitting with a guitar and making something up from chords, then adding words. Not that I don’t like that method, but now I prefer doing that with someone rather than alone. On songwriting workshops I’ve done that usually leads … Read more
Move On You
Here’s a new song. Like so many of my ‘new’ songs I actually found the lyrics in an old notebook and took it from there. If you fancy buying me half a cup of coffee, the song’s available on Bandcamp. Footage by Getty Images, via Cyberlink PowerDirector.
My Faraway Month
We got back at the start of November from a long trip abroad, which took in a visit to relatives in Brisbane, Australia, followed by two and a bit weeks in New Zealand and a few days in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It’s taken me a while to sort out the photos, of which we took … Read more
Christmas Revolution!
Earlier in the year the band and I recorded a new version of my song Christmas Revolution, more upbeat with a cracking saxophone from Konrad Wiszniewski. Jennifer Ellen Clark, who produced the Turn album, made it fizz and pop nicely. In October we teamed up with video maker Terry Dray and the Bowler’s Rest in … Read more
New single – Blue Guitar
One morning in 2020, just before getting up, I dreamt I was sitting in a poor area of a city – it seemed like Rio de Janeiro – listening to a boy of about 13 playing a beaten-up nylon-string guitar, atop the hulk of a rusting car. He was singing ‘I got a blue guitar, … Read more