At the end of May, I’m heading to Kintyre for some gigs with Rosie Nimmo and her husband Tommy. We did this a few years ago and it was a memorable experience for us both – friendly audiences and wonderful scenery. Friday May 29th Clachan A house concert in Clachan. A set by me, a … Read more
I was playing around on my classical guitar after practicing some Beatles tunes in Dominic Miller’s arrangements, when I found myself playing the melody to a song I’m going to record for the solo album I’m working on. I liked it so I thought I’d share it. (Beach image by https://www.123rf.com/profile_rawpixel)
I was looking around my computer for good stuff that I hadn’t already released and found this. It goes back to 2012 or 2013. The artwork was created for my 2013 Edinburgh Festival show Stories My Killer Told Me so it must predate that. It all seems so long ago now … Anyway I still … Read more
Since I was 22 I’ve been keeping notebooks of thoughts and reflections, mostly in diary form and sometimes in ‘morning pages’ form. These notebooks I’ve carted around with me from address to address, cupboard to cupboard. After a few well-intentioned false starts I’m on a committed project to destroy them all. As I progress into … Read more
I was listening to Gather, one of my favourite songs by Di recently and I felt the mix was a bit of a barrier to entry. I would have liked to have mixed it differently. Thanks to a couple of AI tools I was able to extract several individual tracks from the original mix – … Read more
In the previous video I took a snippet of instrumental and built it into a groove to use as the backing for a song. In this one I start building it into a song.