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This is my cover version of a song by my friends Fiona Thom and John Farrell, of Ms Fi and the Lost Head Band. (It starts very quietly!) I’ve loved the song Box of Tricks since the first time I heard it. The soaring chorus of I fooled them all is one thing, the elusive … Read moreSongstories #23: Box of Tricks (cover)
She Wants Out Here’s a new pop song. This is a followup to the Beatles’ She Loves You. As you well know, its narrator is telling his friend don’t worry, go for it, apologise and she’ll be yours again. Some weeks or months on, he has a different story for her. As with most of … Read moreWhat the Beatles never told you: She Wants Out
Bridge Of Orchy Sessions 2018 by Bridge Of Orchy Sessions A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an excellent weekend in Bridge of Orchy with some other songwriters. Andrew Ferguson has also written about it here. The digital album is now on sale for only £7.00 and 100% of the money earned will go … Read moreOrchy Sessions 2 – the album is on sale for Cancer Relief
Put a small bunch of songwriters in a ski lodge in May with food, drink and recording equipment and what do you get? A lot of fun, some songs we’d never have written, some some recordings we’d never have had and an album to follow up last year’s. Meet on the Lodge I’ve never doing … Read moreLiving it up in the country – Orchy Sessions 2018
The whole album launch in March was filmed but lots of ‘real life’ has got in the way of getting it public quickly. Here are the first two – hope you like them! Until I Found You This was the end of the ‘official’ set, although we came back to do Come Together. You can … Read moreTwo videos from the album launch
Here’s another song from short sequence of videos I recorded one winter’s night a few months ago. This is a Jacques Brel cover, of his song Ne Me Quitte Pas, translated by Momus. There are some incredible cover versions of this magnificent song available – my favourite is Nina Simone’s – but English versions have … Read moreThe Twilight Show continues with a Jacques Brel cover