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Or, What Have You Got Against Linlithgow, Norman? Here’s a previously unseen video from the 2017 Bridge of Orchy sessions, featuring our late keyboard player John Lawrence. This song has always been a favourite of mine to play and people seem to remember and like it. It’s the first song on my first album, The … Read moreThe Desert Was Better (lyric video)
A brief post about where I’m up to in what I laughingly refer to as my ‘music career’! The solo album – Ten Objects There are only a couple of instrumental additions outstanding on the solo album, and Gerry and I have finalised the list of songs that will be on it. We recorded more … Read moreReport from today
I’ve posted occasionally about the new solo album I’ve been recording with Gerry Callaghan since we finished In Another Life. Gerry’s aim was to make it a pure singer/songwriter album with the bare minimum of instrumentation. We’ve stretched that a little but it’s been the guiding principle. The album’s not titled yet and we haven’t … Read moreEverybody Has A Story – new album preview
It’s been a while since I put out anything new, but the Heaven Sent have been playing new songs over the last six months. There’s Turn, She Wants Out and this one, The Right Thing. Musically this goes back a fair way. The arrangement idea – one repeated note on the guitar plus a bassline … Read moreA new song – The Right Thing
Here are two more songs from January’s Hungry Ghosts gig. Too Many Nights From The Sea Too Many Nights From The Sea is a song from my next album, untitled as yet. It takes the form of a dialogue between two lovers, one restless, the other favouring settling down. Tricia sings it with me on … Read moreTwo dialogues in song
Here’s another from the Hungry Ghosts reunion at the Village in January. This is one of my more popular songs over a long period. Hungry Ghosts used to perform it but it was never recorded. I did my own version on Romantic Fiction but this live rendition beats that hollow. Crying in the Street I … Read moreCrying In The Street by Hungry Ghosts (and others)