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Here’s a new video for the new album. About the song This started life as a songwriting exercise on a weekend in Bridge of Orchy. The first version took about twenty minutes to write and when I played it back to the others I felt myself tearing up. That’s how I knew it was a … Read more Story of a Love in Ten Objects (video)
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 more The Desert Was Better (lyric video)
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 more A 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 more Two dialogues in song
… in which I revive my band name from the 1990s with singer Tricia Thom, and perform a song with the same name as the band! Where it happened Each month, on the first Thursday, John Farrell runs his Shakey Egg night at the Village in Fort Street, Leith. It’s a friendly, intimate music night … Read more Hungry Ghosts by Hungry Ghosts
Here’s a new video, based on cover of a Momus song I’ve been working on for some time. This is from Momus’s 1993 album Timelord, and I’ve loved it all these years. I’d wanted to sing it but the chords were a mystery to me until I found a piece of software called Riffstation, which … Read more Christmas on Earth (Momus cover)