The final Archive Volume of Trailer Star recordings is now available on Bandcamp here: https://trailerstar.bandcamp.com/ Trailer Star was my invented Late Great Country Star from 2001 when I sent a set…
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Re-Release Time: Floodplain 2000 and Last Farmer 1993 on Bandcamp
Here two re-released albums I made back in the day on a fostex or reel to reel or minidisc ( digital 2000!) . they now free to download at Bandcamp see the…
The Final Reckoning- Trailer Star bows out…
Today’s gig at Bar 71 will be more like a wake as I bring nearly 18 years of Trailer Star Productions to an end. Trailer Star was always a way of…
Robert, Grant and me: My Go-Betweens obsession – Floor of Wood
I always liked The Go-Betweens right from the get-go…and so did my friend Pete Astor from the Loft, the Weather Prophets. In fact the first time I saw them we went together…
Revamped Studio and new song
New Year, new studio..well the old Trailer Barn Studio given a dust off and a new track recorded on the trusty old TOA recorder. …
My Father’s Trees – the story behind the song
There is a stretch of road below Wittenham Clumps in what now Oxfordshire (originally Berkshire and I consider myself a Berkshire Kid) where my father planted a row of poplars and other…
The Factory – the story behind the song
In the 1940s men would regularly bicycle from Didcot and local villages to the Oxford car plants. This is my song about their early morning rides in convoy which especially grueling in…
Road is a River – Story behind the song
Strange one this. I have lyrics for all the other songs but not this one. Maybe a one off recording. Fairly minimal and quite sad. The road is a river and my…
Room 22 – The story behind the song
My homage to a unjustly neglected band The Vulgar Boatmen who I discovered in the early 1990s. They also drew on Velvet Underground but with an academic (lead singer a film…
Where Two Rivers Meet (Mary’s Dream) – The story behind the song
Whilst living in Edinburgh I attended the first year of a evening course in Scottish Cultural Studies. Tutors included Murdo Mac Donald and Cairns Craig and I met Robert Alan Jamieson…