TAPE HEAVEN: My adventures with analogue tape-recording
I started recording to tape back in the early 1980s. In fact my friend Stephe still has an ancient reel to reel that when we tried to get working still…
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Gold Cadillac – West Kensington Dreams 1994
From the mid 1980s I recorded a lot on fostex X-15 4-track with one broken channel so effectively 3 Track. I have never been able to use those tapes since…
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…
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…
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. http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/toa-mr8t/2186 https://soundcloud.com/trailerstar/people-my-age-1 For People My Age…
Kimberley Jam 2017
Preparations under way for my annual gig. This year I am playing at the new Tynemill Pub The Cricketers Rest on the Mayhem Bill with Frankie Vacuum and Paul Carbuncle…..earlier…
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…
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…
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…
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…