This is a current cultural meme…therefore I am conforming to social stereotypes ….and also sharing it so you can conform too.. 01. First concert Be Bop Deluxe – Oxford New Theatre January…
Category: Oxford
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…
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…
Black Tin Barns – the story behind the song
As a child they were all around but as developers moved in they faded away..the last ones behind my grandfather’s house now being turned into an Eco Museum for Trees! Musically I…
The rain pours through the roof – The story behind the song
Latest addition to the Black Tin Barns album on bandcamp. This song is about the slow decline and eventual closure of the British Leyland Rover factory in Cowley. My Uncle John…