A 1000 Birds – new song – new typewriter
I bought an old manual typewriter and thought now I had it I better write a song on it..so I did…simple really… how to solve writers block just get away…
Songwriting
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…
Two new guitars…..like buses
Nothing for ages then I buy two in as many weeks…. First up was the 1974 Takahuru Japanese Martin D25 copy made by a violin maker…..which I love http://takeharuguitars.blogspot.com/2009/09/takeharu-acoustic-label_21.html then…
Dylan to Sinatra’s Capitol Years – a new obsession
I purchased the Dylan ‘Triplicate’ volume in the nice packaging back last year not really thinking that it would be that good but curious none the less. Although the performances…
Top Ten – Significant LPs
Top Ten Challenge from facebook – name 10 LPS personally significant. As you can see the most significant period for me as a songwriter was the mid to late 1980s…
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…