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…
A box of songs…..Grist to the Mill
So there’s a box of songs…first drafts..snippets.dream written nonsense..but there is something…. After the last few years that an achievement in itself. Without quoting Reg Dwight I still standing and maybe…
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…
Top Ten Cassette Tapes
As part of the lockdown there been a meme on facebook of posting record sleeves. This a variant based on old cassette tapes instead…these were my selection.
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…
Bar 71 Rehearsal videos
I played a support slot to the lovely King of Rome at Bar 71 last night here the rehearsal tapes…. I wll post photos of actual gig if any appear.
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…
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…
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. …
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 today my…