Just a quick update on how the songs for my third album are progressing. 

I've decided to forge ahead with songwriting and recording and abandon the YouTube video making (for now!) as I think this should be my priority. I…

This track began life as a simple love song but soon became a lot more complex and serious. I think it was the line "our time on Earth is not for us to tell" which first hinted to me that…

This is my new song, "Meet Up for Christmas", arranged for symphony orchestra (strings, woodwind, horns and percussion), twenty-piece choir and... me! 

A friend said it sounds like a Scottish folk song which I took as a huge compliment.

 
The…

One of my earliest musical memories was listening to a selection of 45 rpm singles brought home by my brother Alan in about 1959. Many of them were ex-jukebox copies from the coffee bar in Liphook. Although I may have…

Unusually, I can't pinpoint any musician or band that had a direct influence on the writing of this new song of mine. Cavan has said it sounds a little like Clifford T. Ward although I know very little of Ward's…

The writing of this song proved true to its title; it took no more than a couple of hours before I had a complete set of lyrics. However, the arranging and recording of the song proved anything but "easy peasy". 

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This is the track that nearly got away. Let me explain: 

The song's theme is the power of language and the way that words can be used to justify the unjustifiable and to think the unthinkable. The lyrics came first…

This song started life as a projected title for my second album. I'd originally thought of calling it "Ups and Downs" but Stephen "Tintin" Duffy had beaten me to it back in 1985. However, "Up on the Downs" is a…

I'd promised myself a complete break from music for a week or so after all the hard work and stress involved in putting on the Phoenix theatre shows. But I should have known that it doesn't work like that -…

My latest track "Winston's Black Dog" is a completely new departure and its arrival has surprised no one more than me. I would never have predicted that I would (or even could) write a cool-jazz blues song for the first…