Dear, I Want To Say To You...

Dear, I Want To Say To You (initial demo)

Dear, I Want To Say To You (piano track only)

Dear, I Want To Say To You (Synth version)

When I Go Down

Thought we’d give Liam Gallagher a call for this one. He duly obeyed.

When I Go Down (feat. Scuse Fingers).

You're looking at art, I'm looking at shoes

You’re Looking at Art, I“m Looking at Shoes – Scusefingers (Feat. SFX by Sugar Knees)

You Made My Mind Up (Instrumental)

You Made My Mind Up (Piano Only)

Don't You Want Me, Baby?

Plaintive voices in a modern building.

Don't You Want Me, Baby?

E-minor Jam At Tom's - Tom and Jamie

The music is played by two people at one piano, and is only improved by the later obscenities.

Interesting phone conversation with N___ yesterday. After he answered “Who is this?” in an alarmed voice, I asked what he had been up to. “I was contemplating seeing a prostitute, actually,” he replied. I spoke to him for about an hour, and learned that Joan Hickson – who he lived next door to when he lived in Wivenhoe – swore like a trooper.

E-minor Improvisation At One Piano At Tom's (Tom and Jamie)

Straight, No Shuffle

Straight, No Shuffle

Guitar and Mandolin Improvisation in G minor

Guitar and Mandolin Improvisation in G minor

Guitar Duets - Sugar Knees and Scusefingers

Two guitars.

Apreggios - I

Arpeggios - II

Duet without Words (D-G-B tuning)

Yesterday Was Sunday

A bossa nova rhythm.

Yesterday was Sunday
Yes I'm sure I am right
Just another day
Until it turned into night.

Yesterday Was Sunday

An Interview with my Grandfather

A conventional enough interview which has had all of the silences (and near-silences) removed. This is not an unusual practice in editing interviews, but here it makes for intense, perhaps uncomfortable listening. I find that some of the rhythms and cadences of speech make it almost unbearable at times. Perhaps this is the converse of the 'awkward silence'.


An Interview with my Grandfather

Green Scarlet

Teenage tribute to trench warfare.

Green Scarlet

Green scarlet
Gliding in a cloud of swirling mist.
Which leads the path
Of all the young soldiers.

Feeding on the rich,
Drunken corpses
Conquering each trench
One by one.

Swiftly cutting,
The air of hanging death.
Falling down
Towards the wasted.

Letting out a roar
To all the young soldiers.
Feeding on the rich,
Drunken corpses.

Conquering each trench
One by one.
Black hunger
Spreading like a plague.

The men dropped like flies
But only inside.
Gnawing at the guts
Of all the young soldiers.

Swiftly cutting
The air of hanging death.
Conquering each trench
One by one.

Letting out a roar
To all the young soldiers.

Equal Opportunity Lover

Backing track for a Motown-style song. Those are bits and pieces from a broken drum kit for children. That's my parents' piano. Maybe one day the song itself will get recorded.

Equal Opportunity Lover (Backing Track)

P.G.T.

You might have seen him back home,
You may have seen that Paul Greene Tangerine

Fairy Melody (Double Melody)

Demo. Mum sings words in response to a tune I've made up.


Fairy Melody (Double Melody)

That Makes Two

That Makes Two - Sugar Knees

Glue Baby

Not 'blue' but 'glue', although the similarities are all in the differences.

To collate my mind,

I need an arranger;

I'm picking on you,

Though we're total strangers.

It's nothing physical:

You know any woman will do.

Glue Baby

Mama Said

My mama told me not to throw stones in glass houses

So we used to practise on poor little John Boy.

Mama Said

(Actual Mama not pictured.)

Saharan Blues

Saharan Blues Guitar, meet Balafon

Musette Piece

Musette Piece in E for Accordion