A deadline is a useful thing…. Well I have managed to break down some barriers of inertia and now have workable basic tracks for almost all 13 of the tracks onthe ‘olde’ album. Some of these were extracted/ressurected from old programs I have used like Ableton Live and Cubase. These have been succesfully rebirthed and [...]

Just 12 more sleeps ’til I return to the working world and how far have I got on my quest….. I said I would have the ‘bones’ for the two albums done by the end of the 107 days. After going through archives and cassettes and even journals from yesteryear! I think I have a [...]

Given that I’m working on 30 or so songs at this moment in time I thought it might be good to finalise a few of them and make an ‘interim’ release – five or six tracks. I’ll mull over which ones I think are close to finished and start bgetting towrdf some sort of finished [...]

Well I haven’t done one of these for a time so thought I’d fill in some gaps. I got four new songs underway over the last week 3 co-writes and one all of my own making. I’ve been listening to the latest Christine Kane album and she has a song called ‘Virginia’ [ a co [...]

Well just 39 Days to go now before I aim to have the ‘backbones’ completed for the two albums – progress is at about 40% so I’m going to have to ramp it up a bit. Last week I did a draft of ‘More than sometimes’- hopefully it will be on the site soon. I [...]

I wonder what he thinks As I sit here and confess And my sins drape over the man of cloth Will my guilt be silent at last I was acting like it was my younger days She was like a flame that held my steady gaze we ground away like a sack of empty skin [...]

Most of today was consumd with trying to find an alternate melody and chordal structure for the chorus of ‘Low Maintainance’- not sure if I have succeeded yet- also did some more writing on a co-write on a song with workng title of ‘stranger at the table’. I also did a mix on ‘buried and [...]

After trawling through the latest round of ‘fragments and thoughts’ I managed to get some melodic ideas for some of the ramblings. A particularly nice one for a song in progress called ‘another perfect moring’ – just a vignette about waking up as autumn mornings close in and the air begins to chill somewhat. My [...]

Well this morning I attended an online Critique of ‘Mr Perfect’ with five other particpiants [ whose songs were being critiqued also] - the session was led by one of my mentors - Jai Josefs – The response was highly favorable especially the line ” Bar stool dissapointment” . He didn’t say a word about the music [...]

I have been working on MR perfect the last few days whittling away at those last few jagged lyrics - I also have the deadline of a Nashville song critique tomorrow – so that was good to focus the mind- check out the demos page for the latest version. In other news as you may have noticed [...]