TAPE HEAVEN: My adventures with analogue tape-recording
I started recording to tape back in the early 1980s. In fact my friend Stephe still has an ancient reel to reel that when we tried to get working still…
Gold Cadillac – West Kensington Dreams 1994
From the mid 1980s I recorded a lot on fostex X-15 4-track with one broken channel so effectively 3 Track. I have never been able to use those tapes since…
New recordings of Americana
Just in case you thought I’d sold my soul to pop music here is the latest installment in my sad americana odyssey that began with Floodplain demos back in 2000.…
Trailer’s Last Ride – Chalk Pit Rattle – Archive Volume 4
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…