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Facists

Facists was the last song written for The Early Years. The song started with the introduction – picking out notes from a chord and adding in a harmony – and the main riff developed out of that. I had in other songs discovered that adding a sort of lead guitar riff in background added color to a song and I continued that theme with this song. I also played with a changed tempo during the song. The lyrics and topic came last and I chose to sing it in a lower – almost speaking voice with multiple overlays – some spoken to give it depth…

 

It’s up in the air

It’s hanging around

Nothing we can do

Nothing at all

 

The world’s gone crazy

The world’s gone mad

People seem to be angry

Others are just sad

30-word sound bytes

Are all they can share

At three in the morning

They spill their feelings

People don’t listen – not any more

People don’t trust us – people no longer care

 

The fascists are coming again today

I though we had defeated them

But they never went away.

 

The song is plainly about the election of Donald Trump and the rise of the alternative right – facists – the misspell is deliberate as it is a play on Trump’s politics and his massive ego – he loves himself and twitter. It’s about Brexit and the rejection of common sense. It’s about anger and distrust – of the news, experts and everything else…..

Listen to the song here….

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I Got My Eye On You

One of my favorite tracks is I Got My Eye On You. It’s very rocky with a real upbeat feel.

The song developed from a guitar riff initially and I could not find a good bridge. I stumbled on the idea of a picked bridge to the song and it really seems to work for me and it makes the song quite different.Once the basic track was recorded, the lyrics dropped out of thin air just listening to it. I played around also with backing vocals on the track and discovered a great effect of singing with a backing of spoken words. It gives depth to the song…. a little lead guitar in the intro and hey presto – a rock song!

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Waitin’ For You

Still back in the early 1980’s, I imagined waiting for a girl arriving on a train to write this one. Back then, the Hull to Birmingham train was a frequent trip for me and Sheffield and Doncaster changes quite usual…..

Deni joined me on this one – such a sweet voice to round out the song.

The riff is a two string riff that I came up with one day by chance and really liked…..

Waitin’ For You was played at several ‘live’ performances at that time and people seemed to enjoy it.

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She Is Still Out There – Somewhere…

It was 1979 and I was sitting in my 19th floor study bedroom on the campus of Aston University. I kind of liked the rock reggae riff I had just discovered on the guitar and I was still angry with a certain girl….. the result was ‘She’s Out There’. An angst ridden song about a failed relationship in an era when The Police were simply it. I played it live quite a few times back then and people loved it…

When I sat down 30 years later to record a few songs, it was the first one I recorded and I had played it so often, my 9 year old daughter could sing it with me.

 

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Gone Away

Gone Away is a rocker and one of my favorites…. I wrote the backing track first and just made up the lyrics as I started to work the melody. It isn’t about anyone or anything but simply seemed to fit….. I think we have all been there though..

You took ages to decide

You must know your own mind

You had ages to decide

And what is it that I find?

You’ve gone away

You’ve left me cold again

You’ve gone away today

And left me cold again

You told me nothing

And left me alone again

You said nothing

And left me alone again

So what do I do now?

Thinking of breaking up with you

But nothing that I can do

Seems to be good enough for you

And in the end I knew

It’s time to learn to be without you

There was nothing I could do

It seems we are really though

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Talk, Talk

Talk, Talk is one of my favorite songs off of the album The Early Years. It came about when just playing with E and A chords on the guitar and it is essentially a two-chord song! The variations are around the two major chords. In common with pretty much all of my songs, the lyrics came after the track was completed and I looked to my poetry for inspiration. It has a vibe going that to me, harks back to some Electric Warrior T.Rex perhaps tho others have said it is more an 80’s sound…. whatever it is, I like it and I hope you do too?

How fitting

To see your name in print

Fame always eluded you

Now you are a household name

A life lived in vain

How very apt

To see you truly succeed

To have all those things

You chased and fought for daily

How bloody erie

What a shame

Your fame came too late

Posthumous recognition

Are you watching from some other place?

Is there a smile upon your ghostly face?

So essentially, while the world Talks about this man, he has already passed away. He had chased fame all his life only to find it after death. I often wonder if this is autobiographical?!

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The Early Years Released

The Early Years – my first foray into music is now released and available digitally on most music sites… do give it a listen!

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True Tales of Haunted Places

I have a new book out in the run up to the Xmas period. It’s called True Tales of Haunted Places and its a compilation of my own stories and submissions to the My Haunted Life Too website that I think make a very creepy little book. Its available for pre-order now and will be officially released on December 10th.

I love the cover!

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Punk Politics

I remember very well the adrenalin rush I felt on hearing God Save the Queen by the Pistols. I also recall being disgusted by their behavior when interviewed on TV and yet, I was also enthralled and fascinated. The music establishment was crumbling under the assault by The Clash, Sex Pistols, and many more like them. It was shocking fashion, shocking talk and shocking and outrageous behavior. A kick in the face to all the nice people with their nice cosy lives and boring bale existences…. It was fun while it lasted. Eventually, the status quo prevailed. Punk became the new romantics, The Police and well, mainstream again. Looking back, it was a rush, exciting, but just a back alley. We grew up. We became part of the system we had rebelled against.

When I listen to politicians like Nigel Farage and his ilk, I see the punk element has emerged in politics. Be outrageous, break the rules, say mean and nasty things, ignore convention and break the system – bring it to its knees. Farage probably was a punk rocker himself.

There is an element of the people who want to see the system broken. They want to two finger salute the Queen, the White house, the establishment and all that goes with it. They are happy to follow these punk politicians and behave in similar and even more grotesque ways to prove their point.

The era of punk politics has arrived and just like Punk rock, it got its start in the UK and then was exported to the USA where there were already rumblings of the same anyway.

In the end, there is nothing particularly good about being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. In the end punk rock produced such non-outrageous bands as U2 and others. The system was restored. The punk revolution failed yet it had an effect. It did change things but it didn’t destroy the way things are. People tire of anger, hate and violence. Sooner or later, they want to go back to their lives the way it was before…

Punk master Farage is having his day in the Sun but in the end, the ship will right and sanity will prevail.

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Talk Talk

This is the final mastered version of a song I just wrote and I’d love your feedback – what do you think?

It is called Talk Talk…

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

A talking head

A constant stream

But in my head

Is anyone listening?

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

How fitting

To see your name in print

Fame always eluded you

Now you are a household name

How very apt

To see you truly succeed

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

What Your fame came too late

Posthumous recognition

Are you watching from some other place?

Is there a smile upon your ghostly face?

You chased and fought daily

How bloody eerie

Talk, talk

Talk, talk

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