Pond Sitting for Beryl

Pond Sitting for Beryl

Welcome to Insanity

Welcome to Insanity

Goats are Great

Goats

1 Atlantis

I love the idea of Atlantis and its disappearance and enduring influence intrigue me no end. However I wrote it for the Eurovision song contest.  But  if anyone can tell me how to get a song before whoever chooses it I am all ears. The B.B.C., from what I experienced trying to send it in, have got it all sewn up.  Jobs for the boys if you ask me.  Listen to this song.Its brilliant and full of promise and it would have won.

2 Only for Love

Debbie Morse sings this with her husband Nik and its lovely.  Again its an old thing I never really knew what to do with.  However with Debbie n Nik and the amazing Wayne Morris around it all came together. Its lovely.

3 It’s all falling down now

A collage of voices and instruments brilliantly orchestrated by  Wayne.

4 Three Genes

Another song for Dan’s monkey sanctuary.  Again I hope it helps make them lots of money to help these animals.

5 Shallow waters

An attempt to kick myself up the arse and get some positivity going.

6 We know what love is

This is demonic rock with Wayne loud and proud wielding his axey thing

7 Busted

A slow blues that attacks this government whose only consideration is to line the pockets of their rich masters and further impoverish the most needy in our society.  Bedroom tax my arse!

8 I’m going home

A lovely little song to commemorate my life and recognize its coming to the las t bit.  Hopefully gracefully but you never know.

9 Is it true?

An old song from my ‘Wellington’ days and given a wild ride by Wayne as he synchronizes the rhythm section like crazy.

10 All in the land of the dying

Eat your heart out Leonard Cohen.  If you write lyrics more depressing than this there is no hope for any of us.

11 Look at me now

Another very depressing song that lingers on the days when things were not so damned good.

12 Oh my Maria

This is just superb. Wayne’s orchestration on this song is just so moving.

I should say here a big thankyou to Wayne for his amazing contribution to this album …………    and I hope to many more.

12 I Can’t Complain

This is a two track E.P. that I released for my dear friend Michael Raftery [Chips]  Both songs on here will feature on Drums on the Soar which is soon to be released .  The lyrics were some Chips had written before his death and I put them to music.  So long is my own tribute to him and his lovely life.  I miss you Chips

Drums on the Soar

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1 Red hot woman

A nifty little rocker with some great orchestration and solo by Wayne

2 The Lady Jane of Grey

This will appear on Kate Easton’s Bradgate Park venture so that people can become more aware of the park’s role and place in history.It is preceded by a short eulogy to try and set the scene of Janes short life.  There is an ironic parallel here with the life of Lady Di.

3 Thankyou from the bottom of my heart

I wrote this for Jack to thank him for his wonderful life and his contribution to mine.

4 And Mother Earth is waiting

This may seem a bit out of kilter with the rest of the album but I have put it on because I love it.  It’s beautifully sung by Debbie Morse first off but it’s a celebration of winter without all the Christian stuff that has been shoved into the old pagan traditions.

5 Elephant’s nest up a rhubarb tree

Well I wrote a lot of this album in a caravan near Hope cove late last summer  and the weather was wild and it was all a little bit spooky all on my own down there.  Anyway that may explain the nature of some of the tracks. This one in particular is wonderfully odd..the title is something my Dad used to say and it turns out that this is a rhyme written by H.E.Bates of Darling Buds Of May fame.  The rest apparently goes;-

The Elephant is a dainty bird It flits from bough to bough

It builds its nest in a rhubarb tree and it whistles like a cow

6 Down the lane your beauty lies

I have done this again but this time with Wayne’s orchestration which captures that wonderful pastoral feel of the English countryside.

7 Don’t panic

This is a rap and I can tell you rap is hard. This is my first attempt and though the track works

I have reservations about my ability to flow.  Anyway  the song is a clever little attempt to look at Leicester’s ecological track record.

8 Living in the forest

Something I would so like to do and get back to nature and away from all this materialistic nonsense forced on us by the politicians and their banker masters.

9 I can’t complain

This is the song that my great friend Chips wrote the lyrics to and I wrote the music after he died.Its on the E.P. with ‘So Long’

10 Love is a drug

My second rap and I think I’m getting there with this one.

11 Whisky

Addiction! Its such a slippery slope and hard to get back once you’re on the slide.

12 So Long

The second song for Chips, God bless you mate.

13 Never far from home

A reminder that however hard it gets there is light at the end of the tunnel and bad things that happen always offer other and better possibilities [Every cloud etc,]

14 The first Christmas

Debbie’s singing this and its lovely.  It’s a reminder of the real Christian message of peace and love and just makes you realize how ridiculous war in the name of religion is.

Flanders & Christmas in the Trenches – Radio Plays

Flanders

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Christmas in the Trenches

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Christmas in the Trenches

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Mistletoe

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