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The Waterfront Project - 15th March 2008 I had a gathering of my musically talented friends, and suckered them into playing some of my stuff, plus a traditional folk song which we rocked up. Please bear in mind that these are rough live recordings taken in my dining room! The first song that I wrote ages ago and is one from Satin Skies . The next song is a traditional English Sea shanty that's been rocked up somewhat. This final song I wrote at Xmas time and is a "broken token" song. English folk music is litered with these, where the man has become a sailor and gone off to sea, leaving the woman on the shore to stare out at the waves and wonder when he will come back from foreign parts. It struck me that these days with the military striving (theoretically) towards equality, there could be a song from the analagous male point of view.
Hi! This album is a solo project that Kirk and I recorded in the summer of 2004 in New Zealand and Hawaii. I am a believer in the idea that sharing is not theft, so I make the entire album available for you to download. However, if you want to support the artist, you can buy a professionally produced copy which I sell at no profit.
There are two versions you can buy. One costs £15 and includes the full colour lyrics booklet and has some extra songs on. The other costs £5 and is the version that you download here. If you only listen to three songs, my recommendations would be:
There are times in our lives when even if everything on the surface is perfect, you still feel that something is not right. Here's a song all about it. Produced by Henning Proske. download: satinskies.mp3
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download: gecko_hunt.mp3 download (older version, recorded 2001): geckohunt.mp3
It's probably my personal favourite on the album, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun playing it. (Writing it and recording it were a bitch.) download:
until_the_morning.mp3
In an increasingly secular world, here is a religious rock song about something that we all truly and deeply believe in... I refer of course to food.
download: broccoli.mp3
download: geckohuntnew.mp3
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This version features 3 guitars, bass, strings, drums and backing vocals!
A few summers ago
I had the pleasure of staying at a friends house in Hawaii. In his instructions,
he said that we would find these really cute lizards called ‘Geckos’ in
the house, but we shouldn’t invite them in because they aren’t house-trained.
When I caught all the ones I could find, I found myself to be the main
entrée of all the mosquitoes that bloomed once their main predator
was gone. So when the geckos found their way back in, I decided not only
to let them stay, but to immortalize them in a song which I felt that they
would have sung. So without further ado, “The Gecko Song”
We
wrote it all about driving down the coast of the South Island of New Zealand,
WHILST driving down the coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It starts
as a chilled ballad, moves through several other songs before finally ending as
full-on vaguely folkish alternarock.
Raise
your hands to the Broccoli
