Idlewild Cover
Idlewild have been one of my favourite bands ever since I saw them supporting Ash, back in the 90s. Hope you enjoy this cover of “You Held The World In Your Arms”, from their third album The Remote Part.
The legend of Carlton
Carlton was the first dog my wife and I had, and the first dog I’d ever been around for longer than an afternoon. My wife challenged me to write a song for him and I went with the most obvious […]
Race for life
My wife has done the Race for Life several times, and one year I made this song and snuck it into her playlist between AC/DC and Aerosmith. She has an awesome taste in music and is directly responsible for my […]
Milf
We all know what a milf is, because everybody saw American Pie and instantly recognised those characters as their mate Mike. I wrote this for a guy I was in a band with. I was completely broke, so I wrote […]
Get your thrills
This song was written when the Kaiser Chiefs and Hard-Fi were everywhere, and I’d just watched Human Traffic for the first time. It represented not just my life, but the life of just about everyone I knew. We were all […]
The meddler
Here’s a song about the bass player’s girlfriend. She was a nasty piece of work and after she spoiled the band for everyone, eventually they got married, then they broke up. They could have saved a lot of time and […]
Anthematic
Ah, house parties. I can’t really cope with anything remotely approaching that description now, but for a while there it was a confusing blend of excitement, alcohol and abject disappointment. They were never as good as I thought they would […]
I wanna be a pornstar
Look away mum. This one is from my Halfway Park days, when The Ordinary Boys were a thing and people still bought digital cameras because phone cameras were terrible. I’ve never been a “lad” and have never even pretended to […]
Superstar
This isn’t so much a song about how the grass is always greener, but more of an observation about how much we deal in extremes as a society. Time and again you see a person built up in the media […]
WTF
And so begins the swearing section of the record. Look away now mum. I’ve tried to build you up to this by swearing in my writings about songs that don’t themselves contain any bad words. You’re welcome. As you all […]