Almost Composed

People Are Guitars

May 11, 2015

Here’s the the title track of that new collection of songs I’ve been banging on about. Hope you enjoy it.

Boy Scouts Never Die

May 4, 2015

Here’s a new track intended for People Are Guitars, the instrumental release I’ve been working on. I think it’s finished but there could be some rearranging to do. Feedback welcomed. The painting is Henry Mosler’s The Lost Cause (1869), on the American Civil War.

Restoration work

A paragraph from David Brazier in Tricycle caught my eye: “And what does that honest looking come up with? What trophies does it glean from the seabed and haul to the surface? Ancient amphoras. The broken pots of our earlier strivings. Shards of self-seeking in myriad forms, now strewn across the bottom of our ocean. Fragments […]

Moving house, the not-so-minimalist way

April 23, 2015

Moving house is a time for deciding what to keep and what to throw away. A chance to be minimalist, if only I had the cojones. We’ve decamped from Cornwall and marched on Devon. Now we are faced with many Things To Do, not least of which is deciding which of my faded treasures and […]

Sharing the love

March 27, 2015

I’ve made all Uffmoor Woods Music Club tracks free to download at soundcloud.com/uffmoor. If you’re not familiar with the back catalogue, a good place to start is 2006’s Love in the Time of Cannibals. Enjoy!