Welcome to my website!
At the moment it’s a bit like a house that someone has just moved into and that’s half way through being renovated… Some rooms have proper floors and some still have dust sheets down where they’re being painted, some have boxes and random bits of furniture dumped in them… Not all the lights are working… Have a nose around if you like; but if you drop by again in a week or a month or a year or two I might even be able to offer you a chair to sit on and a cup of tea…
In the meantime, some music that I wrote or played on or produced, plonked here in the hallway for now until I figure out what goes where…
The first single from my upcoming debut solo album.
More on my solo recordings here.
My take on Clive Langer & Elvis Costello’s ‘Shipbuilding’, originally recorded by Robert Wyatt in 1982; from my album collaboration with Marianne Dissard, ‘Souvenir Of England: music from the stage production‘.
The latest single from Baka, sending the Nick Drake classic into space…
More about Baka here.
The Silver Panda was a lockdown project that grew into a band, collaborating on ‘weird covers’ with Maree Choie on woodwinds & vocals, & my daughter Mika joining in wherever she could.
This is us turning a Dinosaur Jr. favourite on its head… More about The Silver Panda here.
I’ve known Sugarcane’s Robin French since I took over from him as bass player for Mr Hudson & The Library, and when he launched his new group in 2018 I took the opportunity to collaborate with him in a production role. This was the first single we released & still one of my Sugarcane favourites…
More on Sugarcane here.
During 2020 & ’21 I produced an album of covers with Marianne Dissard, & was coaxed into singing a duet with her on this beautiful song by Townes Van Zandt.
Art & I have been collaborating on music for a couple of decades now. Here’s a single we made in 2022, an uplifting slice of life during Covid lockdown from the master songwriter…
More about my work with Art Terry here.
Ever since she learned to make a sound that wasn’t a cry my daughter Mika has been a fountain of tunes & hums, & we’ve always loved to sit & come up with songs together… This one appeared when she was 5, & I thought it was too good to keep to ourselves, so we recorded it (when she’d just turned 6)…
More about Mika’s music here.
I was lucky enough to be in Auckland, NZ, when Tom Rodwell was recording the basic tracks for his first solo album proper, & he invited me to the studio to ensure that all the grit & grain of his live sound made it onto the tape.
Read more about the ‘Wood & Waste’ sessions here.
I met Clair & Carli from Lunatraktors when I lived in Ramsgate (on England’s Kent coast), & was entranced by their live performances. Their 2019 debut album, ‘This Is Broken Folk’, which I helped them to produce, is basically a capture of some of their live repertoire at the time, recorded live in the studio without any overdubs… ‘Turn Of The Plough’ is the sole original composition on what is otherwise a set of radical reworkings of traditional songs…
More on ‘This Is Broken Folk’ here.