More Lines / June 30 2007
Please allow me to indulgence myself again and present to you a further selection of more of my favourite lines taken from some of my own songs. I have also incorporated a verse from Nelson Galaxy’s song Between Us, which I think is worthy of inclusion in such a collection.
‘It really suits you wearing clothes like […]
Wet Dreams / June 29 2007
I keep dreaming about water.
I have absolutely no idea what it means.
Last night, I was trying to swim the English Channel. It wasn’t a nightmare exactly, but my dream was full of anxiety and sinister threat. Nelson was there with me. I was struggling and thrashing around desperately. He, on the other hand, was moving […]
Morning Has Broken / June 28 2007
Ahhrgh! Do you ever get one of those mornings when everything goes wrong?
I am ordinarily quite a clumsy person; but I have thoroughly out-done myself today.
I got out of my bed as normal at 6:00am. The early morning sun that was streaming through the window was shining directly upon Audrey, beautifully highlighting the damson colours […]
Teaching the World to Sing / June 27 2007
It is such a joy to live only a few yards from the local infants’ school.
I take great delight in seeing the children jumping and hopping around, shouting and laughing. Audrey loves it too as the kids usually make a big fuss of her. Many of them know her by name and I often overhear […]
By Popular Demand / June 26 2007
I have been asked by several people after the Classic Lines post to include several examples of my own song lyrics. (Oh gosh darn it, I’m blushing now.) I do not like singing my own praises, as it were, but here are a few that I am particularly proud of:
‘Nice bloke, he’s the cheekiest chappie
He’s […]
Audacity Always / June 25 2007
I was very pleased recently to get a message on MySpace from Bill who is an American musician and songwriter. Bill is also disabled. He has a lot of fans, which is not surprising: his stuff is very good and he is a lovely man.
He was very complimentary about my music and I struck up […]
The Cigarette Machine from God / June 24 2007
Audrey and I have just passed a very strange sight indeed: Lying in a yellow rubbish skip by the side of the road was a big, fat and fully-intact cigarette vending machine.
(I enjoy rooting through the contents of roadside skips when no one is around. One can frequently find various discarded items that can potentially […]
Domestic Services / June 23 2007
I am unable to keep the house clean.
I endeavour to – believe me. I have very noble motives when it comes to trying to keep it spic-and-span (i.e. in readiness for the occasional visit by local dignitaries or even, on summer evenings, pretty girls), but I always seem to fail. I am always too busy […]
Classic Lines / June 22 2007
I was thinking last night, as I was working on some new songs, about my passion for popular songwriting in general, and about my appreciation of good lyrics specifically.
Whilst one can often find infamous and markedly badly-written lines and couplets from modern compositions being quoted in magazines, television and radio programmes and across a thousand beer-soaked, […]
Galaxy’s Ring Opening / June 21 2007
Nelson was in attendance at the opening night of the Lord of the Rings musical in London’s West End on Tuesday.
Like many of the other critics who were there to witness the results of the £12.5 million that had so far been invested into the production, he was left largely unimpressed.
‘It wasn’t the wonderful experience […]
