Falling Out Of Bed Again / September 3 2008
I was searching through some old lyrics last night and came across this engaging first line from Falling Out Of Bed, an old song of mine: ‘If you want to break some eggs, You’ve got to make an omelette.’
I remember thinking at the time that it was one of the best lines I had ever […]
Grace and Beauty / June 25 2008
Nelson has gone back to London today and I have just had a quick listen to the drunken podcast we recorded on Sunday.
When I’m intoxicated, my singing tends to sound like a ewe’s mating call and I feel as if I’m struggling with the brain of a citrus beverage, but nelson is always in fine […]
Episode 9 / June 23 2008
The penultimate episode of this season of the Big Arena Podcast is now up.
I’m playing Finders Keepers, a song that became slightly infamous around here a few years ago due to its chilling subject matter – kidnap and murder in general, and Michael Sams in particular, the hated rapist who was jailed for life in […]
Episode 7 / June 6 2008
Episode 7 of the Big Arena Records podcast is now on line. This week, the song I’m playing is Believe Her - another track from Electric Baby Grand.
I love this song. It’s a very simple and uncomplicated little tune, the like of which I am prone to produce now and again when I’m in the […]
Episode 5 / May 24 2008
‘Another beautifully crafted bundle of acoustic joy,’ - that’s what Ashley Morgan says over on the Big Arena Records website about my fifth podcast in this lead up to the release of the Enormous album Electric Baby Grand.
I’m flattered, and I’m certainly not going to argue with a man of such discerning taste.
This week, […]
Rhyme And Raisin / May 8 2008
Bleugh! I’m not a freegan anymore; I’ve got raisin poisoning.
I spent all day yesterday working on new songs, writing lyrics, messing around with chord structures. I also spent all day yesterday eating Californian seedless raisins. I ended up eating three packets of the bloody things. My poor intestines and most of my other internal organs […]
Expanding Universe / March 25 2008
I do not care that my television set is broken. I do not care that the picture has shrunk to the energy-saving size of a matchbox. And neither do I care that the manufacturer’s guarantee ran out last week.
Apart from The Simpsons, there is nothing worth watching anyway. Yesterday, on the local news, the constipated […]
New York or New Year / January 1 2008
‘But –’
I tried reasoning with him; it was having little effect.
‘But I just thought that this New Years Eve was gonna be amazing. You know: dancing girls and everything.’
‘Look, Nelson,’ I told him, ‘this is just a boring little Derbyshire village. We simply aren’t going to find what we’re looking for here – spiritually, aesthetically […]
Fun with Middle Eights / December 10 2007
Whilst working on Nelson’s new recordings last week, we came across a slight predicament with his use of middle eights.
Most of his songs include such things and, by and large, as his producer, I am happy for them to stay there. Also as his producer, I found it necessary to point out to him a […]
Mercury Rave / September 5 2007
I just don’t get the Klaxons (or is it Klaxons), the south London band that last night won the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize for their album Myths of the Near Future.
I have never understood the ‘new rave’ tag that has been used to describe them. Never having been a fan of rave music originally, perhaps […]
