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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 [...]
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? / August 31 2007
Nelson returned to London yesterday. We have been working so hard on his new songs that the past week has absolutely flown by - so much so, in fact, that I have not been able to find even a minute in which to write a quick post.
Sitting writing this, alone in the house with Audrey, [...]
Gothic Objects / August 23 2007
I had a purple moment today when I stepped out in front of a car. It did not hit me but I came within a whisker of suffering serious injury. If I had his e-mail address, I would thank God for my fortunate escape.
Luckily, Audrey was not with me. She would have been very angry [...]
Half Nelson / August 19 2007
Nelson Galaxy’s acoustic album is now finished and will be on sale on the Big Arena Records label in October. Full details on the release will be available later.
In the meantime, you can hop over to Nelson’s MySpace site for a sneak preview and be one of the first people in the entire universe to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
