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UK film writer/director Martin Gooch asked me to contribute the music for his short folk horror film, Death Loves Her Raven which will have its first showing as part of a Goochapalooza Extravaganza on May 1, 2024 at Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, London. Featuring the...

Hi everyone, Here’s a quick blog about the recent home studio process for my sixth solo album Love, Lawn & Seagulls. I LOVE writing and playing music in my home studio and experimenting with songs. Once I have the basic chord, song structure and tempo I have been...

The people we meet are impressive sometimes. I remember the first time we met my ‘Zen’ oncologist as my partner and I called him for his serene manner. I tentatively sat in the waiting room filled with his European holiday photographs and watched the door open. A...

This paper discusses the band Joy Division’s evolution through musical influences, studio production techniques learned from Factory Records producer Martin Hannett, and embrace of new technology with digital instruments.  Their exponential growth from punk style...

Comparison of Lance Armstrong’s autobiography It’s not about the bike with his biography by David Walsh, Seven deadly sins. ‘When it comes to a distinction between the written life and the lived life, fact and fiction become meaningless categories’ (Castro, 1999,...

Sound As Ever (Australian Indie 90-99) has included the Swirl demo Brand New Day in their first Shoebox Diaries compilation release. It is available both on Bandcamp and as individually numbered CDs. Profits from this compilation will be donated to Support Act....

This is a little note to say the album that began in 2016 halfway through chemotherapy (Never Too Young) and went on its own little journey is out now. A digital booklet (PDF) is included with the purchase of the album through iTunes, Amazon & 7Digital which...

I have been carrying this cassette version of Brand New Day around for years! I recently had it digitally converted and gave it to Nic Dalton at Half A Cow Records. The uneducated who spent their money on useless products would have waisted their money somewhere....

  A nice little mention of The Last Unicorn by John Reed who chose the tracklisting on Cherry Red's new 5 CD collection, Still In A Dream: A story of Shoegaze 1988-1995) made me smile :   The unique invention has given the ray of hope in the...