SEP 2024 - NEW SINGLE

How do you spend your time…?

New single available now called ‘How do you spend your time?’ Written for but never recorded by ‘The Good Hurt’. This track was first recorded in the US acoustically with my family. I always wanted the sledgehammer rock version so it found its way onto the Mullenia album. Some hi octane horns, bass and drums give this an almost ‘soul revue’ kind vibe. Oh yeah - dig the flight of the bumble bee inspired trumpet solo!

MARCH 2024

It’s been a minute innit? My 13th album ‘Mullenia’ is reaching critical mass and here are two singles from it released on April Fools 2024.

… it’s available in lots of other places too. Tell all your friends they can go my way.

I’m a Moron UR an Idiot

“Everybody jumping in the gungha now!”

Some songs take years, some even decades. The first big band I was in somehow ended up on a talent show…long before talent shows were cool. I hated it and the song - the terrible ‘You’re Stupid’. That wasn’t me and that wasn’t the scene and soon after the band broke up.

I moved into Leith in Edinburgh and got into the club scenes around 1993. In particular the LGBT house club Joy and the legendary Drum’n’bass Manga club. I wrote ‘I’m a Moron UR an Idiot’. That was more like it. It got a Nadaswaram added in India and then lay dormant fro another 10 years like some Arc of the Covenant malarky.

Let the Credits Roll..

“Let the future unfold. Turn the lights on and end this spell. I want to know if I’m closer to heaven or hell!”

The first version of this track appeared on Almas Buenas which was recorded in Argentina. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to play it with a bunch of folklore and tango musicians while I had them in the studio but the original plan was to do it as a duet with a string quartet and give it a big band style treatment.

So…years passed and then it happened for the Mullenia album. Check out this finally realised duet featuring the wonderful Zawadi Mukami.