What a time we’re living in, eh? The day before this post was written, the president of the United States and his ‘playground bully’ sidekick had a childish argument with the president of Ukraine in front of the world, with life and death consequences for people in Ukraine. Despite the unfavourable sounding terms of the… …

Around the time I settled on naming my solo project Pat’s Alternative Bus Tour, I searched online to see if the name, or at least a similar one, was already being used. Among the search results was a link to Pat’s Uninteresting Tours, which was a city tour operating in Sydney in the mid to… …

A new Pat’s Alternative Bus Tour single, Join the Dots, is out now. It’s already getting some radio play on Sunny Govan‘s local music spotlight and on Jim Gellatly’s show on Amazing Radio. You can also play a game of join the dots to get a free download of the single and another song, either… …

Dorian is the last song I’m introducing from Virtual Virgins. The plan was to write about a different song from the album every month and I was determined to get through them all whether or not anyone was reading any of it. So I’m pleased to finally complete the challenge. I partly left this song… …

For the penultimate song-write up from Virtual Virgins, I’m going to say a bit about the title song. The music began as a piano part – the one which plays throughout most of the song. As you can just about make out in the accompanying video, I played it by crossing my thumbs over so… …

When the band I’m in, The Felt Tips, used to have a difficult decision to make, such as the order of a setlist, we’d often jokingly reassure ourselves that it didn’t matter because “nobody cares anyway”. In truth, we knew that although we weren’t exactly U2 there were actually people who listened to us and… …