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  • Please Don’t Vote Conservative

    Please Don’t Vote Conservative

    I wasn’t planning on sharing any new songs until I had a second album ready but, with the recent UK general election announcement, it seemed a good time to put out a song I had been working on – Please Don’t Vote Conservative. Watch the video I made for the song, or have a listen…

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  • Snakes & Ladders

    Snakes & Ladders

    June’s song to introduce is Snakes & Ladders. Like a lot of the album’s songs, it was written using Nashville strings on my acoustic guitar, and then I let rip on the arrangement with overdriven guitar, some bar-room style piano and an energy-adding synth part.   The song tells the story of an ambitious politician…

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  • North Coast 500

    North Coast 500

    I’ve chosen North Coast 500 as my song to introduce for May. In case you don’t know, the North Coast 500 is a popular campervan/driving route around the north of Scotland’s mainland. It’s an incredibly beautiful route, but there’s been some controversy around it due to the infrastructure being inadequate for the number of vehicles…

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  • Bouley Bashers

    Bouley Bashers

    Each month, I’m posting something about a different song from Virtual Virgins. For April I’m going to introduce Bouley Bashers, the penultimate song on the album. This song’s already been getting a bit of radio play (especially from Jim Gellatly on Amazing Radio) so it seems like a good one to write about. Bouley Bashers…

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  • Looking Through A Telescope Backwards

    Looking Through A Telescope Backwards

    Every month, I’m going to introduce a different song from the album, probably in the order of the tracklisting. The rationale is that I don’t see much need to release digital ‘singles’ (I don’t plan on releasing CDs or vinyl mainly due to the unnecessary plastic) but, at the same time, I’d like to give…

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  • Virtual Video

    Virtual Video

    Given how easy it is to film and edit videos these days (not saying it’s easy to make a good one!) I thought I’d have a shot doing a video for Virtual Virgins, the title track from my debut album. Here it is on youtube.

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