The original title was 'Mediocre Fajita' (long story)... It started out with the initial bass riff but I ran out of creativity and left it. Then over the course of Christmas 2020 I got COVID so most of the time I had neither the willingness or…

This began (as many do) as a very light hearted, feel-good formulaic verse/chorus sort of thing... I played the first minute or so to my wife and she said it had an almost festive feel to it - all that was missing were sleigh bells... But I didn…

I adopted the 'kitchen sink' philosophy with this one - the 'duelling keyboards' featured are the Yamaha CS-80 and the Mini Moog; I decided to add acoustic and electric guitar chords/picking to add some texture and the basses used are the Rickenfaker…

I began having guitar tuition with the rather amazing Nathan King of Level 42 a few weeks ago and this is really the first song in which guitar is the main focus - It needs vocals but I'll add it to warbling list when I'm back in the UK

So… two of the things I missed from my den in the UK were my basses and my Rode microphone. So, with this one I wanted loads of fretless bass and lead and backing vocals all warbled by yours truly. And I got that… But I got more. Much more. It…

I've disappeared into a total rabbit hole with these 70s/80s synths. This one features the ARP2600 (in several guises), the Jupiter 8, Prophet 5 and the Fairlight (what a machine that was back in the day!) This started in my head as another…

Only 1 week ago I was luxuriating at a beautiful hotel in Dubai, floating blissfully in a lagoon pool... Forward wind one week and I'm here in the cold, wet, windy UK having to quarantine... Now, at the aforementioned pool, they played a chill…

Well... this took a left turn at Odd Street. The main melody started off as riff written and played on bass guitar and the early version had guitars, and real drums etc.... Then I got introduced to a suite of 80s synth plugins and it all went…