The Irish emigrated to England in the decades following the second world war. And one of the jobs they commonly held was laying "hot asphalt" this song chronicles an encounter with an unfortunate policeman who ended up falling into a barrel "full…

This is my cover version of a recently written song about famine era Passage West, a port town in Co. Cork, Ireland. Written by John Spillane and released in 2009. John Spillane's myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/johnsp illane

Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010. Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan. (Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)

A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore. Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.

Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth, 2011. Original version taken from the RPM Challenge LP 'Fox Shoots Man'.

the first multi track piece that I actually finished "in the box" in Cubase. An ambient kinda thing that grew out of playing around with the Line 6 DL4. Not sure I like the bow parts, but I may re do it later

A moody solo acoustic thing that I came up with playing in a long forgotten tuning. Just got a new Zoom H4N, so this was recorded in my shop sitting at my reedmaking bench may 12 2009

Just one of those passing moods. Just finished today - august 2 2009. I resisted the temptation to try to develop it any further and just let it be what it is

A bit of fun for the holiday. This one features guest vocalist R.I.P otherwise known as the cheap battery powered talking tombstone

Several years ago I had a short lived duo with an oboe and English horn player named Nat. This is a demo from that period. It's an old old chord progression of mine that never really had a melody and Nat improvised this melody in the studio to…