Well summers well gone the clouds are blocking out the sun and the rains coming down like stair rods.......ho hum :)

Out and about

This is one of the many songs going round my head from when I was young. No idea whose version I heard and used to sing along to back then, but it was written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey. (EDIT: Done some research. It was Dottie West's…

I've posted this "Naked" version because Mrs Russe wanted me to... :-) It wasn't "finished" in my mind - there was a certain amount of "orchestration" to come. But I ended up liking the starkness of this version. The original intention…

Straight cover, from a backing track, just because I had the urge and I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me thrashing the guitar so late! The backing track pretty much sums up where my head was at when I recorded it :)

Just me and my acoustic. I've just learned how to record both at the same time. I didn't know this song the day before this recording. It was done in one take, with dodgy guitar playing, wrong lyrics and sore throat :)

Straight cover, from a backing track, just because I had the urge and I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me thrashing the guitar so late! The backing track pretty much sums up where my head was at when I recorded it :)

Just me and my acoustic. I've just learned how to record both at the same time. I didn't know this song the day before this recording. It was done in one take, with dodgy guitar playing, wrong lyrics and sore throat :)

Music: Jip Verse lyrics: Mark Goldsack Chorus lyrics: Lady Jane Lead recorder: Lady Jane Vocals: Lady Jane A wonderful collaboration that came about by Jip and Mark sending me music/lyrics totally independently and me having a eureka…

A saucy little ditty from the Jip and LJ laboratory. The first thing I've sung for 3 weeks (been resting a very strained voice - eek!) I'm having a party, I'm inviting everyone There'll be much frivolity, booze flowing, so much fun I may…