The final part of any space flight is re-entry and splashdown (or landing if you're Russian). 4000 degrees of burning heat protected by just a heat shield. I was aiming for a mixture of fear and euphoria in this one. The final words are from Dave…

Each moon landing could only spend a short time on the surface before it was time to leave. Buzz Aldrin's words on the moon struck me as very descriptive so they became the title. To be fair, I let Neil Armstrong do much of the vocals on this…

The Command Module pilot was the most isolated person in the history of mankind once his two crew mates had started their descent to the lunar surface. The spoken words start off as my own and then quote Michael Collins the Command Module pilot…

Entering orbit. No one's ever seen before the backside of the moon. The moment of parting when the lunar crew leave the Command Module pilot and enter the Lunar Module. A three part song written over the whole of RPM12, the orbit piece at the…

The approach to the moon. This one was going to have lyrics around the second melody piece, but nothing fitted and I decided it was more appropriate to just have it as an instrumental.

The men on the moon missions were the first and only people to have seen the Earth for what it is, a bubble of air in space. Imagine... Had a mare with the lyrics on this. It's really hard not to accidentally nick stuff from Bowie.

Liftoff. Nuff said. My favourite track of RPM12. Played it to the people in the office and they were very kind.

The moon is silent and has no interest in what happens on earth. Timeless. This was the first thing I wrote for RPM12. Really struggled with it.

The mission is to go to the moon. How? Second song written for RPM12, had hoped to have more of the question and answer lyrics that you hear in part three on the album, but...

Written for RPM2011, it's a welcome return to the subject of unrequited love; clearly the most tragic of all emotions. Please excuse the hopelessly over ambitious backing vocals on the chorus.

An overtly political song for a change (normally I tend to gentler fare, such as murder and unrequited love). This is one of my RPM challenge songs and was written about the time when Libya hit the news for all the wrong reasons. My RPM challenge…

Parental advisory lyrics in conjunction with Sister Savage (unless she denies it, in which case, she's right) Based on a graffiti that simply set the mind racing

KY69. Based on a Californian radio station that plays awesome music all around the clock. The characters are wildly in love but won't admit it. The car is outrageously sporty. Apart from everything mentioned in the lyrics, it's a true story…

Originally written for RPM 2008, I've finally got around to making it sound a bit better; to my ears anyway. A return to my normal subject matter of criminal activity and even more criminal lyrics.

This is a cover of Sister Savage's (well, her daughter's) recent effort by the same name... ;-)

A cover of Losing and the Lost's song Games that they wrote for the RPM Challenge 2009

Written for RPM 2009.

Written for RPM 2009.

Written for RPM 2009. Inspired by a piece of graffiti on the wall in the toilet of Nottingham's Rock City club.