INSTRUMENTAL! or just mental, probably one of those 80 to 20 mental over physical kind of things.

A guy I work with got his National Guard call up to go to Iraq a week after he got married. I tried to put myself in his place. Here's what I came up with.

Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…

finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.

Just a miscellaneous cover. Dana Carvey did a bit on SNL and in his stand-up routines about a songwriter making up a song on the fly. I decided to record it as if it was a real song, just for fun.

uh lu a lu uh uh lu a lu oola ...is what's mostly being sung.

sore throat jams

This is about my Nan who in some ways was more like a second mum... You wont be gone when you leave me, You wont be gone x 2 Cos while I'm alive til the day I die You'll linger on when you leave me You'll linger on I remember how your…

Second pretty little interlude.. this time, the light, the hope!

One of two pretty little interludes for the album, both of which are based around a guitar part Gary did for me. I've put different synth chords behind each of them to cover the two sides of the lady that inspired the full song, Jekyll & Hyde…

My version of the Beavis and Butthead theme, Wikipedia says new episodes are coming to MTV in 2011! I can't believe it.

Just playing around with the old Twist of Cain riffs.

Just another little riffet I've been playing around with.

Lyrics Take the lift and your half way up.... Reach the top and your half way up... You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way..... Looking down on the world your tears fall... You Missed the Beauty of the climb. And now you’re…