Recorded: Feb 26, 2009 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo II ), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.

This was a favourite tune of Chief O'Neill (you don't say!) an Irish police captain in the USA who used to enlist Irish musicians into the police force so they could play music sessions together.

Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.

The title just popped into my head unannounced one day and I had to try to work from that. About a girl with a broken radio and the repairman who would do anything to find her a new one and win her love... It certainly appears broken, Minerva…

An Irish Hornpipe.

A song about the lost art of the mix-tape and knowing that someone is trouble but doing it anyway... Compilation Tapes: Did I mention that I think that you’re a real fine dancer and I like the way you dress? I’ve known a number of girls…

I really was carrying the ash from the fire out in the dark and looking at the stars and thinking how weird that was - to be throwing the ashes out in the middle of the night and pitch black and everything

Now ye sons of the kraaken, let's get to some honest pillaging, shall we? Aaaarh! The devil is an idle jest compared to what's within this chest No hearts more black than ours they say trust your own hide to be waterproof only else they…

Somehow this outlaw stuff comes out every time i have to do my taxes ...

Guess who's reading a Tom Waits biography - he gets in yer soul I says!