This is a love song written some time ago. It came from a book I read which described the start of a beautiful romance between the main protagonist and a beautiful woman. It features acoustic guitar, cajón, drums, cello, electric piano, organ and electric bass. The guitar and cajón are recorded acoustically while the others are …
I was travelling around southern Spain, visiting flamenco guitar makers, so that I could set up my flamenco guitar business. On one day, I drove from Granada to a place called Gata de Gorgos and then headed back to Málaga before a flight the next morning back home. However, it got late, and I had been …
This song was written in about 2007, I think, sitting outside a cafe, next door to the radio 1 building in London. My friend had described a situation he was in, and wanted to get out of, but wasn’t able to. It seems to be popular when I play it acoustically and has the …
I wrote this song in 2009 after reading some J G Ballard stories. They fascinated me. After reading Kingdom Come, I decided to write something that would try to capture some of the essence of the story. Materialism. Tribalism. Fascism. As the Observer review says: The book is mired in ambivalence and the only things …