PLATINUM DRESS
A straight forward contemplation on temptation.
ALBION STREET
I hate to see my country disappearing. Maybe that’s just what happens everywhere in the end.
EBB AND FLOW
A song about life inspired by a gig at The Miller’s House in the 3 Mills complex in Bow, East London.
PILLAR OF FIRE
Palden Choetso burned herself to death to protest Chin’s occupation of Tibet.
KNOCK THE LADY OUT OF BED
A ‘nostalgia’ piece about a sideshow at Battersea Fun Fair. My parents used to take me there when I was a nipper. “Get your ball in a little round hole, bed tips over and out she falls.”
HARD DRIVE PAPA
A ‘dirty blues’ for those of you working in the IT industry. In the tradition of the ‘Dirty Dozens’ and similar idioms of the Blues but brought slam up to date.
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CIY
My version of a song by the great Jimmy Reed.
LAY MY BURDEN DOWN
This is a traditional Gospel song. There is a great version of this by Furry Lewis and Don Nix on the album ‘Hobos,Heroes and Street Corner Clowns’.