Music
Coming Soon … Be Yourself in 11 Easy Lessons
Produced by Dave Sanderson
In January 2021 I started releasing songs from my upcoming album as advance singles (see track listing below). After finding support for a re-start of my career in May 2021, I paused the releases. They will resume in 2022.
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Listen to Soap Bubble – a song after a poem by Be Yourself in 11 Easy Lessons lyricist Ian Badcoe
The Making of the Album
After the release of my last album Not Afraid Of Greatness – Shakespeare’s Sonnets I started a most magnificent and fruitful songwriting collaboration with poet/lyricist Ian Badcoe from Sheffield who is not only a wonderful person to work with but has become a friend over the course of time.
In May 2018, with a total of 21 songs from that collaboration, I travelled to Ian’s home city to produce a new album with the fantastic producer Dave Sanderson (Reverend and the Makers, 65daysofstatic). Based on my demos we have recorded two magnificent drummers – Ben Fuller and Kris Tearson – on 5 songs each. We’ve added lots of ear candy and re-recorded the odd guitar and bass guitar. Along with the 2016 single To The Sky (one of the above-mentioned 21 songs by Ian and me) which Dave has brilliantly remixed that makes a total of 11 carefully selected songs!
I wrote some bits about my time in Sheffield on my blog!
The tracklisting will be:
- Walking To Alpha Centauri (released as single on 5 March 2021)
- Identity
- Anger Bob
- Methodology Of Love
- On End Times Boulevard (released as single on 22 Jan 2021)
- To The Sky (released in an older mix on 16 May 2016)
- Underpass
- Hey Changeling (released as single on 30 April 2021)
- The Rain In Certain Car Parks
- End Of Days
- Empty Streets
