Anecdotes #6 – 1981
I said a few posts back I was just gonna do singles for a while. You know what? I thought I’d be into it, but I’ve found it’s just leaving me a bit unfocused and scattered. So I’ve canned a …
‘Saturn Was the Sun’ – from compilation ‘In Thrust we Trust’
New song! ‘Saturn Was the Sun’, a contribution to the compilation ‘In Thrust we Trust’.
Dean Ballinger, a legend of Hamilton music (particularly back in “my day”), was recently diagnosed with motor neurone disease – and this compilation is his …
Anecdotes #5 – September 27, 2020 – The Queenmaker
I put out this song ‘The Queenmaker’ a few years ago, but was never happy with the recording. It’s a bit amateur, you know? Recorded a new version that didn’t make the cut for Bunkerland, since it was a …
Anecdotes #4: September 25, 2020 – Perimeter
Spent the past couple of days (outside of work, parenting, real-life) working on a Big – yes, capital B big – Rock Song. I figure if I’m gonna record with a real-life amp now, rather than modelling, might as well …
Anecdotes #3: September 21, 2020 – Awake as the Sun, Endeavour, The Gatekeeper, Apathy, Star-Off Machine
Whoops. I know I said I was – and I quote – “document what I’m writing and recording in real-time, on this here part of the website”, that’s not quite happened yet, has it? So here’s a bit of …
Anecdotes #2: August 11, 2020 – Wheel in Rain
Was gonna record the vocals for the track I recorded last week, ‘Reversal’, but decided instead to lay down another song in a similar vein, ‘Wheel in Rain’.
Written around the same time, I figured if the mix I’ve got …
Anecdotes #1: August 4, 2020 – Reversal
This is gonna sound real pretentious, especially considering no one’s likely to read it, but I’ve decided to document what I’m writing and recording in real-time, on this here part of the website.
Background: I’ve got this spreadsheet with every …
Behind the songs: Until the End
Another old one, at least musically.
I first uploaded a (very bad) version of it to the internet in 2006 or so. That one was more space-rock – it had acoustic guitars, vocals, the works. …
Behind the songs: Phantom Time
No, this is not a song about being ready for the Phantom. It’s inspired by one of the wildest and grandest conspiracy theories I think I’ve ever come across – that HUNDREDS of years of history are missing.
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Behind the songs: Hardly Angels
Each year, I seem to end up writing at least one darkly humorous pseudo-disco song.
This one was originally penned in 2017, and it’s about how everyone here thinks Asians are bad drivers – when …
