Song For George

As I mentioned before I have just played a tour with
THE OYSTERBAND

As part of the tour we played in ST. GEORGE'S HALL in LIVERPOOL. It was a beautiful old building with ornate columns, statues and marble all over the place which meant the acoustics were amazing!!! Given the name of the building and the fact that we were in Liverpool I decided to play a little thing I wrote the night George Harrison died. It's not really even a full song just something that came out in the bar SOLAS in New York when I heard the news. Chopper from the Oysters got up and joined me on cello and I was really glad not just because it makes the song but also because my loop pedal died the night before. Thanks Chop!!
Heres the tune!!!
SONG FOR GEORGE

Lazy Love

In the 90's, before I moved to New York, I had a bit of space! I lived in an old farmhouse outside Poratferry on Strangford Lough. There was a music room with a piano, drums, trumpets, trombones and many many other musical instruments that myself and my housemate Ursula owned ( she's a great harpist, pianist and accordion player). Anyway I used to tool around in there and write musical doodles when I was bored or drunk or both. This is one of them. It's called "Lazy Love" and its basically about sex. It was never good enough to release proper but I found a copy of it the other day and thought I'd share it with the blogging world
LAZY LOVE

Remember Watercess?

Last night I dreamed of my old band Watercress. In the dream we reformed and were playing a tour and were really broke just like in the old days. I woke up and was really happy I can now actually make money by playing my music. Then lo and behold I had 2 messages from people that had seen our old vids on you tube asking what we were up to these days.
There is one for CANDLEMAKER

And one for TRIPPED UP

If any of you remember our live shows we used to do this big stoned dub jam with loads of didge and double bass called TROUBLE. Well here's a version that we recorded way back then in 811 studios with our mate GLOVER who has since gone on to record THE KOOKS and THE ORDINARY BOYS. The quality is not great but you will get the idea.
TROUBLE
And if you like that kinda thing here's and even more dubbed out version where Glover strapped on his mad professor headphones!!! Enjoy.

CRESS Vs GLOVER DEEP TROUBLE

another chance

Well I guess we all lived through another year. This means we have another spin of the wheel in 2008 and for that I am really thankful. I have another album in the pipeline that I will hopefully record this year but I warn you....it's kinda country!!
I had a lot of fun touring last year and it was great to meet so many of y'all and have a few pints and sing for you in person.

In a world where music is so readily pinched turning up and singing the songs is the one area where we the artists who can really sing and play can stick it to the monopolizing music industry that is slowly losing its grip on what we do!!
Speaking of which....heres some free music!! have a great '08!!
Cigarette (alternative version)