MUSIC
ANOTHER GUY OUT NOW!
'Another Guy' gleefully and bluntly tackles the common crisis of desperately persuading a pal to take off the premature rose-tinted glasses and stop the inevitable, in the form of upbeat, whimsical rock & roll.
A sonic throwback to Merseybeat, Another Guy is complete with jangly guitars, Mellotron rhythms, Hofner bass, Farfisas, and rich harmonies - intricately jam-packed into two and a half minutes of plot twists and radical left turns.
YOU NEED AN INTERMISSION
Here's a (currently) video exclusive segment from the record, about folk losing their minds to the internet and all their loved ones cos of it. We've all seen it especially since the start of this decade.
Filmed remotely for my appearance on Uncaged TV in Spring 2021 with the help of Nancy Gorman, in between the reopening of the barbers and the rest of the UK.
THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND
In late 2018 (I looked older when I was younger), I completed the first full song that I didn't disown. The penny dropped that songwriting is a billion times easier if you have a concrete subject to write about - something that resonates with or riles you up so much that situations flow out into words, and all you need to do is make it scan.
So, artistic communities are one of few circles where it's acceptable to be "different", myself included. It's mostly a wonderful thing, but also a double edged sword because it can attract the deluded, demanding, and/or downright nasty, who are either unaware of or content with being so. At the time I wrote this song, our local scene had an influx of them (thankfully transiently so, albeit mostly with spectacular bangs)!
Being the host of a particularly popular event, the role of mediator or pacifier was always placed on me by default, mostly by people decades older than me. Some events ended up like Jeremy Kyle. It started affecting my brain to the extent of medication. I couldn't take any more of it. So I lit the creative fire with it, which has burned ever since.
Featuring the glorious Nathan Persad on drums, and hundreds of Sidcup's locale on backing vocals. The mix is primitive and has been revisited for the upcoming album - the song and the take remains the same.