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16 Tambourines: All Men Are Fools Single Release
Read more: 16 Tambourines: All Men Are Fools Single ReleaseWe’ve made the title track of the album available as a single and made a video for it. It’s available as a free download at Bandcamp here, until 9th December when the album is released. Head over there for your copy now. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Here’s the video
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All Men Are Fools
Read more: All Men Are FoolsI hope all is well with you and yours, I have some madly exciting news, that you might well guess from the headline. I’m really happy to announce that 16 Tambourines are releasing a second album, ALL MEN ARE FOOLS, on 9th December 2022, via 9×9 Records. It will be available in Vinyl, CD and streaming formats. The vinyl…
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There are those who can and some who can’t
Read more: There are those who can and some who can’tThere are those who can and some who can’t. The number one song streamed on Spotify written by me. It’s The Ballad of Alaska. It’s been over a week since I wrote about the number 2 song, From Speke to Waterloo. I haven’t been holding back to ratchet up the tension, I have instead been…
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The river dances with the moon
Read more: The river dances with the moonExcitingly, I’m up to the second most popular of my songs according to Spotify. Number 2 is: From Speke to Waterloo. I was expecting this to be comfortably Number One, as day to day, it’s the one that always shows up. It’s very comfortably number 2 and there’s quite a distance between this and the…
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Out in the suburbs you can watch grass grow
Read more: Out in the suburbs you can watch grass growOut in the suburbs you can watch grass grow. I’ve been away for a few days, to Whitby, a place I’ve never visited before, so I’ve neglected the top ten Steve songs Spotify specifies as super. Whitby is singularly scintillating. I promise to rein in the alliteration. At number 3 is… Holy Moses. This song…
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The music of the spheres
Read more: The music of the spheresThe music of the spheres. We’re up to Number 4 in the Top Ten Songs Spotify Says Steve’s Stats Show. or something. This song is A Very British Ending from the What Would You Die For? EP. I’m made up this song has proved so popular. Popular in relative terms. Almost 10 years ago me…
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Only love can set you free
Read more: Only love can set you freeOnly love can set you free. The business end of the top ten songs Spotify stats suggest are my most popular. Number 5: This is a Cold War. This song is from the second of my Cold War E.Ps ‘What Would You Die For?’ The cold war songs all have the same thing at the…
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There is too much Heartbreak
Read more: There is too much HeartbreakThere too much heartbreak. I love this song, Number 6 in the Top Ten of my most popular songs according to Spotify stats. It’s called Heartbreak and is on my ‘Shake It, Make it and Don’t Fake It’ album. I wrote this for Ann. Music has often been a source of comfort even when it…
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It’s a Beautiful World
Read more: It’s a Beautiful WorldIt’s A Beautiful world OK pop pickers, Number 7 in my Top Ten most popular songs streaming on Spotify is Beautiful Girl. I’m aware of the recent outrage about Spotify and I sympathise with it, but I don’t want to get into it here. I often think I’ve wasted too much of my life angry…
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Oscar Wilde Made Me Do It
Read more: Oscar Wilde Made Me Do ItOscar Wilde Made Me Do it Number 8 in the Spotify chart of my most popular songs is Prince, Pope or the People? from the album It Just Is. I’ve always taken pleasure in sharing a birthday with the playwright, poet and popular poseur Oscar Wilde. I was born a few years after him though,…