Category: music

  • Number Nine (no.9, no.9, no.9…)

    If you read my previous post about this kind of thing, you’d know I’m doing a rundown of my most popular songs according to Spotify. And I’m writing about them in my best telephone voice. At number 9 is Go To Bed. This song is on my album It Just Is but is, I think,…

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  • Free Isolation Album

    I recorded a new song We Will Go dancing Again (see video on previous post) and a number of cover versions during those heady early lockdown days and I’ve now made it available as a free download on my Bandcamp site. Feel free to grab them and share widely. Strange days and as a lefty,…

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  • We Will Go Dancing Again

    A ‘lockdown’ song. I read a tweet where someone wrote, almost sighed, ‘will we ever go dancing again?’ That set me off and I wrote this, changed the key and recorded it as is. I’m pondering doing a fuller version as, simple though it is, I quite like it. I haven’t been writing other than…

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  • Bestsellers -Video

    About 10-15 years ago (time is elastic when you’re getting older) a phenomenon known as guilty pleasures appeared in music loving circles. People admitted they loved best selling pop songs by Hall and Oates, The Carpenters, Leo Sayer and the like. Prior to the internet, the NME music writers had some kind of Stalinist stranglehold…

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  • Enid Blyton – Video

    The author whose name came up most often in my Life of Books Project survey was Enid Blyton. Enid was a controversial figure all her writing life and even after her death she continued to divide opinion. The BBC in the 1950s refused to dramatise her books claiming them to be simplistic and well, childish,…

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  • 16 Tambourines Gig November 2019

    16 Tambourines 9/11/19 photo Simon O’Brien Oh how life flies on by. 30 years can happen and yet…you know it’s been that long , you can plot the turns you’ve made, the decisions good and bad, the teeth, the hair, the wrinkles you’ve lost and gained, the loved ones you find, make and miss. All…

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  • A Life of Books

    On the navigation menu for my website you should see the one titled Survey – A Life of Books and if you clicked on it, you’ll know something about the project and maybe you even filled in the survey (if so, thank you). I’m undertaking a song writing project, supported using public funding by the…

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  • Win A Bookshop!

    Competition is now closed and song not available to download. Thanks everone. Okay a share in one but what a prize! I wrote this song to accompany a promotional video for George Street Community bookshop, a Community Benefit Society that is undertaking a Community Share Issue. Now you have the chance to win a share…

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  • Annie

    The Music Minds triple CD I’ve posted about in previous posts is now on Spotify and iTunes etc and here’s the Spotify link if you fancy hearing my version of Ronnie Lane’s Annie. Play Annie by Steve Roberts I recorded it in my home studio in bits and pieces. I first played a guide keyboard…

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  • Music Minds Charity Album

    Music Minds Mental Health Charity Album. I’m pleased to let you know that I’ve covered one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite songwriters and it’s included on a new triple CD album released this week on Fretsore Records in support of a number of mental health charities. The song is Annie by the beloved Ronnie Lane that…

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