I began releasing albums as Alien Skin in 2008, this was a couple of years after Real Life, as a band, called it a day. Returning home after our US tour, I began writing songs for an album which was to become my first, outside the band. Released in early 2008, DON’T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY […]
Send Me An Angel became a major hit for Real Life in the 80s topping the charts in number of countries. As an icebreaker it was a great international beginning for the band. Covered by a variety of performers and DJ’s from rock, metal, pop, dance to Gregorian it’s a synth standard. Anyhow, none of […]
In 1982/3 I wrote the song SHE’S EPHEMERAL, reflecting the sparse, floating and emotive synth architecture I was hearing at the time from contemporaries. I no longer have my 4 track analogue tapes from that period but I did recreate the song in 2015 for the Alien Skin album, A Blue Sky at the Edge […]
Lifted from the 2019 album P.O.P. POP, Byron Said to Mary is a song that was well supported by online radio and user playlists when first released. Play it louder and it makes even better sense they tell me:) I commissioned a music video to be made of the song and you may watch it […]
In 2019 I released one of my most successful Alien Skin albums, P.O.P. POP, and the first for quite a while on a record label, ScentAir Records, Moscow. It somewhat took me by surprise as it was a slight departure from what I had been producing till then, still very blue, grey and melancholic in […]
A jumbled mix of lyrical imagery, mentally streamed at fast speed then broken down and re constituted gives certain results, sometimes they work. This is THE WICKER MAN a song written quite awhile ago while I was in a Depeche ‘The Sun and the Rainfall’ bleak afternoon kind of mood. Dense woodland outside my window, […]
