Who Is Alien Skin?
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Music Fans I Love & Love Back
As an independent artist, one in a million and growing as I write, it’s not easy being found by an audience. No matter what my professional past has been. The effort to attract listeners is ongoing, one day after another and sometimes…I find reward. Reward from like minded people who enjoy the music I create […]
ReMasters Volume 1 , New Album
ReMasters Volume 1 Released June 6, 2019 01 Tomorrow’s Dead 02 The Spirit Is Willing 03 The Secret Garden 04 Razors In My Eyes 05 After the Funeral 06 Saviour 07 With Your Sad Eyes 08 Razor Arms 09 1980 You Were A Boy 10 I’m Your Machine 11 The Emperor’s Tram Girl 12 My […]
Rachel’s Coming Home
After working with all engines running on my recent Alien Skin album P.O.P. POP, Rachel’s Coming Home is a gentle side-step that gives me time to catch my breath before the next major album release I enjoy the same side-step a Depeche Mode show takes when Martin Gore moves to front of stage, his voice […]
‘Razor Arms’ The BIG One c/- MySpace, 2008
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 – the beginning…
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 […]
“She never loved but she liked to be loved”
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 […]
