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, […]
Like many of you here I’m a Depeche Mode fan, in particular of the albums released in the 1980s with Alan Wilder. Cutting edge swaths of electronic atmosphere and captivating, memorable writing by Martin Gore. On Christmas Eve, 2011, I found myself in a Melbourne studio with engineer Jack the Bear mastering my album ‘Ghost […]
Part 2 of 2 posts In Part 1 of this blog my first crush on a lass named Joanna turned into my first song at the age of 10. And I purposely starved at school pocketing my lunch money to buy an LP every 17 days. Inch by inch I wormed my way into the […]
