Charles Tyler
Hi folks,
Greetings from beautiful Sydney!
Enjoy the music!
Charles
Greetings from beautiful Sydney!
Enjoy the music!
Charles
Music
I've got a hole in my pocket where the money runs out!
A song about riding across Afghanistan by motorbike at night.
Early in the morning the birds fly around my windowsill...
A peaceful song written on a hillside in Wales.
A song about friendship crossing time and distance..
Don't say you love me again if you can't tell me when!!
An autobiographical traveller's song about an overland journey from London to Kathmandu and back in 1969.
I just can't recall one thing I did or said. Did I start a fight? Is someone dead?
A satire on suicide bombers
I'm gonna ride up on the mountain - and look up at the sky - and listen to the silence - and kiss our love goodbye
Just having fun...
Do you believe in me like I believe in you? Don't you think that's maybe what we came here to do?
A song attributed to Jimmy Cox - apparently written in the 1920s and since recorded by just about everybody :) This is my version...
Dirty - sweaty - greasy - violent :)
Love has got the better of me - I need a little time - just a little time
Rolling a joint on the table - underneath the lamp - my hands are damp...
Debora - Debora - you know I'm not a ladies man..
A song about friendship and busking on the French riviera
A satire on personal advertisements
Sometimes when I'm alone - like so many times before - I take off all my clothes and I roll on the floor
Nobody tells me - nobody knows - where the wind comes from or where the wind blows - why the seasons change or the river flows - nobody tells me, cause nobody knows!
Never the same twice - walk on water - walk on ice
In your heart truth is found...
The simple rule for living here is just kindness in the here and now..
If love could never turn from gold to blue....... a sweet sad song about the end of a relationship
Hello folks! God here!
I fell in love with the colours of your skin - and how your eyes melted me and your smile jolted my heart...
Those who knew Andrew know how very special a person he was...
On December 26 2004 - a terrible tsunami struck Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other places... meanwhile Iraq was descending into chaos...
A tongue in cheek country comedy song.... this version has live laughter - plus spluttering and coughing and drinking :)
A satire on fake Hindu gurus
A classic ballad - around 700 years old - about the sailor Sir Patrick Spens who was obliged by the King of Scotland to sail to Norway in mid-winter.... tragedy ensues
A satire on evangelical Christians
A satire on Zionism
It's a certain curve - it's a certain swerve - it's the search for the perfect body - it's the perfect shape that can turn you ape - it's the search for the perfect body
Didn't I need a friend - I was at a loose end then you came in - and that's the saddest thing...
A satire on the country music scene
I know how it feels to be messed up inside - to be losing your sleep on love when it won't go right - to be some kind of Don Quixote - some romantic knight - oh I've been crazy..
If you feel you're stranded by the tide - little lover I'll be on your side...
a sad and beautiful song featuring Gene Parsons on Stringbender guitar....
A song to Mendocino's beautiful Big River
A simple question...
About the pain of ending a relationship...
An environmentalist in despair discovers meditation and regains his optimism
A love triangle involving two guys and a girl...
An English cad chases a rich American girl for her money... but she's already married..
A song about marijuana-smoking
A song about living in a farmhouse in Wales
A satire on new-age religious charlatans
A song about memory, friends, time and distance, and magic moments in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California
A song about the sadness of the world
An invitation from California to an unhappy friend in England.
A song about a hippie festival in Wales..
A song of frustrated love.
A song about a one-night stand
An early morning vision of Clear Lake, California.
A song about rediscovering love for an ex-lover
Is she marrying an alien?
Is she really?
Is he gonna be American?
Is he really
ma-ma-ma-Mexican?
Every room's an island here - and everyone's insane..
Got a rocket in the socket and a teaser in the squeezer.. full tilt rock and roll about a magical motorbike... Ride It!
A great head-bashing anarchic punk track by Chris Diurni in which Bonnie and I scream our lungs out...
A song written when the US was waging a covert war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Hey you there over that Berlin wall - these bad habits are gonna kill us all! A song from when the Wall still divided East from West..
A vision of insects inheriting the earth after a nuclear war ends the reign of mankind...
I could see you and me sharing a world of crazy magic - but you just didn't want to know...
Could it be the things we do that make you so uptight?
A jazzy sort of blues song - a humorous examination of the blank state that despair can put you into..
For the love of youth and beauty people will put up with almost anything :)
Just poking fun at all those fake cowboys :)
A song written and recorded in 1984 to celebrate George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984".
A song written when Russia and the USA were still threatening to annihilate each other with nuclear weapons. A rare example of my piano playing :)
Day after day I pray in my heart for love to find me
About the sadness of the world...
Sympathy - it's just a waste of breath...
Time - taking control of me - rocking and rolling me all over eternity - Space - staring right in my face - laughing at the human race and making me feel so small - Set me free! Oh set me free!
A triangle ...
Love can be a peach and love can be a pain - you think you're doing fine and then you fall again....
A travellers song ...
I'm happy as mushroom pie - oh I wonder why?!
A song about a peaceful farmhouse in Wales ...
Why are we here? Why is there a universe? Why is anything happening at all? Does there have to be a reason?!
A song about rolling a joint... amongst other things
Don't talk about Yoga and Zen to me - let's just make love!
Do you want happiness? Do you want endless bliss? Didn't you know you can get it from me !!?
About a chance meeting in Paris....
You say that I'm so stupid to be feeling sad....
A song about the Meigan Fayre festival in Wales
I've seen the changing of the presidents while prisons close on innocents...
One soul and two bodies to share the night...
A song inspired by the teachings of Ramana Maharshi
A song about a remote farmhouse in Wales
A song about sitting on Kuta beach and playing my guitar as the sun sets and the magic mushrooms kick in....
The Strollers provided the backing that made this song a pop hit which reached number one on the charts in Malaysia in 1972.
A song asking for racial and political harmony. Recorded in Malaysia in 1972 with the local band The Strollers backing me.
A Western hippie just released from a three-month jail sentence in India begs for money or a ride to get home..
A hilarious song written by my friend Max Born of Satyricon fame...
A cheerful song about living in the Holland Park area of London in the early 70s. One of my early works from a time of youthful optimism.
A vision of a sterile life in the future in a domed city where the weather is strictly controlled..
The city's such a bad dream - I wanna be somewhere green - somewhere country clean!
Out on the wind my consciousness wings with you...
Photos
Beautiful Sydney
Scallops at the North Bondi Italian - Yum!
Sept 2007 playing harmonica and guitar together
At the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan - July 2007
New piano :) May 2007
Borobudur, Indonesia, Sept 2006
Angkor. Cambodia. July 2006
In the Cafe Riche, Cairo 2004
At the Screw Soapers 2003? Photos by Dermott Ryder
Jaffa and Tel Aviv Dec 2004
In Shanghai 2006
In Tehran 2005
At home 2005
Waterfall in Chiangmai 1998
Sussex Uni Folk Club 1976
With Debora in France 1975
France 1976
Cairo 2004
Amman 2005
In Brighton UK 1985
On bike - Malaysia 1972
In the Afghan desert 1969
Plink plunk
Empty glass Bahrain 2002
In Hong Kong 2003
Karaoke in Hanoi June 1999
Coogee Beach 2002
Bronte Beach Cafe 2001
1999 - 50th birthday
Teaching English 1992
Chiangmai Thailand 2002
Solo performance Caspar Inn 1984
Da-Da - me and Bonnie
Drag rock with Ma-Ma 1983
Post Punk Da-Da
Da-Da harlequin
Solo performance Mendocino 1982
Gypsy camp. Barsham Fair UK 1976
Da-Da 1982 Chris Diurni on guitar
Da-Da: Charles, Chris, Bonnie, John, Tony 1983
Da-Da San Francisco 1983
Da-Da Mendocino 1983
Da-Da: A day at the Acres
Na-Da: Chris Diurni in the red beret me singing
Chris Diurni, Tony Vito, John Bush, Bonnie and me
C Sharps 1984
C Sharps Mendocino 1984
Me (with beard) with the Strollers - 1972
The Strollers: Billy, Hassan, Mike, Kumar, Hussein
On the bus Watchfield festival UK 1975

