This was a very important K-Tel compliation that introduced me to some amazing new bands in 1981. I was already aware of several songs on there, but there were some unknown gems too. Plus a few duff ones! The thing that annoyed me though was the fact K-Tel would edit the songs to make them shorter! Madness. Still some of my favourite bands and songs...

A new album for June 2013. I'm going to stop posting descriptions and tracklistings for albums as they come out though. There are just too many, and nobody's looking anyway.

Here's what I made at a cigar-box guitar workshop run by Chickenbone John. It sounds amazing.

Sixteen new originals plus a Marc Bolan cover. There's a lot of genre-hopping on this album: jazz, psych, retro electronica, reggae, rock, folk, pop, surf-rock, and acoustic ballads. And I play quite an array of instruments: guitars, bass, uke, harmonica, slide guitar, keyboards, percussion, and lots of orchestration (including plenty of brass). The title track is my favourite song (so far!) of any that I've written over the years.

Written and recorded in 3 weeks, a new collection of 12 originals and one cover. I play a lot of instruments on this one: guitars, bass, piano, mandolin, uke, autoharp, keyboards, and various orchestration. There's a lot of dark weirdness at play in these songs, plus folk(ish) leanings, heavy rock, pyschedelia, and melancholic balladry. Quite a heady and eclectic brew. Song list... 1. Ooh La La at the Absinthe Bar 2. Memento Mori 3. Glass Jaw 4. Cadeaux Macabre 5. The Baker’s Last Lament 6. Weird Me Out (You Beardy Weirdy) 7. A Pocketful of Ravens in the Snow 8. Razors in the Candy 9. Pathogen 10. Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins Cover) 11. Gimme Some Blues that I Can Use 12. Birdsong at 1am 13. Time Machine (Tim Green feat. G-Nug)