Nick Snaden
Ah, the joys of a miss-spent youth! Based on a true story from my student days...
A mellow rock song about following the river of your life. Rob takes the lead vocal on this one, with yours truly taking care of the vocal harmonies. I'm rather proud of the acoustic guitar break.
A folk-rock song with a two-part harmony lead vocal. 75% of any sales of this song will go to the pictured Angel In Paradise.
A nice loud rocky one this time. :-) Drums, acoustic and bass guitars, three electric guitars and an angry lyric having a bash at religion - one of my pet hates.
Classic rock song built around a simple piano riff, building up to a loud crescendo at the end.
Rock instrumental that builds up like the tide coming in. As a youth I used to get high on Sugarloaf Beach in Portishead, hence the double-meaning in the title.
Kind of a soft rock/soul thing, sung by the wonderful and rather gorgeous Kizzy Morrel. What a fabulous voice!
Prog rock/classic rock song with vocal harmonies and a superb guitar break, courtesy of my oldest friend Andy Gregory.
Classic rock song sung by Michael Crow with a long fade-out, a la 'Hey Jude'. I wrote the music for this when I was 12 after seeing 'Hey Jude' on TV, and thirty years later Michael came up with a lyric that finally did it justice. Thanks, Michael.
A riff that fell into my lap out of nowhere!
Two acoustic guitars, four harmony vocals, and my only 'proper' love song, for want of a better description. My best lyric by far and also my personal favourite of all the songs I've written over the last 39 years. And all done in just one day...
A ghost story in a song, about being chased by ghouls and monsters in the night.
An up-tempo and optimistic folk-rock song, about how possessions can never make us truly happy. Follow your star!
Four electric guitars, two lead breaks, six-part harmony vox, what more can I say? One of my personal favourites, but maybe the lyric shouldn't be quite so bitter. But it's done now and I've lost the session recording, thanks to somebody nameless.
A song about dreams and individuation, and the encounter with the 'Shadow' and 'Anima' Jungian Archetypes in the unconscious. OK, so it's pretentious and over-produced, but I like it and that's what matters most!
Me and Rob did two versions of this tune. One with the vocal melody and lyrics written by him, the other written by me. Rob wins hands down, and it's the one that gets uploaded.
A song for Nick Drake, using as many of his song titles in the lyric as I could. Thanks to Paul Tyler who made a video slide show for the song; check it out on my video page or on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTp8FMxTx1U&lr=1&feature=r