For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #17Freediving  1/3/12 (1906h) https://on.soundcloud.com/smeMD – 22/12/12 (0020h) https://on.soundcloud.com/EPgi6   Another late developer, more lost than later, “Freediving” took 10 years to record.   Mark and I occasionally get together to work on the guitar arrangements, an activity which has come to be known as “The Biscuit Sessions” (these would… Read more →

A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #16 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #16 There’s Barely Enough Time to Breathe No demo exists.Another one from the analogue years, approximately 1997-8, around the same time as “Yesterday’s Already Light Years Away” and similarly born out of my obsession (current and ongoing) with… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #15 The Strangest Thing (1/3/21) – https://tinyurl.com/ysxf23x5 Latest of the later songs and yet another to come in a dream. I seem to spend half my life in a dream, the other half in denial. In this dream I found myself running through the dimly lit labyrinth… Read more →

A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #14 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #14 Boom Boom Cannonball27/9/17 – https://tinyurl.com/mv5aaz35 The riff idea came to me at a Slim Cessna’s Auto Club gig. In days gone by I would have forgotten it with the next passing fancy but thankfully nowadays there are… Read more →

https://www.isthismusic.com/a-new-international-5 “There’s enough here to keep you occupied exploring its various nooks and crannies for years to come…If this doesn’t stop you in your tracks and fill you with a wonder about art you thought you’d lost, your heart is deaf.” Our sincere thanks to Tony Kiernan and Is This Music? for a very welcome review. ani x Read more →

A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #13 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #13 Starlight International16/10/18 @ 7.39 am This song arrived, more or less fully formed, in a dream. https://on.soundcloud.com/w5p6A On waking, rather than rolling over, perchance to dream once more, I had the wherewithal to grab my guitar and… Read more →

A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #12 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #12 What Boys Do (10/7/16) https://on.soundcloud.com/QXZPc “And you know all our boys Are really girls at heart” – The Imposter, Elvis Costello “What Boys Do” started life in 2016 with the working title of “The Replacements” (see link),… Read more →

A Chemical Dream   (20/01/04 – 01/09/08) – https://tinyurl.com/27rdkav2   Another of the lost souls, “A Chemical Dream” dates from around mid-late noughties and, woozy and anaesthetised as it may be, I imagine it must still have been deemed far too jolly for the last Starlets album.  Then, come the revolution and post Year-Zero, songs about chemicals would, of course, have been… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #10 Intermission –(Voice recording of initial idea recorded on 10/11/20 – https://on.soundcloud.com/Z2gHo ) Transmissions from Planet Zoom- a melancholy android plays remembered sounds from Planet Earth; an ice cream van, a seaside organ, elevator muzak. Refreshments are available in the foyer. (still from Metropolis by Fritz Lang)… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #9 Everything’s Alright Fine(31/12/2020)Second latest of the Later songs, born in a hangover and hummed into my phone, just in time for Hogmanay- https://tinyurl.com/yc6ub7j4I was stumbling through the no man’s land between last night and the night to come, fighting a rear-guard action against a horde of… Read more →