A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #7 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #7 Something of the Night(18/12/18) Our Hallowe’en number and another of the Later songs, the only previous recording of this was a live rehearsal dated 18/12/2018 – https://on.soundcloud.com/VNeEWClearly influenced by our imminent descent into the underworld, this one… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. #6 What You Came For(11/08/2018) The first of the Later songs. The initial melody came to me whilst on a jolly through to Edinburgh for the festival, somewhere in between Kilderkin and the Waverley Bar. As I recall, I was temporarily between drinks and loitering outside a… Read more →

#5 Ride the White Horses(29/03/10) First demoed as an instrumental in a live home recording by Mark and I, dated 29/03/10) – https://on.soundcloud.com/uc11F In the spirit of Martin Mull’s “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, here’s a song about painting, partly inspired by James Guthrie’s “Hard At It” which can be found in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. I… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings.  #4 Yesterday’s Already Light Years Away (No demo exists.  Approximately 1997) One from the analogue years, there was no demo recorded of this song at the time, or after.  From around 1996 until 1999, the band rented a rehearsal room in the Maryhill Burgh Halls.  From the… Read more →

A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs #3 For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings.All audio references refer to recordings from the secret playlist, “Lost and Later, Early Days” –https://on.soundcloud.com/96wG4 #3 Drunk is a holiday (1996-2021)# “Ought we to be drunk every night?” Sebastian asked one morning. “Yes, I think so.” “I think… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings.All audio references refer to recordings from the secret playlist, “Lost and Later, Early Days” –https://tinyurl.com/bdcwef5v #2 Ghost Light(14/04/10)A synth-pop devotional in praise of the light, 14th April 2010 at 9.50am is the earliest noted record in the archives for this one. It sounds uncharacteristically early in the… Read more →

For those who may appreciate some background detail, I offer below my workings. All audio references refer to recordings from the secret playlist, “Lost and Later, Early Days”- https://tinyurl.com/yw657bbs #1 – Loverboy(19/01/13)On the cusp of lost and later, this song is something of both. Written in the months before the revolution (earliest demo in the files is dated 19th January… Read more →

Lost and Later Songs is out now! You can buy a cd or digital copy here –https://anewinternational.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-later-songs It is also available to stream at all the usual suspects, at a click near you. Tickets for the launch show, three weeks today are selling well. Please order soon to avoid disappointment. We’ll have a rare old time- https://lostandlatersongs.bpt.me/ Read more →

Liberation Day -1 Reports of the first successful escape attempts are beginning to filter through; this one spotted alive and well in the Highlands. Thank you very much to everyone who placed a pre-order. Please do share any photos of the album in its new home. You can order your copy here – https://anewinternational.bandcamp.com/…/lost-and-later… and November 4th Glasgow gig tickets… Read more →

Ta dah! Here’s what the album looks like. The cover photo is of the Chicago Auditorium Theatre during lockdown by Matthew Gilson. Lost and Later Songs is available to pre-order now – order now, and it’ll be posted out to you, so you get your copy as close to release date (Royal Mail dependent) as possible. You’ll get instant downloads… Read more →