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 'Frances, why aren't you number one already?' Art Garfunkel. |
Loving You
A song written for two past loves of my life, one emotional the other physical, reflecting upon both I brought them together in one song. Click to listen Love in NYC What to do if you fall for someone who could've been your soul mate, but they're already married and live 3,000 miles away, 'Let's go blow 12 hours of our lives in NYC and make like it's forever, because at midnight this has to end and we say goodbye. This is how we spent that last day on a bright spring day in NYC. Click to listen Fell In Love In A Chatroom As the title suggests and so it was for me, this is a 21st Century 'Country' song for the Facebook and Twitter generation. Click to listen Guardian Angel A friend of mine has always had a fascination with ghosts and angels. The song questions 'is there' concluding 'yes there is,' a simple lullaby. Click to listen |
Musically, I started out aged ten, re-working both popular songs of the day and Christmas carols, lampooning the Masters of my school. Much to the glee and amusement of 500 caterwauling pupils, these were then sung in the dinning halls, classroom and corridors of the school, however, much to the displeasure of the unappreciative teacher being sung about.
My Father bought me my first guitar at the age of eleven from Frank Hessy's in Liverpool, where 'The Beatles' once pressed their adolescent noses against the windows and where they bought their first proper guitars. If you hail from Liverpool the old saying goes, you'll either turn out to be a comedian, a musician or a footballer, I obviously didn't have the legs to be a footballer. |
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At sixteen I had a musical epiphany after encountering a 'Born Again' band of motley Christian and being so gob smacked by the sheer power of their music, was determined to posses that 'black magic' and ability to move people too! Within the year I was a signed up member and had moved in with the commune. For the next fourteen years, music was to figure strongly as it provided the daily bread and butter, whilst busking and singing around the world and performing with the movement. I eventually quit, well OK it was resign or get kicked out and how many people can claim to have been kicked out of a Christian cult, sadly their doctrine had begun to nose dive south. The mid 90's were spent writing music for corporate videos, jingles, radio and gigging. Record companies approached, but continually sought to mold what they'd originally heard and liked, into the 'current sound' of the day and so that was doomed to go southward too. Louis Walsh approached and asked if I'd perform 'Loving You' for the 'Irish' Eurovision song entry, but was then pipped by Johnny Logan. It was during this time that I was introduced to Donavan, John Denver, Paul Williams and Art Garfunkel, hanging out and jamming with them whenever they'd be passing through town, there were very late nights indeed. |
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Fast-forward to the present and after a rather long sabbatical I got back to gigging, recording and playing festivals. The songs, whilst often telling of a joie de vivre are also reflective, perhaps melancholic, alluding to disappointments of the heart however, never that of some tormented soul, I'm not one. In the first instance I write for myself and the obvious pleasure it brings, it's also my own personal therapist. It's not all about fame and fortune, somethings are simply art for art's sake, and if others like it too well that can't be such a bad thing either. I've never felt the need to be current, follow a trend, fit in, nor look to the approval of my peers, I simply get on with making the music, be that performing solo or with my band The Frantastics. |
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