I am not particularly interested in writing songs where everybody knows who the good person is.
Real people are rarely that convenient.
Sometimes the most useful place to stand is inside the mind of the person causing the damage.
Sometimes…
Read moreINHERITANCE
There is something uniquely cruel about punishment when nobody tells you what you did.
Inheritance is told from the perspective of the portrait in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
But the portrait does not understand the bargain.
It…
Read moreTRAMLINES AND TEETH
Some people are born with safety nets.
Some are born with sharp edges.
Tramlines and Teeth is about two people from the wrong side of the tracks who have learned to survive by refusing to yield.
Not…
Read moreWHITE GLOVES
The cleanest hands are not always innocent.
Sometimes they simply belong to the person who convinced somebody else to do the damage.
White Gloves is the story of Othello told through Iago’s eyes.
Not as a ranting villain.
…
Read moreFAT-CAT DEMOCRACY
There is a particularly effective form of control where the people holding the leash convince you that you are free because you are allowed to choose its colour.
That is where this song started.
Fat-Cat Democracy is about…
Read moreFour songs.
Four different ways of discovering that somebody else is holding the strings.
On 14 October, I release a four-track EP.
FAT-CAT DEMOCRACY
1. Fat-Cat Democracy
A song about a system built from the top down, where the people…
I have never trusted anything that requires the lights to be on before it can be discussed.
Some things are dark.
Pretending otherwise does not improve them.
I could write exclusively about sunshine, optimism and the magnificent spiritual experience of…
Read moreSHANNOW.
Songwriter. Producer. Vocalist.
Progressive metal and alternative metal are the machinery. Everything else is just noise around it.
I write about the things people usually soften before saying aloud: uncomfortable truths, human contradiction, isolation, hypocrisy, belief, consequence and the…
Read moreProgressive metal and alternative metal are the machinery. Everything else is just noise around it.
I write about the things people usually soften before saying aloud: uncomfortable truths, human contradiction, isolation, hypocrisy, belief, consequence and the darker cogs turning underneath…
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