In my last post I referred to clearing up my shelves and desk before preparing the release of my new record, Lingerwood, but I failed. The simple reason is the bloomin' notebooks. Decades worth which chart a life I couldn't seem to recognise. I mean every one is dated and has my handwriting to confirm they belong to me but can I remember writing half of that stuff down? Nope! I can remember writing this one (picture left) though because it became the bridge in a song which you can hear here: Icarus Over the Forth(engineered and produced by Phil Jones for Long Way Home Music). I would be happy to explain the song if I really knew what it was about but the truth is I keep changing my mind. It's a patchwork quilt of a song, made up of its pieces and each of those pieces is a feeling of connectedness to my past, about not being able to leave the past behind because its tattooed onto my skin. But sometimes songs are a bit like that. I am about to release Lingerwood and the album too is a patchwork of my life and ideas, full of quixotic echoes, or maybe that should be chimeras. The Icarus song though is on the Fisherrow album and it's one I love playing live. So here's a live version recorded for Portslade Railway Roots Club during the time of covid - the intro gives away the fact we were recording for the online shows Robb Johnson ran (and he still runs the club on the first Thursday of every month except August) which everyone should come to, if they can.
.jpg)
